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A ON THE EVE of his retirement, the Colonel has brought an additional touch of fame to Georgia Tech. The Colonel, of course, is Frank Grose-close, architect of Tech's School of Industrial Engineering and for the 20 years of its existence, its only director.

The newest in a long list of laurels he has garnered while building this school from scratch into one of the best in the world is the Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineer­ing Award, the highest and most-respected accolade in his profession. It was presented to the Colonel on May 26 in San Francisco during the annual meeting of the American In­stitute of Industrial Engineers. The honors were done by his long-time friend and confident, Mrs. Lillian Gil­breth, the world's most famous female engineer.

The Colonel was a charter member of AIIE and was the founder and first editor of the Journal of Industrial En­gineering which was edited from the Tech campus from 1948 until last year. The Colonel gave up the edi­torial reins in 1953 but served as chair­man of the editorial board from 1953 through 1965.

During his stay on this campus, the man has received a number of honors that have reflected his contributions to education and to the development of industrial engineering in this coun­try. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a life member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a fellow of the National Society of Pro­fessional Engineers, a fellow of the Society of Professional Engineers, a fellow of the Society for Advancement of Management and past member of the council of this organization, a member of the American Society for Engineering Education, and honorary life member of the Armed Forces Man­agement Association. He is also past president of the Georgia Engineering Society and is currently president of the Architects and Engineers Insti­tute of Atlanta.

But we doubt very seriously if any of these accolades including the most recent one has meant as much to this man as the tribute paid to him by his own students in February. The Tech

IE's got together and collected some money and laboriously wrote out a scroll that was then hand-lettered by an Atlanta artist and then they went to the Colonel and presented it to him. The words were not important to any­one but him but what they meant by the gesture was. Paraphrased it said, you are one helluva man, Colonel, and we are fortunate to have studied under you. And the students who follow us will be the losers because you won't be around to guide them or to fuss at them or to listen to their problems or to shake their hand when graduation day finally arrives.

For the past six months, the Colonel has been working on a special project for the President's Office and the com­mand of his IE School has been in the capable hands of the man he picked for the job several years back—Dr. Robert N. Lehrer, his associate di­rector for three years. The IE School will continue to grow in importance and in scope under Bob Lehrer. But it can never be the same again. The Colonel has moved out and another piece of the Tech that has been dis­tinctly our generation's has gone never to return.

* * * • THERE are others leaving this cam­pus this year but not for retirement purposes. Dr. Mario Goglia, dean of the Graduate Division, will take up his new duties as vice chancellor for research of the University System of Georgia. Goglia has been a teacher, research professor, associate dean of faculties, and a dean during his stay at Tech. He joined the staff in 1948, left in 1958 for two years as dean of engineering at Notre Dame, and re­turned in 1960. He will be a valuable asset to the University System but we sure hate to see him leave Tech, even if he is only going a mile or so to his new job.

Dr. Ken Picha is also leaving his position as director of the Mechanical Engineering School to become a dean of engineering at the University of Massachusetts on July 1. Like Goglia, Picha has become one of the best-known Tech academic administrators in the educational world outside of the boundaries of this campus and he will be missed by a great many people.

One of the penalties of building a good staff in today's competitive edu­cational society is that you are always going to be subject to raids by other universities. The fact that the rest of the colleges knew that Tech was un­dergoing a major administrative over­haul this year just induced more of them to attempt to fill their top vacancies with Tech people. But then we have been doing the same thing for years.

* * * A W E HAD no sooner written the above few paragraphs when our own office was hit by outside raiders. Marian Van Landingham, recently named Chief of the Georgia Tech News Bureau, is leaving Tech for a great deal more money than we would be able to scrape up. Her dedication and talent will be sorely missed, but she will be appearing from time to time in the pages of the magazine with free­lance articles on a Tech she came to know so well over the past two years.

Now we join the others in the cease­less search for replacements. There are times when we feel like we all spend too much of our time doing this sort of thing.

•fa sit :Js • T H E ELECTION of the new editor of the Technique was news all over the world. The editor is 19-year-old senior John Gill of Atlanta, a 3.9 plus student in the Chemistry School. As far as we can determine, he carries the high­est average of any editor in the history of the-newspaper, which incidentally did not carry a great deal of weight in his election by the students and faculty members of the publications board.

He is also a member of numerous campus organizations including Kose-me and ODK and Phi Kappa Phi and Tau Beta Pi and the band and glee club. And as a freshman he won the award as the outstanding chemistry student and as a sophomore he earned the same award as the outstanding physics student, something very few if any other Tech students had ever done. And none of this had much to do with his selection as editor.

Nor did the reason why John Gill's election was an international news story have any bearing on his election. The fact that John Gill was a Negro student never came up in the discus­sions concerning his candidacy. John Gill was elected simply because he appeared to be the best man for the job to the clear majority of the publi­cations board. Which is exactly the way we believe it should be.

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Volume 44 Number 8

THE COVER

Nationally-known photographer Joseph Consentino visited the Tech campus in early June and came away with a number of top photographs including this one of the Tech architecture champions (see page 20). Left to right are merit winner James R. Barber, second-prize winner Homer P. Crum, Jr., merit winner J. de N. Leake, grand-prize winner Robert Eason, Jr., and merit win­ners Ben F. Reed, III, and Louis E. Stokes. Looking on are Director Paul Heffernan and Assistant Professor Joe Smith (right) of the Architecture School.

CONTENTS 3. RAMBLIN' — a few words about honors and losses.

6. AWAKENING GIANT — a close look at a non-aid, aid project.

14. THE NEW PARTNERSHIP — Dr. Trabant's first speech at Tech.

16. COMMENCEMENT: 1966 — Words and pictures on the yearly ceremony.

20. WE'RE NUMBER ONE — Tech's architects flex their muscles.

21. THE GEORGIA TECH JOURNAL — all the news in gazette form.

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THE VALLEY OF THE AWAKENING-LATIN GIANT

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In the words of a reporter who has observed it first­

hand, here is the account of how Tech's School of

Industrial Management has become the catalyst in

the renaissance of one region of one country in one

of the most important areas in the world to the per­

petuation of the American economic way of life . . .

IT is a non-aid, aid situation. And perhaps that is why the political and economic environment of the verdant, emerald green valley of the Cauca River is being transformed. The transformers are Colom­

bians—a dedicated group of business, university, and community leaders that have banded together, using the Universidad del Valle in Cali as a focus for helping them translate their ideas into action.

Georgia Tech has been by their side—but Georgia Tech has not really done anything for them. Tech has just acted as a kind of catalytic agent. The Institute has not spent much money in Cali, and there have never been more than one or two faculty members there at any one time.

As Professor of Industrial Management Dr. Roderick O'Connor explains, earnestly hunching his shoulders forward and forming a big globe with his hands—"You can't really help anyone." The most you can do is be cooperative when people ask for advice and try to consider with them what may be workable in their environment. No more. People develop themselves, or they do not develop. The same is true with countries.

What is important in the Cauca Valley is that there are leaders, highly educated in Colombian, U.S., and European schools who want to do and who are doing. And reverberations from what is happening there are already beginning to be heard across the Andean Cor­dillera into other regions of Colombia and even be­yond the borders of that country. For ultimately ex­periments thriving in the vital soil of the Valley may well have application to all developing nations—includ­ing the United States—for no nation is ever really developed.

The ventures are numerous and there are more every day, because a spirit of experimentation has been es­tablished. And there are many people willing to take initiative in novel ways. These experiments are not far out, divorced from reality. They are geared very directly to practical action, based on the best available infor­mation.

This renaissance—this awakening of the Cauca Valley—built around the Universidad del Valle began three years ago when two young men named Reinaldo Scarpetta and Alvaro Garcia were appointed Dean and Associate Dean of the Division of Economics and Social Sciences. Scarpetta, who received his B.S. in Industrial

Management from Georgia Tech, was voted the job while he was away on a skiing vacation. On his return he accepted the post and resigned from his job as manager of one of the most modern metal working plants in South America. An ancient 27-year-old when he became an educator, he is of an audacious nature, speaks English with no trace of accent, has a Virginia-bred wife who speaks better Spanish than he does, and two bilingual children.

Scarpetta was drafted as dean because he and an­other young Colombian businessman, Samir Daccach, head of a textile firm and a graduate of the University of Detroit, had initiated several years before something called The Tuesday Night Group—a sort of cross between a civic group, a political science seminar, and Meet the Press. The philosophy of the group, according to Daccach, was expressed by Lincoln when he said: "If we knew first what we pretend and where we stand, we would know better what to do and how to do it."

Every Tuesday evening in a paneled room in the Club Colombia, about two dozen young men already holding important positions in the Cauca Valley, would have as a guest some older business or political leader. The guest would be subjected to a kind of inquisition. Questions were specific and tough because the young men wanted to find out what their elders were thinking and what they were doing for economic development and community improvement.

"Instead of just sitting around and griping after golf or polo about the state of the world, we wanted to find out what was really happening," explains Scar­petta. "The format would never have worked except that the older men felt they had to answer the ques­tions of youth."

Ideas came from all sides once the project began

Quite often the young men found in their elders, men who also had ideas for development, but who were unaware that there were other men with similar atti­tudes in other parts of the community. They found one such man, for instance, in Dr. Gabriel Velazquez, Dean of the School of Medicine at the Universidad del Valle and a former Minister of Health for Colombia. Valaz-quez had led the way in completely revamping the medical school along the lines of the most advanced concepts of medical education and had helped trans-

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form the University Hospital into what is probably the best in Latin America.

He was stimulated by the questions and ideas of the young businessmen, and it was Velazquez who suggested to the university administration in 1963 that a member of The Tuesday Night Group be selected as Dean of the Division of Economics.

When Reinaldo Scarpetta went to work the Division consisted of only a School of Economics, badly in need of renovation. In addition to immediately collecting a better faculty, tightening up on student quality, and revamping the curriculum of the economics program, Scarpetta and his cohorts decided that a new program, not for college-age youths, but top-level executives, was badly needed.

They were convinced that rapid economic develop­ment of the region had to happen now—not in 10 or 15 years. Their theory became that the men who are now in positions of power are the only men who can bring about such rapid change. They faced the fact that if rapid evolution is not possible, revolution may come— wiping out all effective leadership for a generation.

Here was the chance one man had been wait ing for

Scarpetta came back to Tech to ask for advice and found in the School of Industrial Management Dr. Roderick O'Connor, who served as a management con­sultant to more than 70 firms and who once lived in Puerto Rico. O'Connor immediately saw an oppor­tunity to try some ideas he had formulated over the years. Here was a chance to build a formal, rigorous educational program for business leaders. Here also was an opportunity for organizing and examining developmental concepts, and perhaps, for putting to­gether methods for unifying business thought and action. A clinical psychologist by education, he was delighted with the possibility of building a program for releasing the creative leadership potential of the Cauca Valley. With funds from a local Atlanta founda­tion, Tech was able to begin participation.

When the Graduate Program in Industrial Manage­ment for Executives began, 35 top-level business, uni­versity, and community leaders formed the first class. Among them were Dr. Gabriel Velazquez, Samir Daccach, Manuel Carvajal, a former Colombian Min­ister of Development and head of one of the largest printing firms in South America (Carvajal & Cia) his brother Alfredo and Pedro Angel (vice president in the firm).

The professors were mostly Colombians and Chil­eans, with one or two at a time from Georgia Tech, and a few individuals invited from other United States schools. In order to make the curriculum relevant to the Colombian scene, the foreign professors conferred with the best business leaders in the area for three

months before writing their lectures. The North Americans knew that there would be no bringing of notes relevant only to the home environment down to the tropics—no teaching of Taft-Hartley Law in Colom­bia (surprisingly, this is a rule that comparatively few American universities involved in international ties with other schools have adhered to ) .

Because of the design of the curriculum, the students have been able to immediately effect changes in their companies or organizations based on what they have learned—a situation that has not occurred when Latin American businessmen->have been invited to manage­ment training courses in the United States.

This relevancy has been further facilitated by stu­dent projects. Each student must take a project or problem from within his own company, and with his professor, work on a solution.

"In committing themselves to this year-and-a-half, tough, master's program, these people are not only putting their own time on the line, but their companies, too," Dr. O'Connor explains. So far, the projects de­veloped in the program by about 25 executives who graduated J une 17, present plans for expansion and development amounting to about $10 million—an enor­mous investment by capital-scarce Colombian stan­dards.

Says Samir Daccach: "The $3,000 in tuition that the course cost me was paid back in results to my company after the first quarter I was in school."

Manuel Carvajal says his company, which is com­petitive in quality printing with North American firms, has been drastically revamped. Budgets are now made on a ten-year, not a one-month, basis. A marketing department has been created and an account manager-salesman system established. Now a Cali businessman will not be called on by a half-dozen salesmen repre­senting the different divisions of Carvajal & Cia, but by one account man who sells the entire line from typewriters to stationery, packaging, and books.

