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RAMBLIN' by Robert B. Wallace, Jr.
Bob Wallace is Dead This issue of the Georgia Tech Alumnus is his last. He had just put it together over the weekend and on Monday night, April 6, his heart suddenly stopped beating. He was in his apartment on North Avenue. His wife, three daughters and his granddaughter all just happened to be there at the time. Forty-eight is too young to leave this world. Yet Bob had done a lot more than most and he left this world, I am sure, with a great sense of accomplishment and impact on those of us concerned with Georgia Tech. Few people come along with the versatility of Robert B. Wallace, Jr. Few people know that he was a light-weight athlete, playing high school hockey in Clearfield, Pa., and later a pretty fair golfer. That is, until his heart attack in the middle '50's. He helped pay his way through Tech playing the bass fiddle around town and continued this long after graduation. He had a great ear for all kinds of music. He was extremely well read; all kinds of history, fiction and poetry interested him. His public-relations sense was solid. He knew when to face issues and problems and when not to. He knew what would make news and what wouldn't. He could make a speech, but was better writing one for someone else. He learned a lot about the printing business. This, along with his writing ability, made him the best and only capable editor of the Georgia Tech Alumnus. He was an excellent photographer, but even better at recognizing a good photo. Dress Her in White and Gold was not only the title of his book, it is what he tried to do with his alma mater, his community and his world. Hopefully, we will find two men to undertake Bob's work on the campus, but they won't replace him. The next issue of this publication will allow others to pay real tribute to him. Those who wish may make a contribution to the Georgia Institute of Technology, designated for the Bob Wallace Memorial Scholarship Fund. W. Roane Beard
March-April 1970
• SINCE the 11th century when the University of Bologna was founded in Italy and the modern university concept was born with it, the principle of free and open discussion has been both the hard, unyielding backbone and the soft, vulnerable underbelly of every campus. For over 900 years, this freedom has been challenged, attacked, and legislated against throughout the civilized world. At times in those places where freedom became an unimportant or dangerous thing in the eyes of the power structure, the universities were muzzled and often closed. When that happened the results were always the same—when freedom left the campus, it disappeared everywhere. In the name of freedom, this country was founded. In the name of freedom, it grew and prospered. In the name of freedom, its citizens, who were influenced enough by the great ideas of some men, forced the politicians to make the changes that developed its strengths. In the name of freedom, wars were fought and men died in strange places with names that became famous and then forgotten within the span of a generation. In the name of freedom, men have broken laws and have suffered for it and sometimes the laws have been changed, but the axiom that the true administration of justice is the foundation of a democratic society has remained constant. In the name of freedom, others have attempted to destroy the very society which gives them the right to attack it, and to disrupt the courts which guarantee this freedom. To this one man, freedom is essentially free and open discussion and each time it is abused by those who use any means to justify the end result of their efforts—those who break the laws, who grind their axes in anarchy, who adore the violence and the shocking words, who preach the hatred and suspicion, and who tell the lies and stretch the truths—each time it is a slap at those of us who happen to believe in it and defend it. So it is with the university. Any institution that values a single thing above its right to present free and open discussion will eventually lose that freedom and with it anything placed above it. All of this is prelude to an incident that happened on this campus on Valentine's Day of 1970. And since we went through the incident's incubation, infancy, adulthood, and finally its lingering death, we thought we would air the entire thing in print for the first time, anywhere. This is not a task we took on lightly. Because the incident itself happened on a Saturday night, it received little coverage outside of Atlanta and many of you may not have even heard of it. The easy road would be to skip over the matter and
let some of you continue in your ignorance of this incident which was really so unimportant and yet so very important. But if a magazine that i covers the affairs of a campus blithely skips over every matter of controversy it has abdicated its own right to freedom. We offer you only the truth as we saw it about this affair and, as always, allow you the privilege of making your own decision on how you would have handled it if you had been the man in authority during that period. • T H E Black Panther incident began in mid-January with a request from the Tech Action Committee to use the Electrical Engineering Auditorium for a meeting on February 7 (which was later changed to February 14). The Tech Action Committee is a radical campus organization which was chartered by the Student Council after a rather long period of debating last year. TAC went through the proper channels for permission, approaching Clyde Robbins, the director of campus planning, with the request for the use of the auditorium and citing four top Atlanta political leaders as the type of person who would be discussing the highly controversial subject area. Mr. Robbins naturally checked with the Dean of Students Office to get some advice before he made any decision on the matter. Dean James Dull stated that the organization was duly chartered and the request seemed reasonable enough, what with the type of people involved, so permission was granted. On Tuesday, February 10, a friend of ours brought by the latest copy of The Great Speckled Bird, an underground newspaper published at 253 North Avenue, N. E., on the east side of Peachtree which is within walking distance of the campus for most people if not for us. In it was an advertisement for a rally sponsored by the "Ad Hoc Committee to Defend the Black Panthers." The rally was to be held on March 14 (which if you read the article beneath the advertisement, you realized was a typographical error that should have read February 14) in the Electrical Engineering Auditorium at Georgia Tech. The advertisement and the article both mentioned the fact that Chicago Black Panther Party spokesmen would be at the meeting. The article had reduced to one the number of prominent Atlanta politicians who would speak at the meeting (and he never showed up which surprised no one who knew anything about this city's politics). When you are in the press relations business this type of news hardly makes you look forward to the rest of week. We immediately took the newspaper to the president's office, and
RAMBLIN'—Continued Dr. Hansen reacted just as we had initially. He had heard nothing of it until that moment. The president called Clyde Robbins who checked the reservation and stated that this must be the "open discussion" meeting planned by TAC. Dr. Hansen then called Dean Dull, who pointed out that somebody was obviously not telling the truth, and promised to immediately get in touch with the student who had reserved the auditorium. When the student was called in, he told Dean Dull that the Bird had jumped the gun, and that this was not the way he understood it, and he would find out what was going on and demand a retraction. • The following morning, the president told us that he had to go to a meeting downtown with some other college presidents within the University System. He wanted to sound out this group and some others about the advisibility of cancelling the rally. When he returned from the meeting on Wednesday afternoon, he said that the rally was still on and pointed out that all of the group felt that the only other course of action at that late date was to close the E E Auditorium that evening and post security guards which he knew would lead to a direct confrontation with those planning to attend. He also said that one president advised him of the case at Auburn University where a speaker was cancelled and brought suit against the university. The speaker won the case in court. He stated that freedom of speech and of peaceful assembly was also a big point here and that with the American Civil Liberties Union as one of the members of the Ad Hoc Committee sponsoring the rally, a law suit on the same grounds as the Auburn one was a distinct possibility. It seemed that at the moment there was little to do but let the meeting be held and perhaps pray a little. During Wednesday, President Hansen called in the leaders of the two Tech factions now listed as backing the meeting—the Afro American Association, another Tech chartered group, and TAC. H e told them that the meeting was now in their hands and that there would be no fund raising on the campus. Thursday was quiet, but on Friday, the first information on the meeting appeared in a small news story, buried deep in The Atlanta Constitution. It was basically a rehash of the Bird article, obviously sent to the paper from the Ad Hoc Committee. The article was disquieting for another reason, it mentioned that there would be fund-raising at the meeting. It also announced that there would be a press conference at 11:00 A.M. on Friday morning at Georgia
State University. At this point, our personal suspicion that we were being caught up in a complex con game began to make some sense. The Emory University Student Center Board provided the largest share of the Panthers' transportation cost. The rally was being held at Tech. And the press conference was at Georgia State. The three major predominately white institutions in the city were suddenly involved in it although the Emory student support was listed only in the Bird and not in any other articles concerning the rally. The calls from the alumni and others immediately began coming in on Friday morning. They came to the president's office and Roane Beard's office and Joe Guthridge's office and our office and several other offices. We all tried to give the callers as much information as we knew but the jury was still out on what was really going to happen and speculation at this time in such a crisis is not nearly as accurate as hindsight. The callers were for the most part not calmed down by the answers because there was no way to explain the complexities of the matter at that time. We do know this—every solution we heard from a caller would have been a total disaster if carried out. But you can't blame the callers for this situation. There was no way to tell each of them all of the facts on which these decisions were made. That afternoon, The Atlanta Journal ran a short piece on page two concerning the press conference and pointed out that only one representative of the press had made an appearance. But it also stated that funds would be raised at the meeting. Late that afternoon, President Hansen talked to two Tech students concerned with organizing the rally, and we happened to be a witness to the conversation. He emphatically made the point that there would be no funds raised either inside or outside the auditorium and that admission could not be charged as a subterfuge. The students agreed and discussed other possibilities which did not seem very workable to us. Saturday began badly. A member of the Georgia Senate, which was in session that day, called President Hansen and said that the issue had been raised in a Senate committee meeting. It came in the form of a resolution proposing that the Senate put itself on record to not permit subversive groups to meet on the campuses of the University System colleges. It further
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stated that those who permitted such meetings would be censured immediately. During the discussion of this motion, one senator questioned the resolution, asking what such groups were scheduled to meet on campuses that brought up such a motion. The proposing senator stated the Black Panthers were to hold a rally at Tech that evening. The other senator then pointed out that the Black Panthers were not listed on the subversive lists that the State used as criteria at that time. The bill was referred to the Senate Committee on Higher Education and President Hansen was asked to meet with this group at 4:30 in the afternoon. He went over all of the facts for the group and pointed out that neither the Black Panthers nor the Ad Hoc Committee had asked for the use of the building and that turning down chartered student groups would, in his opinion, be a most dangerous thing on any campus. A member of the committee came to his aid by pointing out that part of the State Constitution which relates to the freedom of speech and peaceful assembly on state property. When the president left, he felt the committee understood his position and the complexities of the decision-making process in this type of a case. • The president stopped by the Electrical Engineering Building to check things on his way home and returned with his wife and one of his sons at about 6:45 for the scheduled 7:30 P.M. meeting. We arrived at 7:00 and noticed that in the lobby of the auditorium the student organizations had set up two tables to sell literature. The disturbing factor here was that they were selling magazines and newspapers printed with a 25 cent cost figure on them for a dollar (or more as the sign said). At this stage there was nothing to do except complain. They were not forcing anybody to buy as one senator in attendance was quoted as saying and many people including the president and his family entered the hall without purchasing literature. This was another of those little subterfuges that this entire incident seemed to be constructed of. It irritated all of us connected with it but then the stock answer to the questions about it was, "It's the capitalistic system to charge the consumer as much as the traffic will bear." The meeting began a half an hour late because the students had trouble finding an extension cord for the projector which they were using to show two movies that started the long night's journey into obscenity. We checked the auditorium and estimated that there were something in the neighborhood of 350 to 400 in the The Georgia Tech Alumnus
audience when the program began. Others drifted in and out during the evening. Among the crowd were a couple of Tech faculty members known to be on the conservative side among other teachers. The dean of students, the student government, and our office were represented as well as the president's office. Security measures seemed adequate with several plainclothesmen in the crowd from several agencies. The student count was difficult to evaluate but our best sources said it was around 100. This group was mixed among radicals, student leaders, curiosity seekers and a few that seemed intent on learning something about this group whose name starts sparks practically everywhere it goes. Before the movies, the black handling the Ad Hoc Committee arrangements spoke a moment and then the head of TAC got up and talked for a minute or two, putting the bad mouth on the Georgia General Assembly. This obviously was not going to help Tech's position in the matter. The first movie was the best of the two if you like to think in terms of the early days of the Hitler movement in Germany. Eldridge Cleaver and Huey Newton, the two most prominent of the Black Panthers, were narrators and the entire thing was a diatribe aimed at the injustices of the "American establishment and its system." The police came in for the heaviest attack and they were always referred to as pigs, a generalization that consistently brought reaction from part of the audience. We thought about that quote concerning "justice and the democratic society." It didn't appear to us that any reasonable man or woman could have been sold on the cause by this one, but then this propaganda is not necessarily aimed at reasonable people. The second film was a short interview with Bobby Seale, the Panther whose courtroom antics made the Chicago eight into the Chicago seven. It was badly done and that is the best that we can say about it. The first speaker was Mrs. Ethel M. Matthews, head of the National Welfare Rights organization in Atlanta. She gave a long, disjointed talk about the problems of the poor. She had a sense of humor and if she had organized the talk, it might have been an effective one. At least she did not use the obscenities that were to take over the meeting later in the evening. The advertised highlight of the evening, an appearance by the members of the Black Panthers of Chicago was a real letdown to anyone looking for information. If these were salesmen for the party, you can rest assured that it will stay a small group with a limited financial base. The principal speaker informed the whites in the March-April 1970
// the institutions of a democratic society cannot stand an attack from such groups as this one . . . then it is we who have failed. audience that they were welcome to help the party in a rather condescending manner, and the thought occurred to us that this group has picked up its share of the tokenism it professes to hate so. He sprinkled his talk liberally with most of the four-letter obscenities and the 12-letter, hyphenated one that is all the rage, now. Part of the audience thought this was just the thing to do and these words and any reference to the "pigs" were greeted with cheers and laughs from part of the crowd. For the rest of the audience including most of the Tech students it was the final turn-off. A question-and-answer period followed during which a couple of senators asked how the Panthers justified their demanding all of the real and imagined rights due them under the Constitution and their continued urging of lawbreaking for themselves and their followers. The answers were a couple of jabs and, naturally, more profanity. The final speaker, a young woman, had nothing to say and thankfully she took little time saying it. A writer from our office who is not the conservative type in her thinking said the entire thing made her ill and seven different students reported that the evening turned them off. Later at a Tech faculty meeting one faculty member commented that Tech should have advertised the program much more than it did (none of the advertising or publicity came from the Tech administration). He stated that if we could have had a large turnout from the campus, it would have made people see just how weak the Panthers' platform and philosophy really are. • It was finally over around 10:20, a long, dull, boring program enlivened only when a firecracker was set off outside the auditorium in the E E parking lot area. Several people, including us, rushed out to see what had happened and one character, a white youth dressed like an out-take from a Three Musketeers movie, went around investigating things, looking into trash baskets and acting generally like something out of a bad keystone cops film. That evening two television stations and several radio stations gave a small amount of publicity to the meeting and the wait was on to see how the Sunday newspaper handled the matter.
