THE FEBRUARY

1967 GEORGIA TECK ALUMNUS

CRYSTALLOGRAPHER HARKER—an important announcement at Tech see page six of this issue

— the editor's notes

charged with coming up with a man. Bud Carson was immediately nomi­nated, unanimously, by the committee and a short time later, the athletic board approved the election by an­other unanimous vote.

A W E MUST begin this column by apologizing for the lateness of this issue. It was caused by a combination of (1) the new Post Office zip code regulations, (2) the sudden change in command of the Georgia Tech foot­ball program, and (3) the post-Christ­mas inertia of the editor. We felt that you would rather get the information on the football coaching change as soon as possible since it only happens every 20 years or so, so we promptly tore up an issue and redid it. There was noth­ing we could do about either the zip code situation (except complain about this computer world we live in) or the sad condition of the editor's mental processes at this time of the year.

A W E HAD always thought of the changing of any guard as a rather poignant time. When we first were in­formed that Robert Lee Dodd was giv­ing up his post as head football coach after 22 years, we immediately were plunged into a deep depression. Two days later when the Monday morning press conference came around, we re­mained at the trough of what most folks call their "down" cycle. That morning we were still clinging to that fatal habit of man—feeling sorry for himself—and we obviously showed it. It took some advice from a very wise man to straighten us out.

The man's name is Lawrence W. Robert, Jr., and around Tech he is known as Mr. Chip. He has been through the change of command of Tech football each of the three times that it has occurred at Georgia Tech and knows more about how it should be handled than anybody you could name. Just before the press conference that gloomy Monday, he pulled us aside and cautioned us, "This is not a sad time. A man is stepping down after 36 fine years of coaching foot­ball. He is not leaving Tech. He is not feeling well and he is tired and this is what he wants to do. Let's not sit around and weep over something that will make this man happy."

We took his advice and looked our happiest (which as most of you know is not calculated to spread sunshine on a rainy day). But we didn't really believe that Mr. Chip knew what he

was talking about until the following day.

We should have known better than to doubt all that experience. On Tues­day at noon, Coach Dodd called us into his office to talk about some things that were pressing at the time and we were flabbergasted at the change in him. It was as if in 24 hours, a full 10 years had dropped off the man. He was jovial and talkative where in the past year or so he had been often moody and silent. He wanted to chat about all sorts of things and in the 15 years that we have known him well, we have never seen him in better form. He said it best, himself that day: "It is as if two tons of problems have finally dropped off my back. I could not have faced an operation, no matter how minor, in the state I have been in for the past year. That helped me make up my mind. And then when you have been in this business as long as I have and had so many good years and so many fine men to coach and understanding faculty and administra­tion and alumni, you develop a fear of failing all these people."

• DURING the three days that fol­lowed, confusion reigned in Atlanta as sports writers advanced one candidate and then another as the absolutely sure bet to follow Dodd (providing such and such happened). Some very good men were tapped prematurely as Dodd's successor. And then there were the red herrings that always seem to be a part of this type of change. They came and went in print at the rate of at least once a day.

The big move towards Dodd's suc­cessor came on Wednesday after the long-time Tech coach had talked to the players (especially the seniors) one at a time and had discussed candi­dates with his assistant coaches and some of the top head coaches at other schools. The consensus was that the best man for the job was sitting in an office a few steps down the hall from Dodd's office. Dodd, who had made it clear from the beginning that Bud Carson was one of his top choices for the position, recommended the as­sistant coach in charge of defense to the committee of the Athletic Board

A T H E MANNER in which Bud Carson handled his first major press confer­ence was enough to convince Dodd that he and the committee had found the right man. After the long session, Dodd told us, "Carson sure took over the way he should. He has grown an awful lot in the past day or so."

The quiet confidence and humility Carson displayed in the face of some rather pointed questions also im­pressed a number of the city's top sports reporters. Carson began by say­ing, "I am not Bobby Dodd. If any­body expects me to be, they are going to be awfully disappointed. No man could be Bobby Dodd. I was mis­quoted not long ago when somebody said that I called him one of a breed. What I really said was that he was one of a kind.

"I am going to have to be Bud Car­son. But I hope and intend to carry on Coach Dodd's philosophy of treat­ing men as men and of fielding foot­ball teams that play with poise and confidence. The coming season is a real challenge. We lost some key ball players in the offensive line and par­ticularly in the defensive secondary (which is the heart and soul of Car­son's defensive concept). We pick up Notre* Dame and Miami and TCU. But," he added after a long look at his audience, "Georgia Tech teams have always played with confidence. I don't believe that we will have to go out against anybody believing that we can't or won't win. I know I won't ever go on the field believing we haven't got a chance."

Carson then paid a tribute to Dodd, stating how much Dodd had meant to his own development and how much he appreciated Coach Dodd's confidence in him. His honest, sin­cere approach to the entire evening was a moving experience for all of us who happened to be fortunate enough to be there to see a touch of history made. During a couple of moments during the discussion, we looked over at Dodd and he had the look of a proud father whose son had just won a medal for valor.

In the next issue, we will introduce you to Bud Carson with a special article on the man who now picks up "Dodd's two tons: B.W.

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—GEORGIA TECH ALUMNUS

Volume 45 Number 5

THE COVER

Dr. David Harker, the scientist who led the team that managed the first Ameri­can breakthrough in the deciphering of the extremely complex structure of an enzyme, presented his first official paper on the subject at.the January 25-28 meeting of the American Crystallographic Association held on the Tech cam­pus. For more about one of the most important meetings ever held in the Southeastern United States or anywhere, please turn to page six of this issue.

CONTENTS

3. RAMBLIN'—the editor speaks of coaching changes and how they happen.

6. FOUR DAYS IN JANUARY—a photo-text report on a meeting.

10. THE TUNED-IN WORLD OF DAVID JONES—fiction, once again.

14. REFLECTIONS ON THE END OF AN ERA—one man's thoughts.

16. TRADITION AGAIN PREVAILS—Bud Carson is the new coach.

18. THE TARHEEL UPSET—a big year for basketball at Tech.

20. MERIT SCHOLARS VISIT—a new approach, at least for Tech.

THE GEORGIA TECH NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES—Alvin M. Ferst, president • Howard Ector, Marietta, vice

president L. L. Gellerstedt, vice president D. B. Blalock, Jr., treasurer • W. Roane

Beard, executive secretary Raymond A. Jones, Charlotte, N.C. L. Travis Brannon, Jr.

L. Massey Clarkson Madison F. Cole, Newnan George W. Felker, I I I , Monroe » Dakin

B. Ferris Allen S. Hardin © J. Leland Jackson, Macon » J. Erskine Love, Jr. Philip J.

Malonson, Marietta Willard B. McBurney George A. Morris, Jr., Columbus Thomas V.

Patton, Doraville Charles H. Peterson, Metter a James P. Poole S. B. Rymer, Jr.,

Cleveland, (Tenn.) Talbert E. Smith, Jr. c J. Frank Stovall, Jr., Griffin Marvin Whitlock,

Chicago Brian D. Hogg, associate secretary • Bill Poteet, assistant secretary

THE GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES—Oscar G. Davis, president • J. J. McDonough, vice president Henry W. Grady, treasurer Joe W. Guthridge, executive secretary • Ivan Allen, Jr. • John P. Baum, Milledgeville Fuller E. Callaway, Jr., LaGrange Robert H. Ferst • Y. Frank Freeman, Hollywood, California • Jack F. Glenn • Ira H. Hardin s Julian T. Hightower, Thomaston Wayne J. Holman, Jr., New Brunswick Howard B. Johnson George T. Marchmont, Dallas George W. McCarty • Jack J. McDonough Walter M. Mitchell » Frank H. Neely •W i l l i am A. Parker • Hazard E. Reeves, New York • I. M. Sheffield • Hal L. Smith John C. Staton Howard T. Tellepsen, Houston Robert Tharpe • William C. Wardlaw, Jr. Robert H. White George W. Woodruff Charles R. Yates •

THE EDITORIAL STAFF Robert B. Wallace, Jr., editor • De Gilmore, editorial assistant Harriet Erwin, class notes editor Bill Poteet, advertising manager

Published eight times a year—February, March, May, July, September, October, November and December—by the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association, Georgia Institute of Technology; 225 North Avenue, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30332. Subscription price (35c per copy) included in the membership dues. Second class postage paid at Atlanta, Georgia.

Photographed by Deloye Burrell

A scientific meeting of international importance is held on the campus of Georgia Tech during

FOUR DAYS IN JANU/: RY

IT is A RARE and exciting occurrence when one university is per­mitted the honor of hosting a group of men and women that spans the entire history of a single branch of science. But that is just what happened to Georgia Tech in late January

when, for four days, the three gentlemen pictured on these pages along with 380 of their colleagues from throughout the United States and seven foreign countries came to the campus for the win­ter meeting of the American Crystallographic Association. The three scientists responsible for this unique happening were . . . Sir Law­rence Bragg, the 1915 Nobel Laureate, who along with his famous father determined the first structure (sodium chloride) and who now holds the position of the elder statesman of crystallography, that science of determining the arrangements of atoms within sub­stances and how the characteristics of a substance are related to those arrangements . . . Dr. P. P. Ewald, whose Ph.D. thesis con­tained the seeds of the discovery of X-ray diffraction by von Laue in 1912, which made it possible to study the internal structures of crystals, and who recently retired after a distinguished career as a teacher and researcher in the field . . . and Dr. David Harker, who headed the American research team that completed the decipher­ing of the extremely complex structure of ribonuclease, an enzyme that plays a key role in all living cells, and who announced the breakthrough (first for an American scientific team) just two days before he came to Atlanta to deliver his initial paper on the subject before a scientific meeting.

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The three men who helped make the ACA meeting at Tech something special: top left, Dr. David Harker (see cover); bottom left, Sir Lawrence Bragg; and below, Dr. P. P. Ewald. Over 380 scientists attended the January 25-28 meeting, a first for Tech.

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Four Days—continued After Dr. Harker's lecture on his break­through, the scientists kept him busy an­swering questions about the 16-year project. And, below, a pair of old friends exchange ideas during one of the few breaks in an extremely hectic four-day meeting schedule.

Dr. R. A. Young (left opposite) was chair­man of the local arrangements committee and he and his colleagues kept busy from the time they found out that Tech was getting the meeting until the final day. The exceptional weather for January (right, opposite) made the committee's job easier.

This n eting

THE MEETING opened, as all s e e m t o , w i t h s h o r t w e l ­comes from President Edwin

D. Harrison and Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen, J r . But then it switched suddenly in tone to a short, elo­quent memorial session for two of the great contributors of the field of crystal structure determination— Dr. A. L. Patterson and Dr. Peter Debye—who died during the past year. I t was Dr. Patterson who in 1935 provided a method of locating some of the atoms in a structure (and with this knowledge the re­maining atoms could be located) and thus took the guesswork out of the atomic arrangements which had bedeviled the pioneers in the field. Dr. Debye's contribution made it possible to account for the vibra­tion of the atoms in the crystal lat­tice, another great step forward in the field.