The cost accounting system of the 2,000-employee company has been reorganized, and marginal costs are now calculated. A $1,038,000 expansion of the already enormous facilities of the company which has branches in Medellin, Barranquilla, and Bogota, has been planned.

"If we had not been in the course, we would have expanded at this time, but not nearly so much," Manuel Carvajal explains. Believing tha t there is a great potential market for textbooks in Colombia and neighboring countries, Carvajal has moved into this field in a big way—often buying Spanish language copyrights for textbooks published in the States. I t recently printed 30,000 copies of a biology text put together by the National Science Foundation and then donated them to the Universidad del Valle. Carvajal

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THE VALLEY OF THE GIANT —cont.

believes that a long-range investment in the educational system of Colombia will ultimately benefit the com­pany with more sales. The course has emphasized this kind of thinking.

"The changes," Carvajal says, "that we are able to achieve in our companies and through our companies to the region, and to the nation as a result of this course, are exciting. In our company the impact has already been so great I really do not know how to express it." Naturally, three more top executives in Carvajal & Cia are enrolled in the second class which has just begun.

Manuel Carvajal emphasizes the importance of the program in having brought together the best business­men and community leaders in the Valley. "Now we can all speak a common language of development, and a number of joint ventures have been initiated by busi­nessmen who have got togethen-with ideas for develop­ment."

One of the things the executives who have just finished or are beginning the program are now planning, is the development of a computer center that will serve all their businesses on a time-sharing basis. A Colom­bian computer expert at MIT, Alberto Leon, is now making a feasibility study.

About 46 students are now embarked in the second class. The impact of what such a program can have

in a relatively small area like the Cauca Valley within several years is obvious. What will happen when 200 leaders have completed this course? The Cauca Valley is about 100 miles long and 10-to-30 miles wide, with a number of small cities. Cali, the largest, has a popu­lation of 750,000 and is growing rapidly. A few dedi­cated men at the top, full of ideas, may well be able to provide a better life for the masses.

Educators can learn much from practitioners

In a recent speech before the first men to finish the course, Tech's President Edwin Harrison said: "This program has provided us the exciting opportunity of helping develop a model of a new educational concept. As international educator Philip H. Coombs has said: 'Perhaps the new nations now writing on a cleaner edu­cational slate can in a few years come to teach the older nations a thing or two, if they have the courage and necessary help to experiment and innovate.' In our nation we are so highly institutionalized already that it is often difficult for us to understand that, as Clark Kerr has said: '. . . the university has become a prime instrument of national purpose.' Because you under­stand this, the Universidad del Valle is today the spark plug of the development of the Cauca Valley."

Harrison continued: "In Cali, the gap between busi­ness leaders and the educational community has been closed. The experiment here has proved that educators can learn much from practitioners—that the gap can

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be closed between those who know about business and those who know business.

"This program has provided bridges between words and action. Here there is a real understanding of the fact that executive development is not just a process of having an executive sit in a classroom and listen— there is a comprehension of the idea that new knowl­edge is valuable only if it is put to use. This program has emphasized the hows of putting the latest knowl­edge to work in the very specific context of the Cauca Valley."

Harrison told the Colombians that he believes the implications of this experiment in graduate education for executives are immense. It is obvious that similar programs might well be instituted in the United States and elsewhere. For the executives involved in such a program there are real sacrifices in leisure time and in scheduling their work so they can get to seminars twice a week, but the advantages can be enormous—to them and to their companies and communities.

While the graduate program in industrial manage­ment for executives was being developed, the Division of Economics and Social Sciences under Dean Scar-petta also was initiating a research section known as CIDE. CIDE is now collecting badly needed informa­tion on the Colombian economy and society that will be useful to local businessmen and potential foreign investors. Professors and students in the graduate pro­gram have been a valuable source for much of this kind of information. Funds from the Rockefeller Foun­dation have been important in supporting the establish­ment of this research center.

Funds from the Rockefeller Foundation have enabled the university to overhaul the undergraduate economics program. The Ford Foundation has helped to establish a regular master's program in industrial management for young men just out of college who have little or no business experience. These are the men who will make important contributions to the Colombian economy 10 or 15 years from now—men who, almost immedi­ately, will be more able to work effectively with the top managers who are renovating their companies as a result of the executive program.

The programs reach virtually all management levels

In cooperation with INCOLDA, the Colombian man­agement training program which has attracted inter­national attention, the Universidad del Valle has put on a number of one-year courses for executives at the specialist level. Twenty-two staff members of Carvajal & Cia, for instance, attended such courses in 1965-66. The university also runs a night school where business­men can get an undergraduate degree in three years by going to class every weekday evening. It is believed that all of these programs are contributing to the vital­

ity of the business community in the Cauca Valley by reaching virtually every management level.

A department of public administration and a depart­ment of political science have recently been established in the Division of Economics and Social Sciences and a sociology department will be started by this fall. The political science faculty is already doing power-struc­ture studies of the Cauca Valley. All the departments in the Division have faculty members studying for Master's and Ph.D. degrees abroad.

The focus of the Division as stated by Dean Scar-petta, armed with charts* and a Magic Marker, literally encompass the economic development of all of Latin America. Its aim is to analyze quite accurately current conditions and then to organize programs so that the environment can be changed and many present prob­lems indirectly solved.

The division has broken down several barriers

"What the Division has done since January, 1964," Scarpetta states flatly, "is enlisted the strength of the strong, broken the barriers to ideas getting upstairs, and created incremental intellectual capital which can be transformed into incremental entrepreneural and civic action."

The Division was instrumental in getting a Regional Planning Board established by the State Assembly. Seven of the Board's eight members are graduates of the executive program.

"We asked the State Assembly to set up such a board," Scarpetta says. "We asked that it be a perma­nent, technically competent, non-political representative of the various sectors of the community and valley, and that it be powerful. It is all this. Within one year, a planning office set up by this Board will design for the Assembly a series of specific courses for civil servants that will teach budgeting, human relations, and fiscal policy."

Scarpetta says that some of the executive students, formerly in business, are now serving the State As­sembly, and others have gone into the agricultural sec­tor. It is his belief that for the economy to be strength­ened, all sectors must experience an improvement in leadership, so he welcomes this development.

One of the new degrees now being offered by the Division is one in agricultural economics. Agriculture is traditionally very important in the Cauca Valley where the black topsoil averages ten-to-sixteen feet deep and the climate is much like south Florida (only the altitude is 3,000 feet, so the evenings are cool). Cattle, sugar cane, vegetable farming and cotton are very important.

The university has been encouraging the develop­ment of agricultural companies that either lease or buy land and sell stock to the public. Several such

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THE VALLEY OF THE GIANT—cont.

companies are now in operation and, with good man­agement and credit, are showing very high profits while paying their workers unusually well.

Ultimately, the region depends on the nation

Although the development of the Cauca Valley is the foremost aim of the University, it is recognized that ultimately, the region is dependent on the Nation, and on the larger trading community of Latin America. Because it stands before the only pass through the Western Cordillera to the Pacific, and can also ship north along railroads through the river valleys to the Caribbean, Cali is in a particularly good position for international trade. To encourage international ties, the university is strongly supporting the efforts of the Latin American Free Trade Area that is attempting to set up a common market. Dr. Hans Picker, a professor from Chile now teaching in the executive program, is particularly interested in international trade and was recently instrumental in helping set up a Chilean-Colombian engineering construction company called

Sigdo-Koppers-Colombiania, a subsidiary of a North American Company.

Joint ventures with Colombian businessmen, Picker says, offer magnificent opportunities for U.S. investors, as well as investors from other Latin American coun­tries. Colombian businessmen have the know who and the foreign investors the know how. Local businessmen understand the business conditions of their region and country and are able to operate much easier in the local environment than those sent down by branches of foreign companies, but they are often desperately short of working capital, equipment, or the latest techniques.

Despite the inflation of a year ago, very large profits can still be made on investment in Colombian industry, Dr. Picker says—provided there is good management that understands how to side-step the effects of infla­tion and other local problems. The faculty of the Uni­versity is willing to help bring together potential in­vestors and local businessmen, and Georgia Tech is also taking an active role in promoting this. Tech is particularly anxious to establish for Georgia business a region-to-region tie with the Cauca Valley. For Georgia firms with little or no international experience, this provides an excellent opportunity for entering a foreign field.

Atlanta businessmen are involved in a big way

A number of Atlanta businessmen have visited Cali in the past few years. James Furniss, vice president of the Citizens and Southern National Bank, probably holds the record with seven visits. The C&S has already loaned and invested about $1,250,000 in joint ventures and trade in Colombia, with plans to increase this in the future.

There is no doubt that what is happening in Cali is exciting and offers much hope for the future. To help spread the educational and business message of experi­ments here to the rest of Latin America, the Uni-versidad del Valle organized and held last February a meeting of the Deans of Schools of Business Admin­istration from Mexico to Chile.

As was pointed out at the beginning of this remark­able venture, none of this would have happened except for the ideas and the devotion of a small group of Colombians determined to create the conditions under which there can be a great release of individual and group creativity. These men obviously feel a respon­sibility not only to their companies but to their community.

As one example, Manuel Carvajal, mentioned many times before, has seen to it that 40 percent of the inter­est of family-owned Carvajal & Cia has been given since 1960 to a foundation that is today building and operat­ing schools and infirmaries in the impoverished sections of Cali. Nuns from the United States have come to

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staff the schools now serving 1,600 pupils, and in the infirmaries there are family planning centers established in agreement with the Church and local doctors be­cause one of the greatest problems of the Cauca Valley is the population explosion.

In early May, Manuel Carvajal was initiated by Pope Paul into the order of San Gregorio Magno because of his outstanding service to community and Church. Manuel's cousin Alberto Jose Carvajal was president of INCOLDA until a month ago.

The lack of elementary schools is a problem

As a second example, take the case of Samir Daccach who also became concerned several years ago about the lack of elementary schools for almost half of Cali's school-age children. So he organized Schools for Peace through which he has asked local businesses to con­tribute money to build simple, five-room, concrete-block schools. Five have been completed, two are near com­pletion, and three more are under construction. One 10-room school is being built with the proceeds of a bullfight in which the fighters donated their income for a day.

Unfortunately, Daccach has been unable so far to get the Agency for International Development to lend Schools for Peace $500,000 to be used in a rotating fund for school construction. Local businesses often cannot afford to pay $8,000 in one year for a school but could

make payments over four or five years. If a rotating fund were available, 300 classrooms could be built out of this money, now, and then as local companies paid, the fund could be replenished for more construction.

Daccach is now making plans for setting up evening literacy schools for adults in the new classrooms, hoping to find teachers within the neighborhoods, or to get young college students to contribute some time to charity. The teachers would be paid a nominal sum by the poor people, for Daccach believes it is important that nothing be free.

Will it work? Daccach believes so. "People are eager to learn," he says earnestly.

He sells the school building idea to businessmen by telling them " tha t to expand in the future they need an educated labor force. They cannot thrive in a sick society. 'Look,' I say, 'don't be a jerk—look how much lack of education is now costing your company. I 'm selling you a good business deal.' "

He says tha t the businessmen understand him on both business and humanitarian grounds. "Our busi­ness leaders," Daccach says, "will not stand anymore for our people to live in subhuman conditions."

Because businessmen in the Cauca Valley are under­standing, they are on the road to mastering their environment. " I t is up to us to develop," says Daccach quietly, "this should be the true spirit of the Alliance for Progress."

An Atlanta group headed by

Pres ident Har r i son takes a

close-up look at what has been

done in this far-off valley in

which the Institute and home

city have such a great interest

A DELEGATION of Atlantans visiting i \ Cali, May 10-15, found business-

•*• •*- men, officials at the Universidad del Valle, and community leaders as tough-minded, imaginative, and can-do as their counterparts on Peachtree.

The Atlanta group led by Tech's President Edwin Harrison, included James P. Furniss, vice president of the Citizens and Southern National Bank which has already loaned and invested $1,250,000 in joint ventures and trade in Colombia, and his wife; C. A. McNair, senior vice president of the Trust Company of Georgia, and Mrs. McNair; Boisfeuillet Jones, for­mer Advisor on Health Affairs to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and now president of a local Atlanta foundation which has enabled Georgia Tech to assist the Colom­bians, and Mrs. Jones; and John Sey-del, president of the Seydel-Woolley Company of Atlanta that manufac­tures chemicals for textile mills.

President Sanford Atwood of Emory University and Mrs. Atwood were also in Cali to find out if there are areas in which Emory and the Universidad del Valle might cooperate—particular­

ly in medical research. The Georgians were enthusiastic

about the possibility of more region-to-region investment in men, ideas, and money. In a speech before about 70 Colombian businessmen, including the first graduates of the graduate program in industrial management for executvies, Friday, May 13, President Harrison said:

"We in Atlanta feel we have already benefited from this cooperative ven­ture and should benefit even more in the future from the continued asso­ciation. As a nation, the United States needs friends that are strong economi­cally and in every other way. Strong trading partners are always welcomed because it has been proved that the more developed a country is, the more it buys and sells.