The Journal-Constitution turned out an excellent report but the wires moved none of it, which was a blessing. Looking back on the incident several i things stand out in our mind. President Hansen was correct in his handling of this situation filled with lies and half-truths. One of the disadvantages an honest man or organization has in dealing with these incidents is that we expect people to tell the truth and commit ourselves with this in mind. But we think that this incident will result in a closer scrutiny of organizational requests for use of Tech facilities. The president maintained his composure and perspective throughout the time that all of the pressure was being applied to him by various causes and individuals. He did what he considered the best thing for Tech in the long run and we agree with him. One of his friends—who is known throughout the country as one of the top conservative leaders in the state and has made his share of the headlines in protest of certain university procedures —commented that President Hansen had done the state a real service in allowing this program to go on. Driving these groups underground is the worst thing you can do according to this political leader, "We should allow them the exposure and let them destroy themselves." Of course, this is not why the incident happened the way it did, but it is a comforting thought in retrospect. • If the institutions of a democratic society cannot stand an attack from such groups as this one; if our young are so easily misled as to buy this kind of. a pitch; if we think the democratic process only applies to a select group; then it is we who have failed. Wrapping the dissident members of society in a mass cocoon does us no good at all. The axiom of war of any type is to know your enemy and how can you know him if you do not allow him to speak out? We must continue to reflect our belief in freedom enough to allow its enemies the privileges we enjoy. On Valentine's Day, 1970, President Arthur G. Hansen took a big gamble and won. And in the doing of it, he converted more students and more faculty into thinking about themselves and about Tech's role in society. Those who were alienated by the incident spoke up to him and he made his explanation, simply and honestly. At the Academic Senate meeting a few weeks after the incident, he talked of it for around 30 minutes and the faculty reaction was instant and understanding, even among the extremes of the political spectrum. Perhaps, in the final analysis, this is what education.. . and freedom. . . are all about.
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March-April 1970
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The cover photograph set the scene for a reflective article on Tech Today. The tower still stands as the, . focal point of the campus, spanning the years gone by and years yet to be. A special insert attempts to illuminate the future of higher education.
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Ramblin' — last column by Robert B. Wallace, Jr.
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Tech Today — survey of Tech's growth patterns.
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1980 — perplexing problems ahead in education.
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On the Hill — new department of campus news.
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Sports Scene — a close one in the NIT.
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News of the Alumni — reports by classes.
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The Metric System — 1950 graduate writes.
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A New Business — three alumni involved.
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Election '70 — candidates are presented.
GEORGIA TECH NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Officers and Trustees: D. Braxton Blalock, president / James B. Ramage, vice president / James P. Poole, vice president / Willard B. McBurney, treasurer / W. Roane Beard, executive secretary / Ray M. Beck, Cedartown / L. Travis Brannon, Jr. / L. L. Gellerstedt, Jr. / James T. Gresham, LaGrange / Joseph A. Hall, III / Allen S. Hardin / Isadore L. Kunian / Rayford P. Kytle, Jr. / W. E. Marshall / John O. Mccarty / Earl W. McDaniel / Thomas V. Patton, Doraville / Alfred F. Revson, Jr. / Chester A. Roush, Jr., Carrollton / J. Cooper Shackelford, Greenville / Dan P. Shepherd / J. Frank Stovall, Jr., Griffin / Norman J. Walton, Mobile / Marvin Whitlock, Chicago GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION, INC. Officers and Trustees: Jack J. McDonough, president / I. M. Sheffield, Jr., vice president / Robert H. Ferst, treasurer / Joe W. Guthridge, executive secretary / Jack Adair / Ivan Allen, Jr. / John P. Baum, Milledgeville / Fuller E. Callaway, Jr., LaGrange / Oscar G. Davis / Dakin B. Ferris, Jr. / Alvin M. Ferst, Jr. / Jack F. Glenn / Henry W. Grady / Ira H. Hardin / Julian T. Hightower, Thomaston / Wayne J. Holman, Jr., New Brunswick, New Jersey / Howard B. Johnson / George T. Marchmont, Dallas / George W. McCarty / Walter M. Mitchell / Frank H. Neely / William A. Parker / Hazard E. Reeves, New York / Glen P. Robinson, Jr. / Charles R. Simons / Hal L. Smith / John C. Staton /Howard T. Tellepsen, Houston / William S. Terrell, Charlotte / Robert Tharpe / William C. Wardlaw, Jr. /Robert H. White, Sr. / George W. Woodruff / Charles R. Yates. THE STAFF Robert B. Wallace, Jr., editor / Becky Dreaden, class notes editor and advertising manager / Caroline McConochie, editorial assistant
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by Ben Moon, IM '61
ECH TODAY! The ever-changing campus scene does not alter the essential characteristics of Georgia Tech.
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To A MAN who knew the Georgia Tech of 1960, the Georgia Tech of 1970 would be recognizable but awfully easy to get lost in. The place has roughly doubled in both physical plant and enrollment, and some ideas that would have sounded strange in 1960 are seriously considered in almost every action taken nowadays. Projections for 1980 sound even more strange, but Tech will probably still be recognizable. It has a character that will be preserved no matter how much it has to change to keep ahead of the world. The "Tech Today" program, sponsored by the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association, is designed to keep alumni and interested friends of the Institute advised of its changing role and current activities. Participants in the program come to campus for two packed days of tours, lectures, panels, banquets and socials that remind one of nothing so much as his freshman year at Tech. Proportionately just as much information is presented in just as short a time. The program is held five times a year, with an average of 35 participants per session. The first session of 1970, held February 12-14, provided a convenient benchmark for comparison with the Georgia Tech of a decade ago. The Georgia Tech Alumnus
T H E MOST OBVIOUS evidence of Tech growth is its physical plant. Buildings have sprouted up all over. The campus has spread across Hemphill Avenue to take in 330 acres, and is planned to expand through urban renewal areas to 385 acres by 1985 to accommodate a projected enrollment of 12,500. "We feel that's adequate for an urban university," says Clyde D. Robbins, director of campus planning. "Any additional growth will probably be vertical." This vertical growth has been included in plans for expansion. The new addition to the library is designed to later accommodate five additional stories on top of the present structure. And vertical can mean down as well as up—one proposal is to build a multistory parking facility on the site of Peters Park. "We're trying to preserve a 10-minute walking time for the central classroom area," Robbins explained. The planners are trying to balance green areas with parking areas—dispelling a fear commonly held by students of 1960 that the campus was fast becoming a concrete jungle. In accord with this philosophy, the old Knowles and Carnegie buildings are to be demolished eventually to make a more open, attractive pedestrian entrance to Grant Field. Concern for the aesthetic appearance of the campus also influenced the decision to place utilities underground, work which is now in progress. A new architectural style is in evidence, and influences all the new buildings on campus. The new student center, which will be finished in May of 1970, is a good example of this modernistic design. The student center itself will be quite a change from only ten years ago when "The Robbery" was the only place to relax between classes—and that involved standing and leaning—and when the only place for non-fraternity men to find recreation was offcampus. A perimeter road is now under construction which will ring the campus and provide access to fringe parking areas. The four-lane "Tech Parkway" will eliminate the need for Hemphill Avenue, which will soon be blocked off at the boundary of the campus.
enrollment continues to grow, Registrar Frank Roper thinks there is a lack n of interest among young people in an engineering education. To some extent he attributes this to the difficulty of the curriculum and to the availability of a good income in less rigorous fields during these affluent times. To some extent, also, he feels that engineers haven't developed their professional image and that young people have no engineers to whom they can relate. Roper points out that "Georgia Tech isn't all that hard to get into," that three out of five applicants are accepted. "Many kids apply to Georgia Tech just to see if they can get in," and of the 3,000 accepted perhaps 1,700 actually enroll. "We allow for that. But if all 3,000 qualified applicants should EVEN THOUGH
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show up, we'd be delighted. We'd put 'em somewhere. I'd even bunk a few in my office," he vows with a grin. The three criteria for acceptance are the applicant's high school record, his SAT mathematical score, and his SAT verbal score, which are given a weight of four, two, and one respectively. "The most important factor—motivation—can't really be measured," Roper stated, "but a heavy weighting of the high school record, we feel, takes this indirectly into account." These criteria, plus a deadline bias in favor of Georgia residents, results in a freshman class 55 percent from Georgia and 45 percent from out of state. Of these, 66 percent graduate. "That old scare-tale told freshmen that two out of three of them won't be here next quarter is apocryphal," declares Roper. "Only ten per cent are academic failures; another 24 percent drop out because of financial problems or career changes." The dual degree plan, whereby a student takes three years at a liberal arts college and two at Georgia Tech and receives both a B.A. in liberal arts and a B.S. in engineering, has never been a success until this year. A $265,000 grant from the Olin Matheson Trust to encourage engineering education for black students has led to a highly successful dual degree program in cooperation with the predominantly black Atlanta University Complex. Another interesting and successful program is the new Joint Enrollment Program with High Schools, through which high school students are admitted to Tech at the end of their junior year. They are still high school students, and still get high school diplomas. The first year 33 students were accepted; 24 continued toward a degree from Tech. In the fall of 1969, 83 were accepted— one-third of them co-eds. They are accepted by the Tech students, of course, but they are considered one step below rats. They've been dubbed mice.
"If the future is to come, we must realize the value I , of basic research."
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PERHAPS some of the most exotic growth that has occurred at Georgia Tech in the past ten years has been in the field of research. During the "Tech Today" program members of the physics faculty presented an assessment of Tech's status and some examples of latest activity. Dr. Charles Braden asserts that there is necessarily a close relationship between basic research and the proper education of students in the basics of science. "The applications of physical principles change fast, but the principles themselves change slowly—and that's a salvation. . . . My point is that a faculty that is effective with students must be in touch with research in the basic principles. . . . If the future is to come, we must realize the value of basic research. There is great pressure at the national and local level to abandon basic research and to take up research that makes more money. . . . Years ago Georgia Tech had really no research; even now we have little compared with the first-rate schools in the field. For example, in the area of elementary particle physics Georgia Tech has only two or The Georgia Tech Alumnus
three faculty members competent to do research. This is the most important basic field in physics, and is the source of current Nobel prizes." The problems of basic research are compounded by its soaring costs, says Dr. Earl W. McDaniel. T h e equipment necessary is more elaborate and more sophisticated—but yields more precise results. In addition, the growing capacity of computers has allowed solution of the real mathematical operations associated with complex research, instead of the simphfied approximations t h a t were necessary for hand calculation. Dr. McDaniel points out t h a t today's students will be better prepared for research because they were exposed to the accelerated elementary and high school education t h a t was spurred by Sputnik, and to more advanced mathematics and more abstract concepts than in the past at Tech. T h e accelerating pace and volume of research in scientific fields have resulted in a proliferation of information and means of its dissemination. "I wrote a book in 1964 on diffusion ionized gasses, and it's already badly aged. Since then there have been close to 8,000 articles written on the subject. It's going to be a bodacious revision job," Dr. McDaniel said. As an example of actual research being carried on a t Tech, Dr. A. L. Stanford gave a talk on his work concerning the "molecular basis of memory." His work is an example of another trend—that of an interdisciplinary approach to complex problems. In his project rats were trained to react in a certain way not natural to their inborn instincts. T h e RNA was then extracted from their brain tissue, and untrained rats were injected with it. Some of the RNA was subjected to alternating current to remove any electromagnetic patterns in the RNA, leaving only chemical patterns to be transmitted to the test rats. His findings have been important in an understanding of the memory process in mammals, and have implications that suggest the possibility of chemical transmission of learning—"you just bop this little pill into your mouth, and bam, you've mastered calculus." If that isn't wild enough, Dr. Stanford also has a tale about "Super-Rat."
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work with rat brains is only one example of the growth of interdisciplinary studies at Georgia Tech. Many problems are being attacked by teams of scientists and engineers in divergent fields. Dr. Walter Bloom, Associate Vice-President of Academic Affairs and himself a physician, outlined three areas of rapid growth— population, technology, and information—that have created complex problems for society. "In the past, discipline-oriented or subdivided education has been primary. The public voice is now gaining dominance, however," says Dr. Bloom. "Health, cities, environment, and education D R . STANFORD'S
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Bio-environmental engineering, urban technology, and educational technology are new directions of intensive study.
are four complex problems of public concern. T h e action area of the future is a team effort to solve these complex problems." In response to these problems, Georgia Tech has established studies and research in the areas of bio-environmental engineering, urban technology, and educational technology ("put 'em in a classroom with a half-dead teacher, and they're going to burn the place down," says Bloom). In addition to cooperation—and increasing mutual respect—among separate disciplines at Tech itself, cooperation with outside schools and agencies is increasing. For example, a mechanical engineer teaches in bio-environmental engineering part-time at Tech and in the medical school part-time a t Emory; his salary is shared by the two schools. Cooperation of this sort enables schools in the Atlanta area to concentrate on their strengths yet derive the benefits of a high level of expertise in other fields.