Following the memorial session, the presentation of the 125 papers began in earnest. The titles were long and complicated and would naturally appeal only to those in the field just as those of football coaches at a clinic are understand­able only by other coaches. But, be­cause crystallography crosses so many scientific lines, there were ad-

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did r ach to enhance Tech's reputation vanced reports of investigations of interest to geologists, metallur­gists, physicists, organic and in­organic chemists, biologists, and biochemists.

Because the tedious labor in­volved in early structure work has been greatly alleviated and the solu­tion of very involved structures has been made possible by the rapid development of automated equip­ment and high-speed electronic computers, a number of papers at this conference were devoted to recent developments in equipment and new methods of using com­puters. Most of these new methods were "direct ones" which proceed from the experimentally observed intensities to the final structure without the intermediate "partial structures" necessary in the method introduced just 32 years ago by Dr. Patterson. But even with the com­puters and the automated equip­ment, it took 16 years for Dr. Harker and his associates to decipher the structure of ribonuclease.

Another area that attracted a great deal of attention during the meeting was that of neutron diffrac­tion, in which a stream of neutrons, instead of X-radiation, is directed a t and diffracted by the atomic ar­

rangement. Although the techniques of the two methods are almost iden­tical, neutron diffraction affords in­formation which cannot be obtained by X-ray diffraction, especially in locating hydrogen atoms in struc­tures and in magnetic properties structures. A symposium on neutron diffraction featured invited papers by some of the leaders in this field: Professor C. G. Shull of M.I.T., Professor W. Cochran of the Uni­versity of Edinburgh, Dr. H. Boutin of the U.S. Army Materiels Re­search Agency, Dr. W. C. Koehler of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Professor J . D. H. Donnay of Johns Hopkins University, and Dr. R. Nathans of Brookhaven National Laboratory.

The high point of this meeting came on Wednesday night, January 25 with the special session called in order that Dr. Harker could pre­sent his paper. The packed house at the Biltmore Hotel gave the shy scientist a standing ovation after he finished his discussion of the project which cost him 16 years of his life and which carried a final project budget of over $2 million.

On Thursday evening, another big crowd heard Sir Lawrence Bragg give his a f te r -d inner speech on

"The History of Protein Analysis." The brilliant scientist, whose pet project is lecturing to the young students of Great Britain, capti­vated his colleagues with a highly technical discussion of the era he has worked in since its beginnings. I t was Sir Lawrence, who as director of the Royal Institution of London, who saw the first successful protein structure determination made by two of his people. I t was also Sir Lawrence who under heavy criticism insisted that the first protein struc­ture determination continue until conclusion even though it took over ten years.

On Friday morning, Dr. Ewald also took a nostalgic trip back to the beginnings of this relatively young, but important, field with his talk on "Beginnings of the Dynami­cal Theory of X-Ray Diffraction."

The meeting, along with a similar national conference on Gaseous Electronics held in October on the campus, did much to enhance Tech's reputation in academic cir­cles, an area where a new and strong image is much needed. The work of Dr. R. A. Young of Physics and his local committee did not go un­noticed.

Robert B. Wallace, Jr.

FEBRUARY 1967 9

THE TUNED-IN WORLD OF DAVID JONES In another excursion into tomorrow, Marian Van Landingham ponders the fate of an erudite man

AQUIET MAN sat in a bright orange, molded plastic chair within a rapid transit capsule zooming along a single rail at more than 100 miles per hour. His eyes were closed but he was not

asleep. His face was aglow as though his soul were dancing. Forty-nine other men and women aligned five abreast looked

either sleepy, withdrawn, or numb as they stared vacantly into space or watched the morning news on the television screen mounted at the front of the car.

When the capsule stopped at 63rd Street, the Exception rose lurch-ingly, and then carefully, taking small steps, got off the train. He rode an escalator to the ground level, cut across a small plaza, and, like a sleepwalker, occasionally bumped into someone and muttered: "s-cuse me, s-cuse me." He received nothing but irritated, hard stares.

Between travertine pillars he entered a building and followed some­one else through double doors. An uneventful ride to the 35th floor, plus a block-long walk down corridors and he walked into the offices of J . R. Craft, Inc., Contractors.

"Uh, hell-o, Miss Baker." "Good morning, Mr. Jones. How are you?" "Fine, I guess. The coffee ready?" Art by Joe McKibben

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Miss Baker left her typewriter and got up to fix her boss his cup. Having managed to shed his overcoat and muffler, Jones took the coffee and re­treated into his office, where, between sips, he wrote some notes, and dic­tated into a recorder. About 10 o'clock he started to reach into his shirt pocket to get something, but instead decided to make a telephone call or so. At 10:15 he again reached towards his right hand pocket, but once more stopped himself.

An hour passed and this time Jones did take a small, stainless steel device from the shirt pocket, moved a dial, pressed a button, and dropped the gadget back into its hiding place. H e straightened his coat, fastened it, and adjusted a plug in his ear. David J . Jones leaned forward over his desk, as though looking at material in an open file folder. On his face was, once again, the concentrated, estatic expression.

H e did not see the large, red-faced man come to his office door and stare in. "Jones ," he said in a low voice. The employee did not move. "JONES." Still no response. "JONES."

Jones ' head jerked up so abruptly his ear plug fell out and tiny voices rose from the dangling gadget.

"You're at it again," George Mather boomed. "There 's work to be done! Est imates to be made, and dammit— there you sit listening to long-hair lec­tures on the tribal customs of the Zulus or some such." His face had turned redder while Jones ' had slowly drained—eyebrows twitching together.

"It 's—it 's—n-n-n-not the Zulus, Mr . Mather . A Nobel P-Prize winning physicist is discussing his latest theo­ries. Very interesting, sir. Some might apply. . . ."

"Apply! Apply? T o this business? Come off it, Jones. You're wasting your t ime not getting down to the realities right here. You think you're too good for the job that 's got to be done. Listen to a few long-hairs and think that you too can commune with the gods. Wha t you, Jones, need to do is to tune in to your office for a change, instead of tuning out all the t ime." And with this, George Mather strode for the door.

Pale and shaking, Jones reached into his pocket and turned off the little transitor always tuned to the University of the World, 87 on the dial. Dur ing the rest of the day, he was too depressed and stunned to get much work done. At 4:30 exactly he punched the on button again, put on

his coat and hat, and left, resonant voices from around a seminar table soothing his ear.

Once he was home, he gave his wife Maude a passing kiss, fixed him­self a Scotch and soda, and sank down into his big, leather, reclining chair to listen to the 6 o'clcok opera.

In the kitchen M a u d e Jones tossed the salad with vehemence. Anger— neglected anger—kept rising within her. At supper, as she watched her husband absent-mindedly fork his food in, she felt t ight around the top of her throat, and only picked a t her own broccoli, potatoes, and roast. But she said nothing to David. "I 've already said enough," she moaned to herself. "No, I'll not nag. I'll just do some­thing."

Three hours later as Jones hummed Aida in the shower, M a u d e quietly

slipped the transistor from the top of his bureau, where he pu t it because it was not waterproof, and went to the kitchen. She took down a box of oatmeal and buried the gadget in the beige and white grains. "He ' l l never, never think of looking in anything as prosaic as an oatmeal box." M a u d e then gathered up her knitt ing bag, turned on the T V and settled down for a late movie.

Jones felt a top the bureau for his radio even before he put on his glasses, and not finding the device, felt fran­tically for several minutes before he thought to put on his lenses. But the glasses did not help as he looked under, behind, and around the bureau —then still more frantically around the whole room. A half dozen times he felt in his ear to make sure he had not somehow forgotten he had already re-attached it.

He did not call M a u d e unti l he was all but overcome with the feeling of loss and frustration. His wife was pleased to note the alarm in his cry, but managed to say calmly:

"Why, no, I haven' t seen your radio, David. Not since you had it in your ear tonight. Don ' t get so excited. Stop and think. You must have forgotten where you put it. Radios just don't walk off, you know. And it is hard to imagine that you would have thrown it away."

An edge of sarcasm cut through but Jones ignored it. This was no time for pride. W H E R E W A S T H E BLANKETY-BLANK THING? He

intensified his search: looking behind doors, throwing everything out of his bureau. H a d he opened a drawer and the radio fallen in? or was it in the pocket when he tossed his shirt down the soiled clothes chute? Almost an hour later, worn out from his search, depressed, he flung himself on his bed. Asleep and awake, he tossed.

Held by a bird, the radio flew through the air to Debussy melody. Rested quietly on a sunlit limb, rushed high above on an updraft, tttrned and disappeared into the clouds towards another continent —saying it would return in the spring.

On full volume, the voices of a mob. And then the mob crushed the radio as he watched, helpless, from a window above.

Saw the plug in the ear of an old man with no family. . . . Started to say, "That's mine, give it back, or I'll have you arrested. . . ." And watched him walk slowly too slowly, away.

A small boy, in cowboy-figured pajamas, put a tooth under his pil­low and woke up the next morn­ing to find a bright, shining radio.

Jones opened his eyes to a sweet, expectant feeling, and he started to reach under the pillow—but realized what he was doing and stopped him­self in disgust. He sat up angrily.

The next three days were spent in a miserable stupor and every eve­ning he rushed home to look for the device that was never there. Maude told him she had looked the house over too and " tha t durn thing has jus t disappeared. I 'm beginning to believe in Mar t ians ." Inwardly, she remarked: "Didn ' t think withdrawal would be this hard on him."

On the fourth day after the burying in the oatmeal, David Jones arose

and felt good. H e ate his breakfast and even chatted with Maude . Walking out to the transit, he noticed how crisp the cold air was, how the early light cast exact, lace-like shadows of t iny limbs on buildings. With a feeling of discovery, he ducked down into the subterranean passage to the train. When it swooshed to a stop he stepped on, deftly side-stepping two women getting off, and swung neatly into a chair, no wasted notion.

"Well, that ' s the first t ime in months he hasn ' t stumbled on with a silly, lost smile," the man he sat down next to thought, amazed.

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TUNED-IN-continued

Jones planted his feet firmly in front of himself, and slightly apart for better balance, and sitting straight, swiveled his head around as though seeing for the first time his co-riders. Scraps of conversation floated in like fascinating bits of puzzles: "Yeah, I saw George. Same old thing," the weary blond in front of him informed her friend, but did not seem inclined to continue, as though the whole sub­ject disgusted her.

"Whadda ya think 3M is gonna do? Think it'll keep on going up? Huh?" The man in the bargain basement sport coat was trying to get a cue from an executive complete with morning paper stock listing, a black leather attache case, and a dark, very expen­sive suit.

"No dice pal," thought Jones, and turned his attention to a quiet, faded woman. "What do you do?" he asked silently. "Do you file by day and try to identify with the glittering Holly­wood-New York-Acapulco crowd by evening?" He smiled at her and she gave him a wane smile back.