"Another benefit of our association is that we are learning more about how countries develop. Knowledge of this kind can be used everywhere in the world—including in our own coun­try. We also appreciate the oppor­tunity of knowing about investment possibilities in Colombia for our busi­nesses and financial institutions."

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Like it or not, business, government and universities are linked in a complex with unbreakable ties, now our problem is to learn to make the most of it says Tech's new vice president for academic affairs in

THE NEW PARTNERS IIP

TODAY, whether we like it or not, business, government and univer­sities in the United States are

linked with a multitude of complex and increasingly unbreakable ties. Once isolated from the problems and pressures of the world, institutions of higher education have become active participants in the formation, direc­tion, and execution of policies and programs dealing with nearly every aspect of our lives.

In the process, colleges and univer­sities have emerged as academic market places where knowledge, serv­ices and ideas are bought and sold for the good of society—and the fur­therance of institutions, economics, businesses, governments and disci­plines. This was not always the case.

In medieval times scholars tended to concentrate in particular locations where the principal attraction was the presence of other scholars. ^Vhere there were scholars, there came stu­dents typically from many countries. In this way universities came into being.

Students would commonly move about attending lectures at first one center and then another. In the be­ginning this was all very informal. There were no curricula, admission procedures, degrees or even grade-point-averages. Individuals set them­

selves up as scholars and offered lec­tures as they pleased. If they could attract students who were able to pay fees, they prospered and could become famous—influential and even well-off financially. Some of the centers be­came famous, and many great uni­versities of Europe are their direct descendants—Oxford, Bologna, Heidel­berg and Cambridge.

A new counterpart of these medi­eval universities has taken form in our modern society. This consists of great universities which have strong programs in engineering and science, surrounded by companies emphasiz­ing research and development, under conditions where there is continued interaction among all of the compo­nents—some formal, some informal, some organized, others unorganized.

The growing importance of indus­tries based on science and technology has given the university a new role in national life. Universities with strong programs in the applied sciences and engineering have become more than places for learning. They have become a major economic influence; affecting the location of industry, pop­ulation growth, and the character of communities. They have become a natural resource just as are raw ma­terials, transportation and climate. They are a full partner with business-

industry and government in the con­tinued and sustained development of our country.

Over the past twenty years it has been the research-development oriented industry which has developed the closest ties with universities and in­stitutes of technology. Most of the research has been connected with our military requirements or our space programs. This has been a most effec­tive partnership. However, over the next twenty years a new and more effective partnership is going to evolve. Let me try to explain what I mean in the following way.

Perfect prophecy may be impossi­ble, but all of us must attempt to imagine the shape of things to come. And the more accurately our imagi­nation serves us, the better our chance to shape the future closer to what we would like it to be.

So let us imagine a middle sized Atlanta manufacturing firm as it will be twenty years from now. Let us as­sume that at present our company has a nation-wide business and good pros­pects for growth. Now—how is busi­ness in 1986? First, to survive and compete our business has had to grow. Its payroll is bigger and a much larger percentage of its working force is in the managerial, engineering, scientific, and highly skilled categories. Its man-

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ufacturing processes are highly auto­mated and flexible. Its total produc­tion and its product lines have multi­plied many times over. Its markets now are not just the United States but Canada, Europe, Latin America and the Far East.

Monday's world-wide sales data are fed immediately into a computer to control Tuesday's inventory and man­ufacturing program.

Our company will be giving more attention to changing technology in 1986 than at present. Whereas it now has 10 men on its engineering staff and no research or development proj­ects, it will have 150 men in its engi­neering departments and it will have several hundreds of thousand dollars of sponsored research and develop­ment work in the academic depart­ments and Engineering Experiment Station at our Georgia Tech. The work will not be primarily military as it might be today, but rather our flow­ering science and technology will be devoted to research and development of consumer products so that our com­pany can stay competitive in the world market.

Our company's management and engineering-science staff will travel weekly to our national and other State Capitols to consult and negotiate with government ministries, to serve as government-industry-university com­mittees and to oversee various other charitable, cultural and educational activities.

This brief, sketchy look into the future of a hypothetical business-in­dustry shows the increasing depend­ence and interdependence of business, government and universities which will emerge during the next twenty years. To gain an insight into the role that government is playing and will play in the new partnership, a look at our national research picture shows the ties.

Of the approximately 23 billion dol­lars that will be spent for research and development during 1966, the Federal Government will provide 66% of the funds. Of the total 23 billion, industry will handle almost $16V2 billion, government laboratories 3.1 billion, universities 2.5 billion, and non-profit laboratories about $900 mil­lion. But since 66% of these funds are from the Federal Government, it is obvious that in research we have three real partners. And since it is forecast that federal financed research will grow at about $1 billion per year, there appears little chance that our research

partnership will be dissolved. A look ahead just ten years shows

that our population will have increased by 30 million with an increase of 12 million in the number of families.

Autos on the road will increase by 30% from 75 million to 100 million. We will need 18 million new dwelling units and room in our schools for 118 million more students.

This brief listing reveals a host of human and community needs that must be met by 1976. For example:

1. air and water pollution 2. inadequate water supplies 3. unsatisfactory solid waste

disposal 4. urban congestion and blight 5. deterioration of natural beauty 6. rapid depletion of natural

resources These can only be solved by a dy­namic, imaginative partnership. Re­search efforts must be expanded so we can learn and understand the ef­fects of various pollutants on living organisms, pollution costs will have to be assigned in some manner, uni­versity institutes must be founded, in­tegrated with the educational function, serving as laboratories for urban prob­lem analysis and resources for urban communities wanting their advice and service.

There must be increased efforts to make available for business and in­dustry use, results of government per­formed or funded research. More funds must be available to universities and other organizations for the improve­ment of research techniques and their experimental application to urban problems.

One of the interesting manifesta­tions of the educational process has been the lag that so often takes place between prophecy and reality, between our realization that the way of the world has shifted and our application of new ideas and methods to meet the new needs thus created.

This has never been a characteristic of the educational programs at Tech. It is our plan, of course, that it never shall be. Possessing one of the finest physical plants in the country, ex­ploited by a brilliant faculty, educat­ing a superior student body, Georgia Tech is on the threshold of one of its finest and most productive periods in its history. A quality and imaginative coordination and combination of the work of the Engineering Experiment Station with the academic and re­search programs in science, engineer­ing, industrial management and archi­

tecture will produce excellence in teaching, research, development and community service never realized be­fore in any part of the country. We are developing and will develop a center of learning and research which will show what the last twenty years has been striving towards.

Earlier in my remarks, I gave quite a list of problems for the future. The list was quite incomplete, it could go on and on. But this is not a discourag­ing phenomena—the problems of the futur^T-

We have learned that there are al­most no insoluable problems. We have learned that we can concentrate re­sources, schedule efforts, and complete enormous endeavors with little fear of failure.

In medicine and public health we have educated or effectively reduced almost all communicable diseases. We are embarked in the conquest of can­cer and heart disease, and no thoughtful man doubts that we will succeed. In space we have burst the eggshell of the earth's atmosphere and are about to explore the universe. In industry we can make materials, ve­hicles, implements of almost any kind to most specifications.

Science, engineering, medicine, and other professions; industries, govern­ment, universities, other institutions; philosophers and the general public have to varying degrees come to be­lieve that there is no technically in­soluble problem. This confidence de­fines the role that must be played by the new partnership of industry, uni­versities and government. Building upon competence and confidence, the role of this new partnership is then:

1. to understand the current and future needs of society

2. to anticipate these needs, and the potential of business, indus­try and universities to meet them

3. to invent and to design products, processes and systems that meet these needs

4. to foresee and plan adequately for the positive and negative consequences of their introduc­tion.

In short, the new partnership must recognize society's needs and wants and then effectively apply the sys­tems, the manpower, the techniques and the money required to meet them. I think it can be done. We know that it can be done and that Georgia Tech will play, as it has done in the past, a major role of leadership for the State and the Nation. E. A. Trabant

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Photographed for the Alumnus by Deloye Burrell Break in the midst of a tough day: Fred Ajax, an old pro who has been reading the graduates' names at Commencement since the system was adopted, takes a minute to relax before going on for his day's chores.

COMMENCEMENT 1966 Several happenstances and innovations made the eighty-third graduation at Georgia Tech one for the history books

T H E marquee announced "Born Free" was playing, but within the depths of the Fox Theatre, 1,300 young lions were graduating. They had proved their intellectual prowess in the sur­vival-testing atmosphere of the Geor­gia Institute of Technology. Now, to the trumpeting of the Yellow Jacket Band, beneath the unlikely star-studded sky of the Fox that made 8:30 a.m. seem 12 in the evening, they marched in. They were all robed somberly, of course, in black, and not a one had forgotten to wear sox.

This was graduation, June, 1966. It was a moment of sheer joy, and a time of tearing sadness. The speaker, Presi­dent Johnson's top science advisor, Dr. Donald Hornig, told the graduates and their families that there are fan­tastic opportunities and responsibili­ties on the horizon for those who un­derstand the tools of the technological and scientific age.

He reminded them that "the simple fact is that you are not through with learning; you will have to form new judgments about new and unforeseen situations; you will have to build on the foundation Tech has given you; but it can only be a foundation for what you will have to be and what you will have to know. Whether you like it or not, the world is changing and you are going to have to change with it. Today's skills, today's ideas, today's political judgments, none of

them will suffice for the many tomor­rows.

"You are entering a world where great political and social movements are underway, pulled by many forces, not the least of them the onrushing scientific and technological advances of our times. You are privileged to live in a time when difficult problems must be solved, but also a time when the tools to resolve them are at hand or can be fashioned. I know of few times in history when so many seeds were planted which will bear impor­tant fruit as in your lifetimes."

The young engineers, scientists, managers, and architects listened as he continued and stated matter-of-factly: "The course of the changes in the international scene will, in the long run, be enormously affected by the course of the development of sci­ence and technology, not only the very advanced technology which produces missiles and determines the relative power of great nations, but the agri­cultural and industrial technology which may lift the struggling Asian nations from the brink of starvation. Our own ability to achieve the goals we have set will also depend on ad­vances in all branches of engineering, in agriculture, and in the social sci­ences, as well as on yet to be discov­ered scientific facts and concepts."

In the course of his address, Hornig reviewed the marvelous technological

advances of recent years, discussed the importance of education—making a special point of congratulating the University System of Georgia for its outstanding efforts in raising the qual­ity of education in the South, dis­cussed areas in which Georgia Tech has taken a lead in research and teach­ing as in its programs of information science and systems engineering—and then concluded with these comments:

"I envy the graduates of today. They are entering the world of hard work—some may already have worked hard in school, of course—at an ex­citing time when their contributions are needed on many fronts, not only at home but in the rest of the world. I have outlined the great prospects for our country, but we cannot live as an island of plenty in a sea of misery, poverty, disease and despair. We can­not live as a rich man among the starving and long survive their resent­ment and envy. We must be vitally concerned with the development of all of the people with whom we share this planet.

"You have been given a good educa­tion. I am confident that you will do better with the world than we have done. It will be your world. I would like to offer each and every one of you my best wishes. God Bless You."

Dr. Hornig stepped back to his seat in front of a group of about a hundred professors seated on the giant stage.

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Warning to a class: Dr. Donald Hornig (left) the President's top science advisor and this year's speaker, tells the class of 1966 that the learning is just beginning.

A first at Tech: Major and Mrs. Thomas Murray leave the Fox after being among the two couples who received identical degrees.

And still another first: John (left) and Albert Staton, shown below flanking Alumni Association President Matt Cole, be­came the first dual winners of Tech's top Alumni Distinguished Service Award.

Commencement: 1966—cont. Then the Georgia Tech Glee Club sang the stirring "Hallelujah Chorus" from Beethoven's The Mount of Olives.

The conferring of degrees followed. The 1,300 marched one by one up to the stage, gave their cards to either Fred W. Ajax or Dr. James Young, who with stentorian voices, sang out the names, while President Edwin Harrison handed the diplomas and shook hands.

Occasionally the pace would be slowed as Mr. Ajax or Dr. Young would stop to tell about one of the three top students:

"James Edward Westmoreland, III, from Griffin, Georgia, is a physics major. Mr. Westmoreland is the top student in his class with a 4.0 average out of a 4.0 possible average." (West­

moreland had the highest average of any graduate in ten years, according to Registrar W. L. Carmichael.)

"Frederick Raymond Henry, from Augusta, Georgia, graduates with high­est honor. He has a 3.9 average." (Henry was an aerospace engineering major.)

"David Eugene Arnold, from Glen Burnie, Maryland, graduates with highest honor with a 3.9 average out of a possible 4.0." (Arnold majored in electrical engineering.)

Fifteen co-eds walked across the stage for degrees—almost twice as many as in any previous year. There were also two couples graduating: Major Thomas Harold Murray and his wife Jeanne Morris Murray, re­ceived Master of Science in Informa­tion Science degrees; Stanley LeRoy Tollman and Joan Tomme Tollman

finished together with Bachelor of Science Degrees in Industrial Man­agement.