curriculum is becoming more pithy. In 1960 President Harrison was just beginning to phase out the algebra and trigonometry courses and replace them with higher-level beginning courses. Today a Tech freshman starts out with calculus, and the remedial math courses have been eliminated entirely. One definite trend in evidence is a move to eliminate applications courses. The old machine shop and welding courses are already gone, of course, b u t the trend is now touching some of the more academic applied courses. The required curriculum is being pared down to the basic core courses that teach the student to think and to search on his own, skills which will be of value in his later fight to keep current in his chosen field. Dr. Steve Dickerson of the department of mechanical engineering is in accord with the paring down of the curriculum. "There's a plethora of new fields and problems for engineers— there's also more social science involved, more relating of the engineer to society. The number of credit hours are going down, and there's increased emphasis on the basics to the detriment of applied techniques. Teaching students how to think, plus giving them the basics, is the present trend. Teaching them how to define a problem, then proceed to a solution, rather than giving them specialty training. Too few actually go into the narrow field they're trained for, anyway. This approach does, of course, necessitate a certain apprenticeship period with a company before they can be productive in a specific application." TECH'S
"You know," exclaimed one participant in the "Tech Today" program, "this all sounds a lot like the old program in General Engineering that I majored in. They kept pushing it, b u t it died out because nobody chose it." To a criticism t h a t a lot of the courses, especially in math, were seldom used in professional practice, President Hansen ruefully admitted t h a t sometimes it seemed his own mathematical training had gone "for nought. The computers do all t h a t now." He stressed, 12
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however, that as opposed to a technician who simply "does tricks" without knowing the theory behind the processes, an engineer must have the depth of understanding t h a t rigorous mathematical proof can offer. In other words, m a t h is here to stay. With the time afforded by a pared-down core curriculum, presumably at some time in the future the Tech student can spend more time reflecting, exploring sideline interests, taking liberal arts electives, and indulging in "human pursuits." "We must turn out professionally competent people, b u t they'll also fill other human roles as well as a professional role," points out Dr. David B. Comer, I I I , chairman of the English department. "Tech should have a more humane emphasis—give the student time to take other courses, time to think, to grow personally outside his field for his own soul's sake." Dr. P a t Kelley of social science further criticizes t h a t "a person doesn't have to have had a course to learn something—but Tech's basic assumption is t h a t you can't know if you haven't had a course in the subject. Heck, teachers don't have t h a t much to say! They should simply be available to help a guy over a difficult point in individual study when he's stuck, at least in some subject areas." Dr. Kelley also suggested t h a t possibly students should even be allowed to study on their own and at their own pace, and to take tests when they feel ready for them. Another flexibility in overall curriculum may be brought about in response to different needs. One concerns the student who comes to Tech dazzled by the glamour of engineering, b u t when faced with differential equations decides this is not for him. T h e new College of Industrial Management has incorporated four new options designed to allow a certain amount of flexibility. In addition, to meet the needs of students oriented toward liberal arts or business, proposals have been made for degree programs in technology and the humanities, technical sales, and—recreational engineering. The latter is a serious proposal to meet the very real needs of large corporations for executive and employee physical fitness, which could improve morale, increase efficiency, and lower insurance premiums. But of the increasingly sophisticated pure engineer Tech is and will be turning out under the new curriculum concepts, President Hansen contends t h a t "a company doesn't need 30 or 40 men like these—it needs three or four. They should be the type men who can lead an industry into the future." Companies have made a mistake in the past, he feels, in hiring only the "cream of the crop" of graduate engineers when perhaps the job to be done only required a very competent technician. The result, of course, was often the new employee's dissatisfaction and eventual departure. Hansen's concept of the engineer of the future is a man educated in basic, universal concepts who can look at engineering problems from a fresh point of view—a man "aware of b u t not wedded to existing technology." From such a man should come truly new and creative solutions to root problems, rather than patchwork on existing systems. March-April 1970
the engineer of the future: a man "aware of but not wedded to existing technology."
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(or she) is still a Tech student—practical, straightforward. Even though the bizarre dress and grooming of this latter-day decade are evident to some extent, the shaggy head and studied poverty-stricken appearance are less common at Tech than at other colleges—possibly because it's not all that new to the Tech student, who typically comes from lower middle-class origins and sees engineering as a path to social mobility. But the Tech student is very much a child of this new age. "A lot of students here couldn't care less about going into business," John Hayes, president of the student body, informed the participants of "Tech Today." "They are highly motivated and idealistic —but they have some different ideals." The students are informed, aware, concerned, involved, and have a yen to be "relevant." Even so, they are probably simply saying aloud some of the same things earlier generations of students merely thought. They feel less threatened by Victorian authoritarianism. President Hansen says "they're concerned with the loss of a value structure; they're asking 'what does it all mean?' " Dr. Vernon Crawford, Vice-President for Academic Affairs, describes them as "quiet revolutionaries who are opposed to the tyrannies of the job, a preoccupation with material things, the drive for power, war and killing, racism; they are questioning the institution of marriage, the drive to succeed at any cost, and anything that robs people of identity. . . . They're asking that the curricula be relevant, that it have internal consistency. . . . The negative side of technology has been overstressed, and young people have been turned aside from careers in technology. . . . But on the whole these changes have been good for mankind. Engineers are beginning to see beyond the narrow confines of their field. In fact, in years ahead we may even see the words of our song changed to "I'm a Ramblin' Reck from Georgia Tech and a relevant engineer." (The alumni were relieved to notice Dr. Crawford had his tongue in his cheek.) As Mr. Hayes put it, "what you have before you right now is a constructive revolution." Hayes' comments were made during a student panel session of the "Tech Today" program, one that generated quite a bit of heat between the student panel members and the program participants.
One of the hottest exchanges was on the subject of "profit." Like apple pie and motherhood, profit was considered an icon of the capitalist system by some of the alumni, and the battle was on. The usual arguments were advanced about "just how long do you think a company will last without profits?" The students seemed to be trying to make a respectable point, however, that they felt American business should take the emphasis off profits and redefine its objectives—should strike a balance, rather than making profit an all-powerful goal. "Well, if profit shouldn't be our main goal, what do you think should be?" shot back a fiftyish gentleman, his cheeks reddening. "Service to society, of course, is a firm's ultimate reason for existence, or it should be," replied the student, just the slightest bit flustered, almost imperceptibly. He kept his composure well. "Baaaahhhh!" the gentleman said under his breath, but he seemed to be somewhat placated. Another exchange occurred when a student described the Georgia Tech Placement Center as a "cattle auction" that sold off the "products" of the Georgia Tech "factory" to the highest bidder. An alumnus replied with some heat that nobody views a student as something to be bartered and traded, and that in hiring a new employee, an employer gambles a good bit of money on his staying with the company long enough to become productive. Another alumnus proclaimed loudly that in his day they were all proud to be called "products" of the "North Avenue trade school." Here there seemed to be a misunderstanding. Later in the evening Dr. Crawford was to independently make his statement about the young people being opposed to "the tyrannies of the job. . . . and anything that robs people of identity." This exchange suggested an area of neglected communication for companies engaged in hiring graduates. The students further remarked that Tech is "admitting a lot of lizards; all they want to do is study. The world passes for four years, then he's put in a lab for 20 years and he dies back there." They apparently hold a pretty dismal picture of their future jobs—pictures of M.E.'s behind drawing boards and I.M.'s behind desks, forever. "If you're good, you move up. If you're not too bad, you'll be there for the rest of your life." This remark seemed to underscore what Dr. Pat Kelley asserted that Tech should be doing for its students—"somehow to convince them to believe in themselves, in their great potential, to inspire them." The students seemed to be in favor of the increasing flexibility of the curriculum. "The broader your education, the better prepared you are when you get out," said one of the panelists. "Give a student more time to think, and he'll be more well-rounded, more valuable to a company." "Remember, who you know is also important," an alumnus added. "Tech students are success-oriented in an economic sense but not in a professional sense," criticized Bob Wallace, director of March-April 1970
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information services and publications. But whatever the Tech student of today has become, he maintains the esprit de corps that has always been typical of the Tech man. It's a tough school, getting tougher, and he's proud to be a part of it. After graduation he's just as proud to have been a part of it, and supports it accordingly. The more recent classes have supported the Georgia Tech Alumni Roll Call to a higher percentage than have even classes of past years.
is really rooted in Tech today, just as Tech today is rooted in Tech n of the past. The faculty, the students, the alumni—Georgia Tech is a community that spans the years. The alumni are changing, too, along with the rest of the community. Toward the end of the "Tech Today" program, a middleaged alumnus from Macon, Georgia was overheard talking about the new black player on the Tech football team: "I'm really pullin' for that boy!" Another: "Things sure are changing. (Laugh) I can take it!" Tech alumni are more active in supporting the school than in carping partly because, as practical men, they truly understand the difficulties and complexities of administration. This support will be increasingly vital, for funding for higher education is critical and will continue to be in decades ahead. Then there's the immediate problem of a reduction in funds for technological institutions born partly of the sense of anticlimax settling upon the nation after the moon landing. There can be serious consequences for Tech and the nation if technological suicide is committed through undue curtailment of research. Another critical need for the future is for Tech to become surrounded by a complex of related, interacting industries such as those surrounding Stanford or M.I.T. Also, President Hansen feels that Georgia Tech's "image of being an ivory tower must change," that the school must increasingly become involved in the large, complex problems facing mankind today. By the end of another one of those convenient decade increments, Georgia Tech will probably be even more deeply involved in interdisciplinary studies as the implications of technological actions and innovations are traced along all their paths—environmental, sociological, psychological, political, philosophical. The awareness is growing that no act is truly isolated—that there is a whole new concept of technological ecology. The engineer, the manager, the scientist can no longer consider himself amoral. His acts have far-reaching effects that he must concern himself with. The specialist in technology will truly be a "relevant" man—a man of mission. Georgia Tech is moving ahead of the trends of society to prepare its students for that world of new awareness and broadened responsibility. In the words of Dr. Pat Kelley, "Tech is on the brink of the most exciting period in its history.. . Tech is coming—I'll bet my career on it, and it's a good bet!" TECH TOMMORROW
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^ - ^ n ^ ^ y ^ ^ ^ N j - l BE! WEEN NOW AND THEN, OUr colleges and uniS^, r^^ f ) J verities will have more changi s !<i make, more _K_y*v_^V_^/D ma I or issues to confront, more roblems to solve, more demands to meet, than in any comparable perk J in their history. In 1980 they also will have: compared to • More students to strve—an estimated 11.5-mil some 7.5-million today. • More professional staff members to employ— :i projected 1.1million, compared to 785,000 today. • Bigger budgets to meet—an estimated $39-bilii in uninflated, 1968-69 dollars, nearly double the number of today. • Larger salaries to pay—$16,532 in 1968-6' ullars for the average full-time faculty member, compared to $11,5 •>5 last year. • More library book to buy—half a billion don o worth, compared to $200-million last year. • New programs that are not yet even in existerici-—with an annual cost of %A.l-billion. te by one of the Those are careful, well-founded projections, prepa^ leading economists of higher education, Howard R. Bo wen. Yet they are only one indication of what is becoming more ;i nd more evident in every respect, as our colleges and universities loot to 1980: No decade in the history of higher education—not even the eventful one just ended, with its meteoric record of growth—1uis come close to what the Seventies are sha ping up to be.
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universities will be put to a severe test of their TJ resiliency, resourcefulness, and strength. No newspaper reader or television viewer needs to be told why. Many colleges and universities enter the Seventies with a burdensome inheritance: a legacy of dissatisfaction, unrest, and disorder on their campuses that has no historical parallel. It will be one of the great issues of the new decade. Last academic year alone, the American Council on Education found that 524 of the country's 2,342 institutions of higher education experienced disruptive campus protests. The consequences ranged from the occupation of buildings at 275 institutions to the death of one or more persons at eight institutions. In the first eight months of 1969, an insurance-industry clearinghouse reported, campus disruptions caused $8.9-million in property damage. Some types of colleges and universities were harder-hi! than others— but no type except private two-year colleges escaped completely. (See the table at left for the American Council on Educa/ion's breakdown of disruptive and violent protests, according to the kinds of institution that underwent them.) Harold Hodgkinson, of the Center for Research and Development in Higher Education at the University of California, studied more than 1,200 campuses and found another significant fact: the bigger an institution's enrollment, the greater the likelihood that disruptions took place. For instance: • Of 501 institutions with fewer than 1,000 students, only 14 per cent reported that the level of protest had increased on their campuses over the past 10 years.
• Of 32 institutions enrolling between 15,000 and 25,000 students, 75 per cent reported an increase in protests. • Of 9 institutions with more than 25,000 students, all but one reported that protests had increased. This relationship between enrollments and protests, Mr. Hodgkinson discovered, held true in both the public and the private colleges and universities: "The public institutions which report an increase in protest have a mean size of almost triple the public institutions that report no change in protest," he found. "The nonsectarian institutions that report increased protesi are more than twice the size of the nonsectarian institutions that report no change in protest." Another key finding: among the faculties at protest-prone institutions, these characteristics were common: "interest in research, lack of interest in teaching, lack of loyalty to the institution, and support of dissident students." Nor—contrary to popular opinion—were protests contined to one or two parts ol die country (imagined by many to be the East and West Coasts). Mr. Hodgkinson found no region in which fewer than 19 per cent of all college and university campuses had been hit by protests. "It is very clear from our data," he reported, "that, although some areas have had more student protest than others, there is no 'safe' region of the country."
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spontaneous, and riotlike" than those in the colleges. What such rumblings may presage for the colleges and universities to which many . of the high school students are bound, one can only speculate. Even so, on many campuses, there is a guarded optimism. "I know I may have to eat these words tomorrow," said a university official who had served with the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, "'but I think we may have turned the corner." Others echo his sentiments. "If anything, said a dean who almost superstitiously asked that he not be identified by name, "the campuses may be meeting their difficulties with greater success than is society generally—despite the scare headlines. "The student dissatisfactions are being dealt with, constructively, on many fronts. The unrest appears to be producing less violence and more reasoned > earches for remedies—although I still cross my fingers when saying so." Some observers see another reason for believing that the more destructive forms of student protest may be on the wane. Large numbers of students, including many campus activists, appear to have been alienated this year by the violent tactics of extreme radicals. And deep divisions have occurred in Students for a Democratic Society, the radical organization that was involved in many earlier campus disruptions. In 1968, the radicals gained many supporters among moderate students as a result of police methods in breaking up some of their demonstrations. This year, the opposite has occurred. Last fall, for example, the extremely radical "Weatherman" faction of Students for a Democratic Society deliberately set out to provoke a violent police reaction in Chicago by smashing windows and attacking bystanders. To the Weathermen's disappointment, the police were so restrained that they won the praise of many of their former critics—and not only large numbers of moderate students, but even a number of campus SDS chapters, said they had been "turned off" by the extremists' violence. The president of the University of Michigan, Robben Fleming, is among those who see a lessening of student enthusiasm for the extremeradical approach. "I believe the violence and force will soon pass, because it has so little support within the student body," he told an interviewer. "There is very little student support for violence of any kind, even when it's directed at the university." At Harvard University, scene of angry smdent protests a year ago, a visitor found a similar outlook. "Students seem to be moving away from a diffuse discontent and toward a rediscovery of the values of workmanship,"' said the master of Eliot House, Alan E. Heimert. "It's as if they were saying, 'The revolution isn't right around the corner, so I'd better find my vocation and develop myself.' " Bruce Chalmers, master of Winthrop House, saw "a kind of antitoxin in students' blood" resulting from the 1969 disorders: "The disruptiveness, emotional intensity, and loss of time and opportunity last year," he said, "have convinced people that, whatever happens, we must avoid replaying that scenario." A student Sound even more measurable evidence of the new mood: "At Lamont Library last week I had to wait 45 minutes to get a reserve book. Last spring, during final exams, there was no wait at all."
