Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Vol. 40, No. 02 1961

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jilmtM In this issue G O WEST Y O U N G M E N , G O WEST • the big trip to the coas N A T I O N A L DEFENSE STUDENT L O A N S • a pork barrel? ' R O U N D A N D ' R O U N D THEY G O • a rotating research projet EXCLUSIVE FOOTBALL C O V E R A G E • the first three games

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Six years later, 127 other companies have picked up this idea (or modifications of it) to aid those universities being supported financially by their alumni. As the new matching gift plans have been adopted the concept has been liberalized.

But there are still several companies whose matching gift programs exclude state-assisted institutions of higher learning. In light of President Harrison's statements in his report beginning on page 13 of this issue, this a rather narrow viewpoint as far as Georgia Tech is concerned. The plight of the tax-assisted regional university is a serious one and should be pointed out to every company with a no-support-for-state-schools clause in its matching gift program.

If you work for one of the following companies, you could help Tech simply by lodging a protest about this restriction: Bank of New York . . . Deering, Milliken & Co., Inc. . . . Gulf Oil Corp. . . . Hill Acme Co. . . . Hooker Chemical Corp. . . . Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. . . . National Supply Co. . . . Pennsalt Chemicals Corp. . . . Warner Brothers Co. . . . and Young & Rubicam, Inc. A TO DATE Tech has received matching gift money from 36 companies. This "double-your-money" plan has been a great aid to our roll calls over the past five years. If you work for one of the following companies, you might consider increasing your gift to the annual roll call with the thought in mind that every dollar you contribute means two dollars for Georgia Tech: Aetna Life Affiliated Companies . . . Atlas Powder Co. . . . Burlington Industries . . . Chicopee Manufacturing Corp. . . . Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. . . . Corning Glass Works Co. . . . Dow Chemical Co. . . . Dow Corning Corp. . . . Ebasco Services, Inc. . . . Ford Motor Co. . . .

General Electric Co. . . . General Foods Corp. . . . Glidden Co. . . . B. F. Goodrich Co. . . . Hercules Powder Co. . . .

Hughes Aircraft Co. . . . International

Business Machines Corp. . . . Jefferson Mills, Inc. . . . Walter Kidde Constructors . . . Lehigh Portland Cement Co. . . .

McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. . . . Merck & Co., Inc. . . . Midland Ross Foundation . . . National Distillers Products Corp. . . . National Lead Foundation Co. . . . Northrop Aircraft, Inc. . . . OwensCorning Fiberglas Corp. . . . Personal Products Corp. . . . Phelps Dodge Corp. . . . Pittsburgh Plate Glass . . . Riegel Textile Corp. . . . Rockwell Manufacturing Co. . . . Scott Paper Co. . . . Sharon Steel Corp. . . . Singer Sewing Machine Co. . . . Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. . . . and Whirlpool Corp.

A THE BALANCE of the companies either don't employ Tech men, or the Tech men don't send in their contribution to the roll call, or if they send in a contribution, they forget to enclose the matching gift form furnished by the company. If you work for one of these companies, please consider supporting Tech's faculty supplementation program doubly through your roll call: Acme Shear Co. . . . Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. . . . American Brake Shoe Co. . . . American & Foreign Power Co., Inc. . . . American Home Products Corp. . . . Atlas Rigging and Supply Co. . . . Whitney Blake Co. (The Cook Foundation) . . . Bonwit Teller . . . Boston Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Co. . . . Cabot Corp. . . .

Campbell Soup Co. . . . Canadian General Electric Company, Ltd. (Canadian Colleges only) . . . Carter Products, Inc. . . . Cerro de Pasco Corp. . . . Chase Manhattan Bank . . . Chemical Bank New York Trust Co. . . . Columbian Carbon Co. . . . Connecticut Light and Power Co. . . . Continental Oil Co. . . . Diamond Alkali Co. . . . Draper Corp. . . .

Wilbur B. Driver Co. . . . Easton Car and Construction . . . Electric Bond and Share Co. . . . Fafnir Bearing Co. . . .