"Old boy, you must have gotten yourself a new kind of hearing aid, or did you have an operation to correct

your problem?" The man sitting be­side Jones continued: "You look like you understand what people are saying."

Jones jerked towards the intruding sounds on his left. "What-t? Me hear. I hear fine. Always have."

"Really? Thought you had a hear­ing aid and you kept it turned off. You never seemed to notice anything being said around you."

"That was the ear plug to my radio. Used to listen to my transistor on the way to work but lost it a few days ago. Can't find it anywhere. Cost $150 to replace so I can't just go down and buy another. That radio was so good I could listen to the University broad­casts 1,000 miles away. Had two ear plugs for stereo listening."

"No kidding? Didn't know they made transistors that good. All the ones I've had fade in and out when you change positions. Would never do on the train. But you really liked yours, huh?"

"Sure did. I was lost the first few days after it disappeared but now I think I'm about to get used to being without the little gadget. Maybe some­day when I get some extra money, and

all the machinery around the house is in working order, I'll buy another. Well, here's my stop." And Jones bounded off the train and up the escalator, not waiting on the slow rise.

ones spent 15 minutes talking with \J the office staff before disappearing into his office to become a center of ac­tivity. By eleven the word reached George Mather and he came to see if this was indeed the same employee.

"Interested in your job for a change?" he asked, leaning against a filing cabinet, head resting on his el­bow. "Job estimates don't have to be so boring when you get your mind off other things, now do they?" A sar­castic smile beamed off his face.

"Why no. The work's O.K.," an­swered Jones, appearing not to notice the expression. "Say, George, I think you're underbidding on the Gates-worth job. Look at my calculations here. I think I have a solution that may surprise you. . . ."

Winter passed and spring came but inside the windowless, paneled office

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the change hardly mattered. The door to the conference room, where the staff met on Tuesday mornings, opened: voices flowed out ahead of cork-green and grey-suited men.

"Mr. Edwards, I have a number here for you to call." The secretary went back and sat down behind her L-shaped desk.

"Thank you, Miss April. Did I tell you how sharp you look today?"

"Why, no, you hadn't, but I'd been expecting it," and she smiled coyly. She always dressed up for conference days when all the men were in. But, today Edward's compliment was the only one flipped her way. Several of the men seemed worried about some­thing and they strode on past talk­ing, and out into the corridor.

"There's a chance we could be wrong. Might need to consider the point again. . . ."

A large man with grey-striped tie and puffy face, pulled abreast of the speaker and his companion. "Are you guys as tired of that smarty Jones as I am? Every meeting he has at least five hair-brained ideas we have to spend all our time knocking down."

"Well, Butterfield, once in a while he comes up with a new approach that's pretty good. Now doesn't he?" Charles Jensen wanted to tell Butter-field that he wouldn't recognize an idea if it were flashed on a neon sign in front of him, but suppressed himself.

"What I can't figure out," said Edward Blackstone slowly as they stepped onto the elevator, "is what has happened to wake up Jones. You know he used to sit around like some kind of a dreamy, satisfied Buddha—off in large, abstract worlds."

A s a decorative waitress served the men lunch, the puzzling con­

versation stopped for a while. But then: "You know, the strangest thing is I feel like that guy's got some type of secret weapon. Can't explain it."

"You're right, Edward. That's what it's like. A secret device for manu­facturing ideas."

"Ha! Real idea bombs—that's what they are. Bombs! Devastiating aren't I. Humph." Butterfield laughed up-roarously at his own wit. Jensen and Blackstone smiled painfully.

"Keep that kind of off-beat thinking up and you might end up a Jones

in your next reincarnation," Jensen drawled laconically, and drew, as he expected, a sudden erasure of the smile on Butterfield's face. "Seriously, now, how did Jones learn to think the way he does? That's obviously his secret."

"Wait—didn't he use to spend all his time listening to seminars, debates, lectures, concerts, and all sorts of stuff on that radio he kept plugged in his ear?" Blackstone asked.

"Of course. That's it." Jensen's tone was final. He leaned forward over the table. "And he hasn't had that plug in his ear for a number of months now." Eyes narrowed, he continued musingly, "He woke up when he stopped listening, but by that time he had the method. He was sensitized to every thing in his environment, but yet able to step outside this reality and relate things we don't usually think to relate. That's it, by damn. Has to be."

lackstone and even Butterfield were silent—for several minutes.

J ensen motioned for their waitress and asked for checks.

That afternoon Butterfield boarded the rapid transit capsule with Jones and instead of going to the bar in the rear, sat beside his co-worker. They talked shop for five or ten minu­tes. Then very smoothly, Butterfield commented:

"Jones, a friend and I were having a discussion the other day about what is the best miniature, long distance transistor. I told him I thought Spot­light was the best but I'd ask you. Didn't you use to have one?"

"Hun? Oh, yes. A Spotlight." Jones felt his heart thump against familiar metal weight in his shirt pocket bought that day with a bonus he had received for one of his bright ideas. But nobody knew. He would turn it on in quiet, private moments. For re­freshment. Stimulation. Nothing that can be explained to anyone else. "Yes, I'm sure Spotlight is probably the best. Tell your friend that. He can't go wrong."

"Thanks. I will. Am sure he'll be glad to hear from someone who has had experience. If you don't know what you're buying you get a lemon sometimes. Well, here's my stop. Thanks again. Be seeing you.

Watching the bulk of Butterfield

glide up towards the square of light, Jones straightened his suit jacket, and, with a handkerchief, wiped his brow.

At home, Maude greeted him vaguely and went back into^ the kitchen while he picked up the eve­ning paper. But he was not in the mood for reading and let the paper drop, staring towards the kitchen door. "Oops, Maude almost put a pot into the refrigerator instead of on the stove. My gosh, her motions are slow—must be thinking about something else. The old human automatic pilot just doesn't work very swiftly or effici­ently. Seems to me Maude has been like this a lot lately and she never used to be. Do you suppose she has a radio, too? No, impossible. Cost too much. How could she have bought one. Still "

Jones shifted his weight and raised the paper: "TOKYO: The Soviets have decided to recall their explora­tion group from Mars to reduce ex­penses and help with the war effort against the Chinese, according to re­ports reaching diplomats here. It is believed that the experience the ex­plorers gained on Mars may help the Russians in their fight on the very similar terrain in central Siberia."

His eyes unfoscused, and he again looked beyond the paper. "Somehow she seems happier and sometimes now we have the most fascinating conversa­tions. She never used to like sym­phonies or muse about disappeared civilizations . . . ."

t was at another staff conference A meeting that Jones saw a familiar bulge in George Mather's shirt pocket as his boss reached across the table distributing mimeographed sheets to all those present. "Gentlemen," be­gan Mather, "I am furnishing you some notes on this job. There are some real problems here and we're going to have to look at them closely."

"But not too closely," interrupted David Jones, his voice quiet but in-sistant. "Maybe we should withdraw from the immediate reality for a while —and try to think of the problem in terms of new frames of reference. Tune out so we can tune in."

As he somehow expected, no one ap­peared surprised as this ponderous plum dropped into the meeting. The eyes present agreed that the meth­odology was very reasonable.

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by Robert B. Wallace, Jr.

When a man such as Robert Lee Dodd retires after 36 years of coaching at the same place, it sets one to reminiscing

REFLECTIONS ON THE END OF AN ERA

ROBERT L E E DODD resigned on

February 6 because of illness as head football coach at Georgia

Tech after 22 years in that job and another 14 as an assistant coach. Upon receiving the resignation, Presi­dent Edwin D . Harrison, chairman of the athletic board, issued the follow­ing s tatement:

" I t is with a deep sense of regret that I reluctantly accept, on behalf of the athletic board, Bobby Dodd's resignation as head football coach. The loss to Tech and to football is tempered somewhat by the fact that he will continue as athletic director."

Why do all of these things have to happen on rainy, nasty Mondays? Our mood suddenly is matching the weather. This is the end of the only Tech football era we have ever really known. In fact, it's the end of an era in football, period. We knew that the coach had to do it someday, but he could have waited for a nice, sunny day.

" I know that I speak for the entire athlet ic board and for the faculty, stu­dents, alumni, and friends of Georgia Tech in expressing the pride in the football program he has led with such dignity and success for the pas t 22 years ," added President Harrison. "And I would also like to speak for the entire Tech family in expressing our great admirat ion for h im as one of the finest men and one of the greatest teachers to ever grace our campus."

It's pretty amazing when you think back on the career of a man like the Tall Gray Fox. This is the only place this man has ever worked. And in the top position, he has run up a record of 165 wins, just 64 defeats, and eight, ties. His final team was his 13th to

play in a bowl and with its defeat to Florida, his bowl record came up 9-4. On top of that, his teams played in front of the national television cam­eras 19 times and they only lost five of them.

"We have all endorsed his con-tinously-demonstrated belief tha t an athlete 's first responsibility to his col­lege and to himself is to receive a sound education. We feel that with his high standards of sportsmanship, performance, and conduct that he has been a tremendous asset to college athletics and that both higher educa­tion and the sports world are much better for his years of dedicated coach­ing. As the head of our athletic pro­gram, he will continue to bring great credit to Tech and intercollegiate athletics."

Here's a guy who had one of the toughest coaching jobs in the busi­ness. Working at a technological insti­tution where there is no place for the athletes to hide, he turned up this ex­ceptional won-lost record and yet the NCAA never even investigated him or his teams. The world is not exactly overpopulated with football coaches who can say that. And those training concepts and practice sessions—no­body will ever be able to coach like Dodd again and win. Nobody could command the respect of his men enough to get them ready for combat with such ridiculous methods. "He is," as his successor Bud Carson so aptly put it, "one of a kind. And anybody who tries to be a Coach Dodd is doomed to absolute failure." We keep thinking about a quote attributed to Jess Neely when he was at Rice: "I would like to play a team coached as Dodd coaches every Saturday. Not a team that Dodd coaches but one that

someone else tries to coach in the manner that he does."

"Not long after I came to Tech, Coach Dodd reminded me that the Inst i tute had had six presidents and only three head football coaches," con­tinued President Harrison. " I had hoped that this ratio would continue throughout my tenure here. Unfortu­nately, Coach Dodd's health did not permit this ideal situation to endure."

I guess outside of his own family and few close personal friends, the bunch he liked to call, "my writers," first suspected that the inevitable was coming quicker than anyone liked to think. We don't know of any compli­ment higher than to be included in that group for the past 15 years. They were men like Ed Danforth and Ed Miles and Bert Prather and today they are named Furman Bisher and Jesse Outlar and Jim Minter and Bill Clark and John Logue and Ron Speer and Dave Moffitt. And during the past year he has been short with us at times when the health got so bad it disturbed him more than he would like for us to know. No one will miss him more than this group. For no coach in history has had such a solid understanding of what makes news. He would spend his time at the prac­tice sessions thinking up stories for his boys to write the next day. Yet, he never seemed to miss what was going on out on the field. He was al­ways accessible, always cooperative, always willing to help break in a new writer. No one will ever again be able to do things the way he has. We are happy for him because he has made the decision and he is already feeling like a new man. It is the ending of this great period in Tech's history that saddens us.