Among the graduates there were 1,011 getting Bachelor's Degrees, 250 receiving Master's Degrees, and 45, Ph.D. Degrees. The Ph.D.'s repre­sented a large portion of the 254 total number of doctorates Tech has granted since 1952, and the 188 since 1960.

In his address, Dr. Hornig had made a special point of the numbers of Ph.D. degrees now being granted in Georgia—as a good sign of the edu­cational development of the state. He noted that in the 1940's only the av­erage of one was graduated annually, while now the figure for all schools is about 100.

"Of course," he said, "a Georgia student still has only one-third the likelihood of getting a Ph.D. as an

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average child in the rest of the coun­try, so you can't stop yet."

After, Alumni Association President Madison F. Cole inducted the 1966 graduates into the Georgia Tech Na­tional Alumni Association with the help of senior class president Edwin C. Rodgers, Jr., and then Dr. Harrison presented the Alumni Distinguished Service Award to the brothers Albert H. Staton and John C. Staton.

This was the first time in history that the award had gone to more than one individual. The brothers made his­tory as athletes at Tech in the early twenties and have since been in the vanguard of Tech's alumni leadership. John C. Staton is a past president of both the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association and the Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc., and also was the Tech chairman of the Joint Tech-Georgia Development Fund in 1961. Today, he is vice president of The Coca-Cola Company.

Albert H. Staton was cited as the first paid secretary of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association in 1923 and as the first editor of The Georgia Tech Alumnus magazine. He has continued to work for Tech as its roving ambassador of good will in South America and Mexico where he has headed Coca-Cola bottling plants for the past twenty years. He now lives in Medellin, Colombia.

Following the alumni activities, was the Commissioning Oath Ceremony for ROTC cadets. Thirty-one were commissioned into the Army includ­ing: nine in the Ordnance Corps, seven in the Chemical Corps, five in Corps of Engineers, and four in the Signal Corps—indicating the special­ties Tech is able to prepare men for. The Navy ROTC commissioned fif­teen and the Air Force, four.

Then the Glee Club and the Band led in the performance of the Alma Mater, which some graduates were able to sing since the words were printed on the back of the commence­ment program:

"Oh, sons of Tech, arise, behold! The banner as it reigns supreme, For from on high the White and Gold Waves in its triumphant gleam . . ." There was the benediction, and

finally, to the tune of Sousa's "El Capitan March," the Tech men and women marched out of the canyon of the Fox. Marian VanLandingham

Dash into tomorrow: a graduate leaves the Fox in a hurry to join his family.

JULY 1966

Grand prize winner Bob Eason, center, en­joys the moment of victory with his wife, Carol, and Elmer A. Lundberg, director of architectural liaison for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, the contest sponsor.

W E ' R E N U M B E R ON £ At least that is what one group of Tech architects can say

GEORGIA T E C H senior architects swept through the annual na­tional competition sponsored by

the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company and the National Institute of Archi­tectural Education much like the Bos­ton Celtics have overpowered the rest of the National Basketball League for the past decade. Six of the 13 cash awards (including the grand prize and the runner-up award) went to Tech students in the competition to design a theoretical tourist hospitality center for the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

A total of $2,350 of the $3,450 prize money went to the Tech seniors head­ed by Robert E. Eason of Atlanta who won the $1,200 first-prize money. A great flaming torch atop a high tower was a key element in the design of the hospitality center that swayed the jury of architects to select Eason's de­sign as the best in the contest for architects under the age of 30. The jurists which viewed drawings, models and /or perspectives of each entry be­

fore making their selections admired Eason's solution for "its strong recog­nition of the need for identifying the building from a distance both during the day and at night." And in their published statement said, "This scheme provided generous reception, display, and circulation areas in very pleasant, exciting spaces. The sequence of elements in plan organization cre­ated a building of suspense along the way."

Homer P. Crum, Jr., of Tifton took second prize money of $750 for his entry which the jury called, "a bold overall plan composition, simple in concept and sweeping in its handling of detail."

The other four Tech boys earned $100 merit awards for their entries. They are James R. Barber of Dora-ville, James de N. Leake of New Or­leans, Ben F. Reed, III, of Smyrna, and Louis E. Stokes of Buenos Aires. No other college in the country placed more than one man among the winners.

All six of the Tech winners were students in Assistant Professor Joe Smith's class in Architectural Design.

Winner Eason was also one of three Tech students who received merit awards for "Design Excellence" in the Emblem Design Competition spon­sored by the Marble Institute of America. Other Tech winners in this competition were Mark Garber of Greenwood, South Carolina, and Larry W. Hess of Athens, Georgia.

A graduate student in architecture from Wettingen, Switzerland, won third prize of $75 in the National In­stitute for Architectural Education's special competition for the design of an urban Experimental Elementary School. Jean-Pierre Benoit, the hon-oree, is attending Tech on a World Student Fund scholarship supported by funds given by Tech students and faculty members and the proceeds from a collection taken each year at a Tech home football game.

Robert B. Wallace, Jr.

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GEORGIA TECH

Tech Receives Biggest Endowment

I N MAY, TECH received an endowment valued at $1 million from the will of Miss Louise M. Fitten, a prominent Atlantan. The amount is over twice the value of any previous single gift or en­dowment from an individual in Tech's history.

Pres ident Edwin D. Harr i son has recommended that the endowment's in­come, estimated to be about $40,000 a year, be used to establish the Louise M. Fitten Memorial Fund to provide schol­arships for outstanding and deserving students. "One of Tech's greatest needs is to provide financial need for the many top students who otherwise could not come to college, here," said President Harrison. "This fund will be the largest academic scholarship program in Tech's history."

Miss Fitten passed away in September, 1950, leaving part of her wealth to a nephew, R. H. Bewick, EE, '20, with the stipulation that at the time of his death the funds be given to Georgia Tech. Mr. Bewick died without heirs in January, 1966.

Engineering Mechanics' Bauer Gets Top Award DR. HELMUT BAUER received the annual Ferst Award from the Georgia Tech Chapter of the Society of Sigma Xi, honorary science fraternity, for the best research paper prepared this year by a member of the Tech faculty. The award was presented at the annual banquet of the Society held May 31. Dr. Bauer spoke on "Vibrations and Music."

For the last few years the professor of Engineering Mechanics has been in­vestigating the sloshing action of liquid propellants in rocket tanks. His findings may be useful in the over-all design of control, feedback and stabilizing systems of the Saturn V rocket. The title of his prize-winning paper was "Stab i l i ty Boundaries Liquid-Propel led Elas t ic Space Vehicles with Sloshing." It ap­

peared in a recent issue of the Journal of Spacecraft.

Second prize awards went to Dr. William Eberhardt of the School of Chemistry and Dr. Harold A. Gersch of the School of Physics. Dr. Eberhardt's paper "Magnetic Rotation Spectrum of Singlet-Triplet Transitions. Part II. Pyra-zine," appeared in the Journal of Mole­cular Spectroscopy; and Dr. Gersch's "Solid Superfluid Transmission in He* at Absolute Zero," in Physical Review.

Thomas J. Malone received the award for the best paper presented by a doc­toral candidate; and Leonard D. Jones and William T. Mayo, Jr., for the best Masters' papers. The undergraduate re­search paper award went to William Boakes.

New Sigma Xi officers for 1965-66 were installed at the banquet. Dr. Robert H. Kasriel, professor of mathematics, will be the 1966-67 president of the Tech chapter; Dr. Milton Raville, director of the School of Engineering Mechanics, vice president; and Dr. James A. Knight, Jr., research professor of chemistry and Head, Radioisotopes Laboratory, Engi­neering Experiment Station, treasurer.

Dr. Robert A. Young, professor of physics, was elected a member of the Executive Committee; and Dr. Walter Carlson, mechanical engineering, Dr. Paul Mayer, civil engineering, and Dr. M. Carr Payne, Jr., psychology, were elected to the Committee on Admissions.

One hundred and eight new members were initiated into Sigma Xi.

Young of English is Top Teacher DR. JAMES D. YOUNG received Georgia Tech's first $1,000 Union-Camp Award for Teaching Excellence at the annual Faculty Dinner, May 5. A $5,000 grant from Union-Camp will support awards for five years.

Young was selected by a faculty com­mittee headed by Dr. Benjamin Dasher, director of the School of Electrical En­gineering.

A professor of English, Young is ad­

visor to the Technique, as well as being the campus debate coach, and serving on the Student Lecture and Entertainment Committee, the Student Activities Com­mittee, and the World Student Fund Committee.

The versatile and popular professor who lists his hobbies as playing the piano and cooking, began his career as a scien­tist. He recevied his B.S. in biology from the California Institute of Technology, his M.A. in English from Stanford Uni­versity, did graduate work at Harvard University, and then received his Ph.D. from Rice University.

He is the associate editor of Critique, a journal of studies in modern fiction, and the author of many scholarly articles.

Young and his wife, Elizabeth Volk-man Young, and their son Jonathan live at 432 Hascall Road, N.W.

Dr. Mario J. Goglia, dean of the Grad­uate Division, was speaker at the dinner at the Progressive Club where retiring members of the faculty and staff were also honored. Leading the list of faculty retirees in years of service were Frank F. Groseclose, assistant to the President and director of the School of Industrial En­gineering, with 21 years; and Dr. R. Fred Sessions, professor of chemistry, with 17 years.

Also retiring from the faculty were: William L. Hyden, professor of textile engineering; John I. Alford, associate professor of textile engineering; and Robert H. Smith, assistant professor of engineering graphics.

Retiring staff members were Henry L. McEwen, Jr., of the Engineering Experi­ment Station, and Mrs. Lester R. Hasty of the College Inn.

Twenty-five year gold-T service pins were given to: Walter H. Burrows, Engi­neering Experiment Station; Dr. David B. Comer, English; John W. Davis, me­chanical engineering; Dr. R. Kenneth Jacobs and Joseph C. Durden, Jr., engi­neering graphics; Donnell W. Dutton and Sarah Slaughter, aerospace engineering; Julian H. Harris, architecture; and James W. McCarty, textile engineering.

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Genus Academicus IN the back of every alarm

clock and in the backbone of every college student in

America today is a winding stem that must continually be rewound. In academe it is generally assumed that it is one of the major respon­sibilities of professors to see that students never have the opportunity to run down. They keep students wound up with an inevitable march of exams, pop quizzes, term papers, book reports, ad infinitum. According to academic folklore, while the good student may not need more than one exam a week to stay wound, the lazy one needs a pop quiz or questions in class virtually every day. Few professors in this country are willing to consider the possibility that there may be students who could run for as long as a year without an exami­nation.

The tightness of the wind, of course, not only relates to the amount of information learned, but the speed at which it is digested. There must be progress in a hurry. No stopping. No loitering. No mulling. And if the wind is tight for undergraduates, it is usually even tighter for graduate students. As one professor once remarked before a seminar of graduate students: "Anybody can do this work given long enough. You're going to do a lot of work, very well, and just as fast as possible."

Even years after they leave graduate school, his students still walk at an artificially fast pace and work as though they have to finish a job before a cup of coffee cools. Once a student is kept wound tightly for four to nine years (depending on the degrees of time he stays in the academic establishment), the wind is usually permanent.

The so-called best schools, of course, usually do the tightest job of winding and their students tend to remain wound for the duration of their physical being—like shirts that have been sanforized. No unwinding, no shrinkage on the job.

This is the reason smart companies recruit at schools that pride themselves on their stem-winding jobs. An individual graduating from such an institution is most likely to work incessantly—even if his job has no more real value than the running of a rat on an exercise wheel in a cage.

Such a man will never be accused of laziness and can often be saddled with a number of side-jobs like serving on Christmas party committees, collecting for charities, organizing talent shows and playing on company ball teams—plus, of course, taking an active part in their communities to improve the public image of the dear ol' Factory. Into the modern business scene the well-wound individual fits as a working clog. He will get along wonderfully unless he is sent to establish an overseas branch of the com­pany in the South Sea islands, or tries to sell insurance policies to saffron-robed monks in a monastery on the slopes of the Himalayas.

Well, the genius of the "Genus Academicus" has at last run down. This issue's column may be called the wind-up. Heaven preserve the academic world from anything like it again. M. V. L.

THE INSTITUTE ontinued

L. V. Johnson Honored TECH'S L. V. Johnson has been elected chairman of the Technical Institute Council of the American Society for Engineering Education and will take office following the ASEE's annual meet­ing to be at Washington State University, June 20-24.

Johnson is director of the Engineering Extension Division which is composed of three divisions: Continuing Education, Industrial Education, and the Southern Technical Institute.

In 1963 he received the ASEE Tech­nical Institute Division's James H. Mc-Graw Award for outstanding contribu­tions to technical institute education.