E & J Gallo Winery . . . General Atrohics Corp. . . . General Public Utilities Corp. . . . Gibbs & Hill, Inc. . . . Ginn and Co. . . . W. T. Grant Co. . . . HarrisIntertype Corp. . . . Hewlett-Packard Co. . . . J. M. Huber Corp. . . . S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. . . . Kaiser Steel Corp. . . . Kern County Land Co. . . .

Walter Kidde & Co. . . . Kidder, Peabody & Co. . . . Kingsbury Machine Tool Corp. . . . Koiled Kords, Inc. (The Cook Foundation) . . . Lumnus Co. . . . MalTECH ALUMNUS

linckrodt Chemical Works . . . Manufacturers Trust Co. . . . Marine Midland Trust Co. of New York . . . Maytag Co. . . . McCormick & Co., Inc. . . . Medusa Portland Cement Co. . . . Metal & Thermit Corp. . . . Middlesex Mutual Assurance Co. . . . Morgan Engineering Co. . . . New York Trap Rock Corp. . . .

Norton Co. . . . John Nuveen & Co. . . . Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. . . .

Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. . . .

Petro-Tex Chemicals Corp. . . . PitneyBowes, Inc. . . . Ralston Purina Co. . . .

Reliable Electric Co. (The Cook Foundation) . . . Rust Engineering Co. . . .

Schering Corp. . . . Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. . . . Sealright Corp. . . . Selby, Battersbry & Co. . . . Seton Leather Co. . . . Simmons Co. . . . Simonds Saw & Steel Co. . . . Smith Kline & French Laboratories . . . Sperry & Hutchinson Co. . . . Stevens Candy Kitchens, Inc. . . . W. H. Sweney & Co. . . . Tektronix, Inc. . . . Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby, Inc. . . . United Clay Mines Corp. . . . Wallingford Steel Co. . . .

Charles J. Webb Sons Co., Inc. . . . John Wiley & Sons, Inc. . . . Worcester Pressed Steel Co. . . . and Williams & Co.

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A THE CRISIS that Tech has been waiting for since last January arrived quietly and passed peacefully at 11:02 A.M. on September 18 when three Negro students arrived two minutes late at the Tech infirmary for their freshman physicals. The three, watched from across the street by plainclothesmen from the Georgia State Department of Public Safety, walked into the infirmary without escort. Reporters and photographers, barred from the campus by an edict established by President Harrison because of rumors of trouble, watched from the other side of Fifth Street. The only news representatives inside the infirmary were this writer and assistant publications head, Frank Bigger, who were acting as pool reporters for the press.

No one spoke to the three except the doctor who looked up as they came in and uttered the same words he had been speaking to all freshmen that morning: "Straight down the hall to x-ray and then up the stairs when you finish."

The three finished their physicals in the normal one hour and for the rest of the week attended all of the orientation sessions always under the watchful eyes of the plainclothesmen. They attended their first classes on September 27 and within a day the campus had settled back to normal routine with only the three invisible boys to indicate a great crisis had been passed.

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CONTENTS YEAR your National Association Board of Trustees elects a group of top alumni to.act as its National Advisory Board. Set up by districts, this board is responsible for keeping your National Association officers and trustees advised as to the needs of the alumni in the various areas of the world. Each year at Homecoming, this group meets with the Association trustees, while during the rest of the year, we are kept advised of the problems of the alumni by correspondence.

This year's National Advisory Board is another outstanding one. It includes Carl V. Cesery, '31, president of the Jacksonville Tile Company, representing District 1 (Florida, Alaska, Hawaii, and overseas); L. Carl Smith, '31, sales engineer of Mack Trucks, Inc. of Birmingham, representing District II (Alabama and Tennessee); C. Gale Kiplinger, '17, of Kiplinger Letters, Washington, D. C , representing District III (Delaware, Maryland, North and South Carolina, and Virginia); Dr. Edward F. Lafitte, '11, a Philadelphia dentist, representing District IV (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont).

Also Carl B. Whyte, '25, president of Procon, Inc. of Des Plaines, Illinois, representing District V (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, West Virginia, and Wisconsin); Frederick E. Fuchs, '36, district manager of Ohio Brass Company of New Orleans, representing District VI (Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas); and John F. Cochran, '31, president of Driltrol of Long Beach, California, representing District VII (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming).