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FEBRUARY 1967 15

The determined chief of Carson's Raiders is Tech's fourth coach

TRADITION AGAIN PREVAILS TRADITION again prevailed at Georgia Tech February 10 when President Edwin D. Harrison, chairman of the Athletic Board, announced that Leon H. "Bud" Carson, assistant coach in charge of the defense in 1966, had been selected as Bobby Dodd's suc­cessor as the fourth full-time head coach in the Insti tute 's football history.

Carson is the third consecutive Tech head coach to be elevated from

the assistants ' ranks, following W. A. Alexander who took over for John Heisman in 1920 and Dodd who re­placed Alexander in 1945. He is the same age (36) as Dodd was when he moved up to the top spot.

In his only year as a Tech assistant, Carson made a tremendous impression on players, coaches, and alumni with his imaginative "Wrecker" defense which placed Tech sixth in the nation

Atlanta Journal sports editor Furman Bisher once said, "Bud Carson has an unsympa­thetic attitude towards defeat." And this picture of Tech's new coach walking off the field after the 12-27 defeat reflects just how right Bisher was about the coach.

in total defense. (Tech held opponents to an average of 206.6 yards per game.) Carson's Raiders were also ninth in the nation in defense against scoring with the opponents getting but 8.1 points per game and twelfth in pass defense allowing 98.5 yards per game.

Carson also made a great impres­sion on the members of the special committee assigned to recommend a successor for Coach Dodd, according to President Harrison, who was chair­man of the committee of the Athletic Board. "We met at length with him and the committee recommended him unanimously to the full Board," said the Tech president.

" I believe Coach Dodd said on February 6 when we announced his retirement as head coach that we hoped to have a successor named with­in four days. And, despite the fact tha t we felt that we should look at other major candidates that might be in­terested in the opening before we offered the job to Coach Carson, we are less than a half-day late in ful­filling Coach Dodd's predictions. In the final analysis, Coach Carson's selection was made on the basis of his proven ability as a football coach here a t Tech and at other schools and the potential we all felt he had to be a top head coach at Georgia Tech."

Coach Dodd, who has held the dual post of head football coach and athletic director since 1950, becomes just Athletic Director Dodd with the appointment of Carson. Dodd said that he has seriously considered Car­son ever since his own retirement be­came imminent. "And," he added, " then my interviews with our players and assistant coaches and some other head coaches around the country con­firmed what I already knew about Bud Carson. I am happy that the Athletic Board saw fit to name him without reservation."

Carson, a native of Brackenridge, Pennsylvania, lettered three years in football, basketball and baseball at Freeport (Pa.) High School. In his senior year he was selected as the out­standing athlete in the tough Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League and made a l l -WPIAL first

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teams in both football and basketball. He entered the University of North Carolina where he graduated with a B.A. degree in education in 1952 after lettering three years as defensive back. In 1951, he was named to the all-Southern Conference defensive team. He played in both the Sugar and Cotton Bowls during his career at Carolina.

Following graduation, he served two years as an officer in the Marine Corps, spending part of his tour of duty in Korea. He then coached two

years at Scottdale (Pa.) High School where he had a 16-2-1 record and re­turned to North Carolina as freshman coach where his record was 5-0 for a year. He was a varsity assistant at North Carolina for six years before moving to South Carolina in 1965 as head of the defense. He joined the Tech staff a year ago last month and was generally credited by Coach Dodd as one of the major reasons for the Jackets unexpected 9-1 season.

Carson is married to the former Jean Hetrich of Natrona Heights,

Pennsylvania. They have two chil­dren, a daughter, Dana, and a son, Clifford.

The committee that recommended Carson for the head coaching position included President Harrison; Coach Dodd; Dr. Vernon Crawford, the faculty representative; J. H. (Doc) Outland, the student representative; Mr. John Staton, the alumni repre­sentative; and the two life members of the Athletic Board, Mr. L. W. (Chip) Robert and Mr. Robert Tharpe. Robert B. Wallace, Jr.

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The most exciting Tech team since the 1960 group pulls the biggest upset of the 1966-1967 year as

HYDER'S LADS UPSET THE TARHEELS •N A GAME as near to a classic as you would ever hope to see, Whack Hyder's 1966-67 edition

edged second-ranked North Carolina, 82-80, at the Alexander Coliseum on February 11 and ran its record to a solid 14-7. Five of the seven losses came in one streak in the early season when Phil Wagner, the heart of this team, was out with an injured arm.

Tech opened the season with wins at home against SMU (87-70) and Rice (87-61) and then was rudely shocked in Athens when Georgia squeaked by the Jackets (87-89). Fol­lowing another pair of wins at home over Brown (93-75) and Auburn (78-76, in overtime), Tech traveled to the West Coast for the Los Angeles Classic. The Jackets impressed the writers and fans with their 101-70 romp over a much bigger Michigan team, but in the second game they were beaten by UCLA, the nation's number one team. In this game, Tech, despite its great height disadvantage, held the sensational Lew Alcindor to his lowest point total of the season (19). Illinois then beat the Jackets 83-71 in the consolation match.

Still without Wagner, Tech was crushed by Clemson at home (55-76) and then beaten by Tulane (91-99). The final loss in the five-game streak came at Greenville when Furman took Tech (68-69) in overtime. Then an­other streak started. With Wagner and Stan Guth starting regularly at the guard posts, Tech won three in a row at home with ease, beating North Carolina State (102-85), Ohio State (84-73) and Georgia (79-53). Two wins followed on the road as Tech got its revenge against Clemson (88-77) and beat Florida State (75-68). Returning home, the Jackets dis­posed of Mercer (91-57) but lost Stan Guth for three games when the little junior from Roger Kaiser's hometown of Dale, Indiana, suffered a leg injury. Even without Guth, Tech made a run

I at Tennessee in Knoxville, finally los­

ing 48-59. Tech then reeled off three more wins against Notre Dame (102-87), Jacksonville (81-71) and Caro­lina.

The Carolina game was the best played by a Tech team since the bril­liant showings against Kentucky in the late fifties and early sixties. With Pres Judy hitting the first five he at­tempted, Tech jumped off to an early lead and was never behind. At the half, it was 38-33, Tech, and midway in the second half, Tech had stretched its lead to 14 points. But then Judy fouled out with 7:04 remaining in the game and the Tarheels came alive. With 1:49, the taller vistiors had tied it at 78-78 and the pressure was on. Tech managed a free throw to make it 79-78. The ball changed hands a couple of times before Wagner grabbed the ball and fired it 90 feet to Brizendine who made a great play to put the Jackets in front, 81-78. Caro­lina came back to bring it to 81-80 with one second showing on the clock and then the Tarheels called time and were charged with a technical foul because they had already used up their allotment for the half. Wag­ner hit the free throw to end it all.

With but five games remaining on the schedule, all five Tech starters are in double figures in this team that stands to set a new seasonal field goal percentage record. Phil Wagner leads with 19.1, Pres Judy has 16.7, Ted Tomasovich stands at 13.0, Pete Thome has a 10.4 average and Stan Guth has 10.2. Dave Clark, who was a big factor in Tech's second-half drive against Carolina, is at 8.6.

There is little doubt that this team represents Coach Hyder's finest coach­ing effort at Tech. It is smooth and balanced and lacks only one thing— the good big man—to be one of the great teams in Tech history. Next year, only Judy of the starters will be missing and with a pair of 6-7 fresh­man, the Jackets should have the best team since 1960.

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Dave Clark, a big factor in several of Tech's wins, came off the bench to add strength to the Jackets' attack against North Caro­lina (above) and Pete Thorne (above right with Hyder) did a big job on the boards.

But the heart and soul of this team is a tough junior from Kentucky, number 24, Phil Wagner, who is shown trying to keep a pair of Tarheels from taking the ball.

FEBRUARY 1967

Campus Architect David Savini briefs one group of the merit scholars during the tour phase of the day's program.

Merit Scholars Visit Campus The merit scholars get a look at Tech through the eyes of students via the Blueprint.

T o BE OK NOT TO BE a Ramblin' Reck was the question some 108 national merit semi-finalists and

their parents were asking on Decem­ber 10 when they visited the Tech campus for the first annual National Merit Scholars' Day.

Over 325 people from as close as Atlanta and as far as California par­ticipated in the crash program de­signed to give as much insight as pos­sible into the student and academic life at Tech.

After a welcome by student body president, John H. "Doc" Outland, the crowd in the Textile Auditorium heard about "Georgia Tech and the Superior Student" from Dr. E. Arthur Trabant, vice president for Academic Affairs. This keynote address was fol­lowed by discussions on Tech's ad­mission policies by Registrar William L. Carmichael. Dr. Arthur G. Hansen, dean of the Engineering College, spoke on "Programs in the Engineering Col­lege," while Dr. Vernon Crawford, di­rector of the School of Physics, dis­cussed "Programs in the General College."

A panel discussion on student life on the campus was moderated by Out­land, and following lunch, the stu­dents received a tour of some of the campus facilities. In the afternoon, Tech's computer systems, the future campus, and the research reactor were the main topics of discussion. The program seemed to be extremely well received with only the rain keeping it from being an excellent start for a most important program.

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Tombstones used in space project

SPOOKS IN TOMBSTONES may have the livers scared out of them by the time Dr. Charles Stoneking of Mechanical Engineering is finished with his experi­ments. He is conducting studies on the impact velocities of fuel capsules and collecting data on the conditions that make them rupture, and one of the de­vices he uses is a grave marker.

To fini out what would happen to the fuel capsules when the vehicle they are in crashes to earth or on another planet, he simulated the force of impact by firing the hollow, spherical capsules from a specially constructed compressed air cannon into hard surfaces. Usually he uses an eight-foot-long hardened steel rod as a target that is connected to deli­cate measuring devices.

In one phase of the experiments, it was decided that under actual condi­tions it would be much more likely that the vehicle would crash into an area covered with rocks rather than having a steel surface, so the researchers used a block of commercial polished granite (without inscriptions).

They found that the granite produced an impact condition almost identical to steel which led Dr. Stoneking to quip, "If the vehicle should fall into a grave­yard, we've had it." He added, "The tombstone was an excellent research tool, but several rather curious questions were asked about the purchase order for it."

Through the studies of failure velocity, Stoneking found that thin shells and fairly thick ones hold up best at the highest speeds. The incidence of the capsules breaking open on impact, or shearing out, was much more frequent with shells in the middle range of thickness.

One unexpected reaction on impact was that thin shells tended to buckle rather than flatten at speeds lower than their failure velocity. As the speeds in­creased, the impacted portion would gradually flatten, then would fail in shear. The thicker shells showed no

buckling, only flattening, then shearing. Materials used for study included alu­minum, brass, titanium, steel, and zinc alloy material.