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of the academ: environment. Most of those who today believe otherwise are, in iac pitiable victims of the very legradation of values they are attempting i combat." Chancellor G aid has observed: "Among all -ocial institutions today, th • university allows more dissent, take . edom of mind and spirit n ore seriously, and, under considerable MI ranee, labors to create a n ore ideal environment for free expression id for the free interchange <•f ideas and emotions than any other insiii tion in the land. . . . "But when d sent evolves into disruption. the university, also by its very nature, iin Is itself unable to cope . . . without clouding the real issues beyond h re of rational resolution. . . The preside n of the University of Minne ota, Malcolm Moos, said not long ago: "The ills o! ur campuses and our socie y are too numerous, too serious, and lot fateful to cause anyone to elieve that serenity is the proper mark of an effective university or an effective intellectual community. Even n calmer times any public co '.lege or university worthy of the name has :loused relatively vocal indivi iuals and groups of widely diverging polka 1 persuasions. . . . The society which tries to get its children tauglu by fettered and fearful mi' ids is trying not only to destroy its insti tions of higher learning, bm also to destroy itself. . . . elation of the rights or pro:perty of other citizens, on "[But] or off the camr s, is plainly wrong. And it i s plainly wrong no matter how high-mi ndi J the alleged motivation for such activity. Beyond that, those who el a in the right to interfere with th e speech, or movement, or safety, or instn tion, or property of others on a campus—and claim that right bee an • their hearts are pure or the r grievance great—destroy the climate ol t 'ility and freedom without \ . hich the university simply cannot function is an educating institution.' 71
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THAI "CLIMATE OF CIVILITY AND I REEDOM" appeals to be necessary before the colleges and uniD versities can come to grips, successfully, with many of the other major issues that will confront them in the decade. Those issues are large and complex. They touch all parts of the college and university community—faculty, students, administrators, board members, and alumni—and they. frequently involve large segments of the public, as well. Many are controversial; some are potentially explosive. Here is a sampling: • What is the students' rightful role in the running «>t a college or university? Should they be represented on the institution's governing board? On faculty and ad ininistrative committees? Should their evaluations of a teacher's performance in the classroom pla\ a part in the advancement of his career? Trend: Although it is just getting under way, there's a definite movement toward giving students a greater voice in the atTairs of many colleges and universities. At Wesleyan University, for example, the trustees henceforth will fill the office of chancellor b\ choosing from the nominees of a student-faculty committee. At a number of institutions, young alumni are being added to the governing boards, to introduce viewpoints that are closer to the students'. OtIters are adding students to committees or campus-wide governing croups. Teacher evaluations are becoming commonplace. Not everyone approves the trend. "I am convinced that representation is not the clue to university improvement, indeed that if carried too far it could lead to disaster," said the president ol Vale University, Kingman Brewster, Jr. lie said he believed most students were "not sufficiently interested in devoting their time and attention to the running of the university to make it likely that 'participatory democracy' will be truly democratic," and that they would "rather have the policies of the university directed by the faculty and administration than by their classmates." To many observers' surprise, Harold Hodgkinson's survey of student protest, to which this report referred earlier, found that the hypothesis
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that increased student control in institutional policy-making would result in a decrease in student protest is not supported by our data at all. The reverse would seem to be more likely." Some 80 per cent of the 355 institutions where protests had increased over the past 10 years reported thai the students' policy-making role had increased, too. • How can the advantages of higher education be extended to greater numbers of minority-group youths? What if the quality of their pre-college preparation makes it difficult, if not impossible, for many of them to meet the usual entrance requirements? Should colleges modify those requirements and offer remedial courses? Or should they maintain their standards, even if they bar the door to large numbers of disadvantage J persons? Trend: A statement adopted this academic year by the National Association of College Admissions Counselors may contain some clues. At least 10 per cent of a college's student body, it said, should be composed of minority students. At least half of those should be "high-risk" students who. by normal academic criteria would not be expected to succeed in college. "Each college should eliminate the use of aptitude test scores a a major factor in determining eligibility for admission for minority students," the admissions counselors' statement said. A great increase in the part played by community and junior colleges is also likely The Joint Economic Commit!ee of Congress was recently given this projection by Ralph W. Tyler, director emeritus of the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Science at Stanford, Cal.: "[Twoyear colleges j now enroll more than 20 per cent of all students in posthigh school institutions, and at the rate the e colleges are increasing in number as well as in enrollment, it is safe t<> predict that 10 years from "now 3-million Tudents will be enrolled . . representing one-third of the total post-high school enrollment and approximately one-half of all first- and second-year students. "Their in ortance is due to several iactors. They are generally open-door c< leges, enrolling nearly all high school graduates or adults cause the students represent a very wide range of backwho apply, ground and previous educational experience, the faculty generally recognizes if need for students to be helped to learn."
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• What is the future of the predominantly Negro institutions of higher education? Trend: Shortly after the current academic year began, she presidents of 111 predominantly Negro colleges—"a strategic national resource . . . more important to the national security than tho c producing the technology for nuclear warfare," said Herman H. Lc ng. president of Talladega College—former a new organization to advr c. their institutions' cause. The move was born of a feeling that t . colleges were orphans in U.S. higher education, carrying a heavy sponsibility for educating Negro students yet receiving less than thi lr fair share of federal funds, state appropriations, and private gifts: losing some of their best faculty members to traditionally white institi ions in the rush to establish "'black studied' programs; and suffering •ti.T competition from the white colleges in the recruitment of top N> a • high school graduates. • How can colleges and universities, other than those with predominantly black enrollments, best meet the needs and iemands of nonwhite students? Should they establish special course: such as black studies? Hire more nonv, hite counselors, faculty members, administrators? Accede to some Negroes' demands for separate dormitory facilities, student unions, and dining-hall menus? Trend: "The black studies question, like the black re )ii as a whole, American life, has raised all the fundamental problems of class power f the instituand the solutions will have to run deep into the structi i tions themselves," says a noted scholar in Negro his' te Eugene D. Genovese, chairman of the history department at th University of Rochester. Three schools of thought on black studies now can .• discerned in American higher education. One, which includes many dor-generation Negra educators, holds black studies courses in com apt. Another, at the opposite extreme, believes that colleges and uni si ties must go to great lengths to atone for past injustices to Negroes. The third, between the hirst two groups, feels that "some forms of black studies are legitimate intellectual pursuits," in the words of one lose observer, "but that generally any such program must fit the im crsity's traditional patterns." The last group, most scholars now believe, is likely to prevail in the coming decade. As for separatist movements on the campuses, most have run into provisions of the federal C ivil Rights Act of 1964, which bars discrimination in housing and eating facilities. • What should be the role of the faculty in governing an institution of higher education? When no crisis is present, do most faculty members really want an active part in governance? Or, except for supervising the academic program, do they prefer to concentrate on their own teaching and research? Trend: In recent years, observers have noted that many faculty members were more interested in their disciplines—history or physics or medicine—than in the institutions they happened to be working for at the time. This seemed not unnatural, since more and more faculty members were moving from campus to campus and thus had less opportunity than their predecessors to develop a strong loyalty to one institution.
But it often meant that the general, day o-day running of a college or universit\ \ as left to administrative s aff members, with faculty members devot ng themselves to their schoi arly subject-matter. Campus diso : ders appear to have arresteri this trend at some colleges and universities at least temporarily. Man\ faculty members—alarmed at the disruptio is of classes or feeling closei to the students' cause than to administrate; s and law officers—rekindlei , their interest in the institutions' affairs \t other institutions, howe er, as administrators and trustees respon led to student demands b\ pressing for academic reforms, at least : ome faculty members have i sisted changing their ways, Said the preside nt of the University of Mass achusetts, John W. Lederle, not long age: Students are beginning to di cover that it is not the administration thi t is the enemy, but sometime •s it is the faculty that drags its feet." Robei t Taylor, vice-president of t ie University of Wisconsin, was more opiii listic: student pressures for academic reforms, he said, might "bring !i z professors back not only to teaching but to commitment to the inst :ution."
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that the 197 will see vastly different coi eges and universities from those of the iO's." Interdisciplinary studs •s, honors programs, independent stu. mdergraduate work abroac community service projects, work-s programs, and non-Wester studies were some of the innovations 1 :g planned or under way at hundreds of institutions, ices are being re-examined in many campuses. So are Grading p new approa: to instruction, such as tel vision, teaching machines, language lab ories, comprehensive examii itions. New styles in classrooms and ii ies are being tried out; stu ents are evaluating faculty members' tea. ig performance and particip ting on faculty committees at more tha 0 colleges, and plans for si :h activity are being made at several-se rthers. hanges should be vast, indee By 1980, i
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Alumnus Challenges Alumni • T H E Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc. has received a $100,000 challenge gift, the first in the 22-year history of the annual alumni roll call fund operated by the Tech National Alumni Association. According to Association President Braxton Blalock of Atlanta, the challenge gift came from a Tech alumnus who wishes to remain anonymous. It will be used in this year's campaign to match every dollar a Tech alumnus invests in the roll call above that which he invested the previous year. Roll call funds are used at Tech principally to supplement salaries of key faculty members, to help induce top teachers from across the country to join the Tech faculty, to give financial help to superior students through Tech's National Merit Scholarships, and to make available loan funds for needy students. Exclusive of the challenge money, Tech's current roll call, which ends in June, is already over $75,000 ahead of last year's record-breaking campaign at this stage, with over $475,000 received as of February 28. Last year's campaign helped Tech alumni receive the $5,000 grand sweepstakes award in the U. S. Steel Foundation's national competition for improvement in annual giving. The total giving by alumni to Tech last year reached over $1 million with the roll call producing over $550,000 of that amount.
Environmental Resources Center Opens • To stimulate and coordinate activities related to environment resources, the Board of Regents gave final approval March 11 to Tech to establish an Environmental Resources Center, effective March 15. According to Tech President Arthur G. Hansen, the environmental program is a result of the increasing demands of political and industrial leaders, educators, and students for greater emphasis on problems related to environmental quality, resource management and related social issues. "The relationship of such problems to technology is of special significance at Georgia Tech," the president explained. "Our studies, our experience with our Water Resources Center, and our evaluation of Georgia Tech's resources and its needs, lead us to believe that we can satisfy the demands for March-April 1970
an environmental resources program." The new program is the result of studies begun in 1966 under the direction of Tech's Vice President for Academic Affairs. Dr. Hansen related that the purpose of the studies was to explore the objectives and alternative organizational structures for a center for institutes concerned with "environmental science and/or engineering." The organization which the Regents approved today will be patterned after and based on Tech's existing Water Resources Center, a pioneer of its type in America. The environmental program will be directed by Regents' Professor Carl E. Kindsvater who also heads the Water Resources Center. According to Dr. Hansen the new environmental center will have multiple objectives. "It will foster coordinated programs of education and research related to the resources management aspects of environmental quality control," he states. "It will emphasize multidisciplinary, problem-focused programs involving interaction between science and technology, socio-economic systems, and the natural environment." "It will stimulate and coordinate Georgia Tech's involvement in offcampus and service activities related to environmental resources," he continues. "And it will serve as Georgia Tech's interface with coastal resources activities being administered by the Institute of Natural Resources at the University of Georgia, the Ocean Science Center of the Atlantic, and the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography. It also will coordinate Georgia Tech's involvement in the resources management aspect of the Urban Life Center being administered by Georgia State University." President Hansen further commented that the program "will promote effective and efficient use of the competence and facilities in existing schools, departments, and the
Engineering Experiment Station at Georgia Tech." "The proposed program will not offer a designated degree," states Dr. Hansen. "Instead," he explains, "it will foster the development of multidepartmental curricula which will be augmented by special courses and directed studies in the interdisciplinary aspects of environmental resources." "Students affected by the program will be registered in and receive their degrees from one of the degree-granting schools. Nevertheless, the Environmental Resource Center's program will provide financial support of a large number of students, mostly at the graduate level." The program will be staffed by the faculty and staff of the Tech Water Resources Center.