These loyal Tech men are available to help you with your questions about Tech and its Alumni Association.

Use them whenever you can.

I hope that all of you planning to come back for the 1961 Tech Homecoming will attend the Annual Meeting of the Alumni Association and meet the members of this National Advisory Board as well as the members of your Board of Trustees. And, if you are coming back don't forget the Alumni Institute. It's one of the best things that Tech is doing for the alumni.

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2. RAMBLIN' — the editor makes note of the "Matching Gift" concept and has his say about the "crisis."

5. A CASE OF CONFUSION — an editorial on a "pork barrel" that isn't what it seems.

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GO WEST, YOUNG M E N — B i l l Diehl follows the

Jackets to Ca-lifornia.

13. QUALITY IS OUR GOAL—President Harrison's definitive statement about the future of Georgia Tech, a special report.

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THE OWL AND THE T I G E R — T h e Rice and LSU

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a Tech research project makes a contribution to the health of the men in space.

THE GEORGIA TECH JOURNAL — all of the news about the Institute and the alumni, class by class.

Officers of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association R. A. Siegel, '36, Pres.

I. H. Hardin, '24, VP J. F. Willett, '45, VP J. L. Brooks, Jr., '39, Treas.

W. Roane Beard, '40, Executive Secretary Staff

Bob Wallace, Jr., '49, Editor Bill Diehl, Jr., Chief Photographer Mary Jane Reynolds, Editorial Assistant Tom Hall, '59, Advertising Mary Peeks, Class Notes

THE COVER The quality concept is portrayed in type in a repeat of the cover motif of the President's Report which occupies 12 pages of a special section of this issue. The new photograpn of the president was taken by Bill Diehl during the report to the faculty which President Harrison made on the morning of October 3.

This report was much the same as the one beginning on page 13.

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ANOTHER PORK BARREL? The National Student Defense Loan Act, like many government programs, is not always what it seems

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had been long, tiring and fruitless. The couple had traveled by car with their son from the New England States to Atlanta. They planned to secure a federal loan for the boy to enter Georgia Tech.

After all, he had excelled in high school, graduating at the head of his class and showing a special natural ability in things mechanical.

With the proper education he would certainly make a fine engineer.

They were a family of modest means. The fact that their son was a "needy" student was apparent.

The trip began in high hopes and^ended in utter frustration.

The couple had read and heard quite a bit about the National Defense Student Loan Fund. The high school counselor had encouraged them with tales of the money available through this fund. Appropriation figures for the fund which they had seen were astronomical. The program looked like a godsend. Here was the one chance for their boy to have a college education. So they began their journey with no doubt of its ultimate success.

Their loan application was denied. They were told that all the funds available for federal loans that quarter had long since been exhausted. The student loan representative explained that the youth's ability and need were not doubted. The funds simply were not available.

They had wasted time and money on the trip and now felt that they had been misled.

This is an extreme but true case. It serves to illustrate the misunderstandings which surround the National Defense Student Loan Act. Like our New England couple, too many people think the money is readily available, the funds inexhaustible. For this reason, and perhaps the fact that the interest is relatively low and loans can be repaid over a number of years, students often apply for more money than they actually need.

Congressional appropriation for government student loans this year, Title II, National Defense Education Act, is $90 million—an impressive figure. But, this "pie" must be sliced 1,490 ways. That is the number of colleges and universities in the United States participating in the program this year, according to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

If the money were divided evenly among the participating schools, which it isn't, each would receive roughly $60,402.00. This is still a fairly impressive figure. Now if every, school was on the quarter system, as Tech is, and divided their funds three ways for fall, winter and spring quarters, they would have approximately $20,134.00 per quarter. Supposing each school received 300 loan requests in a single quarter. If all were granted, each needy student would get roughly $67.

Unless the student could tap other resources, he would never make it on a loan of this size.

A number of factors are considered in arriving at the amount of money each participating school will receive. They include size of the student body, anticipated size of the freshman class, how many sophHE TRIP

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"Administrators of loans at Tech are sometimes puzzled by inconsistencies in student applications. Occasionally a student will seek $300 for a quarter from federal loan funds. This, as has been pointed out, is the maximum amount.