The studies at Tech are unique since most previous experiments have simply been to measure the reaction of the ma­terial during stress conditions and not to measure the velocities at which the ma­terials would actually separate.

The late Monie Ferst is honored A PLAQUE honoring one of Atlanta's most active men in commerce, industry and philanthropy and one of Tech most out­standing alumni was installed in the Tech library in late January.

The bronze plaque of Monie Alan Ferst was unveiled by Mr. Ferst's grand­son, Walter A. Bloom, Jr., and was given by James V. Carmichael. It will hang in the Monie A. Ferst Memorial Room of the Graduate Addition to the library which is scheduled for completion in the Spring of 1968. Until that time, the plaque will be on display in the present library.

Mr. Ferst, who died in 1965, was a 1911 Mechanical Engineering graduate of Tech. Subsequently he was associated with Roper Strauss Ferst Company of At­lanta and Birmingham; Southern Spring Bed Company; Montag Brothers; M. A. Ferst, Ltd.; Ferey Mining Company; Avi­ation Engineering, Inc.; and Scripto, Inc.; all of Atlanta.

He was chairman of the Board of Di­rectors of Scripto, Inc., president and director of M. A. Ferst, Ltd., a director of the Fulton National Bank of Atlanta, a director of the Atlanta Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association, and a trustee of the Georgia Tech Research Institute of Atlanta.

In 1956, Mr. Ferst received the Alumni Distinguished Service Award for, in part, his leadership in the incorpora­tion and direction of the Industrial De­velopment Council, his service on the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Tech Research Institute, and for his part in

the establishment and support of the Society of Sigma Xi at Tech, as well as the generosity he showed through the years to Georgia Tech.

Tom Hall is promoted to new post THOMAS HALL, III, formerly the Associ­ate Secretary of the Tech Alumni As­sociation, has been named Director of the newly created Office of Resources Development.

Bill Poteet, IE '61, joined the staff of the Alumni Association on January 3 as assistant secretary and Brian Hogg, IE '61, moved into Hall's old job as associate secretary. Poteet, a member of the great 1960 basketball team, has been an Air Force officer since graduation.

Hall, a 1958 Industrial Engineering graduate of Tech, has been with the Alumni Association since 1960.

In his new position, he will work mainly in major gift acquisitions from alumni, friends of Tech, corporations and foundations. Said Hall, "This is not a major gifts campaign on the part of Tech. It is largely an effort to bring financial resources to the school that are not available from the usual state sources."

The office is a new development for Tech and will provide assistance for the growing campus and the changes that are planned in the years ahead. It will direct the deferred giving programs, the $1,000 Club, and aid contacts with busi­ness and foundations that are interested in furthering special programs at Tech.

"With the increased needs of the school," said Hall, "it will help in the long-range approach from the stand­points of business, industry and the in­dividual to meet the demands placed on the school."

The office will also help to develop increased student financial aid funds, scholarships, fellowships, chairs and pro­fessorships as well as provide for con­tacts with selected federal programs of assistance.

Hall is a native of Macon, Georgia, the

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THE INSTITUTE ont. son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Hall, Jr., of that city.

Perlin new head of Computer Center A CHIEF has been named for the Rich Electronic Computer Center who suc­ceeds Dr. William Atchison. He is Dr. Irwin E. Perlin who was on the initial planning committee for the Center and who has been Head of the Mathematical Analysis Branch for 10 years.

In his new position, Perlin will direct the activities of the Computer Center which is used both for research and academic purposes. The facility was es­tablished in 1955 with a grant from the Rich Foundation, matching grants from the Georgia Tech Research Institute, and additional funds from the building auth­ority of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.

The Center supplies research and de­velopment for studies on the Tech cam­pus, and also for government and indus­try both in the United States and foreign countries.

Perlin received both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and in 1935 he received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Chicago.

New series of grants announced A TOTAL of $10,400 in research grants was awarded jointly to Georgia Tech and Emory University by the E. I. DuPont de Nemours Company.

Of the amount, Tech received $7,400. For postgraduate teaching assistance aid, that is designed to encourage advanced graduate students to continue teaching, $3,000 was awarded; and two $2,200 awards were granted to be used for sum­mer research in chemical and mechanical engineering.

Tech will participate in research being done by the Ferst Research Center at Piedmont Hospital because of a grant of $59,280 from the John A. Hartford Foundation of New York.

The amount is for continued study of molecular coating of blood vessels as a preventive of thrombosis. It is under the leadership of Dr. Walter L. Bloom, son of Tech alumnus M. A. Ferst.

Dr. Don S. Harmer, Research Associ­ate Professor of Physics, will direct the joint participation of Tech professors who will use a specially built testing ap­paratus in the research. Both the Neely Nuclear Research Center and the Rich Electronic Computer Center will continue to be used for the studies.

Two other grants for Tech research account for $53,430. Dr. John H. Burson was awarded $31,930 by the Depart­ment of Health, Education and Welfare for two years' study of Particle Dynamics in Inertial Fields. The experimentation will be concerned with the trajectory of

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small articles and will have implications in air pollution. The remainder of the amount was a grant of $21,500, given by the National Science Foundation for support of Research Participation for College Teachers and it will be under the direction of Dr. James A. Stanfield, a Tech professor of chemistry.

The M & H Ferst Foundation con­tributed $15,000 for the Tech Task Force and Expeditor part of the proposed Biochemical Engineering program. The funds will be used under the direction of Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. E. Arthur Trabant, and a commit­tee comprised of Tech professors, Dr. Walter Bloom, Dr. Robert Fetner, Dr. C. J. Roberts, and Dr. Vladimir Slamecka.

Neely Professor honored NEELY PROFESSOR of Aerospace Engineer­ing, Dr. Nathan W. Snyder, has recently been appointed to the Atomic Energy Commission's Advisory Committee on Iso­topes and Radiation Development.

He and other members of the com­mittee will advise the AEC on policies and programs to encourage the develop­ment of widescalc applications of radio­isotopes and radiation.

Before joining the Tech faculty, Sny­der was Chairman and Professor in the department of Nuclear Engineering which he helped initiate and develop at the University of California.

Presently he is a member of the Space Technology Panel to President Johnson's Science Advisory Committee which has headquarters in Washington, D.C. He is also a Scientific Advisor to the Air Force and Department of Defense on Space Technology.

Snyder's main fields of work include power for spacecraft and advanced pro­pulsion for deep space exploration, in­cluding both nuclear and electric propul­sion. His main areas of research are in eneigy conversion, heat and mass trans­fer, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, nu­clear technology, and applied physics.

He joined the Institute for Defense Anaylsis and the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense in 1958 to aid in the initiation of the U.S. space program and has been a consultant for such programs as Transit, Tiros, Saturn, Centaur, Titan III, and Midas.

The development of a generator using large amounts of radiosotopes that can be operated in remote locations on earth, underseas and on space craft has been of particular interest to Snyder.

He received his B.S., Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering from the University of California where he also completed postdoctoral work in physics. His professional membership includes the American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics, American Nuclear Society, American Physical Society, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Marine

Technology Society, and the Acoustical Society of America.

English Prof gets Fulbright grant A N ENGLISH professor at Tech who re­ceived his undergraduate degree in biochemistry has been named Fulbright Lecturer for the University of Vienna in the 1967-68 academic year.

Dr. James Dean Young will leave for Munich, Germany, in the summer where he will receive intensive language train­ing, then will go directly to Vienna where he will teach survey courses in American Literature, and will also conduct an ad­vanced course on Contemporary Ameri­can Literature.

Last year, Dr. Young received Tech's first annual Union Camp award for teaching excellence and was selected for the honor by a committee of his peers.

He is a past winner of the George Griffin award given by the student coun­cil for interest in student activities and is a faculty advisor for the Technique, coach of the debating team, and associate editor of Critique, a journal of studies in modern fiction. He is the author of numerous articles of literary criticism.

Young received his Bachelor of Science degree from California Institute of Tech­nology in 1949, his Master's degree in English in 1950 from Stanford Uni­versity, and in 1956 was awarded his Ph.D. degree in English from Rice Univesrity.

While studying for his doctorate at Rice, Young taught American Literature, then joined the Georgia Tech faculty after he received his degree. He has also served two years on the Tulane Uni­versity faculty.

Top architects speak on campus WHAT'S HAPPENING was more or less the subject of a lecture given to Atlanta architects, Tech architecture students, and interested public by Chairman of Harvard University's Department of Architecture, Benjamin Thompson.

With almost ear-splitting popular music and three synchronized slide pro­jectors, he "created the real visual im­pact of a city through a concept of human scales which, in the end, focuses on people, not on the buildings them­selves."

The loud music, he explained, was to destroy the present environment and make the person a part of the design.

To illustrate how some architecture does not fit into the scope of human activities, Thompson showed a series of slides concerned with scenes of children, sunshine, flowers and the joys of people on a normal summer day which were accompanied by a jazzed-up version of Gershwin's "Summertime." The sequence ended with an ugly, tall, grey building in Boston that Thompson felt was com­pletely out of harmony with the world, its surroundings and the people.

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Architecture, Thompson feels, will someday benefit from visual methods similar to the ones he presented at Tech. With them it will be possible to project the ultimate design and relate it to the whole of activities and environment while it is in the beginnings of planning.

Architect's Beattie named Commission head CULTURE may be thought to be lacking at Tech, but it's there if you want it. George Beattie, who is chairman of the creative drawing program and an instruc­tor in the school of architecture, will be­gin a two-year leave of absence in June to head the Georgia Art Commission.

He has received numerous awards for his paintings including the national Mead Art Show which had its beginnings in Atlanta, the Southeastern Annual Show, Audubon Artists at the National Academy Galleries, the Macon Museum Show, and Callaway Gardens. In 1963, he had a retrospective exhibition in the Columbus Museum, and his works have been on display in New York City, At­lanta, and in the Art: USA Show.

Beattie will be chairman of the 23 member committee which represents art, theater, music, and dance. He said, "The committee will serve all the arts in the state as equally as possible but will take into consideration the needs and inclina­tions of the particular communities."

Currently, Beattie is on the advisory committee of the Atlanta Arts Festival and two years ago was president of the meet which is annually held in Piedmont Park. He is a member of the executive committee of the Greater Atlanta Arts Council and the advisory board of the Southeastern Education Laboratory for Elementary and Secondary Schools.

He studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art, was head of the Brenau Art Department, and has taught at the At­lanta Art Institute as well as at Tech.

Baum named to head Joint Drive J O H N P. BAUM of Milledgeville and Harry S. Baxter of Atlanta have been named General Chairmen of the 1967 campaign of the Joint Tech-Georgia Development Fund and will lead the drive to solicit faculty salary-supplement funds from business and industrial firms in Georgia.