Southern Tech Goes To Four Years • T H E Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia approved a recommendation on March 11 that established Southern Technical Institute, a unit of Georgia Tech, as the state's newest four-year institution of higher learning, effective in September, 1970. The approval of the recommendation by Georgia Tech President Arthur G. Hansen allows the Marietta institution to add four-year programs leading to bachelor of engineering technology degrees in all fields in which the Institute is now granting the two-year associate of engineering technology degrees. According to Chancellor George L. Simpson, Jr., the new baccalaureate degree program will provide technical specialists to fill the many high-level technical and supervisory positions now open among Georgia's industries, businesses, state and municipal governmental organizations, utilities, and in other areas. In making the recommendation for 33
-Continued new degree programs, President Hansen pointed out that over 80 bachelor of technology programs now are active at universities and colleges in this country and that they are increasing at a rate of two per month. The newest ones in the South are at North Carolina State, University of Tennessee and the University of South Florida, all of which were initiated in 1969. "Of the original group of colleges that established the two-year technical institutes in the period following World War II, Georgia Tech is the final one to move into the four-year degree programs," added Dr. Hansen. The new Southern Tech four-year program has been under study for three years by joint-faculty committees of Southern Tech and Georgia Tech, a joint committee of the Board of Regents and the Georgia Business and Industry Association, and committees representing a broad spectrum of the state's industries. President Hansen said that this recommendation carried with it the strong endorsement of all of the committees studying the program. "In every case where an American institution has added the four-year program in engineering technology, enrollment has increased dramatically for both the new four-year program and for the old two-year programs," Dr. Hansen said. "Purdue University's enrollment in these programs increased from 1,340 to 4,935 over the first five years of the program. During the same period, Southern Tech's enrollment has steadily declined falling from 1,396 in 1964-65 to 1,050 in 1969-70." High school counselors in the year terminal aspect of the program, according to H. L. McClure, director of Southern Tech. "Since Southern Tech's entrance requirements are equivalent to those of most four-year colleges, most students select a nontechnical baccalaureate program even though it might not meet their career objectives," says McClure. Included in the recommendation was a matriculation fee increase (only for new students and those present students going on for the new degree) from $95 to $110 per quarter to help balance the increased costs associated with the new programs. The Southern Tech evening school will make this four-year program available to the 1,800 Southern Tech alumni and to junior college graduates working in the Greater Atlanta area. The evening program will also provide an opportunity to earn a high-level technical degree to qualified high school graduates in the area who for financial reasons cannot attend the regular day 34
sessions on a full-time basis. Currently, Southern Tech offers associate degrees in the following areas —architectural engineering technology, civil engineering technology (two options), electrical engineering technology (two options), mechanical engineering technology, and textile engineering technology (two options). All of these programs will be extended to the four-year level as well as continued at the two-year associate degree level. The new degree program was established with the core curriculum concept in mind which means that junior college students who have completed the required two-years in humanities, mathematics, and sciences, will be able to transfer to Southern Tech as juniors and go on to the bachelor of technology degree. Students beginning their careers at Southern Tech will be able to take the first two years of the program and receive the associate of science degree and then have the option of continuing on for the four-year bachelor's degree or going on into industry. Southern Tech was established in October, 1947, as a result of a request from the Associated Industries of Georgia (now the Georgia Business and Industry Association). This organization pointed out to the late Georgia Tech President Blake Van Leer the needs of Georgia industry for technicians and the fact that programs to produce them existed throughout the country with the exception of the South. Southern Tech began operation in 1948 in facilities of the old Atlanta Naval Air Station near Chamblee. In 1961, the new campus near Marietta was completed, and the Institute began operations at this site. The modern facilities were designed for an enrollment of 1,800 students. "No additional facilities appear to be needed for several years," says President Hansen. "More than 2,000 students were served by Southern Tech during the years when the University of Georgia— Marietta Extension Division shared the Southern Tech Facilities." With the establishment of the new program, the director of Southern Tech will report to the dean of engineering at Georgia Tech rather than to the director of Tech's engineering extension division as he has in the past. According to President Hansen, this step was necessary, at least during the initial period of development, in order that the programs on the Tech campus and those at Southern Tech might be closely coordinated. "We feel that the associate degree and the new bachelor of technology programs at Georgia Tech must all be part of a spectrum of engineering education that require close coordination and continued review to be effective," said
President Hansen. "Furthermore, I feel strongly that the curricula of the College of Engineering should be carefully reviewed in the event of Southern Tech obtaining four-year status. A host of new opportunities for closer cooperation, credit-sharing, faculty exchanges, laboratory usage and other shared programs could well materialize from such a reviewing process."
Grants roll in • TECH has been awarded National Science Foundation grants totalling $61,349 to establish two summer institutes for high school teachers, according to President Arthur G. Hansen. Both programs, one in engineering concepts and the other in information and computer science, will feature a six-week workshop of intensive study during the summer, 1970, followed by 15 to 17 four-hour meetings during the 1970-71 academic year. Graduate credit for taking the courses can be arranged through the participants' degree-granting schools. Both programs are aimed at introducing courses in engineering concepts and computer science into high school curricula. The engineering concepts program will be available to 24 science and mathematics teachers in nine Metropolitan Atlanta school systems. These include Atlanta, Clayton County, Cobb County, Decatur, DeKalb County, Douglas County, Fulton County, Gwinnett County, and Marietta. Initially developed several years ago by NSF's Engineering Concepts Curriculum Project group, the engineering concepts course was begun in 1965 at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. With teachers provided by this program, approximately 200 high schools across the nation now teach the course. Two of these are in Georgia—one at Russell High School in East Point and the other at Jordan Vocational High School in Columbus. As a proposed part of the high school curriculum, engineering concepts is designed to develop technological literacy among college-bound students, most of whom probably will not pursue a career in a scientific or technological profession. Such students "should have a knowledge of science and technology sufficient to enable them to think rationally about technologically based issues affecting society," according to E. E. David, Jr., and J. G. Truxal, codirectors of the project at Brooklyn. "Today, citizens must be knowledgeable in these areas if they are to be effective in guiding technology in directions that suit man's purposes without allowing it to impair his liberty, ruin his environment, or destroy his privacy." Dr. David, the executive director for the research communications systems The Georgia Tech Alumnus
division of Bell Telephone Laboratories, is an Atlanta native who received his bachelor's degree from Georgia Tech and the master's and doctorate from MIT. "Since most high school science courses are aimed at the future physicist, biologist, or chemist, the approach taken by teachers of these subjects has left the non-scienceoriented student uninterested and has led to drastically dwindling enrollments in science courses," according to Dr. Ronal Larson, who will direct the project at Tech. Dr. Larson is an associate professor of electrical engineering. The engineering concepts course is intended as a supplement to these "pure science" courses. It approaches the world of science and technology from a different angle, attempting to relate basic engineering concepts—modeling, logic design, feedback, stability—to real-world situations. The information and computer science program has no known national precedent. A joint venture between Tech's School of Information and Computer Science and the Atlanta Public School System, it is designed to prepare 24 teachers from the Atlanta system to start fundamental courses in the subject in their high schools. The program will be an extension of Tech's undergraduate courses in information and computer science. Initially established in 1963 with funds partially provided by NSF, Tech's School of Information and Computer Science was the first academic program of its type in the nation. It offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees and conducts under-graduate courses for students majoring in other areas. Teachers in the 1970 summer institute will study finite mathematics, information structure and processes, computer systems, and computing languages. It is intended that the 1970 group return in the summer of 1971 for further courses—in semiotics, cybernetics, problem-solving, etc.— while a new group begins the initial courses in 1971. Though an extension of Tech's core program in information science, the courses taught to the teachers and eventually to Atlanta high school students will be "more expository than rigorously mathematical" and will "foster motivation through careful control of the level of abstraction," according to Alton P. Jensen, who will direct the project. Computer equipment belonging to the Atlanta Public School System will be available for use by the teachers. The Atlanta system operates a large IBM 360/50 with bulk storage and data communications equipment and provides remote terminal service to all of its 28 high schools. March-April 1970
Grants totalling $28,750 have also been awarded to Tech by two national firms. The E. I. DuPont Company has allocated $17,500 for departmental science and engineering grants at the Institute. The money will go to the Schools of Chemical Engineering, $7,500; Chemistry, $2,500; Electrical Engineering, $2,500; and Mechanical Engineering, $5,000. The Eastman Kodak Company has awarded Tech an unrestricted direct grant in the amount of $5,250, and the Tennessee Eastman Division has made $6,000 available for use by the graduate school of textile engineering. Dr. James R. Stevenson, director of the School of Physics, has been awarded a $72,600 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Dr. Stevenson's award is for the study of "Optical Interactions in Solids Relating to Solid State Detectors and Corrosion Control." In addition, three other research groups have received awards from the Research Corporation of New York. Dr. Helmun Biritz, assistant professor of physics, and Dr. James V. Herod, associate professor of mathematics, have been awarded Frederick Gardner Cottrell grants from the corporation. Dr. Biritz's award is $5,100 for a program entitled, "Relativistic Interactions," and Dr. Herod will receive $2,640 for a project called "Evolution Systems and Product Integration." The third award, $16,750, went to an interdisciplinary research team made up of Dr. A. L. Stanford, associate professor of physics; Dr. Hong S. Min, associate professor of biology; and Dr. E. Jo Baker, associate professor of psychology. The team is studying the "physical "basis of molecular memory."
Gainesville student honored • A TECH student majoring in industrial and systems engineering—Ben J. Dyer of Gainesville, Ga.—has been selected as the 1970 Student Engineer of the Year at the Institute. The award, which was sponsored by the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers, was presented at the society's annual banquet February 28 in Atlanta. Dyer was selected by unanimous vote of the Student-Faculty Relations Committee of the Georgia Tech Student Center. Criteria for selection include scholarship, service to Tech and the community, and potential contributions to the engineering profession. A senior from Gainesville, Ga., Dyer has maintained a 3.8 grade point average (on a scale of 1-4), and his past and present activities include: Lambda Chi Alpha Social Fraternity, Secretary, House Manager; Commission for SAC-70, Director; Student Government, Industrial Engineering Repre-
sentative, Chairman of Campus Government Committee, Chairman of \ Wonderful Ed's Day; Student Center Governing Board, Member-at-Large; Advisory Committee to the President; Freshman Camp Counselor; Committee on Campus Leadership; American Institute of Industrial Engineers Georgia Tech Student Chapter, President, Treasurer; Ramblin' Reck Club, Chairman of Spirit Promotion; Industrial Engineering Student-Faculty Interaction Committee; Phi E t a Sigma; Tau Beta Pi; Phi Kappa Phi; Alpha Pi Mu,He also spent three months at Economic Opportunity Atlanta, writing, filming, editing and producing the motion picture "Start Now Atlanta." This thirty-minute show was designed to encourage volunteer work for EOA in Atlanta's low income areas and has been shown on WAGA-TV, at numerous local group meetings, and in New York and Chicago.
Tech professor named to panel • DR. Ernest Tsivoglou, professor of civil engineering, has been appointed to an advisory panel on ecology and environmental policy for the U. S. Committee on Public Works. The announcement of the formation of the 12-man advisory group was recently made by Senator Jennings Randolph (D.-W.Va.), chairman of the committee. "The panel will advise the Committee and the staff on the specific programs and policies under the jurisdiction of the Committee, such as highway and related transportation problems, water resources development, and the general problems of water and air pollution and solid waste disposal," Randolph said. "We will also seek assistance from the panel on long term environmental problems that are not now being closely addressed by any of the Committees of the Congress—such as the environmental implications of our present and future fuels policies, the climatic effects of jet aircraft, the impact on the environment of other existing and anticipated technologies, and the need for new water resources development policies in relation to population trends," he continued. Professor Tsivoglou, a member of the Tech faculty for the past three and one-half years, was sanitary engineering director in the commissioned core of the U. S. Public Health Service before coming to Tech. A registered professional engineer in Minnesota since 1948, he is currently serving as consultant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration and to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. He is also a diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. 35
Sports Scene A Close One in the NIT • GEORGIA TECH'S first-ever trip to the
National Invitation Tournament in New York could be captured in words that apply to the entire 17-10 season— rewarding triumph and bitter defeat. The Yellow Jackets, one of the first four teams invited to the 1970 NIT, had to convince some northeastern "experts" they belonged in the 33rd annual event. It didn't take coach Whack Hyder's quintet long to do just that. Tech, behind brilliant center Rich Yunkus' 28 points and 15 rebounds, stunned favored Duquesne, 78-68, in the opening round. "It was one of my worst games," Yunkus said, seriously, afterwards. "I was really terrible." Not too many of the 11,000-plus fans who witnessed the upset agreed. After a slow first half in which the Jackets, showing the effects of a two-week layoff and playing in Madison Square Garden for the first time, struggled to a 32-32 deadlock, Yunkus and his cohorts came alive. Forward Bob Seemer, drafted by Milwaukee in the tenth round of the NBA draft, started hitting his longrange jumper over the top of Duquesne's zone and Yunkus worked free underneath for 18 of his 28 points after intermission. Seemer finished with 17 points and Bill Mayer 15 to extend the Jackets' New York stay. Three nights later, on a bitter and
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blustery Monday, the Jackets came in from the cold to face local sentimental favorite St. John's. The Redmen were trying to win the N I T for departing coach Lou Carnesecca just as they did in 1965 for Joe Lapchick. And, for a while, the NYC school played as if it wanted to send Tech back to Atlanta without a point. St. John's jumped off to an 8-0 lead before the Jackets hit a seven-point string and that's how the rest of the game went. First one team, and then the other, would score in spurts. Yunkus, again experiencing a subpar first 20 minutes that saw the Jackets trail, 30-23, sank Tech's first 17 points of the second half to propel the Engineers to a 40-37 edge. It was seesaw the rest of the way and the closing moments were as tense as any played by the Jackets all year. Tech knotted the score at 53-53 on Jim Thome's clutch three-point drive one minute left. A Redman converted a free throw, but Yunkus' spinning layup put Tech on top, 55-54, with : 31 on the clock. Then, seven seconds later, reserve St. John's center Greg Cluess slipped behind the Jackets' defense for a layup and a 56-55 Redman victory. St. John's went on to lose the N I T finale to pre-tourney pick Marquette, 65-53. Yunkus' 27 points against the Redmen earned the Benton, 111., standout a spot on the all-tournament team, the only player to compete in just two games to gain that honor. The 6-972 junior, a certain all-America next year,
led the Jacket assault on the record book. Among Yunkus' more impressive marks are his 814 season points, a 30.1 average. He stands second on Tech's alltime scoring parade with 1417 and should better all-America Roger Kaiser's 1628 a third of the way through next season. The accurate Jackets (their record 51.1% ranked them among the nation's best shooters) will have to replace Seemer (12.6), Mayer (12.2), starting guard John Veryzer and backup big man Rich Wright. Yunkus, of course, will return to pair with his roommate, Thorne, who cracked the school record with 163 assists. The Jackets should be as good or better in 1970-71 if Hyder can replace the graduation losses with his reserve corps or current freshmen.