When his federal loan is denied, the student seeks a loan from school funds. But this time he only asks for $100!"

"Tech informs parents by letter each time a student seeks a loan. Sometimes the parents are not aware of the student's plans and signify their disapproval."

"It is estimated that Tech wil* shortly need a full-time administrator and secretary to handle loan applications, correspondence, bookkeeping and collections."

omores, juniors and seniors will require loans and the general economic conditions in the area from which the student body will be drawn.

This information is supported by data from each school's controller.

Georgia Tech's award this year from National Defense Student Loan Fund will total $101,762,000. Of this figure, $35,235.00 was set aside for the fall quarter. A total of 308 students sought loans for the quarter and most of these asked for $300, the maximum amount that can be borrowed for a quarter. Tech students are limited to $900 for a school year.

Of the 308 requests, the Student Loans Committee approved 127, and 181 had to be turned down. Those approved were based entirely on need.

The administrators feel that bad psychology has grown up around the federal loans. They are quick to point out this program is no "giveaway." They feel that students are inclined to ask for more than is actually needed simply because it's "government money" and repayment terms are relatively easy. But in requesting the maximum amount, they may be denying another needy student a chance at a loan. It should be mentioned here that school fund loans must be repaid during the quarter. This is probably the prime reason why so many requests are changed from $300 to $100.

Administrators have been confronted by parents who became indignant because their child's loan was denied. This too they attribute to bad psychology of federal money and lack of information. "Parents must realize it is not a case of there being more where that came from," one remarked. Parents and students alike are advised to get all of the information available on National Defense Student Loan Fund before making application. These applications should be made at least two months before school starts. A high school student interested in knowing more about the program should consult his principal or guidance counselor, and the appropriate official of the participating college in which he expects to be enrolled. For the prospective student this official will usually be the director of admissions.

At Tech, the Student Loans Office, within the Offices of the Controller, has been set up for the purpose of administering these loans.

Participating schools have joined the program with spirit and boldness. If it fulfills the purpose of Congress, many students heretofore denied a college education will find it within reach. But the program is also creating a number of difficult administrative problems for the schools.

At present, two employees of Tech's controller's office are spending a great deal of their time in loan administrative work. The amount of bookkeeping, clerical and collection work required will gradually increase as more and more students graduate and begin repaying loans.

Cost of this work must be paid for by Tech since there is no provision for it in the Education Act. The government "pork barrel" is not always what it seems.

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The young man pointing the way west to his teammates, Billy Williamson and Raymond Holt, is Stanley Gann, quarterback of the 1961 Jackets. The scene is the new Atlanta airport; the date is Tuesday evening, September 19; and the occasion is the departure of the Tech team for the West Coast to play Southern California. Between the time this picture was taken and the arrival of the team back in Atlanta on Saturday evening, September 23, the Jackets, wives, coaches, and some lucky members of the faculty had what Bobby Dodd called, "the best road trip in the 31 years I have been at Tech." Accompanying them was Alumnus photographer Bill Diehl, Jr. who brought back a suitcase-full of pictures, a few of which appear on the following pages.

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loaded with extras, as they say in the automobile business, nothing impressed the Tech party like Disneyland. The morning after the 179 people arrived in Los Angeles, The Coca-Cola Company hosted the Tech party to a day at the land of modern fables. Even Bobby Dodd, normally remote to such side benefits of a football trip, took an extremely active part in the Disneyland visit.

And, as these pictures show, had as good a day as anyone.

• Two of Tech's Mississippians, Bobby Caldwell (left) and Chick Graning, join the party's lovely Disneyland guide in a few words with the mouse that began the Disney dynasty.

Coach and Mrs. Dodd smack the water at the end of a bobsled ride at Disneyland (right) and the "Tall Gray Fox" rings the bell to start the good ship "Mark Twain" on its journey.

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Tech's trainer, Buck Andel, peers into Diehl's camera as the entire Tech party poses on the bridge to the famous castle at Disneyland.

Members of the Tech team board the horsedrawn train for a tour of Disneyland's many fascinating exhibits and its unique rides.

