Professor J. C. Hubbard, Jr., MS, a twenty-three-year Clemson faculty member has been promoted from associate professor of textiles to a full professorship. He will be in charge of undergraduate textile education and will serve as advisor to all undergraduate textile science students. Major Charles J. Hullinger, IM, is a member of a unit that has earned the USAF Outstanding Unit Award with "V" device for valor. The 1878th Communications Squadron at Pleiku AB, Vietnam, was cited for meritorious service for furnishing direct communications and air traffic control support to U.S. and Vietnamese units during air strikes against enemy forces. Major Hullinger is squadron commander of the 1878th. Donald J. Knapp, CE, has been named director of marketing for the KDI Technical Products Group. Donald Cameron Lacy, IE, has been appointed district sales manager for Brenco, Inc. of Petersburg for the railroad division. Victor A. Neubaum, Sr., IE, was honored on April 7 for a co-authored technical paper at the annual meeting of the Ironmaking Committee held in Detroit, Michigan. The award-winning paper was entitled "The Effect of Coke Plant Operating Variables on the Quality of Metallurgical Coke." John C. Portman, Jr., has been elected president of Central Atlanta Progress, Inc. Thomas M. Sauls, IE, former sheet planning and scheduling manager for the Reynolds Metals Company Alloys Sheet and Plate Plant near Sheffield, Alabama, has been promoted to plant production control manager for the Reynolds McCook Plant. Donald B. Wilkins, ChE, is associated with Parsons & Wittemore as sales manager of St. Anne-Nackawic Pulp & Paper Company, with offices at 200 Park Avenue, New York City. Mr. Wilkins was formerly with Containerboard Division, International Paper Company. He resides at 50 Country Club Drive, Manhasset, New York. !r-/|
M. Warren Bolton. IM, was elected secretary of Provident Indemnity Life Insurance Company, Morristown, Pennsylvania. Mr. Bolton was vice president and group secretary. H. M. Cleare. Phys, of Eastman Kodak Company, has been presented with the Apollo Achievement Award for his part in the success of the manned lunar landing of Apollo 11.
May-June 1970
James E. Mitchell, TE, died on November 25, 1969. Mr. Mitchell was assistant vice president of Avondale Mills. Mrs. Mitchell and family reside at 21 Huntington Drive, Sylacauga, Alabama. Robert Van Houten died on December 23, 1969. Mr. Van Houten and his family were living in Brussels, Belgium where he was director of Data Processing, Goodyear-Europe. R. Frank Sailors, ME, is employed with the Farr Company as area manager, International Sales in El Segundo, California. He was previously with Alco Products, Inc. Phillip K. Turner, Text, of Gaffney, South Carolina, died on January 23, 1970. —\ Ben W. Martin, ChE, board chairman of ASM Enterprises, Inc., announced that the corporate office of his transportation company will be moved from Springfield, Missouri to Pine Bluff, Arkansas on May 1. Mr. Martin, formerly chief executive officer of Bulk Terminals Company, Chicago, Illinois, has also formed a new firm, Martin Terminals Co., which will be headquartered in Pine Bluff. Wiley E. Williams, EE, has been appointed to the position of director of LM Operations at Grumman Aerospace Corporation, Kennedy Space Center. Mr. Williams will be in overall charge of all the test and checkout operations of the Lunar Module for Grumman. John J. Anderson, Jr., TE, with the J. C. Penney Company, has been named manager of soft goods testing. Mr. Anderson formerly was textile products engineer in the testing center. John R. Maddox, IM, is a partner in the firm, John R. Maddox & Associates, Inc., a new Atlanta real estate brokerage, consulting and development firm. Mr. Maddox was previously vice president of the Dickey-Mangham Company. Richard S. My rick, CE, president of the Myrick Company, Atlanta real estate brokers, has been elected president of the State Young Men's Christian Association of Georgia. Glenn Summerlin, has recently been elected treasurer of the Atlanta Chapter, American Marketing Association. He has also been elected to the board of directors of the Atlanta Humane Society and to the board of directors of Sales & Marketing Executives, Atlanta, Inc., for his second term.
Dean E. Troxell, II, IM, has acquired ownership of a summer resort, Taylor's Motor Court, in East Sandwich, Massachusetts, Cape Cod. During the winter months Mr. Troxell is a consultant in data processing. J r— ^ Major Graham D. Monroe, Jr., J O CerE, has been decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross for aerial achievement in Vietnam. »r— —-> James L. Altman, IE, has been J / named an associate of Management Science America, Inc. Mr. Altman was recently transferred from the firm's Consulting Division to the Software Division, which he will manage. Joseph Hardwick Butler, CE, received the Silver Beaver Award from the Central Georgia Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Butler has been a scoutmaster for almost ten years. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ira Charak, ME, a son, Jonathan Michael, on November 18, 1969. Emory Lane, IM, is working as a key member, officer, and vice president of marketing for Fabri-Tek MicroSystems, Inc. William F. Leslie, IE, director of registration and records at Georgia Tech, has been appointed registrar at Emory University. Dr. Ralph W. Pike, ChE, associate professor of chemical engineering at Louisiana State University is conducting research on improving the heat shield used in the Apollo space vehicles. James H. Stovall, SanE, will be manager of Environmental Services Department of International Paper Company's Southern Kraft Division. Houston L. Welch, Jr., EE, of Gulfport, has been named assistant to the president of the Atlanta-based Southern Company. In his new position, Welch will be employed by Southern Services, Inc., a subsidiary that provides engineering and management services to the electric utility system. » r— Q Charles W. Crouse, IM, has J j Q been appointed manager of sales promotion for the newly-formed North American Division of The Singer Company. W. Richard Hauenstein, IE., Chartered Life Underwriter of Atlanta, is the initial winner of the Volume Leader Award of the Atlanta general agency of National Life Insurance Company of Vermont. 27