A graduate of Ohio State University, Johnson joined the Tech faculty in 1931 as assistant professor of physics. In 1942 he became associate professor of aero­nautics and from 1946-47 was acting head of the School of Aeronautics, now known as Aerospace Engineering.

When the Southern Technical Insti­tute was established as a unit of Georgia Tech in 1948, he was appointed its di­rector. Under his administration at Southern Tech, the eight courses offered by the institute were among the first in the South accredited by the Engineers' Council for Professional Development.

In 1959 Johnson was appointed Di­rector of the Engineering Extension Division.

City Planning Receives Grant T H E Graduate City Planning Program at Georgia Tech has received $50,000 from the Richard King Mellon Chari­table Trust to be used for faculty salaries and scholarships. This is part of a five-year $220,000 grant.

The City Planning Program, directed by Regents' Professor Howard K. Men-hinick, is a graduate program leading to a Master's degree in two years. Approxi­mately 30 students, having a wide variety of academic backgrounds, are currently enrolled.

A very high percentage of the grad­uates of this program have become plan­ning director0 for cities and states all over the U.S. and in many foreign countries.

New NSF Grants Announced TECH has received a $33,254 grant from the National Institutes of Health to support a graduate training program in solid waste technology. The purpose: to train more qualified people to cope with the solid waste problems associated with rapid growth of industrial, commercial, and residential complexes.

This program under the direction of Dr. Frederick Pohland will provide spe­cialized interdisciplinary training in waste technology founded on the basic

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and applied sciences associated with pres­ent and proposed methods of solid waste collection, transportation, and treatment.

There will be financial aid available for six students wanting to acquire ad­vanced degrees in this area.

Georgia Tech has also received nearly $20,000 recently from the National Science Foundation. A grant of $9,600 will support work by Dr. Stephen Dick-erson in the School of Mechanical En­gineering on "A Variable Fluid-Trans­former in Hydraulic Control Systems."

While many hydraulic control systems use valves to control flow, Dr. Dickerson is studying a device that is analogous to an electrical transformer. Its advantage over valve systems is that it consumes less power.

Another $9,600 grant will enable Dr. M. C. Bernard in the School of Engineer­ing Mechanics to study "Fatigue Under Random Vibration."

"It has long been known that struc­tural components will ultimately fail when subjected to a sequence of cyclic loads even though the elastic limit of the material is never exceeded," Dr. Bernard explains.

"Material damage incurred in this way is termed fatigue damage. A similar situation exists when a structure is sub­jected to random loading as in the case of a part from an aircraft flying in a gusty atmosphere. The estimation of compon­ent life in the case of random loading is the object of my research."

Rubin of English Gets Fulbright TECH'S Dr. Larry J. Rubin will lecture on American Literature at the Univer­sity of Bergen in Norway next year under the Fulbright International Ex­change Program.

The Tech associate professor of English has won a number of poetry awards in­cluding the 1961 Reynolds Lyric Award from the Poetry Society of America, the 1963 Literary Achievement Award in Poetry from the Georgia Writers Asso­ciation, the 1964 Sidney Lanier Award from Oglethorpe University and the 1965 John Holmes Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of New Hampshire.

Dr. Rubin taught at the University of Krakow in Poland in 1961-62 with a Smith-Mundt Award from the U.S. De­partment of State. He has had a total of about 300 poems published in various literary periodicals.

He received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Emory University and joined the Tech faculty in 1955.

Tech Students to Work Overseas T E N Georgia Tech students will work in European businesses and industry this summer under the sponsorship of the International Association for the Ex­change of Students for Technical Ex­perience, IAESTE.

This is the first year Tech has par­

ticipated in the program that aims to train advanced university students of the engineering and natural sciences in the industrial techniques of other nations and to build a foundation for inter­national understanding and good will be­tween these potential business leaders and the host companies and institutions.

Dr. F. R. Erskine Crossley, professor of mechanical engineering at Tech, is on the IAESTE-U.S. National Committee. He says he believes the program gives students excellent opportunities for learn­ing other cultures by really getting to know other people.

The Georgia Tech IAESTE Committee has found 14 jobs for foreign students in the United States this summer as part of the exchange program. William B. Henninger, Jr., was chairman of the committee.

The Tech students are: Andrew M. Agoos, a June graduate in mechanical engineering from Sylvester, Georgia, who will work for a manufacturer of mechan­ical and electrical equipment in Eind­hoven, The Netherlands.

Frank A. Birdsong, Jr., a junior major­ing in aerospace engineering and mathe­matics from New Orleans, La., will work for an aircraft manufacturer in Amster­dam, The Netherlands.

Sterling R. (Rusty) Brown, a June graduate in mechanical engineering from Birmingham, Ala., will work for a manu­facturer of agricultural machines and equipment in Neuss, Germany.

Peter H. Hand, an architecture major from Clearwater, Florida, will work in an architect's office in Turin, Italy. Hand plans to do graduate work in city plan­ning at Georgia Tech after his gradua­tion in June, 1967.

H. Dale Hartough, a June graduate in chemical engineering, who was an IAESTE summer participant last year, will work for the next year with a chem­ical company in Germany. He was a leader in establishing the IAESTE group at Georgia Tech. Hartough is from Louisville, Ky., and Phillipsburgh, N. J.

William B. Henninger, Jr., a June graduate in electrical engineering from Atlanta, will work for an electrical equip­ment company in Stuttgart, Germany.

Ivan E. Johnson, an architect major from Tallahassee, Florida, will work in an architect's office in Betzdorf, Ger­many. He will get experience in project­ing and drawing.

George E. Kontis, a June graduate in mechanical engineering from Tallahas­see, Fla., will work for a subsidiary of Babcock and Wilcox in Galindo, Spain.

Jimmy Letson, a June graduate in physics and the son of Atlanta's super­intendent of schools, will work for a company specializing in telecommunica­tions equipment in Harlow, Essex, United Kingdom.

David A. Roehm, a junior in electrical engineering from Baton Rouge, La., will work for a company specializing in elec-trotechnical instruments in Frankfurt.

The Clubs

ATLANTA, GEORGIA—Coach Bobby Dodd previewed the 1966 season and reviewed the spring practice sessions for over 200 members of the Greater Atlanta Georgia Tech Club at the annual spring meeting held on April 27. The meeting was pre­sided over by President Tom Bradbury and also featured the annual installation of the new members for the Tech Ath­letic Hall of Fame. They included the late Lob Brown, football; the late Jim Davenport, track; Albert Hill, football; H. Longino Welch, track; Bob Tharpe, football; Don Stephenson, football; and Roger Kaiser, basketball.

BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA—Dr. Peter B. Sherry of Chemistry and Associate Sec­retary Tom Hall were the speakers at the April 14 meeting of the Baton Rouge Georgia Tech Club. Over 50 alumni heard Sherry's discussion of the role of man and the computer in the future and Hall's briefing on the Tech expansion program and Annual Roll Call.

BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA—Tech's Director of Information Services and Publications, Bob Wallace, spoke to the Birmingham Georgia Tech Club on April 25. Wallace talked to the more than 80 alumni and wives present on the changing face of Tech and followed it with a showing of the Gator Bowl film. During the meeting it was decided that the Birmingham Tech Club would host a cocktail party for all Tech alumni on Friday evening, October 14, the night before the Tech-Auburn game in Birmingham. The party will be held at the Parliament House from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. and all alumni are invited to come.

CINCINNATI, OHIO—Assistant Coach Jesse Berry briefed the Cincinnati Georgia Tech Club on the 1966 football team at its May 25 meeting. Elected as new offi­cers for the club at the meeting were Ken McWhorter, president; Don Rentz, vice president; and Ted Wirtz, secretary-treasurer.

COLUMBUS, GEORGIA—At the April 21 meeting of the Columbus Georgia Tech Club over 70 alumni and wives heard Joe Guthridge speak on "Tech's Bold Future," the new expansion plan. Roane Beard introduced the vice president for development following a group singing effort led by the "Techetts."

DALLAS, TEXAS—The feature of the May 13 meeting of the North Texas Georgia Tech Club in Dallas was the showing of the 1965 football highlights. During the business meeting the club elected the

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THE CLUBS—continued following officers: Melville M. Zemek, president; Joe M. Szablowski, vice presi­dent; and Bob McPhail, secretary-treas­urer. The group also gave unanimous vote of thanks to Charlie McGill for the outstanding job he has done during the past 18 months as president. The recently organized scholarship fund was also dis­cussed during the business session.

GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA—Dr. Carlyle Rob­erts, director of the School of Nuclear Engineering, and Coach John McKenna, the new assistant athletic director and head freshman football coach, were the guest speakers at the April 26 meeting of the Northeast Georgia-Georgia Tech Club. Dr. Roberts, who also heads up Tech's Frank H. Neely Nuclear Research Center, was introduced by Tech alum­nus, Charles Smithgall, a new member of the Board of Regents, while Coach McKenna was introduced by Gordon Sawyer. N. A. Jacobs presided at the business meeting at which Gordon Saw­yer was elected president; N. A. Jacobs, vice president; and Perrin C. Reynolds, secretary-treasurer.

HOUSTON, TEXAS—The South Texas Georgia Tech Club held a stag smoker on March 4 to view the 1965 Gator Bowl victory film. And on May 7, the club held its spring meeting with Alumni Secre­tary Roane Beard as the speaker. Beard, who briefed the 86 alumni and three Tech students on Tech and the Alumni Association, was introduced by Howard Tellepsen. President Jim M. Morris re­viewed the past year and called on Paul Woodruff to present the 1966 Scholar­ship Award to Houston high school stu­dent Sherrnan Glass. The "Outstanding Alumnus Award" for 1966 was presented to Paul Woodruff by Bob Melanson, he was the charter recipient of this club award. New officers elected at the meet­ing included W. A. (Gus) Snellgrove, president; Ray Wyngarden, vice presi­dent; Joe Preston, secretary; Everett Cook, treasurer; and Pat McEnroe, Bob Melanson, J. C. Shelar, and Sam White-hill, directors. Roane Beard and his wife Peggy were presented engraved letter openers by the club.

HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA—Association Na­tional President Matt Cole was the guest speaker at the May 16 meeting of the North Alabama Georgia Tech Club. Cole told the 98 alumni present about Tech's continuing growth and the increased need for alumni support. Roane Beard was also present to advise the club on their proposed scholarship program.

KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE—Professor John O. Eichler of Civil Engineering spoke to the Greater Knoxville Georgia Tech Club at the May 20 meeting. Professor Eichler talked on his favorite subject, "Inter­planetary Travel." At the business meet­

ing the following officers were elected: Bob McCammon, president; John Neal, vice president; Richard Field, secretary; and Wallace Rogers, Jr., treasurer.

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA—Over 55 members and visitors attended the May 23 meeting of the Pittsburgh Georgia Tech Club to hear President Edwin D. Harrison discuss the new administrative organization at Tech. The Club an­nounced that Joel R. McManus of North Allegheny High School was the first winner of the $1,000 scholarship to Tech. President Harrison presented McManus with a certificate and John A. Jordan, president of the club, presented Mc­Manus' high school principal with the scholarship cup which will be on dis­play in the school until next year's win­ner is announced. The following new officers were elected for the coming year: Joe Dillard, president; James Patten, first vice president; Dee Beeson, second vice president; Jerry Epps, secretary-treasurer; and Norman Curry, assistant secretary-treasurer.

ROME, GEORGIA—The Rome Georgia Tech Club held its annual "Bobby Dodd Dinner" on April 11 and the Tech athletic director was present to receive the honor and make a speech on the prospects for the 1966 football season. Officers elected at the meeting were Wesley F. Johnson, president; Bobby D. Jones, vice presi­dent; J. Glenn Johnson, secretary; C. M. Prather, treasurer; Grander Wright, Billy Camp, Tom Watters, R. A. Mor­gan, Bradley Burkhalter, G. L. Sutton, C. H. Thompson, Dayton Hardwick, and Paul Williams, directors.

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA—Assistant Coach Dynamite Goodloe outlined prospects for the 1966 football season for the Savannah Georgia Tech Club at the April 2 meet­ing. The Savannah Club has had a busy year during which it awarded two schol­arships to future Tech students, coordi­nated a meeting between local high school counselors and Associate Director of Admissions Jerry Hitt, sponsored an exhibit at the Coastal Empire Fair where they distributed several thousand infor­mation bulletins about Tech, arranged for two Tech professors to judge the First District Science Fair, and sched­uled three Tech speakers for local civic clubs. During the meeting the following officers were elected for the coming year: Rev. F. Alfred Mathes, president; Frank C. Underwood, vice president; Daniel H. Bradley, secretary-treasurer; and Allen Eitel, W. W. Scarborough, A. A. Men-donsa, Harold W. Kraft, Jr., W. Lee Mingledorff, W. A. Binns, J. Thomas Coleman, Jr., John Huskisson, and W. L. Benton, directors.

WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Georgia Tech Club of Metropolitan Washington held its annual spring dinner dance on April 30 with Dean Emeritus George Griffin

and his wife and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Mundorff as the special guests. Dean Griffin spoke to the club on his reminis­cences of Tech. The club's bowling team finished third in the city's Intercollegiate Alumni Bowling League after winning the trophy last season. The club is now making plans to attend the Tech-Duke game in Durham this fall and perhaps taking in the Raleigh Club's meeting the night before the October 29 game.

I ( | 1 Casper S. Whitner, former resident " I and insurance agent of Atlanta,

died on April 29, 1966 at his home in Jackson, Mississippi.

12 We have recently learned of the death of Lee L. Baker.

M d Earle Whittier Connell, Sr., ME, •T1 of Holly Hill, Florida, died on

April 8, 1966. Mr. Connell was an ex­pert in the design of municipal indus­trial installations.

I I T George R. West, Jr., TE, former I 1 president and board chairman of

Dixie Yarns, Incorporated, died on April 24, 1966 in Tucson, Arizona.

' 1 0 ^ e n a v e recently learned of the 10 death of Tilden D. Adkins, Arch.

His widow resides at 2410 Glenwood Avenue, S.E., Atlanta.

We have been notified of the death of Paul Prather of Jasper, Georgia.

' O O We have learned of the death of LL W. Reynolds Barker, Feb. 1, 1965.

' O Q Marion W. Boyer has retired as fcV a director and executive vice presi­

dent of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey). Mr. Boyer will maintain an office at One Rockefeller Plaza, Room 1250, New York, New York 10020.

Dennis William Brosnan, CE, presi­dent of the Southern Railway System, received an honorary degree from Mercer University on June 5, 1966.

John J. McDonough, ME, who retired from Georgia Power on February 1, 1966, joined Finch, Alexander, Barnes, Roths­child and Paschal on June 1, 1966. Mr. McDonough will be an executive asso­ciate.

,f)A. ^ e n a v e been notified of the *T" death of Allen Hill Davis, BE, of

Denver, Colorado. W. Marshall Moore died on February

9, 1966.

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Faces in the News

W. Tresper Clarke, '27, has been appointed di­rector of product devel­opment for P. Lorillard Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Golden Nug­get Candy Company. In 1962 he received the Stroud Jordan Award as the outstanding member of the American Assn. of Candy Technologists.

T. J. Judge, '34, has been elected vice presi­dent, corporate power, for International Paper Company. In his new capacity he wil l coor­dinate all matters re­lating to fuel and power for the company. A veteran engineer, Judge jo ined In ternat iona l Paper in 1945.

Arthur F. Perkins, '35, has been elected vice president, manufactur­ing for International Paper Company. Perkins, a graduate electrical en­gineer, has served in various capacities with the company and in 1963 he transferred to the executive staff in New York.

William R. Sanderson, '41, has been named a product development manager in the research and engineering depart­ment of Graflex, Inc., a subsidiary of General Precision Equipment Corp. He is a member of the Rochester Section of the Society of Photo­graphic Scientists and Engineers.

William B. Roberts, '42, was recent ly elected president of Chevron In­ternational Oil Company, which is a wholly-owned national and interna­tional marketing subsid­iary of Standard Oil Company of California, headquartered in San Francisco.

Andy P. Felton, '43, as­sistant to the Southern Kraft Division chief en­gineer of International Paper Co., has been pro­moted to manager of construction of the com­pany's Vicksburg, Mis­sissippi, mill. Joining the company in 1948, he has worked in various engineering positions.

NEWS BY CLASSES—cont. Paul M. Neese was rewarded the Dis­

tinguished Service Medal by the Sec­retary of Interior upon his recent re­tirement.

George Elmer Tisinger, Com., died on May 28, 1966 in Oceanside, California. Mr. Tisinger was a retired division di­rector for the Southern Railway System.

' O R ^ e have recently learned of the £ 0 death of Russell Thomas.

' O Q A. E. Hochmuth died on February t O 21, 1966.

' O Q Raymond C. Dunn, EE, died on fcU April 6, 1966. Mr. Dunn's widow

resides at 14 Center Drive, Old Green­wich, Connecticut 06870.

Perry L. White, CE, passed away on February 27, 1966. His widow lives at 187 Eureka Drive, N.E., Atlanta 30305.

' Q fl ^' Griffith Edwards, part-time pro-OU fessor in the School of Architec­

ture at Georgia Tech and partner in the firm of Edwards and Portman, Archi­tects and Engineers, gave the keynote speech on Testing Materials at the Na­tional Convention of the Specification Writers Association of Canada, in To­ronto, Canada, April 28, 1966. The theme of the convention was Testing and many test programs were demonstrated for the membership by local testing laboratories.

We have recently learned of the death of James C. Jones.

We have been notified of the death of Roy L. Gordon.

Walter W. Poland, Jr., Com., died on April 12, 1966. Mr. Poland was employed as a building contractor.

Ben H. Sloane, CE, is the new vice president in charge of smelting and re­fining operations for the Aluminum Com­pany of America. Mr. Sloane is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

'32 Julian W. Brooks died on May 23,

after a short illness. Mr. Brooks was a chief engineer of Civil Engineering Squadron 4756, Tyndall Air Force Base, Panama City. His widow resides in Panama City.

Leo W. Norton, Arch., died on April 27, 1966.

»Q J Major General I. M. Davidson, ' USA, CE, has assumed command

of the 108th Infantry Division with head­quarters in Charlotte, North Carolina. General Davidson resides in Atlanta.

Ernest B. McKenzie died on March 9, 1966.

We have been notified of the death of R. G. Mellichamp, TE, on February 2, 1966.

R. B. West, ME, has been named director of administrative engineering of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio. Mr. West, along with his

wife and four children, resides at 932 Mayfair Road, Akron, Ohio.

' Q C We have recently learned of the OtJ death of James R. Pickel of Nash­

ville, Tennessee on April 17, 1966. ' Roy Richards, ME, President of South-

wire Company in CarroUton, Georgia, was the guest of honor at the 1966 Georgia dinner of the Newcomen So­ciety of North America. Mr. Richards, the newest Georgian to receive the honor, reviewed the history of Southwire Com­pany and also of Richards and Associates Construction Company to which he is President.

Charles R. Yates, BS, vice president of Atlantic Coast Line and Louisville & Nashville railroads, was re-elected Presi­dent of the Georgia State Chamber of Commerce.

>QC George W. Felker,- III, TE, was 0 0 recently named vice president of

The Georgia Textile Manufacturers As­sociation.

»QT Rev. Hugh Royce Mincey, TE, 0 / died on April 7, 1966 in Chatta­

nooga, Tennessee. His widow resides at 603 W. Webster Street, Thomasville, Georgia.

' / I n Norman E. Lane, CE, died re-• 0 cently in his home at Southgate

Apartments. Mr. Lane was employed as a civil engineer with Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton, engineers and archi­tects at 375 Park Avenue, New York.

Colonel Daniel B. Williams, USA, ME, assumed command of the 25th Artillery in ceremonies on Connover Field, APO San Francisco 96225, on February 3.

I i l l We have recently learned of the death of Dr. Richard M. Nelson.

M Q William R. Austin, EE, died in T-O May, 1964. Major Swinton M. Burroughs, USAF,

IE, recently helped launch a United States Air Force Minuteman intercon­tinental missile from Vandenberg AFB, California.

Robert A. Pendergrast, ChE, has be­come affiliated with Armour Agricultural Chemical Company as a research chemist at the Decatur, Georgia laboratory. Mr. Pendergrast resides at 1996 Chrysler Drive, N.E., Atlanta.

Walter L. Perryman, IM, was killed on April 28, 1966 when his car plunged off a washed out bridge in Dallas, Texas. Mr. Perryman was president and a di­rector of General American Oil Company. He is survived by a daughter, Linda, a son, Walter L., I l l , of Dallas and his mother, Mrs. W. L. Perryman, Sr. of Talbotton, Georgia.

Captain William K. Woodard, SC, US Navy, IM, has been ordered from the United States Naval War College, New­port, Rhode Island, to the position of assistant for Material Support, Technical

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AS HORIZONS WIDEN . . . Think tOXBORO ®

In a non-defense industry, the Foxboro Company has chalked up another amazingly successful year with a healthy backlog for the future. The increased de­mands for Foxboro instruments and computer-con­trolled systems throughout the Free-World has re­sulted in a major program of planned expansion. This

translates into unlimited opportunity for the profes­sional personnel who are particular and not com­placent. The positions listed below represent only a few of the many NOW available in our fast growing commercial technology of computer-control and in­dustrial instrumentation. *

COMPUTER SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER

— CIRCUIT DESIGN

BS or MSEE with 3-5 years' experience in digital circuit design. Emphasis on integrated circuits is desirable. Some knowledge of logic design, program­ming, and computer organization is re­quired. Will participate in the design and application of solid state digital and analog circuits as applied to computer control systems and related products. Also, the design of advanced I/O equip­ments which interface digital computers.

SYSTEMS ENGINEERS

BS or MS in engineering. Minimum 3 years' experience including project en­gineering, programming, instrumenta­tion, application of digital computer equipment, system start-up, and cus­tomer negotiation. Ability to define sys­tem specification, design, checkout, etc. Technical decisions on application re­quirements, manpower capabilities, time and cost. Principal technical responsi­bility for customer projects.

SENIOR SYSTEMS ANALYSTS

Computer process control. Advanced ME or ChE degree preferred. Must have 5-10 years' experience in chemical, re­finery or power plant computer automa­tion. Simulation and process modeling experience desirable.

PROGRAMMERS AND SENIOR PROGRAMMERS

Engineering or Scientific degree desired with systems programming ability. At least 2 years' solid programming. Math-ematic analysis and process control ex­perience plus knowledge of assemblers and compilers is desirable to handle in­dustrial process control problems.

ENGINEERING AND RESEARCH PRODUCT ENGINEER

BS in Electrical or Mechanical Engineer­ing, with experience in instruments for process industries. Breadth of experi­ence important. Will perform final engi­neering on new products, modify and improve existing products, solve manu­facturing problems and coordinate the necessary service to transfer a complete product package to production.

QUALITY CONTROL ENGINEER

BS degree in Electrical Engineering with training in statistics and reliability. Should be design oriented toward theo­retical and mathematical approaches to design analysis of testing. Will establish and maintain statistical quality control charts on product variability. Must main­tain technical level of work consistent with the state of the art.

SYSTEMS ENGINEER

BS in Chemical Engineering with experi­ence in process industries such as pe­troleum or chemical. Experience with process instrumentation and/or ana­lytical instrumentation, with emphasis on chromatographic application work. Will provide instrumentation for analyti­cal process problems.

ANALYTICAL CHEMIST

BS in Chemistry with experience in ana­lytical instrumentation — particularly in the petroleum or chemical industry fields. Background in gas chromatogra­phy desirable. Will evaluate customer inquiries and study new areas of ana­lytical instrument application.

SCIENTIST — PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS

MS or equivalent. College or industrial experience in measurements of physical quantities. Interest in "why's" and "how's" of measurement techniques. Responsible for investigation of mea­surement principles, development of transducers, investigations of measure­ment dynamics.

TECHNICAL SALES INDUSTRY SALES ENGINEERS

Engineering degree. 3 to 5 years experi­ence in either Technical Sales to one of the following industries: cement, chemi­cal, food, glass, pulp & paper, petro­leum, textile. Positions located at Home Office, Foxboro, Mass. Work will include — Providing specialized application en­

gineering and technical knowledge to a particular industry

— Planning for the Development and Promotion of a particular industry's sales

— Promoting Foxboro ability, reputa­tion, techniques and other special knowledge to a particular industry

SALES ENGINEERS

Minimum of three years experience in the process industries and be thorough­ly familiar with the application of instru­mentation to these industries. Engineer­ing degree (ChE, EE or ME) and possess a strong sales outlook. Positions locat­ed in several cities throughout the U.S.

STAFF SALES ENGINEER

BS in EE, ME or credits with commen­surate experience. Computer operation/ programming courses and computer sales training desirable. Minimum 3 years' experience in one or more of the following: Applications, Project Engi­neering, Analysis, Systems Engineering, or Direct Sales of Digital and Hybrid Control for Process-Allied Industries. Will analyze customer specs; prescribe response; coordinate estimating; finalize cost, text, diagrams, format; prepare proposals, technical papers and sales aids. Also, contributes systems con­cepts, product ideas and support tech­niques.

INSTRUMENT SERVICE SPECIALISTS

Minimum of 4 years in Industrial Instru­mentation servicing Mechanical, Pneu­matic, Electrical and Electronic Instru­ments. Broad process experience. Will provide technical service on all types of Foxboro instrumentation both within the United States and in foreign coun­tries. Positions located at Home Office in Foxboro, Mass.

Positions are available at all levels for candidates with BS, MS or PhD degrees with from 1 to 10 years' experience.

Company offers: Long term employment in a non-defense industry; professional growth in an expand­ing technology; relocation assistance; competitive fringe benefits.