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Tonto Coleman takes a turn at leading the band (above) as the Tech party is serenaded at the Coca-Cola luncheon at Disneyland, and (below) the Colemans grimace as they ride.

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GO WEST YOUNG MEN-continued Picture of a woman kissed by John Wayne.

Wayne kissed all the girls in the Tech party as Y. Frank Freeman and the boys looked on.

Mr. Freeman, '10, introduces star Jerry Lewis to the Tech party (left) and then at the Paramount luncheon he hosted the group and introduced Andy Devine and Jimmy Stewart.

Mr. Freeman and his friends FRANK FREEMAN was once the title of a chapter of . a book by the well-known humorist, H. Allen Smith.

Y. Frank Freeman is also an alumnus of Georgia Tech who heads Paramount Studios. On Thursday, Mr. Freeman guided the Tech people through the big Hollywood studios where they met Jimmy Stewart, Andy Devine, Jerry Lewis, and several starlets (who impressed the football players more than did the stars). They also met John Wayne who impressed the female members of the party by kissing them one by one. The Tech party also spent an evening at the Coconut Grove and a day at the famed Farmer's Market, none of which interfered with the main business of the week, playing Southern California at the Coliseum.

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Eva Marie Saint leans out a window to talk with four Tech men as they tour Paramount. i

Dynamite Goodloe, Linda Dodd, Alice Dodd, and Coca-Cola host Jimmy Beers (L to R) walk in the footsteps at Gruman's Chinese.

Looking like a hefty son of a heftier father, Tech tackle Dave Steadman poses with Andy Devine on the set of Paramount's soon-to-be released "The Man who shot Liberty Valence."

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A surprising ending to a per fee J- trip / \ N FRIDAY NIGHT, Georgia 'lech's Yellow Jackets got V , / down to the business of football with a vengeance as they crushed the USC Trojans, 27-7. The Tech team, one-point favorites in the pre-game guessing, went ahead 3-0 on a Lothridgc field goal in the first quarter after one exchange of punts. In the second quarter, the Jackets amazed everyone including their own coaching staff by placing 21 more pQints on the scoreboard to go out the half with a 24-0 bulge.

Tech's first touchdown came on a third-down Gann sneak after guard Dave Watson had recovered a USC fumble on the Trojans' 7-yard line. Lothridge added the point and it was 10-0. After they stopped the Trojans on one series, Gann led the Jackets back from 48 yards out with an 18-yard pass to Graning and a 3-yard scoring pass to Williamson, the big gainers. Lothridge again was true and the score moved to 17-0. After sophomore back Joe Auer recovered a Trojan fumble at the Tech 42, Lothridge came in to lead an attack of his own. This time, the scoring play was a 31-yarder compounded of a short pass from Lothridge to Auer and a magnificent run by Billy Williamson's old high school teammate. Lothridge again kicked one through for a 24-0 lead.

Tech held USC to one successful drive with a determined defense, played a safe game, used almost everyone who made the trip, and still managed to give Lothridge the opportunity to add another field goal, this one from the Trojan 17. The final score was 27-7.

The game was a pleasant ending to a perfect trip, but the Tech party still had one surprise left in store. Saturday afternoon the two Delta jets bringing them back to Atlanta bettered the official Los Angeles-Atlanta speed record by 13 minutes.

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TECH LOSES TO LSU, 0-10, AFTER WHIPPING RICE 24-0

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ECH suffered its first shutout since mid-1958 when a rough bunch of LSU Tigers trimmed the Jackets, 0-10, in Baton Rouge in the third game of the season. The Jackets went into the game rated number 3 in the country and as 7-point favorites. The previous week, the Jackets had an easy afternoon against Rice's seventh ranked Owls as they won their first home game 24-0.

In the Rice game, the Jackets repeated their first half point spree of the USC game when they drove for a touchdown from the opening kickoff. Gann scored on a keeper play after a Gann-Graning 26-yard pass had sparked the 74-yard drive. In the second quarter, a Lothridge punt died on the one and Rice had to punt out to save itself.