Baum, vice chairman of J. P. Stevens and Co., is a past president of the Georgia Textile Manufacturers Associa­tion and the Georgia Tech Foundation, and in 1962 received Tech's Dis­tinguished Alumni Service Award. Bax­ter, a partner in the law firm of Kil-patrick, Cody, Rogers, McClatchey and Regenstein, is a past president of Metro­politan Atlanta Community Services, the Lawyers Club of Atlanta, and the University of Georgia Law School Association.

Other Tech leaders who will serve with

the General Chairman this year are: Morris M. Bryan, president of Jefferson Mills, Jefferson, who will head the State campaign with Joel Hunt; James B. Ramage, agency manager of the Equit­able Life Assurance Society, who will help direct the Atlanta campaign; Charles R. Yates, vice president-finance, ACL-L&N Railroads; and Carl J. Reith, president of Colonial Stores, both of At­lanta, who will head the National Firms solicitation.

Philip H. Alston will serve as chair­man of the Fund's Executive Committee and, along with President O. C. Ader-hold, will represent the University's Foundation. President E. D. Harrison of Tech and Oscar Davis will represent the Tech Foundation. Completing the mem­bership of this committee will be chairmen of the two preceding campaigns, J. J. McDonough (Tech), Charles Gowen, W. C. Wardlaw (Tech) and A. H. Sterne.

In order to help meet the steadily-increasing need for faculty supplements, this organization will undertake to bring in $625,000 annually by the end of 1968. A thousand firms are now contributing to its support.

AUGUSTA, GEORGIA—Sixty-one Tech a-lumni turned out for the December 8 stag party of the Augusta Georgia Tech Club to hear Assistant Coach Bill Fulcher and Aumni Secretary Roane Beard talk about Tech. Dort B. Payne presided over the meeting at which Ful­cher talked about the 1966 season and Beard discussed the institution's building program and academic policies. Fulcher narrated films of the 1966 Tech-Duke football game.

DALLAS, TEXAS—Joe Guthridge enter­tained 48 members of the North Texas Club with a talk on Tech's new academic and building programs at the December 9 meeting. Guthridge, vice president for development, also presented a Tech foot­ball film.

KINGSPORT, TENNESSEE—Fred Ajax, di­rector of campus affairs, spoke to the Kingsport Georgia Tech Club on Janu­ary 27. The popular Tech administrator was joined by Brian Hogg, associate alumni secretary who brought the audi­ence up-to-date on Tech's expansion pro­gram. Ajax talked about the necessity of maintaining a spirit of change as progress dictates. There were 59 present at the meeting.

MACON, GEORGIA—Coach Joe Pittard was the guest speaker at the November 22 meeting of the Macon Georgia Tech Club. Forty-five alumni came to hear

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THE CLUBS—continued Coach Joe explain the benefits of being a college athlete.

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE—The Memphis Georgia Tech Club met on January 18 to hear President Edwin D. Harrison speak on the changes which he has seen take place during his first 10 years in office. Special guests at the meeting in­cluded Tom Todd, a Memphis merit scholar, Steve Timmons and Rob Uhl-mann, who will attend Tech on football grants next fall; and Brother Phillip Morgan, a representative of Christian Brothers College. Officers elected for the coming year included J. E. Harwood, III, president; Robert M. Poole, Jr., vice president; Dan Neighbors, secretary-treasurer; and Donald H. McCamy, roll call chairman.

ORLANDO, FLORIDA—Bob Wallace, direc­tor of information services, was the guest speaker at the November 16 meeting of the Central Florida Alumni Association. Wallace briefed the 73 alumni and guests on the growth of the institution and the state of its academic and athletic pro­grams. The present officers were elected for an additional five-month term in order to change the fiscal year procedures of the club. They include Chet Tomlin, Jr., president; Donald W. Carraway, vice president; Art Siegel, secretary; and Max Ireland, treasurer.

News of the Alumni by Classes

' 1 0 Charles L. Crumley, TE, of St. ' ** Augustine, Florida, died on De­

cember 24, 1966.

» 1 £ Marcus M. Clayton, Sr., CE, was ' • killed in an automobile accident

in Ft. Valley, on December 24, 1966.

' I E Charles W. Fulwood, Arch., of '*» Tifton, Georgia, passed away

recently.

' 1 7 Emory B. Phillips, Sr., EE, died • * in November.

1 Q We have recently learned of the •O death of Mr. Russell E. Babbitt,

Sr., EE, on December 1, 1966. Howard B. Sawtell passed away in

Brunswick, Georgia, in November of '66.

! ' 1 Q Lewis E. Cook, Arch., died on \ • « January 12, 1967. Mr. Crook had

been a well-known supporter of Tech for many years.

Caldwell Ragan, Sr.. has retired as an executive with a textile corporation. He is residing at 706 S. York Street, Gas-tonia, North Carolina 28052.

Mr. John C. Rogers of Ponte Vedra, Florida, passed away recently. Mr. Rogers had been a loyal supporter of Georgia Tech and its many programs.

' O n Mr. Warren R. Pollard, EE, for-£•** merly with the Virginia Transit

Company died on October 12. His widow resides at 3303 Sulgrave Road, Rich­mond, Virginia.

' 0 1 Arthur "Peck" Rylander, ME, ™' who had been very active in his

home community of Americus, Georgia, passed away on July 5, 1966.

Robert T. Willingham, passed away in September in Marietta, Georgia.

' 0 0 Carlyle Holienmn has recently re-£ « tired.

^OA. ^ ' Marshall Moore passed away *~ ' in February, 1966, in Charlotte,

North Carolina.

' O C Mr. G. R. Hardwick of Atlanta ^** passed away this past September.

' O C Dixon Allen, EE, of Anniston, ^ ^ Alabama, passed away in October,

1966. He had been a faithful supporter of Tech for many years.

Irwin Lamar Partee. CE, passed away in October of 1966.

James Lee Ricketson. EE, of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, an avid alumnus, died on December 7, 1966.

James T. Ricketson, was blessed with his first granddaughter, Jennifer Anne Taylor, on October 4, 1966.

' O T John L. H. Young recently retired ™ • from Southern Bell after complet­

ing 39 years of service with the com­pany. Mr. Young and his wife plan to divide their time between their Atlanta home on Sharondale Drive and their home in Highlands, North Carolina.

' O Q Howard L. Brewton, CE, passed ^** away in August, 1966, in Portland,

Oregon. His widow resides at 3920 Has-salo in Portland.

' O H A. H. Blackmore, EE, passed away * » " recently in Windsor, Missouri.

John L. Hammond passed away last October in Ladson, South Carolina.

Ralph L. Heard, TE, recently passed away in Chattanooga. His wife's ad­dress is 102 Stephenson Avenue, Look­out Mountain, Tennessee.

Hammond B. Smith. Com., who has been Director of The Atlanta Region of the U. S. Civil Service Commission dur­ing the past 12 years, has just received the highest award that can be conferred by the Commission, The Commissioner's

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Faces in the News Wiley P. Ballard, '41, has been elected Presi­dent and a Director of Texaco Experiment, Inc., w i th main offices in Richmond, Va. TEI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Texaco, Inc., which special izes in propul ­sion, high-strength ma­terials and electronics.

Sid Williams, '42, has recently accepted a po­sition as Assistant to the Director of Management Systems in the Manned Orbiting Laboratory Pro­gram of Douglas Aircraft Company. He graduated from Georgia Tech and received a B.S. degree in Industrial Management.

M. J. Osborne, '44, who is v ice pres ident and chief engineer of Bo-waters Southern Paper Corp., has received the f i rst Engineer ing Divi­sion Award ever pre­sented by the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry. He began his career w i th Crossett Co. in 1946.

William C. Giegold, '47, has been named man­ager of General Elec­tee's Magnetic Materials Business Section in the Meta l lu rg ica l Products Department. He will be head of G.E.'s manufac­tu r i ng fac i l i t y in La-Grange, III. He was a manufacturing manager for G.E.

George J. Myers, '47, was appointed Technical Director, USAF Special Projects Production Fa­c i l i t y , Westover AFB, Mass. with a grade of GS15. He has been with Operations Research at the same base for seven years and has a degree from Tech in Electrical Engineering.

Wade H. Rhyne, '48, has been promoted to Senior Branch Manager at the Jacksonville sales office of the Foxboro Co. He joined the firm in 1955 as a Sales Engineer in Chattanooga, Tenn., and subsequently worked in Birmingham, and Jack­sonv i l le as a branch manager.

NEWS BY CLASSES—cont. Award. He makes his home in Atlanta.

Charles S. Smyly recently passed away in Eastman, Georgia.

) 0 Raynold Worth Allen of Winston-***• Salem, North Carolina, passed

away recently. Willis R. Greer, CE, has recently

transferred from Seattle, Washington, to Indianapolis, Indiana. He is employed by the Lone Star Cement Corporation.

James C. Sproull died this past Sep­tember. His wife resides at 3310 Deer-wood Drive, Gastonia, North Carolina.

Henry Burns, Jr., ME, president » " of Burns Brick Company, Macon,

Georgia, received the Hewitt Willson Award of the Southeast Section American Ceramic Society for outstanding service in the field of ceramics.

0 /1 Eugene M. Johnson, is serving as Chief Engineer for the Mississippi

State Highway Department. He has re­cently been elected president of the American Association of State Highway Officials.

Marion P. Rivers, Jr., Com., died on December 15, 1966.

Daniel T. Hosenbeck, Jr., TE, passed away recently in Greens­

boro, North Carolina. Thomas E. Jones, Jr., a long-time sup­

porter of Georgia Tech, died recently in Canton, Georgia.

Michael T. Lambert. Jr.. ME, died in December. His widow's

address is 3200 Wood Valley Road, N. W., Atlanta.

Henry I. Jehan has become as­sociated with Triangle Conduit &

Cable Company, Inc., New Brunswick, New Jersey. His new home address is 280 River Road, Apartment 86 B, Piscat-away, New Jersey 08854.

D. L. Johnston, CE, passed away re­cently in Pasadena, Texas. He had been a loyal supporter of Tech for years.

Charles S. LeCraw, IM, is the first Army Reserve officer to be

designated a logistician in the non-resi­dent career program of the Army Logistics Management Center, Ft. Lee, Virginia. The Colonel, in the Army Re­serve, is manager for construction and marketing at U. S. Steel.

Herbert S. Saffir, CE, is a consulting engineer in Coral Gables, Florida. He recently presented a paper on current standards of structural performance of glass at the Fall Conference of The Building Research Institute.

Jack W. Adams has opened an office in Gainesville, Florida, at

1410 N. W. 13th Avenue, specializ­ing in his dentistry specialization of peridontics.

' A 0 . D e c e a s e d : Jeff H- Wallis of 2539 " v Headland Drive, East Point,

Georgia, after a long illness.

' A R John C. Beals. ID, has been pro­moted to Colonel in the USAF. He

and his wife, Virginia, live in Sumter, South Carolina.

Gilbert Bachmcmn has been pro­moted to the presidency of Dittler

Brothers in Atlanta. He is currently serv­ing as president of the Printing Industry of America, Inc.