For additions} information about these positions please send your resume in complete confidence t o :

Professional Staffing, Central Recruiting Office

THE FOXBORO COMPANY 7GT Neponset Avenue, Foxboro, Massachuset ts

"Specialists in Process and Energy Control" An Equal Oppor tun i t y Employer

Faces in the News M. Wallis Simmons, '44, has joined the Purchas­ing Department of West Point Manufac tu r ing Company, West Point, Georgia, after being with the organization since 1959 as a mechanical engineer at the Research Center and working with Engineering-Services.

Dr. Erwin M. Koeritz, '47 (Ph.D. '52), has been named general manager of General E lect r ic 's Computer Equipment De­partment at Phoenix, Arizona. Koeritz formerly was manager of manu­facturing for G.E.'s Met­allurgical Products De­partment, Detroit, Mich.

Dr. Leonard M. Diana, '48, associate professor of Physics, Arlington State College has been appointed as specialist in Physics for'the Math-Science Summer Insti­tutes in 1966 organized by University Grants Commission of India in collaboration with Ohio State University.

Henry W. Compton, '49, has been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. Colonel Compton is a flying safety officer at Chateauroux Air Station, France, and member of American overseas air arm standing guard with NATO for the free world.

Charles P. Moreton, '50, has been elected a vice president of Texas Gas Transmission Corpora­tion. Formerly manager of gas supply for Texas Gas, Moreton has charge of the company's gas supply offices at Hous­ton, Tex. A native of Brookhaven, Miss., he joined them in 1953.

Dr. Rocker T. Staton, Jr., '50, has been named Dean of the Undergrad­uate Division at Georgia Tech, and in this posi­tion will be the principal academic advisor to undergraduate students. Dr. Staton was formerly Associate Dean of the Engineering College at Tech.

NEWS BY CLASSES—cont.

Division, Special Projects Office (PO­LARIS/POSEIDON), Washington, D.C.

» d C Dr. Edward E. David, Jr., EE, •*» has been elected to the National

Academy of Engineering. Dr. David is a professor of electrical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology and is executive director of the communications system research for Bell Telephone Lab­oratories, Incorporated. He resides at 49 Countryside Drive, Summit, New Jersey.

Drury Wood, Jr. is the chief test pilot for the Dornier-Werke Aircraft Company in Freidrichshafen, Germany.

' A R Malcolm T- Stamper, EE, a Boe-" " ing vice president has been ap­

pointed to head the company's team developing the 747 jumbo jetliner.

' 4 , 7 Wilbourn A. Fowler, ME, has been • * elected vice president and group

executive for international activities of The Worthington Corporation.

'Aft Harold V. Fleming, IE, has been • " promoted to vice president-cor­

porate development of the Dexter Cor­poration.

James B. Holloman, CE, has been appointed industry division manager for electrical equipment of the Aluminum Company of America.

We have recently learned of the death of Arthur L. Hughes, Jr. His widow is residing at 867 Hyperion Avenue, Los Angeles, California.

Gordon D. McHenry, AE, has been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force.

,AQ Theodore H. Hart, AE, was lost '*} at sea on December 29, 1965 in

his private plane in the Caribbean. Married: Alan Eugene Thomas, IE,

to Miss Diane Klyce. The wedding took place on May 7. Mr. Thomas is employed as general commercial manager for the Southern Bell Telephone Company in Jackson, Mississippi.

' C | | W. A. (Bill) Binns, IM, has been v** appointed assistant manager of the

public relations division of Union Bag-Camp Corporation in Savannah, Georgia.

Lloyd Meacham, Jr., ME, has been appointed as division manager in the Atlanta agency of The Prudential In­surance Company of America located at 1326 West Peachtree Street, N.W., At­lanta 30309. Mr. Meacham began his insurance career with Prudential in 1953.

John C. Portman, Jr., BS, of the archi­tectural firm of Edwards and Portman attended a special session of the Educa­tional Research Program of the Ameri­can Institute of Architects in Chicago on June 3. Mr. Portman was one of 15 ar­chitects from throughout the United States invited to attend the meeting at the new Chicago Circle Campus of the

University of Illinois. Robert E. Rides, AE, has recently be­

come affiliated with the Avco Space Sys­tems Division, Lowell Industrial Park, Lowell Massachusetts. Mr. Ricles was named manager of the Pilgrim Satellite Project. His address is P.O. Box 19, Chelmsford, Massachusetts 01824.

Gordon E. Dasher, ME, has re-*»' cently become plant manager of

the Lakeland corrugated container plant of Union Camp in Lakeland, Florida. Mr. Dasher resides at 1404 Leighton Avenue, Lakeland, Florida 33803.

Major Richard A. Dutton, USAF, IE, is now on duty with United States com­bat air forces in Southeast Asia.

Ralph H. Earle, Jr.. Chem., is taking a one-year leave from Hercules Research Center to accept a Research Fellowship in the department of chemistry at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. This leave became effec­tive on July 1, 1966.

Turner Warmack, TE, has been pro­moted to sales manager of Ziegler Tools, Incorporated. Mr. Warmack has been in industrial distribution since 1952.

' C O James R. Brown, IM, announced *J^ the formation of a new Atlanta

firm to specialize in the commercial and industrial real estate field. It will be known as Brown and Sons Realty Com­pany and will have offices in the Healey Building in Atlanta.

Charles D. Johnston, EE, has been promoted to assistant manager of Ziegler Tools, Incorporated.

Benjamin S. Ulmer, TE, has joined the staff of the Savannah area branch of Georgia Tech's Industrial Development Division as an assistant research engi­neer. Mr. Ulmer, his wife and three children will make their home in Sa­vannah.

John Wilson, EE, has joined the MITRE Corporation's technical staff, P. O. Box 208, Bedford, Massachusetts.

' C O William B. (Bill) Raines, BS, *»*• president of the W. E. Raines

Company, Incorporated has been elected Augusta's "Young Man of the Year" for 1965.

'C^l Major Charles W. Groover, USAF, *»™ IE, has been graduated at Van-

denberg AFB, California, from the United States Air Force ballistic missile course.

Pat Michael O'Rear, IM, died on April 19, 1966 in Monroe, North Carolina. Mr. O'Rear was employed as a drafts­man.

Roger Frederick Weber, ME, died on May 11, 1966.

Married: George William Bernard, «** ChE, to Miss Judith Ann Sullivan.

The wedding took place on April 16, 1966 in St. Charles Borromes Church, Bloom-ington, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard

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Faces in the News Claybourn B. Rhinehart, '52, sales manager of automotive and aero­nautical products for In­ternational B. F. Good­rich Co. the past year, has been named mer­chandising manager. He was manager of aero­space products-Europe before re turn ing to Akron last year.

John S. Hunsinger, '54, has made the Atlanta Real Estate Board Mil­lion Dollar Club, which is evidence of having sold or negotiated leases in excess of $1,000,000 for 1965. John is asso­ciated with Pope & Car­ter Company, Inc., com­mercial and industrial real estate firm.

William R. Skelley, '55, has left his position of senior industrial engi­neer at United States Envelope to aecept the job of special projects engineer with Tampax, Inc., Palmer, Mass. He and his family are still residing at 258 Hill-crest Avenue, Newing-ton, Connecticut.

David W. Leach, '58, is employed by the IBM Vestal Information Rec­ords Division Labora­tory in Vestal, New York and has been promoted to project engineer from staff engineer effective April 1. His business address is P.O. Box 277, Vestal, N. Y. 13850.

Capt. Browning H. Gor-rell, Jr., '60, has been awarded U.S. Air Force silver pilot wings upon graduation at Reese AFB, Tex. Gorrell is be­ing assigned to Mc-Guire AFB, N. J., for flying duty with the Mil­itary Airlift Command. He is a member of Alpha Tau OmegS.

Dr. Paul T. Hutchison, '60, has been promoted to head of the Micro­wave Radio Design De­partment at Bell Tele­p h o n e L a b o r a t o r i e s , Holmdel, N. J. Prior to this promotion, he had been a supervisor in that department since 1965. He is a native of Tupelo, Mississippi.

NEWS BY CLASSES—cont. will reside at 145-C Grand View Avenue, Apartment 3, Fords, New Jersey. Mr. Bernard is employed by Tennaco Chem­ical, Incorporated, Fords, New Jersey.

Joseph A. Hall, III, IM, has graduated from the 49th session of the advanced management program conducted by the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.

' E G Richard G. Denning, ME, asso-J O ciate professor of mathematics at

Southern Technical Institute, has just returned to his faculty position after an extended inspection of English technical schools. Mr. Denning toured the English technical educational schools under the sponsorship of the English Speaking Union.

I F 1 Ora George Johnson, IE, formerly U I superintendent of Owens-Illinois

(Forrest Products Division) Miami plant, has been appointed plant manager of Owens-Illinois (FPD) Detroit plant ef­fective May 2, 1966.

Herbert A. Mcintosh, ChE, a project chemical engineer in lubricants research at Texaco's Port Arthur Texas Research Laboratories, is the patentee of a recently issued patent assigned to Texaco. U. S. Patent No. 3,236,778 covers improve­ments in fire resistant hydraulic fluid.

James E. Minor, IM, has been pro­moted to branch systems manager in the Atlanta office of Honeywell Electronic Data Processing Division. Mr. Minor, along with his wife and two children, resides at 3073 Wanda Woods Drive, Doraville, Georgia.

Captain Jack G. Remson, USAF, IE, has entered the Air University's Squad­ron Officer School at Maxwell AFB, Alabama.

'58 Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Donald Wayne Bledsoe, IM, a son, Gavin

Wayne, on Wednesday, January 19, 1966. Steve K. Ferrell, IM, is presently

employed by the G. T. Schjeldahl Com­pany, Packaging Machinery Division, located in East Providence, Rhode Is­land. Mr. Ferrell is their assistant con­troller. He resides at Nine Gilbert Court, Cumberland, Rhode Island.

Samuel H. S. Fleming, IM, has been named a field manager in the northeast­ern district of the Wilmington, Delaware headquarters, DuPont's Photo Products Department.

John P. Imlay, Jr., has been named sales manager for the Atlanta branch of Honeywell's Electronic Data Process­ing Division. Mr. Imlay will be respon­sible for directing computer marketing activities for Honeywell's EDP Division in Georgia, Alabama and Southern Mis­sissippi.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Rabern, IM, a son, Jeffrey Allen, on March 27, 1966. Mr. Rabern, along with

his wife and son, resides at 449 N.W. 45th Street, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Robert L. Smith, IM, has been pro­moted to vice president of Bankers Fidelity Life Insurance Company.

»CQ We have recently learned of the 3 3 death of Durward E. Finnell, IM,

of Villa Rica, Georgia. Charles Turner Lewis. Jr., ChE, re­

ceived his Ph.D. in ChE in June, 1966 from Georgia Tech.

We have been notified of the death of Lawrence L. Lynch, Text.

Orley E. Mosher, Jr., IM, was killed by a hitchhiker, robber at Douglasville, Georgia, on March 2, 1966. His widow and five-month-old son live at Route 3, Box 93, Butler, Missouri 64730.

Don C. Sistrunk, Jr. has joined the Weyerhaeuser Company as the industrial engineering manager of the container division. Mr. Sistrunk will be working out of the Chicago, Illinois division office.

Captain Arthur W. Vogan, USAF, AE, has been awarded the United States Air Force Commendation Medal at head­quarters, Space Systems Division (SSD), Los Angeles, California.

' C O Married: Warren Albert Adams, DU Jr., EE, to Miss Sue Ellen Hipp.

The wedding took place on July 10. Mr. Adams is associated with The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Huntsville, Alabama.

Married: James Lewis Bean, IM, to Miss Barbara Louis Clowdis. The wed­ding took place on June 25.

James V. Fowler, IM, has been ap­pointed a cellophane salesman of Olin. Mr. Fowler is to handle the mid-south territory and operate from the Atlanta headquarters.

Lee Hughey, IE, has been promoted from operations analyst to branch chief with Technical Operations, Inc. Mr. Hughey resides at 2805 Forest Hills Road, Petersburg, Virginia.

Wilbur Lowe, ChE, has been ap­pointed to the position of project engi­neer manager of The William S. Merrell Company, Division of Richard-Merrell, Incorporated, Cincinnati, Ohio 45215.

Dr. W. H. Starnes. Ph.D., Chem., is the author of a paper in the current issue of The Journal of Organic Chemistry. Entitled "Homolytic Autoxidative Decar­boxylation of Aromatic Acids," it is based on his research in Esso Research and En­gineering Company's Baytown, Texas, Research and Development Division. Dr. Starnes is a research specialist in the basic research section of the petroleum department.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. James K. Wilson, a son, David Keith, on Novem­ber 23, 1965. They reside at 8922 Dania Drive, Lake Park, Florida.

'61 Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Walter D. Bach, Jr., Phys., a daughter,

Louise Martin, on April 24, 1966. Mr.

