In Memoriam W. L a n e G r e e n e , Arch 65, of Atlanta, on Dec. 20. As a preservation architect, he worked on the restorations of the Morton Theatre in Athens, Wren's Nest and Madison County Courthouse as well as the renovations of many antebellum houses. Mr. Greene served on the board of directors for the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation and the Urban Design Commission of Atlanta as well as the review board for the Georgia National Register of Historic Places. He served in the Marine Corps prior to attending Tech. T h o m a s Larkin Harbin, Cls 60, of Roswell, Ga., on Aug. 10. A Navy veteran of the Korean War, he was an architect and a member of the Georgia wing of the Civil Air Patrol.
Robert Harold "Robbie" Horak, IE 68, of Roanoke, Va., on Dec. 30. A member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity at Tech, he worked in the HVAC industry following graduation. G e o r g e V. Miller, IM 60, of Jupiter, Fla., on Dec. 3. A career naval aviator, he flew 12 planes during service in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Grenada incident. After retiring from the Navy as a commander, he worked as a computer specialist with Burroughs Corp. and Marriott Corp. and taught computer science at Strayer University in Washington, D.C. He also served many years with the Air Force Data System Design Center through the Department of Defense. Walter Garland S t r o n g Jr., Cls 62, a resident of Carlyss, La., on Dec. 3. A co-op student at Tech and graduate of the Louisiana State University Law Center, he served in the Navy from 1966 to 1992. He was captain of the USS Robert E. Peary and earned three Legion of Merit awards. He was a weather watcher for KPLC Channel 7 news.
1970s C. N o l a n M a d d o x , IM 71, of Philadelphia, on Dec. 6. He worked in the oil business in Denver before moving to Virginia, where he worked in computers and as a stockbroker.
engineering for more than 28 years. Cinetron was an Atlanta manufacturer of computercontrolled motion picture animation and optical effects equipment with clients that included the Walt Disney Co., Universal Studios, MGM, ABC and CBS. His electronics and mechanical designs for Cinetron led him to receive an A c a d e m y A w a r d for t e c h n i c a l achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as well as a Technical Achievement Award from Eastman Kodak Co. J o h n M. R e y n o l d s II, ChE 73, of Aiken, S.C, on Dec. 23. He was a nuclear engineer for the Department of Defense naval shipyard in Charleston, S.C, for 20 years. After retiring from the Department of Energy's Savannah River Site in 2007, he joined Parsons Corp. as a project engineer. Willie G a d d y "Bill" Utley, IM 76, a resi dent of Quitman, Miss., on Dec. 10. He was employed by Eagle Metal of Dallas.
1990s Karl D a v i s P e t e r s , CS 96, of Duluth, Ga., on Jan. 10. A student at Georgia Perimeter College, he was to complete the college's sign language interpreter program this semester. Mr. Peters spent many years working for Intel Corp. in Santa Clara, Calif. Eric C. S m i t h , Arch 95, of Lawrenceville, Ga., on July 11. He was a former structural engineer with GPWD Consulting Engineers.
2000s Emily Piper McGiil, IntA ML 06, of Atlanta, on Jan. 11. A member of Phi Mu sorority and C a m p u s Christian Fellowship at Georgia Tech, she participated in mission work in Mexico, Chile and Ghana. Daniel P h o m m a t h e p , CS 01, of Bonney Lake, Wash., on Jan. 21, after a two-month battle with cancer. A co-op student at Georgia Tech, he had worked as a software design engineer with Amazon.com and Big Fish Games Inc. and as a Web developer for Redfin.com.
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Eugene Parris "Gene" Nottingham, MS EE 70, of Tucker, Ga., on Jan. 14. He was one of the founders of Cinetron Computer Systems Inc., for which he served as vice president of
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retired as associate director of continuing education in 1995. J a c k K e n n e t h Hale, 81, of Atlanta, on Dec. 9. Dr. Hale spent many years teaching and performing research in mathematics at Brown University and Georgia Tech. His numerous awards included a Guggenheim fellowship, British Carnegie fellowship and Sigma Xi Sustained Research Award. David Allen Kettler, 66, of Gainesville, Ga., on Nov. 20. He retired as the BellSouth vice president in charge of the science and technology organization and chief architect for the BellSouth Network then spent a few years as managing director and general partner of H1G Capital Management. Dr. Kettler served on the Georgia Tech College of Computing advisory board. G l e n d a l L a R o w e , 88, of Gainesville, Ga., on Dec. 15. Mrs. LaRowe's nursing career included a stint as head nurse at the infirmary at Georgia Tech. She later became a potter. In 1969, she and her husband, John LaRowe, Arch 52, who survives her, founded the Mark of the Potter craft shop in northeast Georgia. Robert N. Lehrer, 88, of Atlanta, on Jan. 25. Dr. Lehrer taught at Purdue, Oregon State University and Georgia Tech before establishing an i n d u s t r i a l e n g i n e e r i n g d e p a r t m e n t at Northwestern and then a similar program in Mexico at the Universities of Guadalajara and Guanajuato. He returned to Tech as an associate professor and later became the director of industrial and systems engineering, retiring as director emeritus. He served as editorin-chief of the Journal of Industrial Engineering and was a recipient of the Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award, the highest award bestowed by the Institute of Industrial Engineers. Frederick H. S t e e n , 102, of Meadville, Pa., on Jan. 13. He taught at Georgia Tech for eight years before joining the mathematics department at Allegheny College, where he taught for 33 years. Dr. Steen, who wrote five books and numerous technical papers, had served as governor of the Mathematical Association of America and chairman of its Allegheny Mountain section. Dr. Steen's hobbies included playing his marimba and performing magic.