E. F. Hughs, Jr.. IM, has recently received an award for "outstand­

ing achievement" in Standard Oil Com­pany's 1966 SPOTLIGHT ON SALES contest.

Gene G. .Guenther, IM, has re­ceived the call to "Go west, young

man, go west"—all the way to Alaska. He presently is employed with Air Force Communication Systems as a mechanical engineer GS-12. Address: 3016 East 41st Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99504.

Robert W. Milling has been promoted to Lt. Colonel at the USAF Academy, Colorado, where he is an instructor.

Lt. Col. Robert F. Woodall, Jr., USAF, was awarded the Commendation Medal for meritorious achievement at the Los Angeles Air Force Station, California.

Lt. Col. Tom M. Arnold, Jr., Chem., is on duty at Bien Hoa Air Base, Vietnam.

Junius Clyde Bell, IM, is attend­ing Harvard Business School for

intensive training in the middle manage­ment development course.

Robert S. Brooks, TE, has been named assistant dyes division manager for CIBA Chemical & Dye Company. Mr. Brooks resides with his wife and family at 39 Robin Hood Lane, Chatham, New Jersey.

Maj. Richard E. Hemmingway, USMC, IE, is serving in Vietnam with a Marine Attack Squadron.

Harry L. Holloman, IE, has been elected vice president, parts and service, and a member of the Board of Directors of Yancey Brothers Company. Mr. Hol­loman resides in Macon, Georgia.

Major Robert J. Carlson, USAF, IE, has received, for the second

time, the USAF Commendation Award at Yakota, Japan. His wife, Johnnie, re­sides in Thomasville, Georgia, at 115 Bartow Street.

David L. Smith, EE, has been pro­moted to Lt. Colonel at the Air Uni­versity at Maxwell AFB, Alabama. His mailing address is 508 W. 28th Street, Vancouver, Washington.

T. E. Swilley, EE, District Manager for Schlumberger Well Services, has been transferred to New Iberia, Louisiana.

George C. Beckmann, Jr., IM, has been appointed administrator for

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Faces in the News Frank Holladay, '50, re­ceived the Region V Southeastern Plant En­g i n e e r of t h e Year Award. He is now vice president of Plant Engi­neer ing for Southwire Company in Carrollton, Ga., and has been with the company since 1952. He received his degree in Electrical Engineering.

George H. Fisk, '51, has been named manager of manufacturing, film and sheet, from his position as plant manager for Celanese P l a s t i c s in Newark. He joined Cel­anese in 1955 as quality cont ro l engineer, and has been a supervisor and head of production planning.

George A. Morris, '53, has been a p p o i n t e d Southeastern Divis ion Manager for Royal Crown Cola Co. He has been with RC since 1962, and previously was assistant to the vice president of Georgia Power Co. in Columbus. He was a member of the 1952 All-America football team.

Robert J. Bitowft, '55, was recently selected to represent Peat Marwick and Mitchell as a finan­c ia l management con­su l tan t to the Kuwait National Petroleum Com­pany. His address is Post Office Box 70 , KNPC, Kuwait, Arabia.

James C. Leathers, '55, is now Assistant Super­intendent of Duke Power C o m p a n y ' s M a r s h a l l Stea m S t a t i o n , nea r Char lo t te , N.C. When completed in 1970, Mar­shall will be one of the largest steam electr ic generat ing stat ions in the world.

George E. McCormick, '56, formerly director of qua l i ty contro l at Ge-nesco, was named a Su­pervisor for Kurt Salmon A s s o c i a t e s , I n c . Ad ­vanced Analytical Meth­od of Training programs. He specia l ized in the design and installation of these programs.

NEWS BY CLASSES—cont. the Warm Springs Foundation Hospital at Warm Springs, Georgia.

George C. Gilbreath has completed more than twenty-five missions in South­east Asia. His wife lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee at 3941 Manor Road.

Holton R. Parris, IM, has announced the formation of Equity Utility Service Company, Inc., located at 6049 Boylston Drive (Sandy Springs), Atlanta 30328.

Richard Vaughan, CE, is now Chief of the Environmental Sanitation Program for the National Center for Urban and Industrial Health Department for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in Cincinnati, Ohio 45213.

' C O Major Roy M. Brewer, USAF, has wfc been decorated with The Bronze

Star Medal at Patrick AFB, Florida, for meritorious service as assistant flight operations officer in Vietnam. His wife, the former Martha Still of Atlanta, re­sides on La Vista Road.

John A. Caddell, now associated with Blount Bros. Corporation in Mont­gomery, Alabama, will become manager of the Construction Division. He is mar­ried to the former Miss Joyce Kirby of Montgomery and they now have five children.

Charles E. Gearing, EE, received his Ph.D. in Management Science from Pur­due University in August of 1966 and is presently assistant professor in Kannert Graduate School of Industrial Adminis­tration at Purdue.

' C O Robert M. Bullard, IM, has been 3 3 appointed Manager of Markets

Sales by Honeywell, Inc.'s Industrial Division. He and his wife, the former Margaret Ann Wilkins of Atlanta, and their three children live at 1561 Derry Drive, Dresher, Pennsylvania 19025.

Jack D. Patterson, has just been ap­pointed President of Petroleum Equip­ment Company, 407 40th Avenue, North, Nashville, Tennessee.

' C ^ George W. Finison, EE, has been chosen as a Staff School Selection

by the Air Force Logistics Command at Warner Robins Air Materiel Center. He and his wife, Dorothy Jean, live at Warnerson, Apt. 38, Warner Robins, Georgia 31093.

Captain Augustus E. Markette, IM, has completed specialized pilot training at Tinker AFB, Okla. Capt. Markette and wife, Hilda, will reside at Charleston AFB, South Carolina.

Captain Thurman N. Palmer, USAF, is now flying as a Safety Officer at Mc-Chord AFB, Washington.

H. Carlos Puckett, IM, is now an As­sociate with the Alvin H. Phillips Co. of Greenville, S. C. His new address is 206 Northfield Drive, Raleigh, North Caro­lina 27609.

Captain Everett T. Raspberry, USAF, serving with the Air Force in Saigon,

Vietnam, has been awarded the Dis­tinguished Flying Cross for shooting down seven MIGs in one day.

' E C Walter Carlson, TE, has recently 3*1 moved to Atlanta as the Marketing

Director of Chemical Services, Inc. He resides at 5694 Mill Shire Lane, Dun-woody, Georgia 30043, along with his wife, Sallie, and their four children.

Captain Robert S. Greever, AE, has been decorated with the Air Medal at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa. As an F-100 Super Sabre pilot, he received the medal for meritorious achievement while par­ticipating in aerial flights in Southeast Asia. He is now assigned to Kadena as a member of the Pacific Air Forces.

»CC B. F. Barfield, ME, has accepted 3 U a position as Associate Professor

of Mechanical Engineering at the Uni­versity of Alabama. His new home ad­dress is 162 Woodland Hills, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35486.

Michael Harold Hull, ID, was recently promoted to Major at the U.S. Army Aviation Materiel Laboratories in Ft. Eustis, Virginia. Major Hull resides with his wife, Kathryn, and sons Michael and David, at 1105-A Thompson Circle, Ft. Eustis, Virginia.

Howard F. Duson, IM, has joined the Arthur Jakeman and Associates firm as a consultant. Their address is 4214 Air­port Boulevard, Mobile, Alabama.

W. Richard Hauenstein, IE, and his wife, announce the birth of a son, Glen Alan.

Franklin D. Jordan, AE, who is serv­ing with the U. S. Army Corps of En­gineers at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, has been promoted to Chief of a Section. His home address is 3206 Ravensworth Place, Alexandria, Virginia.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Neil Lesser, EE, a son, Joel Steven. The Lessers re­side at 2212 Randolph Court, N. E., Atlanta 30329.

»CQ Major Walter H. Lane, USAF, is ' on duty at Cam Ranh Bay Air

Base, Vietnam, as an F-4C Phantom II aircraft pilot.

William, E. Martin, IE, has been ap­pointed Officer in Charge of the Square Office of the South Carolina National Bank in Anderson, South Carolina.

Donald S. Pirkle, IE, has been named Coatings District Sales Manager with Dow Chemical Company in Atlanta.

R. B. Brooks, EE, Field Engineer for Schlumberger Well Services, has been transferred to Wooster, Ohio.

' C Q Married: Thomas Morgan Roberts, 3 3 IE, to Margaret Elizabeth Boyle

on January 24 in Memphis, Tennessee. He is vice president of Southern Boiler and Tank Works.

Capt. Orson G. Swindle, III, USMAC, was shot down by enemy ground fire on November 11, 1966, and is believed to be a prisoner of the Viet Cong.

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Faces in the News Robert B. Church, III, '57, has won an award from Progressive Archi­tecture magazine for his design of an Arkansas residence. The proposed house is designed for a community-minded fam­ily of five who entertain large numbers of friends as part of everyday life.

L. Thomas Murphy, Jr., '57, has been named Plant Manager of the Hudson Wire Company's new Trenton, Ga. plant to be built in the spring of 1967. Formerly, he was D i r e c t o r of t h e N o r t h w e s t G e o r g i a Branch of Tech's IDD in Rome. He and his fam­ily will live in Trenton.

William D. Sheppard, '57, is now branch man­ager of the Tampa sales office of the Foxboro Company where he has been a sales engineer in the Tampa office since 1960 . Foxbo ro is a worldwide manufacturer of instruments and con­trol systems.

William M. Oigby, '58, has been promoted to Branch Manager of the Greenville, S.C. office of t h e Foxbo ro Co. He jo ined Foxboro at At­lanta in 1959 as a sales e n g i n e e r , was t r a n s ­ferred to Greenville in 1963, and was then pro­moted to Senior Sales Engineer in 1965.

Richard R. Hinch, '59, has accepted a position as a Supervisor in the Engineering Division of Kurt Salmon Associates, Inc., of New York. His work with KSA since he jo ined the f i rm af ter graduation has been in material utilization for the company's apparel industry clients. <

Keith Brasher, '64, has joined Dixisteel Build­ings, Inc., of Atlanta, as Chief of the Research and Development Sec­tion of the firm's Engi­neering Department. He has had previous train­ing in electronic data processing equipment, and received his Mas­ter's from Tech.

NEWS BY CLASSES—cont.

Paul P. Watkins, IM, has joined Delta Air Lines in Atlanta as a Second Officer.

|fl Major Alden A. Scott, MS, has **U completed specialized pilot train­

ing at Tinker AFB, Okla., and has been assigned to Dover AFB, Delaware, as a member of the Military Airlift Command.

W. H. Starnes, Jr., Ph.D., Chem., has a paper in the current issue of The Jour­nal of Organic Chemistry. It is entitled "Acid-Catalyed Decomposition of Per-oxydienones derived from Hindered Phenols."

James H. Phillips, Jr., ME, re-»» I ceived a promotion to Lt. Colonel

this past November. He and his wife, Ruth, live at 4605 Millburn Court, Alex­andria, Virginia. They have two chil­dren, Mark and Eric.