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Louis Simonffy lived in a world of order. A world of laws and theorems and for­mulas. First as a student of the gym­nasium in Miskolc, Hungary . . . later as a mechanical engineer at Budapest. . . and finally as head of his own factory.

Suddenly this orderly world so full of promise came crashing down in the in­ferno that was World War II. Louis and

his wife, Elizabeth, joined the vast army of displaced persons, and for six long years they drifted through the rup­tured cities of Europe.

After much difficulty, the Simonffys were able to make their way to the United States, and the pieces started to come together again. First came a job as a drafting clerk, then a better one

as a draftsman, and finally, in 1950, a job with General Motors. Today, Louis Simonffy is one of the ablest and most respected toolmakers in the Company.

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NEWS BY CLASSES—cont. Bach is working toward his Ph.D. in meteorology at the University of Okla­homa. The family resides at 1612 Cherry­stone, Norman, Oklahoma.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. M. Carl Gehr, Jr., IE, a son, Daniel Wayne. Mr. Gehr was recently promoted to systems en­gineer with I.B.M. Corporation, Dayton, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Gehr and son re­side at 101 Blairwood Drive, Trotwood, Ohio 45426.

Fred A. Hendershot, ChE, technical service representative of Huntington Alloy Products Division, will transfer from technical services at Huntington to the newly established office of Nickel Alloys International S. A. in Brussels, Belgium. Mr. Hendershot's address will be Nickel Alloys International S. A., 7 Rue Andre Bertulot, Brussels 1, Bel­gium.

Married: Samuel Howard McKinley, IM, to Miss Dorothy Ann Kelly. The wedding took place on July 16. Mr. Mc­Kinley is employed by the Corning Glass Works in Danville, Kentucky.

Robert E. Smallwood, Chem., has re­cently joined the research and develop­ment department of Continental Oil Company. Mr. Smallwood is an associate research scientist in the production re­search division where he is involved in metallurgical research. He has made his home in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, at the Four Winds Apartments.

' C O Married: Harry Austin Boone, 0 ^ IM, to Miss Margaret Virginia

Brewer. Mr. Boone is employed as an in­dustrial engineer by the Lockheed-Geor­gia Company. The wedding took place on June 25.

Married: Frank McNutt Clomon, Jr., Psy., to Miss Lynn Ellen Derreberry. The wedding took place in April. Mr. Clomon is presently employed by the Lockheed-Georgia Company in Marietta.

First Lieutenant Fielding L. Dillard, Jr., United States Combat Air Force, IM, has been decorated for distinguished air­manship while refueling Viet Nam bound combat aircraft in flight.

Married: Jesse Holmes Hall, Jr., Chem., to Miss Melody Anne Folwell. The wedding took place in the summer. Mr. Hall was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force Reserve.

First Lieutenant Foster W. Harrison, USAF, IE, has entered the Air Univer­sity's Squadron Officer School at Maxwell AFB, Alabama.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Hilliard, AE, a son, Keith Edward, on March 19. Mr. Hilliard is a project en­gineer at the Arnold Engineering De­velopment Center. They reside at 307 Westwood Drive, Tullahoma, Tennessee.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. William R. King, IM, a son, Daniel William King, on May 14, 1966. Mr. King is now as­

sociated with Natkin & Company Me­chanical Contractors as project engineer. Mr. and Mrs. King, along with their son and daughter, reside at 320 Glen-haven Drive, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Married: Edward Paul Martin, EE, to Miss Elinor Joy Lewis. The wedding took place in the summer.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. McWhorter, EE, a daughter, Lori Renee, on March 23, 1966. Mr. McWhorter is employed with Brown Engineering Com­pany in Huntsville, Alabama.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Nail, IM, a daughter, Lyndsey Layne, on January 22, 1966. Mr. Nail, along with his wife and daughter, resides at 1408 Linda Vista Drive, Birmingham, Ala­bama where he is an assistant vice president with Cobbs, Allen, and Hall Mortgage Company, Incorporated.

Married: John Russell Porter, HI, EE, to Miss Marcia Hunter McClung. The wedding took place on June 25. Mr. Porter is presently associated with the Tennessee Eastman Company in Kings-port, Tennessee.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Kendall M. Taylor, EE, a son, Brett Emerson, on March 23, 1966. Mr. Taylor is a senior engineer with Systems Engineering Lab­oratories in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, and son reside at 4031 N.E. 17th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

»CQ Randall N. Conway, IE, was re-0 0 cently discharged from the Army

at Fort Bliss, Texas and moved to Jack­sonville, Florida where he is employed by the Jacksonville Area Chamber of Com­merce. He and his family now reside at 2147 Goltare Drive in Jacksonville.

Engaged: Daniel D. Drachman to Miss Gretchen Flaherty. The wedding is planned for August 6, 1966 at the Cathedral of St. Philip. Mr. Drachman attends The University of Arizona.

George L. Miller, ChE, has left the United States Army to return to work with the Olefins Division of Union Car­bide Corporation as a process engineer. Mr. Miller and his wife now reside at 1003 Overlook Way, South Charleston, West Virginia.

Married: Lawrence Cecil Reinhardt, Jr., IM, to Miss Josie Iris Hardison. Mr. Reinhardt is employed at the Trust Company of Georgia, as an assistant personnel officer. The wedding took place on June 11.

Eugene P. Rivers, Sr., IS , has accepted a job with Dundee Mills in Griffin, Geor­gia. Mr. Rivers will reside at 1462 Up­land Drive, Griffin, Georgia 30223.

Engaged: Robert Edward Morris, EE, to Miss Virginia Ann Wiley. Mr. Morris is associated with D. W. Designers in Atlanta. The wedding is planned for August 6.

,ttA Marcello Breton, EE, recently be-** • came the first Atlanta plant em-

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businessmen solve their problems."

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"From the day I went with Mass Mutual 8 years ago, I started becoming an integral part of our professional and business community. "You see, a life insurance man just naturally becomes involved with his client's future. Many of my clients began describing their business prob­lems along with their family needs. As a result I had to increase my technical studies. This broader field was tremen­dously interesting and exciting to me. Soon I found myself specializing in the application of life insurance to all phases of business, including pension

and profit-sharing plans. "One of the things that appeals to me most about being in business for my­self is this opportunity to specialize exactly where I find the greatest challenge and stimulation. "Of course, it helps a lot to be asso­ciated with a Company that has an elite reputation, over $3 billion in assets and is more than a century old. Mass Mutual has a large number of repre­sentatives throughout the United States who work much as I do. And believe me, this Company is equipped to pro­vide us with appropriate back-up . . .

both contracts and services to meet the demands of our growing market." If you think Hal Gatewood's career offers the kind of challenge and excite­ment you would enjoy . . . why not write our president for more details ? He is: Charles H. Schaaff, Mass Mutual, Springfield, Mass. Your letter could be the start of a very worthwhile career.

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Faces in the News 1st Lt. Alan A. LaVoy, '65, has been awarded U.S. Air Force silver pilot wings upon grad­uation with honors at Reese AFB, Texas. He is being assigned to U.S. Air Forces in Eu­rope, the primary com­bat-ready air element of NATO's defense forces.

Frank A. Peacock, '65, has been commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force upon graduation from Officer Training School at Lack­land AFB, Texas. Pea­cock was selected for OTS through competi­tive examination and is being assigned to Cha-nute AFB, Illinois.

Jesse R. Teal, Jr., '66, has been commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force upon graduation from Officer Training School at Lack­land AFB, Texas. Teal, selected for OTS through competitive examination, is being assigned to Kelly AFB, Texas, for duty.

NEWS BY CLASSES—cont. ployee of Ford Motor Company to qual­ify for the company's maximum Sugges­tion Award of $6,000 and a choice of a new Mercury Monterey or Ford Galaxie. The award came as the result of an idea of an improved electric test "box" for checking the total circuitry in the Fair-lane. The "box" also has applications on the Ford line.

Married: Charles Thomas Brown to Miss Donna Edna Evans. The wedding took place on June 17, 1966.

Born to: Lt. and Mrs. Raymond P. Collins, EE, a son, Mark Andrew, on March 7, 1966.

Andres J. Deile, IV, IM, received his master's degree in Business Administra­tion from the University of Illinois in June. Mr. Deile will remain there and begin work on his Ph.D. in the fall.

Married: Michail Aylesworth Ester-man, Chem., to Miss Bonnie Jane Jacka. The wedding took place on June 19. Mr. Esterman presently attends Georgia Tech doing graduate wor!: in the School of Applied Biology.

Donald A. Falvey, CE, has recently become employed with Karcich and Weber, an engineering consultant firm in Colorado Springs, after completing a two-year tour of active duty in the United States Army. Mr. Falvey will reside at 3219 North Institute, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. John W. Fife, EE, a son, John Davie, on October 4, 1965. Mr. and Mrs. Fite, along with their son, reside at 2906 Spring Hill Court, Orlando, Florida 32808.

Second Lieutenant Francis J. Fradella, USAF, IM, has been awarded silver wings upon graduation from the United States Air Force Navigator School at James Connally AFB, Texas.

Leon D. Goolsby, ChE, has changed positions with Cereat Lakes Research Corporation in Elizabethton, Tennessee to American Enka Corporation of Morris-town, Tennessee. Mr. Goolsby is residing at 708 North Highland Dr., Morristown, Tenn.

Married: John Charles Gullickson, IM, to Miss Nancy Ann Bowen. The wed­ding took place on June 25, 1966. Mr. Gullickson received his Doctor of Juris­prudence degree in June from Emory University Law School.

' C C James Berry Bur gin, ChE, will be 0*» employed by the Georgia Kraft

Paper Company, Rome, Georgia. Mr. Burgin will reside at 131 Simpson Drive, Rome, Georgia.

We have recently learned of the death of John B. Fitch, AE.

Martin G. Itzkowitz, IM, has com­pleted six months active duty in the United States Army, and is now living in Atlanta. Mr. Itzkowitz is employed by the United States Treasury Department as a national bank examiner for the regional comptroller of the currency

region 6. His present address is 2373 Palmour Drive, N.E., Atlanta.

Married: William Kendrick Kirk, IM, to Miss Jean Caren Thomason. The wedding took place on June 15. Mr. Kirk is employed by Univac International in London, England and attends the Uni­versity of London.

Ens. Larry Loyd, USNR, Arch., grad­uated from OCS at Newport, Rhode Island in November. 1965, and is pres­ently serving with the United States Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 58, Davisville, Rhode Island.

Second Lieutenant William T. Lyford, III, EE, has been called to active duty. Second Lt. Lyford is assigned to East­ern Ground Electronics Engineering In­stallations Agency Region, AFLC, Brook-ley AFB, Alabama.

William F. Potter, Jr., IE, has been elevated to the position of project en­gineer by Southwire Company in Car-rollton, Georgia.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. L. W. "Red" Prescott, Cer.E., a daughter, Pamela Ann, on February 21, 1966. Mr. Prescott is a research engineer with The Boeing Company in Seattle, Washington.

Married: Charles Ryland Scott, IM, to Miss Jay Gilstrap. The wedding took place on June 11. Mr. Scott is presently employed by Scott Machine Tool Com­pany.

Married: John Robert Taylor, Jr., EE, to Miss Carol Watkins. Mr. Taylor is an Ensign and on the Carrier Saratoga, which at present, is in the Mediterran­ean.

Married: John Shannon Taylor, ChE, to Miss Marilyn Patricia Lewis. The wedding took place on June 25. Mr. Taylor is employed by the Monsanto Company in Anniston, Alabama.

Married: Paul A. Ternlund, EE, to Miss Ruth Heyse. The wedding took place in Valley Stream L. I., New York on June 12.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Wood, Jr., EE, a son, Charles N. Wood, III, on April 12, 1966.

' P R Married: John William Crowe, 0 0 Math., to Miss Patricia Anne

Grenvicz. The wedding took place on June 18 at the Cathedral of Christ the King. Mr. Crowe is employed by Crowe Tool and Die Company in Decatur, Georgia.

Married: James Ivan Dangur, CE, to Miss Bobbi Gregory. The wedding took place on June 11 at the Buckhead Bap­tist Church.

Married: Francis Knapp Horton, IE, to Miss Charlotte Anne Reele. The wed­ding took place on June 11.

Married: Philip Sidney Vincent, IE, to Miss Mary Anna Baum. The wedding took place on June 25.

Airman Third Class William T. Whiten, USAF, IE, has been graduated at Gunter AFB, Alabama, from the train­ing course for the United States Medical Specialists.

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\ FUNNY THING HAPPENED TO US ON rHE WAY TO A DIRECTORY DEADLINE Earlier in the year, the Alumni Association advertised that the Directory of Active Alumni would be published as part of the July issue of the magazine. When we began to set deadlines for producing a directory that was both readable and useful we found that the records room could not have copy available in time to have the directory produced until late August. Rather than hold up the July issue for well over a month, your Association decided to place the directory section in the September issue, which should reach you during the first week of September. The issue will also contain the annual football preview and several other articles we think that you will enjoy. We hope you will be looking forward to this giant issue.

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