A Year of Real Potential • SWITCHING offensive personnel was the name of the game as Tech opened spring football drills April 4. Bud Carson, entering his fourth campaign as head coach, was moving people around in an attempt to bolster the offensive line and to find the top 22 offensive players for his first and second units. The situation on the defensive side of Rose Bowl Field was more stable as 15 Yellow Jackets return who started at the same position at one time or another last year. With so much experience, that defense, anchored by tackle Rock Perdoni and halfback Jeff Ford, should present problems for 11 opponents this fall. The line, with ends Smylie Gebhart, Joe Hardwick and Randy Duckworth, and tackles Perdoni, Sid Gunter, Tim Broome and possibly sophomore Tommy Beck will be loaded. Linebackers include John Riggle, Buck Shiver and Bill Flowers on the inside and Stan Beavers and Dave Beavin as the Stinger and Wrecker. Halfback Rick Lewis and safety Bubba Hoats will help Ford ban the bomb. As early as it is, Perdoni and Ford rightfully are being boomed as 1970 all-America candidates. The muscular Rock faced some of the country's finest football players last fall and never came out second best. Jesse Outlar, Atlanta Constitution sports editor, calls Perdoni "the best Georgia Tech defensive tackle I've seen in the 24 years I've been in Atlanta." Jeff, "the Jet," as a sophomore a year ago, intercepted nine passes for 257 yards and three touchdowns, all Jacket records. The 257 yards is a new national standard. The above are the leading returnees on defense, but everyone started equal at the beginning of spring practice and new faces may break into the picture. That's even more the case on offense where no position is locked up. Letterman quarterbacks Jack Williams, Jack O'Neill and Dexter Hoffman will have to fight off the challenge of smoothpassing sophomore Eddie McAshan, The Georgia Tech Alumnus
who displays unlimited potential. Carson will sift through an abundance of running backs and choose from veterans Brent Cunningham, Steve Harkey and Eddie Hughes, junior college transfer Bob Cicenas, and sophomores Rob Healy, Tim Macy, and Steve Morgan. Larry Studdard, Herman Lam and Chip Pallman are capable wide receivers, while Steve Foster and Steve Norris are back at tight end. But you better watch sophomore Mike Ovem here. The interior line is wide open. A typical example is center, where 1969's three regular lettermen are missing because of position changes or injury. Fiery Rick Evatt is the only returning guard letterman (Joe Vitunic will pass up his final year of eligibility) and Al Hutko and Richard Gardner repeat at tackle, where Allen Vezey will miss the spring with a bad knee. Some new terminology will describe Tech's offensive line this Fall. The linemen will flip flop, with the strong side known as tight guard, tight tackle and tight end and the weak side as split guard, split tackle and split end. The backs will be fullback, tailback and flanker as they were before 1969. So Carson and his staff, which lost Bill Crutchfield, Bill Fulcher and Bob Thalman and gained Tom Moore (who came from Wake Forest and will work with the offense), are trying to fit the pieces of the Jacket grid puzzle together. How much they accomplish during the 20 spring sessions will reveal many of the credits and debits they'll have to work with before the 1970 opener against South Carolina Sept. 12 in Atlanta.
Spring Sports Off and Running • TECH'S spring sports teams, featuring several fine individual performances, got off to their annual bad weather start recently. Baseball coach Jim Luck still was searching for some hitters, but saw tight pitching by Gary Steele, Jerry Owen and Mike Sorrow help the Jackets to a 4-2 Easter week record. Coach Buddy Fowlkes' trackmen, after a superior indoor season, faced the wet outdoors without Ben Vaughan, who completed his eligibility. Vaughan, ranked as the world's third leading sprinter in 1969, rewrote Tech's dash records and will continue his running for the U. S. Army. Sophomore Joel Majors established himself as a distance man to watch with a 9:07.3 two mile in the rainy Florida Relays. Jack Rodgers has keyed his tennis squad around four scholarship players, Larry Turville, Chris Baxter, Steve Yellin and Chuck Sloane. Turville pulled off a remarkable upset when he handed Miami's Pat Cramer only the second loss of his career, 6-4, 6-2. Golf coach Tommy Plaxico is relying on talented freshmen to improve last year's 8-7 record. March-April 1970
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T. G. Reddy, Jr., EE, personnel staff supervisor, General Personnel Department at Southern Bell Telephone Company in Atlanta, retired December 31, 1969, after more than 43 years service. Mr. and Mrs. Reddy reside at 890 Highland Terrace, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. ' O A James W. Austin, Jr., ME, was \~J I named vice president in charge of mechanical engineering for Heery & Heery, Inc., architects and engineers. The announcement followed the merger of the J. W. Austin, Jr. and Associates, Inc., consulting mechanical engineers, with Heery & Heery on February 1, 1970. ' O Q Morley Hudson, ME, has been I J D appointed a consultant to President Nixon's Committee on Mental Retardation. Mr. Hudson, who is vice chairman of the Louisiana Governor's Commission for Employment of the Handicapped, will advise the President's Committee members on planning and development of state and
community services for the retarded. The Hudson's reside at 4609 Gilbert Drive, Shreveport, Louisiana.
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Col. Hugh C. Moore, EE, received the Distinguished Service Medal, the highest noncombatant award for outstanding service, at his retirement ceremony which culminated 28 years of service in the U.S. Air Force. Col. Moore and his family reside at 4982 Hidden Branches Drive, Atlanta, Georgia. ] A p - Jack E. Bolt, ME, was apR " 3 pointed vice president and general manager of the McWane Iron Company Division, Theodore, Alabama. Mr. Bolt is listed in Who's Who in the South and Southwest.
MARRIAGES I960: Herman Armin Maier, HI, IM, and Florence Alden Morris of Augusta, Ga. Mr. Maier is associated with Modern Fibers, Inc. in Calhoun, Ga. 1962: Nathan Monroe Johnson, Jr., IM, and Virginia Biddle Allen Weissinger of Decatur, Ga. The newlyweds will take a wedding trip to Thailand, Cambodia and Afghanistan. Mr. Johnson is studying for an M.A. degree in computer sciences at San Francisco State University. 1964: Robert A. Cumbie, Jr., IE, and Carol Ann Terrell. Mr. Cumbie attended graduate school at St. Mary's of Texas and is a methods analyst for Delta Air Lines. 1965: Lt. Joseph Wayne Turner, IE, and Reva Vestal Rothrock of Raleigh, N.C. Lt. Turner is in the U.S. Naval Reserve attached to the Carrier Airborne Early Morning Squadron 121 at the Norfolk, Va., NAS. 1967: Charles Reneau Andrews, III, EE, and Marcia Tate Garner of Rome, Ga. Mr. Andrews is studying for a Ph.D. degree from Tech and will be commissioned a second lieutenant in the U. S. Air Force in June. 1967: James Leondius Hughes and Linda Juanita Reid of Suwanee, Tenn. Mr. Hughes is employed by
Hunter and Company. 1968: Thomas Forrest Bates, Phys, and Sandra Kaye Stowe of Murphy, N.C. Mr. Bates attends Emory University School of Medicine and is employed by the Georgia Mental Health Institute. 1968: Ens. Volley Lawrence Rice, ME, and Brenda Gail Dobbs of Toccoa, Ga. Ens. Rice was employed by Georgia Power Co. He was commissioned in the U.S. Navy and will be stationed aboard the USS Sernmes. 1969: Park Andrew Dallis, HI, EE, and Dorothy Read Cornell of Coral Gables, Fla. He is employed by the Bechtel Corporation as a cost Engineer 1970: Walter Hillman Lewis, BC, and Cynthia Lou Aired of Doraville, Ga. Mr. Lewis is employed by Candler and Griffith Developers. Upon receiving his degree in March, he will be commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. 1970: Paul Robert Mande, Phys, and Joanie Kay Gaines. Mr. Mande is employed by the Electronics and Space Division of Emerson Electric Company in St. Louis, Mo., engineer in the Gaithersburg, Md. 1970: Ens. Howard William Mead, HI, ME, and Celeste Marie Favret of New Orleans, La. 37
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' y | —7 Rev. Canon William H. Fol^ T / well, CE, was consecrated and installed as the first bishop of a new diocese of the Episcopal church, the diocese of Central Florida. Dr. William E. Huger, Jr., IE, was promoted to clinical assistant professor of surgery at Emory University. Dr. Huger and his family reside at 2414 Hanover West Lane, NW, Atlanta, Georgia.
» y i Q Donald L. Chase, ME, has been ^ T i D appointed plant manager of the West Tulsa, Oklahoma, refinery of Texaco Inc. Richard V. Deiters, ME, has been named plant manager of the Simoniz plant, Kankakee, Illinois. Mr. Deiters lives at 508 N. Fifth Avenue, Kankakee, Illinois 30901. Nelson Hocking, Jr., EE, was elected vice president of operations for Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation. Hiran L. Tribble, CE, has announced that he and Elmo A. Richardson, Jr., '59 CE, have formed a new company, Tribble & Richardson, Inc., consulting engineers, with offices at
The Metric System Receives Recommendation • C O L O N E L E d w a r d A. M u n n s , a 1950 graduate with a n M S in Civil Engineering, requested t h a t the following information b e brought before the alumni concerning a n area of interest to m a n y of our readers: "Since Georgia T e c h is a renowned Engineering College a n d most of her graduates are engineers, it is reasonable to assume t h a t Article Seven from t h e Preamble to the Bylaws of the Constitution, National Society of Professional Engineers, is relevant to most readers of this letter. T h e article reads ' T h e Society shall undertake programs to encourage the individual engineer as a citizen to participate in Civic activities a n d take leadership in helping to solve problems for the improvement of industry a n d commerce, defense, health a n d welfare, culture a n d recreation a t all levels of society and government.' W i t h this philosophy in mind may I call your attention to the current actions underway towards adoption of the metric system of weights a n d measures in the U n i t e d States. "Following the British announcement in 1965 t h a t t h e United Kingdom would convert to metric measure over a ten-year period, t h e U.S. Congress passed Public Law 90-472 in August 1968. T h i s law directs t h a t the Secretary of Commerce conduct a comprehensive threeyear study to determine the impact of increasing worldwide use of t h e metric system on t h e U n i t e d States; appraise the desirability a n d practicability of increasing the use of metric weights a n d measures in the U n i t e d States; study the feasibility of retaining and promoting b y international use of dimensional a n d other engineering standards based on the customary measurement units of t h e U n i t e d States; a n d evaluate the cost a n d benefits of alterative courses of action which m a y be feasible for the U n i t e d States. T h e National B u r e a u of S t a n d a r d s ( N B S ) has been delegated the responsibility of completing the study for the Secretary of Commerce. T h e N B S has appointed a M e t r i c S t u d y Advisory Panel of experts in 41 fields of interest, has established a Metric System S t u d y Group a n d is actively working with Government agencies, industry, education 38
2484 Ingleside Avenue, Macon, Georgia. Mr. Tribble was formerly with Tribble & Associates. ' f T r ^ L. Massey Clarkson, IM, has l_J U joined Burnham and Company, members of the New York and other stock exchanges. Mr. Clarkson has been a stock broker for many years. His new office will be located in the First National Bank Building, Five Points, Atlanta, Georgia 30303. Harry W. DeMille, III, IM, an employee of Sentry Insurance Company, was awarded the Silver Beaver Award, Boy Scouts of America, at a special
a n d the private sector to gather facts upon which to base their conclusions a n d recommendations in the required report to Congress before Aug. 1971. "As a n engineer in the Military Service I have long been familiar with the M e t r i c System. I t was n o t until I spent several years overseas, however, t h a t I came in contact a t t h e working level with the practical application of the M e t r i c System, both in technical and non-technical usage. I was much impressed by t h e simplicity and ease with which practical engineering problems can b e solved when t h e units of measure are expressed in the M e t r i c System versus the difficulty in solving these same problems when t h e units of measure are expressed in our customary inch, foot, pound system. T h e r e are m a n y advantages of early adoption of the M e t r i c System in this country. Although there are some disadvantages a n d initial costs involved in t h e conversion, they are greatly outweighed by the advantages. T h e question a t this time is not 'Can we afford to go metric?'—but rather 'Can we afford not to?' " T h e N B S Study as a result of Public Law 90-472, is definitely a step in the right direction toward adopting the M e t r i c System in this country b u t I believe it falls short of the urgency and importance which should be attached to this conversion. If we are to see the adoption of the M e t r i c System on a broad scale within a reasonable time, much effort m u s t be expended toward "selling" this system a t the "grassroots" level. T h i s is where the leadership of the engineering community a n d all individual engineers is needed to foster and promulgate metric thinking at all levels of society. Regardless of the outcome of the N B S study, it is possible t h a t the Congress might not adopt the system unless its popularity was demonstrated. " T h e engineering community is in an excellent position to exercise strong leadership, through their respective professional societies a n d through their association with contemporaries in local service organizations, to influence a large segment of the population in favor of M e t r i c conversion. " I believe t h a t most engineers will agree a n d will support the proposal for a n early change to t h e M e t r i c System. Georgia Tech graduates, whether engineers or not, should provide active support in convincing their contemporaries a n d associates t h a t our present antiquated system of weights a n d measures must be retired and a modern international system be adopted a t a n early date." The Georgia Tech Alumnus
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ceremony in Atlanta on January 31, 1970. Harold J. Roberts, CE, was recently elevated to the presidency of the Associated General Contractors, Alabama Division. Mr. Roberts is associated with Brice Building Company. Cdr. William H. Saunders, III, IE, has been assigned as executive assistant and aide to V. Adm. R. L. Townsend, Commander Naval Air Force, U. S. Atlantic Fleet. Cdr. Saunders recently completed a tour as commanding officer of Patrol Squadron Forty-five which included a tour in the Vietnam area for which he was awarded the Air Medal, Bronze Star and Vietnamese Navy Distinguished Service Medal. Everett L. Cook, IE, has been elected vice president of Lincoln Consolidated, Inc., a Houstonbased management holding company. Mr. Cook will also serve as president of Lincoln Liberty Investment Corporation, which will be involved in commercial real estate development projects in Houston. In addition Mr. Cook" will serve as vice president of real estate of Lincoln Liberty Life Insurance Company. E. Reynolds Wheeler, IM, has been promoted to the position of group general manager of Colonial Stores with corporate responsibility for subsidiary divisions, including Galaxy Drugs, the High Point Fixture Manufacturing Company, and wholesale grocery operations.