JO Ralph E. Vick, AE, has been pro-vt- moted to the rank of Captain. He

recently received a Distinguished Flying Cross, Commendation Metal, Air Metal, and Kaman Helicopter Award for rescue missions while on duty in Southeast Asia.

First Lieutenant Milton A. Cash, USAF, IM, has entered the Air Uni­versity's Squadron Officer School at Max­well AFB, Alabama. He is married to the former Alice Milliken, who resides at 1234 Conoy Street, Harrisburg, Penn­sylvania.

Lt. Robert E. Hawkins, USAF, has recently received the Air Force Commen­dation Medal for meritorious Achieve­ment at Los Angeles Air Force Station.

Donald M. Bohler, ME, has recently graduated from Stanford University with an MS in ME and is being reassigned as a First Lieutenant and instructor in the Department of Aeronautics at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado.

Married: John Otis Ethridge, EE, to Miss Barbara Jean Bohannan in Mont­erey Park, California.

William Mark Snedden, IE, has gradu­ated from the General Electric Manufac­turing Training Program. He has taken a position as Inventory and Production Planning Specialist, heading project group in computer applications in manu­facturing. He is living at 50 Greenwell Ct., Lynchburg, Virginia.

William R. Cooke, CE, has joined the Research and Development Department of Ethyl Corporation in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Eugene P. Rivers, IE, a daughter, Sally Lillian, in August. The Rivers live at 1462 Upland Drive, Griffin, Georgia. Mr. Rivers is working as a Standards Engineer at Dundee Mills, Inc.

George Alfred Harbour, III, IM, has been released from active duty with the Navy and is now working with General Electric in Charlotte, North Carolina. His home address is 6760 Lancer Drive.

Larry R. Kirk, IE, has recently been promoted to plant industrial enigneer at the Fiber Operations of American Vis­cose Division, FMC Corp. in Nitro, West Virginia.

' C 9 Married: Thomas Joseph Carter, 0 " Arch., to Miss Linda Diane Moore.

Mr. Carter is employed by Edwards and Portman, Architects.

R. T. Creighton, Jr., EE, has recently completed all requirements for an EE degree with an MS from Southern Meth­odist Universtiy. His new address is 5905 Sandhurst Lane, Apt. 109, Dallas, Texas.

Married: George Lawrence Hunnicutt, CE, to Marcia Joan Dunn of Atlanta. The wedding took place in St. Peters­burg in November. He is a project en­gineer for the Charles M. Graves Organi­zation in Atlanta.

Married: Andre' C. Jasse, Jr., IM, to Sandra Hazlett of Winthrop, Massa­chusetts. The wedding took place last April. He received his LL.B degree to June from Boston College Law School and was admitted as an attorney to the Massachusetts Bar. He is associated with Dean Witter & Co., Investment Bankers and Brokers, 125 High St., Boston, Massachusetts.

William Allen Johnson. ME, was killed on the Aircraft Carrier Orikany, October 26, 1966. The family's address is 910 Bridle Path Lane, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Captain and Mrs. Stuart A. Mead of Mannheim, Germany, announce the birth of a daughter, Dorothy Marie, on Octo­ber 30 at the U. S. Army Hospital in Heidelberg.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Lee Harris Smith, EE, a daughter, Allison Chand­ler, on June 30, 1966. Mr. Smith is em­ployed as a District Engineer by the Louis Allis Co. They reside at 8223 Carrolwood Drive, Charlotte, North Car­olina 28210.

Lt. Stanley J. Smith, USAF, AE, has been assigned to Project Gemini at the 6555th Aerospace Test Wing, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida. His home ad­dress is 291r Butler Street, Melbourne, Florida.

Lt. and Mrs. Fitzhugh L. Wood, IM, announce the birth of a son, Kenneth, on March 6, 1966, in Denver, Colorado.

' f iA E n S a S e d : George Verdery Boyd, IM, to Patricia Ruth Alverson.

The wedding will take place in March. He will receive his J.D. degree in June from Emory University.

First Lieutenant Lee E. Bricker, USAF, MSCE, has entered the Air Uni­versity's Squadron Officer School at Max­well AFB, Alabama.

Lt. Thomas E. Clement, USAF is be­ing assigned to Laughlin AFB, Texas for pilot training.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. William G. Edgar, TE, a son, James William, II, Aug. 15. Mr. Edgar is with Burlington Mills, Halifax, Virginia.

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NEWS BY CLASSES—cont. Ronald L. Fulmer, ME, was awarded

the Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service as the Post Chemical Officer at Ft. Stewart, Georgia, upon completion of two years of active duty. Mr. Fulmer is employed as a Design Engineer by the E. I. du Pont de Nem­ours & Co. in Chattanooga. His home ad­dress is 2328 David Lane, Chattanooga.

John C. Gullickson, IM, has graduated from the U. S. Naval Officer Candidate School at Newport, Rhode Island.

Lt. Jerry L. Hanchey, USAF, AE, was awarded his silver wings at Vance AFB, Arizona, and will be assigned to MacDill AFB, Florida. His home address is 3609 Ridge Rd., North Little Rock, Arkansas.

Lt. Arthur H. Patton, Jr., USAF is training at Tyndall AFB, Florida, as a weapons controller.

James P. Roby, III, EE, has been commissioned a second lieutenant and is assigned to Edwards AFB, California for training and duty. His wife is living at 3356 Napier Avenue, Macon, Georgia.

Second Lieutenant William H. Satter-field, IE, completed a nine-week orienta­tion course at Ft. Gordon, Georgia on October 7, 1966, and a 16-week microwave course at Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey, January 31, 1967. He will leave the first of March for a year's tour of Bangkok, Thailand. Lt. Satterfield's address is 1130 Booth Ave., Owensboro, Kentucky 42301.

Charles G. Spooner, IM, is now work­

ing with V. B. McCormick & Sons in South Vietnam. His work includes building an airstrip and other projects on Project Turnkey.

Lawrence P. Staunton, Math, is study­ing for his Ph.D. at UCLA. His address is 3326 S. Sawtelle Boulevard, Apt. 18, Los Angeles, California 90066.

First Lieutenant Wymon J. Stephens, USAF, is a member of the OUTSTAND­ING WING CREW in his strategic Air Command outfit at Francis E. Warren AFB, Wyoming. He was cited for his performance during operational and training missions.

Henry Clements Taylor, Jr., Phys, of 1724 Westhaven Drive, S. W., Atlanta, 30311, is attending Officer Candidate School at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, U. S. Corps of Engineers.

' C C Pierre H. Charrin, IE, has been ^*» promoted to Army First Lieute­

nant in Korea with the Second Artillery. Lt. Richard J. Ciprotti, USAF, is a

communications officer at Fuchu Air Sta­tion, Japan.

Engaged: Jack M. Epstein, IE, to Miss Judith Ann Kross of Miami Beach. The wedding is planned for this spring. He is with The Coca-Cola Co. in Atlanta.

Second Lieutenant Nicholas E. Gryn-kewich, Cer.E., has received his wings.

Bobby D. Harper, MS, has recently been promoted to Major at the U. S. Army Aviation Materiel Command at St. Louis, Missouri. He resides at 1573 Ville-Maura Lane, Hazelwood, Missouri.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Dave Hitch­cock, Jr., a daughter in September, 1966. The Hitchcocks live at 110 Whispering Way, Atlanta 30328.

Engaged: Wamon Daniel Faulk, IM, to Miss Susan Irene Dennard of Decatur, Georgia. Mr. Faulk was a member of the varsity football team and the " T " Club. They will live in Greenville, South Carolina.

Second Lieutenant James D. Hoag, AE, has completed specialized pilot training at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla­homa, in the newest jet transport, the C-141 Starlifter, and is being reassigned to McChord AFB, Washington, with the Military Airlift Command.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. John Allen Matthews, Arch, a son, Pels Alexander, on October 15. They are presently resid­ing at 273 Dwight Street, New Haven, Connecticut.

Lt. Robert S. Pahl, USAF, IM, has been commissioned at Lackland AFB, Texas, and is being transferred to Moody AFB, Georgia, for pilot training. His wife Nancy lives at Rt. 1, Clarkes-ville, Georgia.

Jon William Reinhardt, ME, has been promoted to process engineer in the body shop, Fisher Body Plant. He resides at 2440-B Johnson Ferry Rd., N. E., At­lanta, Georgia 30329.

Jeffrey W. Weiss, IM, is associated with Edwards and Hanley, members of the New York Stock Exchange. They

are located at No. 2 Broadway, New York City.

' R f i Thomas W. Akridge, AE, who now 0 0 lives at 13751 Edwards St., Apt.

11-C, Westminister, California 92683, has accepted a position with Douglas Missile and Space Systems Division as an As­sociate Engineer Scientist.

Lt. James A. Bond, has been com­missioned at Lackland AFB, Texas, and will be in training at Keesler AFB, Mississippi, as a communications officer.

Steven M. Bromberg is now employed with the Public Health Service Air Pollu­tion Branch, Cincinnati, Ohio.

James P. Bryant, TE, MS, has been appointed a textile engineer with Mon­santo Chemical Co. He and his wife, Sue, live at 1401 19th Ave., S. E., De­catur, Georgia.

William E. Burrows. IS, MS, is being assigned to Hickam AFB, Hawaii. His wife, Rita, lives at 6335 N. Michigan Road.

Stephen D. Carver, IM, has been com­missioned a second lieutenant in the USAF and is being assigned to Chanute AFB, Illinois, for training as an aircraft maintenance officer. His wife, the former Margaret King, resides at 142 Talley St., Marietta, Georgia.

Manson D. Case, ME, has been pro­moted to first lieutenant at Pupyong, Korea. His USA address is 414 W. Cama St., Charlotte, North Carolina.

Britton W. Davis, Jr., is in training at Lowry AFB, Denver, Colorado.

John F. De Bardelebcn. Jr., Chem, has been appointed a research scientist at the Philip Morris, Inc. Research Center in New York City.

Charles Virgil Gandy, Jr., IM, and the former Margaret Florence Gregory were married in Atlanta this past December.

Married: Ensign Edward Hunt Guil-bert, Jr., CE, to Miss Frances Sibley in December in Atlanta.

Thomas G. Hancock. Chem, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the USAF upon graduation from Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Texas. He is being assigned to Tyndall AFB, Florida for training as a weapons controller.

Lt. James M. Johnson. USAF is being assigned to Keesler AFB, Mississippi, for training as an Air Force Communications Officer.

Ruben F. Owen, AE, who was stated as having been married in September, 1966, will not be married until September of 1967.

Charles E. Parrott has recently been appointed a textile engineer for the Monsanto Chemical Company's Textile Division in Decatur, Alabama. He and his wife, Marie, will live in Decatur at 1504 16th Ave., S. W.

Lt. Ronald C. Smith, USAF, IE, has recently been commissioned second lieu­tenant at Lackland AFB, Texas, and is being assigned to Chanute to complete training.

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