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' C f~j Alvah Barron, Jr., EE, has C J C I been promoted to vice president of Zurn Industries, Inc., a total environmental control company, and general manager of Zurn's Air Systems Division, manufacturing engineered air pollution control systems.
Maxwell M. Morris, IE, has assumed the duties of chief industrial engineerfacility planning for the Reynolds Metals Company. Mr. Morris and his family reside at 1001 Westbriar Drive, Richmond, Virginia 23233. Charles E. Quentel, EE, has been named manager, general industry control sales, by Square D. Company, international manufacturer of electrical distribution and control equipment. In his new position, Quentel will supervise the marketing and sales operations of the Industrial Control division, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. McKinney V. Taylor, CE, has been appointed general manager of Concrete Components, Inc., a newly formed subsidiary of Clawson Concrete Company of Detroit, Michigan. The company will initially manufacture and market "corefloor", an extruded, prestressed concrete hollow core slab. ' P T /\ John S. Hunsinger, IE, has CJ^"T been elected chairman of the board of the Atlanta Union Mission. He is presently president of Crow, Pope & Carter Industrial Enterprises, an office and warehouse real estate development company located in Atlanta, Georgia. Lt. Col. C. W. Burchett, ME, was recently promoted to It colonel after completing a tour in Vietnam where he was awarded two Bronze Stars and an Air Medal. He is currently assigned to the U.S. Continental Army Command Headquarters at Ft. Monroe, Virginia, where he works in the Research and Development Directorate under the deputy chief of staff for individual training. Lt. Col. Burchett, his wife and seven children reside at 6 Colgate Circle, Hampton, Virginia 23364. R. L. Porter, Jr., IM, was recently appointed vice president, marketing, for the Information Processing Division of Consultronics Institute, Inc., Colum-
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Births 1959: To Mr. and Mrs. William B. White, IE, a daughter, Laura Marie, on February 12. The family resides at 3635 Fortingale Road, Chamblee, c Georgia 30341. 1962: To Mr. and Mrs. H. Alfred Bolton, III, CE, a daughter, Brittany Elaine, on January 25. Mr. Bolton is employed by Jordan, Jones, and Goulding, Inc. as a project engineer. The family resides at 4081 Creek Court, Stone Mountain, Georgia 30083. 1962: To Mr. and Mrs. W. William Mullen, Jr., EE, an adopted son, Frederick Owen, on February 6. 1966: To Lt. and Mrs. Robin J. Ear40
son, EE, a daughter, Chrisa Aline, on November 23. Lt. Larson is stationed at Ft. George G. Meade, Maryland. 1966: To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. O'Gorman, IE, their first child, a daughter, Kelley, on September 23, 1969. Mr. O'Gorman has recently been promoted from staff manager revenue generation for United Air Lines in Chicago to passenger service manager in Denver. The family will reside at 2363 So. Kingston Street, Denver. Colorado 80232. 1969: To Lt. & Mrs. James Reed Dickerson, AE, a son, Clinton Reed, on Dec. 26, 1969.
bia, South Carolina 29206. He resides at 3731 Oakleaf Road, Columbia. J. Frank Smith, IM, was elected to serve on the Atlanta School Board. Mr. Smith is co-founder, vice president and director of Computer Management, Inc., a consulting firm. He and his family reside at 3445 Paces Forest Road, NW, Atlanta, Georgia. ' pT C"i Harold P. Bowen, IM, presil_J \~J dent and founder of Bowen Supply, Inc., Atlanta, announced that the company was acquired as of January 15, 1970, by U. S. Industries, Inc., New York. Bowen Supply is a supplier of many items to the manufacturers of mobile homes and travel trailers throughout the United States. Dr. W. Edwin Green. Jr., IM, has been promoted to clinical associate in oral surgery (part time) at the Dental School of Emory University. He resides at 2666 Canna Ridge Circle, NE, Atlanta, Georgia. Richard G. Rosselot. ChE, was named vice president-electronics group of Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. Mr. Rosselot was previously corporate secretary and had been serving as operations manager for the company's telemetry line. Robert B. Kimmel, IM, was named acting vice president for '57 student affairs at Florida State University by President Stanley Marshall. He has served as planning and research dean in the division of student affairs since September, 1969. Prior to this appointment he had also served the university as director of financial aid and as director of career planning and placement. Wade T. Mitchell. Text, vice president-personnel, Trust Company of Georgia, was awarded the Silver Beaver Award, Boy Scouts of America in Atlanta on January 31. Houston L. Welch. Jr.. EE, has been named assistant to the president of the Atlanta based Southern Company. I n his new position, Mr. Welch will be employed by Southern Services, Inc., the Southern Company subsidiary that provides engineering and management services to the electric utility system. ' p r Q Roger Gilbertson. IE, is direcC J L J tor of the Office of State Technical Service, a line agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. This office operates a program designed to transfer the findings of science usefully into the hands of American enterprise. The Gilbertsons reside at 12601 Garden Gate Road, Silver Spring, Maryland 20902. David Milton, IE, managing director, consumer products division in Europe for Ralston Purina International, has been named a division vice president. Mr. Milton is headquartered in The Georgia Tech Alumnus
Brussels, Belgium. Jerry B. Roach, ChE, was promoted to superintendent of maintenance at the Trenton, Michigan plant of Monsanto Company. William (Bozy) Smith, CE, has become administrative associate in charge of the Chicago office for the consulting and design engineering firm, Ralph Hahn and Associates of Springfield, Illinois.
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been named the Georgia Power Company's Thomson district manager. Mr. Ballard was listed in the 1967 edition of Outstanding Young Men of America and holds the certificate of merit from MART magazine as 1967 Creative Salesman of the Year. Frank R. "Randy" Bowen, IM, has been appointed vice president-warehouse operations of Bowen Supply, a
division of U.S. Industries, Inc. He and his family reside in Americus, Georgia. Howard L. Hall, Jr., IE, has been promoted to manager of systems and planning for A. H. Robins Company, Richmond, Virginia. Elmo A. Richardson, Jr., CE, has formed a new company with Hiram L. Tribble, '49 CE, Tribble & Richardson, Inc., consulting engineers, with offices at 2484 Ingleside Avenue, Macon, Georgia. Audrey K. Singletary, IM, has been named an assistant vice president and group manager of Saunders Leasing System, Inc. of Birmingham, Alabama. Frank R. Speer, IM, was selected as Man of the Year in the Thomas J. Eisk Agency by the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company. The award is in recognition of his "able and conscientious service to his policy-
New Enterprise Protects Manufacturing Companies • T H R E E Georgia T e c h alumni—two of t h e m former members of the Institute's research staff—have found a way to get around one of the major handicaps of small manufacturing companies. I n fact, that's exactly why Bob Trammell, Jr., E E '56; Wes Stuckey, I E '57; and J e r r y Johnson, E E '57, decided to go into the manufacture of fire alarm annunciators and automatic telephone communicators for use in burglar a n d fire alarm systems. Trammell, formerly with the Electronics Division a t Tech, h a d already begun to redesign Adcor Electronics' product before h e bought enough stock in the company to take over the presidency. Stuckey, who was also a researcher for the Electronics Division, a n d J e r r y S. Johnson, formerly in the marketing department of the Georgia Power Company, were sufficiently convinced of the product's superiority to join him. Stuckey became vice president a n d treasurer in October, 1969, and Johnson took over the vice presidency for sales in February, 1970. Concentrating on the telephone communicator ( d i a l e r ) , Trammell first surveyed the field a n d then came u p with a design t h a t all three m e n described a s "better t h a n any on the market." Special features include: versatility—it works in conjunction with a n y alarm system; two independent channels allow u p to five telephone calls on each; a n anti-foul mechanism keeps the t a p e from sticking; a variable time delay allows setting the alarm to go off in zero to 60 seconds after being tripped; a n d a hidden abort mechanism enables it to be shut off when accidentally tripped. I n addition, according to the three Tech engineers, the system features a memory circuit which enables it to play both channels all t h e way through if tripped simultaneously. If channel one is tripped, the unit starts making the calls t h a t are programmed into it. If, during this time, channel two is tripped, the u n i t will March-April 1970
holders as well as his underwriting achievements." USAF Capt. Arthur W. Vogan, AE, was recently decorated with the Meritorious Service Medal. He is presently studying for his master's degree at Georgia Tech under the Air Force Institute of Technology education program. Edwin Wilinski, IM, has been named secretary of Fischback and Moore, Inc., one of the world's large electrical contracting companies. H e lives with his wife and three children at 56 Springdale Avenue, Massapequa, New York. N. "Brad" Bradford, Text, was promoted to special assistant to '60 drawtwist area supervisor of Hystron's Filament Plant of Hystron Fibers, Inc. Mr. Bradford and his family reside at 213 Yorkshire Drive, Spartanburg, South Carolina.
"remember" this a n d m a k e the calls on it after all calls have been m a d e on channel one. Trammell also has designed a programmer for use b y the dealer so t h a t tapes do n o t have t o b e shipped back to the factory each time the information on t h e m h a s to be changed. A separate head for each channel enables the erasure of a segment of the t a p e rather t h a n t h e entire tape. I n redesigning the Adcor product, T r a m m e l l also decided to change to a more expensive rechargeable high capacity nickel cadmium battery. T h e result is t h a t it can sustain a 20-day power failure a n d still have enough energy left to make ten calls. Since a ni-cad battery is non-rechargeable after the voltage drops to a certain level, a specially a d d e d circuit limits t h e a m o u n t of drainage on t h e battery. I n spite of all of the improvements a n d added features, the three m e n maintain t h a t the price of their product is competitive with others on the market. " I t ' s all in knowing where to p u t t h a t wire," Stuckey says, pointing to the anti-foul mechanism. Located at 349 Peachtree Hills Avenue in Atlanta, the firm employs seven production workers in addition to the three Tech engineers. Stuckey reports t h a t since they took over management, t h e company's capacity to produce h a s grown from 29 u n i t s a m o n t h with 12 employees to about 120 a month with seven. I n terms of money, this means from $4,000 to $24,000. " W i t h some equipment added," h e says, "we could b e producing $100,000 a month." T h i s would mean, however, t h a t they would have to increase the n u m b e r of production employees. Though they view the future optimistically, the three are proceeding according to a well-designed plan. T h e y have just finished a n extensive field test of t h e equipment in the Atlanta area—strengthening ties with Adcor's old customers a n d those of a subsidiary (SACO, Inc.) which they bought in October. "Dealer acceptance of the new improved product is much better t h a n our expectations. N o w we are beginning to branch out to establish a network of dealers in t h e Southeast," says Johnson, whose eyes are already on t h a t national market. LINDA TERRELL 41
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USAF Capt. Harold W. Hodges, ME, received the Air Medal for his outstanding airmanship and courage as a navigator bombardier on successful and important missions completed over Southeast Asia. Maj. H. V. Hopkins, Jr., CE, is serving with the Military Assistance Command in Vietnam as an engineer officer in Plans and Requirements Branch, Plans and Operation Division of the Directorate of Construction. Maj. Hopkins serves as secretary of the Saigon Chapter of the Society of American Military Engineers. Lt. Col. Robert M. May, EE, recently received the insignia of lieutenant colonel while a student a t the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. H e holds the Bronze Star, the Army Commendation Medal, five awards of the Air Medal, and the Vietnamese Gallantry Cross. Dr. Robert E. Wood, Phys, was promoted to associate professor of physics at Emory University. » O A Ted I. Haney, EE, received the D I Outstanding Young Man award for 1969 from the Panama City, Florida Jaycees.
10 O John J. Fletcher, ME, has been D ^ promoted to assistant project manager of the National-Southwire Aluminum Company reduction plant in Hancock County, Kentucky. Mr. Fletcher received his Master of Science degree in Industrial Management from Georgia Tech in December, 1969. Ben W. Latimer, ME, has been named executive director of Carolinas Hospital Improvement Program, a centralized industrial engineering service for the hospitals of North and South Carolina. He resides at 6908 Knightswood Drive, Charlotte, North Carolina 28211. John R. Rowe, Jr., IM, recently received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of South Florida. He is employed as a project director responsible for coordinating the development and installation of a new responsibility accounting system at Tampa Electric Company. He resides at 500 South Himes Avenue, Apt. 12, Tampa, Florida 33509. ' O O Thomas A. Gamblin, Arch, an| J V J nounces the formation of a partnership with Thomas H. Smith, AIA, for the practice of architecture and the opening of an office of Gamblin and Smith, Architects, in Jackson, Mississippi. Allen E. Hyre, IM, was promoted
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to district sales manager-Atlanta district for Consolidated Aluminum Corporation, a primary aluminum producer marketing aluminum mill products throughout the U. S. Mr. Hyre resides with his family at 2688 Goodfellows Road, Tucker, Georgia. Lt. Col. Carl H. McNair, Jr., AE, graduated from the Armed Forces Staff College of Norfolk, Virginia in January. Lt. Col. McNair holds two awards of the Legion of Merit, three awards of the Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star Medal for heroism, 52 awards of the Air Medal, one for valor; two awards of the Army Commendation Medal and four awards of the Vietnamese Gallantry Cross. Norman E. Saenz. E E , graduated with a BS in Applied Psychology from Georgia Tech in December, and is now employed as a Business Systems Consultant with the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Cranford, New Jersey. Mr. Saenz was formerly employed at the Lockheed-Georgia Company, Marietta, Georgia. USAF Capt. Charles H. Wimberly, IM, is a tactical fighter pilot assigned to the 34th Tactical Fighter Squadron, a unit of the Pacific Air Forces, headquarters for air operations in Southeast Asia, the Far East and Pacific area. C. Stephen Young, EE, was appointed product line manager of instrumentation for Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. » 0 A Edward D. Griffin, IE, has D ^ T been named vice president and general manager of the Columbus Iron Works Division of W. C. Bradley Company. Mr. Griffin and his family reside at 3810 Winkfield Place, Columbus, Georgia. J. Charles Lochwood, CE, has been appointed general manager of the Optima Division of Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. Dr. Ralph M. Roberts, Jr., ME, recently received his PhD in Business Administration from the University of Alabama. He resides at 524 Candlewood Circle, Pensacola, Florida 32503. David W. Young, I M , has been elected a commercial officer of Trust Company of Georgia, Atlanta. H e recently completed work on a Master's Degree in the Graduate School of Business, Georgia State University. ' r j CT H. Raymond Eckman, Phys, CD k—J was elected vice president of operations for Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. Dr. S. Rodney Jenkins, CE, has received his P h D from Harvard University and is now teaching a t the University of Wyoming. He, his wife and three sons live in Laramie, Wyoming. J. O. Keniston, CE, was recently named an area engineer with Shell Chemical Company at the Houston, The Georgia Tech Alumnus
Texas plant. He was formerly a project engineer with Shell's Head Office Engineering in Houston. ' O O USAF Capt. Nelson Edward D O Cobleigh, ME, was recently awarded the Air Medal (first thru fourteenth oak leaf cluster) and the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight during his twelve month tour at Ubon Air Base, Thailand. Capt. Cobleigh is currently serving his second Southeast Asia tour at Da Nang Air Base as aircraft commander of the F4E Phantom II fighter bomber. 1st. Lt. J. D. Collins, III, IM, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Republic of South Vietnam's Cross of Gallantry. Lt. Collins is a third generation graduate, preceded by his father of the class of 1935 and his grandfather of the class of 1905. Capt. William F. Gossman, Jr., IE, received the Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service while serving as commanding officer of the 116th Ordnance Detachment, Missile and Munitions Center and School, at the Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. USAF Capt. Stephen A. Hunter, IE, graduated from the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB in December 1969 receiving a Master of Science degree in Systems Engineering-Reliability. He is now stationed at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, working as a reliability engineer for the Service Engineering branch of HqOCAMA. Capt. Robert H. Kramer, IM, was the commander of the Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota missile combat crew which fired the U.S. Air Force Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg AFB, California. ' O ~~1 2nd Lt. Ronald W. Dorman, L J / Phys, has been assigned as a coordinator in the electromagnetic effects laboratory of the U. S. Army Mobility Equipment Research and Development Center, Ft. Belvoir, Virginia 22060. The center is responsible for research, development and engineering for round-the-clock mobility in some 15 fields of military engineering ranging from bridges to detection devices. Capt. W. Michael Field, IM, is a data automation officer at Robins AFB, Georgia, and an instructor of business administration in the Middle Georgia College Evening Division. Capt. Field, his wife and two daughters reside at Warner Hills Apartment H-l, Warner Robins, Georgia 31093. Charles R. Jordan, IM, was promoted to senior sales representative in the Industrial Sales Division of Scott Paper Company in San Antonio, March-April 1970
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Texas. He resides at 7131 Larkson, San Antonio, Texas 78238. James P. Oxenham, AE, has joined the Shell Pipe Line Corporation Research and Development Laboratory in Houston as an engineer. Mr. Oxenham received his Master of Science degree from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. H e and his wife reside at 6220 Alder in Houston, Texas. ' O Q J. Randall Carroll, IM, has L J C J been selected to serve as assistant manager, Pershing Point Office, Trust Company of Georgia, Atlanta. H e joined the bank in 1968 as a management trainee and served with Branch Administration until his recent appointment. <James K. Green, EE, will be on leave of absence from IBM for two years service in Army Ofdnance. He reports to Ft. MacPherson in May, 1970. Steve Keith, Phys, has joined Southwire Company of Carrollton, Georgia. In his new position, Mr. Keith will be responsible for metallographic functions and testing procedures on various wire samples submitted to the metallurgical laboratory. Prior to joining South! wire, he was employed as a materials \ 44
engineer by a major tire producer in Akron, Ohio. 2nd Lt. Richard Merrill Patchin, Text, has been assigned to the Military Engineering Division of the U. S. Army Mobility Equipment Research and Development Center, Ft. Belvoir, Virginia. He received his Master of Science degree in Textiles from Georgia Tech in 1969. 2nd Lt. Richard P. Potekhen, AE, is a member of the 321st Strategic Missile Wing, Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota, which was cited for meritorious service from July 1968 through June 1969. Brian Stuart Tunkel, IM, received a Master of Science degree in Business Administration in January from the University of Miami. 2nd Lt. Donald H. Branan, IM, has been assigned to Columbus '69 AFB, Mississippi for pilot training. Gregory Ross Brown, ChE, has accepted employment as an engineer in the Technical Division of Humble Oil & Refining Company's Baytown Refinery. Mr. Brown resides at 2300 Taft Circle, Apartment 40, Baytown, Texas. James Ivey, ChE, has joined Southwire Company of Carrollton, Georgia, as a civil engineer. He will be responsible for the design and construction of Southwire's expanding wire and cable manufacturing facilities. 2nd Lt. Stephen H. Jones, IM, has been assigned to the 3540th Navigator Training Squadron, Mather AFB, California. The Joneses are expecting their first child in October. John K. Smith, CE, was commissioned a second lieutenant upon graduation from the Officer Candidate School at the Army Artillery and Missile Center, Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. Before entering the Army, he was employed by Armco Steel Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia.
Deaths Charles F. Stone '03 in Atlanta, Ga., January 25. He was past president and past chairman of the board of Atlantic Steel Company. He joined Atlantic Steel Company in 1910 and was promoted through the sales department to the rank of president in 1932. He also served as director for the Trust Company of Georgia and as a trustee of Agnes Scott. He continued to be active in Tech's ANAK society and served as a member of the advisory board of the co-op division. He is survived by two children, Dr. Charles F. Stone, Jr., and Mrs. James C. Dunlap, both of Atlanta. John E. Sims '07 in New Orleans, La., last December. Mr. Sims was associated with General Electric Supply Company of New
Orleans. M. W. Wise, '13 in Atlanta, Ga., February 21. Mr. Wise, a heating and ventilation engineer, was a member of the Fulton County Plumbing Board and the Smoke Abatement Bureau. He was on the official board of the Stewart Avenue Methodist Church and taught the men's Bible class for over 30 years. Survivors include his widow, two sisters and a brother. Don M. Forester '14 in Huffman, Texas, September 25, 1969. Mr. Forester was a retired executive engineer with the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation. He was listed in Who's Who in the West and in Who's Who in Engineering. He presented his technical library to Price Gilbert Memorial Library upon his retirement. He is survived by his widow Mrs. Don M. Forester who resides at 24106 Silver Maple Drive, Huffman, Texas 77336. Frank M. White, Sr. '17 in Marietta, Ga., December 31, 1969. Mr. White was formerly employed as a consultant to the city of Atlanta for reviewing appraisals for the Atlanta airport expansion. He is survived by his widow who resides at 236 Ridge Avenue, Marietta, Georgia 30060. Milton D. Belding '22 in Nashville, Tenn. while visiting a daughter, in September, 1969. He had retired in 1964 as manager of Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Knoxville, Tenn., where his widow now resides at 7100 Rothewood Drive 37914. Doyle E. Walraven '22 in Stone Mountain, Ga., August 3, 1969. George F. Dowman '24 in Atlanta, Ga., February 21. Mr. Dowman is retired vice president and director of Auto Soler Corporation. He is survived by his sister. Miss Margaret C. Dowman. Herbert S. Freeman '24 in Daytona Beach, Fla., January 26. John D. Nash '25 in Titusville, Fla. He was the head of Brevard Tile and Abstract Company and served as a past mayor of Titusville. He was active in many civic affairs. James E. Cliott, Jr. '29 in Laurens, S. C , December 1969. He was associated with the Southern States Lumber Company in Laurens, South Carolina. Jack Kear '29 in Jacksonville, Fla., December 28, 1969. He was formerly employed by Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph in Jacksonville. His widow resides at P. O. Box 83 Satsuma, Florida 32089. The Georgia Tech Alumnus
Samuel S. Swilling '29 in Atlanta, Ga., of a heart attack. He was the owner of the S. S. Swilling Dental Laboratory in Atlanta and a member of the Georgia State Dental Laboratory Association, and a former president of the national association. He was a member of the Georgia and Atlanta Bar association, the Atlanta Athletic Club, Delta Theta Phi law fraternity, the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and the Yaarab Temple. He is survived by his widow, a son and two sisters. John F. Magill '31 in Atlanta, Ga., September, 1969. He was formerly the secretary of the Atlanta Hosiery Mills. Luther H. Ward '31 in Decatur, Ga., February 2. His widow resides at 109 Hill Street, Decatur Georgia 30030. Harry B. Anderson '33 in Valdosta, Ga., January 17. He was the owner of the H. B. Anderson Western Auto Store Associate in Valdosta. Fred Leon Coward, Jr. '35 in Sumter, S. G, February 3. He was one of the founders of the Alderman Flooring Company and was treasurer of the company. His widow resides at 526 Winn Street, Sumter, S. C. James V. McClanahan '35 in Atlanta, January 31. He was the retired president of Vanco Chemical Company. His widow resides at 325 Lindbergh Drive, NE, Atlanta, Georgia. William H. Young '38 in East Point, Ga., January 4. He was the safety director for the Atlanta division of Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph for many years. Paul H. Decker, Jr. '40 in Laurel, Miss., November 24. He was associated with Carter Building and Supply. Charles B. Curry '42 Decatur, Ga., January 29. He was an associate of Bothwell-Jenkins-Slays & Associates, an architectural firm in Decatur. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects and Sigma Nu Fraternity. He is survived by his widow, the former Betty Lou Turner, and three children. W. B. Crawford, '42 on February 6. He was the chairman of the board of the Crawford Sprinkler Supply Company. A native of Wadesbo ro, N. C, he was a former employee of the Grinnell Company. He is survived by two daughters and a son. Charles L. Whitaker '44 in Waynesboro, Pa., January 18. March-April 1970
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VOTE FOR YOUR 1970-71 OFFICERS NOW • LEADING the slate of candidates nominated to head the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association for the 1970-71 year is James B. Ramage, '37, of Atlanta. The nominating committee (Alvin M. Ferst, chairman; Howard Ector; and L. L. Gellerstedt), also named the following Tech alumni to run on the slate with Ramage: James P. Poole, '42, vice president; J. Frank Stovall, '41, vice president; and Thomas V. Patton, '43, treasurer. Also nominated by the committee for three-year terms on the Board of Trustees are George A. Ewing, '48; Morris E. Harrison, '49; A. J. Land, '60; H. G. Pattillo, '49; William J. Van Landingham, '59; and Norman J. Walton, '41. A change in the Association's By-laws voted on by the membership at the October 26, 1968, annual meeting of the Association made it mandatory for 18 trustees to be elected by the membership, six each year for threeyear terms. This change which necessitated a transitional voting program last year now goes into effect on an annual basis.
The Nominees For President—James B. Ramage is the agency manager of the Equitable Life Assurance Society in Atlanta. He has served two years as vice president having been elected to the post in 1968. He received his degree in Industrial Management and has a long record of civic and church service in the city. For Vice President—James P. "Polly" Poole is president of two Atlanta companies—James P. Poole, CLU, and Associates, Inc. and Estate and Pension Planning Co., Inc. An Industrial Management graduate, he is one of the nation's leaders in the insurance field having held presidential posts in many of the top insurance societies. He was chairman of the fund committee for the Association for two years. For Vice President—J. Frank Stovall, Jr., is president of United Cotton Goods Company, Inc., of Griffin, Georgia. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Alumni Association, his second such appointment in the past ten years, and is chairman of the continuing education committee. For Treasurer—Thomas V. Patton is president of Triton, Inc., in Doraville, March-April 1970
Georgia. Patton is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Association and has served as chairman of many top committees. For Trustee—George A. Ewing is an Industrial Management graduate who entered Tech in the class of 1944 but left for service as a Navy Pilot during World War II. He returned in 1947 and earned his degree a year later. He is currently president of J. H. Ewing & Sons, an Atlanta real estate firm. At Tech he was captain of the golf team and a football manager. For Trustee—Morris E. Harrison is a Mechanical Engineering graduate who played varsity football for two years. He has continued his association with sports as one of the most active of college officials in the South and as a member and officer of the Atlanta Touchdown Club. He is owner of the Morris E. Harrison Consulting Engineering firm of Atlanta. For Trustee—One of the most active student leaders during his days on the campus, A. J. Land was president of his senior class, and a member of ANAK, ODK, Phi Kappa Phi and other top organizations on the campus. An Industrial Management graduate, he is also a graduate of Emory Law School and a member of the Georgia Bar Association. He is currently a managing partner in the Atlanta real estate firm of Crow, Pope & Carter, and a member of the Atlanta Real Estate Board. For Trustee—a. G. "Pat" Pattillo received his B.S. degree from Tech and is a partner in Pattillo Construction
Company of Decatur, Georgia. He is a past president of the Decatur Rotary Club and vice president of the DeKalb County Chamber of Commerce. He is best known within the state for his service as the immediate past chairman of the Board of Regents of the University System. For Trustee—William J. Van Landingham is an Industrial Engineering graduate who was an outstanding student leader at Tech. He served as president of the Tech student body for 1958-59 and was a member of ANAK and Koseme among other honoraries. He is currently vice president of the Citizens and Southern National Bank of Atlanta and a young civic leader in the city. For Trustee—Norman J. Walton is a Civil Engineering graduate who is a partner in the Mobile heavy construction field with J. S. Walton & Company. A brigadier general in the U. S. Army reserves, he has served the National Association and Georgia Tech in various capacities in the Mobile area. His son Johnny is the recordholder of the Tech record for the onemile run and is currently a member of Tech's outstanding track team.
How to Vote All active members of the Association who desire to confirm the above nominations for officers and elected trustees or who wish to present write-in candidates may do so by filling out the official ballot on this page and mailing it to the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association, Atlanta, Georgia 30332.
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