Tech took the ball on the Rice 45 and scored in less than two minutes with fullback McNames going over from the two. Lothridge added his fifth consecutive point-after of the season. The third Tech score of the half came after an interception by Toner that carried to the Rice 44. In 11 plays, Tech was in again with Graning scoring on a brutal 1-yard sweep with just 13 seconds left on the clock. In the second half, Lothridge added a field goal to make the final score 24-0 with Rice threatening only once. The Jackets' first unit rushed back in the game in the final period to stop a drive at the Tech three.

Against LSU, the shoe was on the other foot. Tech could do very little right. After a quarter of sparring between the thirty-yard lines, LSU got a break when Tech's brilliant Billy Lothridge fumbled a snap on a four-down and LSU recovered on the Tech 16. Dodd took the blame for this one Sunday on TV when he said he should have ordered a punt on third down that deep in Tech's own territory. The Tigers roared in in three plays to make it 7-0 with a good extra point. In the same quarter, LSU intercepted a Tech pass at the 50 and returned it to the Tech 29. The Jackets held this time and LSU added a 22-yard field goal for its final three points. At the beginning of the second half, Tech made its most serious bid on a drive from its own 20 that stalled on a fourth-down try from the Tiger one-foot line. Tech got one other break when LSU fumbled on its own 22. But the Jackets couldn't move the ball against the fired-up Tigers. It was a typically bad night in Baton Rouge.

Tech's new mascot (above) a $1,000 reck makes its debut at the Rice game which the Jackets won with the aid of pass-catching sophomore end, Billy Martin (88) below.

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Tech's first drive of the game early in the initial period was keyed by a great third down pass from Stan Gann to Williamson.

Photographed for the Alumnus by Bill Diehl, Jr.

The Tech line played its finest in years at the Rice game as shown by the holes opened for Williamson (left) and the fierce tackling

by Don Toner (27) and Larry Stallings.

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by Frank Bigger The new head of Tech's science and technology news bureau reports on a fascinating project

'ROUND AND 'ROUND AND 'ROUND THEY GO screams out of the sky and shatters itself , against the earth. The pilot is killed.

Aboard a luxury liner wallowing in a heavy swell, a passenger, his skin shaded a sickly green, abandons himself to the agony of seasickness and longingly eyes the horizon for land.

Here are two widely separated and seemingly unrelated events. Yet the same forces that caused the plane to crash brought attacks of nausea to the voyager.

Every instrument aboard the fighter was functioning normally. The crash came about through human error. The pilot had become disoriented in a roll maneuver while the plane's speed exceeded that of sound. His static senses were thrown out of kilter. That mechanism in the inner ear, the vestibular system which controls stability of the body telling us which way is up, led the pilot astray.

The ocean passenger is not disoriented. But his stability mechanism is upset by the motion of the ship. Nausea is the result. Why he becomes ill is not clearly understood.

The first problem, the crash, is a product of the Jet Age. The second, seasickness, has plagued man through the ages.

Now American neurophysiologists and psychophysiologists are taking a closer look at the problems of disorientation and motion sickness. The dawning Age of Space, with its incredible speeds and subsequent effects on the human body, lends a note of urgency to their search for knowledge. Development of some of the devices to aid their work will come from Georgia Institute of Technology. In simple language these devices are known as "rotating chairs." Becoming more technical, they are called Labyrinthine Stimulators or angular accelerators.

In order to study angular acceleration responses of the human body, scientists needed a method for stimulating man's vestibular system under controlled conditions. In search of the proper device U. S. Air Force scientists conferred with Winston C. Boteflr a research engineer at Georgia Tech.

Needed was a machine capable of providing constant angular accelerations of varying magnitude to various terminal velocities.

Boteler, 41, who has both a bachelor's and master's degree in mechanical engineering from Tech, began work on the problem in May, 1959. A native of Cedartown, Georgia, he has been on Tech's research staff for 11 years.

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chanics, heat transfer, aerodynamics, and instrumentation.

His work at Tech has concerned investigation of the parameters involved in air flow through parachute fabrics at high differential pressures; study of the effect of base heat addition on the base pressure ratio of bodies in supersonic flow; development of a biaxial fabric tension-testing machine; study of the effect of vibrating air columns on heat transfer to a tube wall; determination of the thermal diffusivity of gases by the cyclic heat transfer method and research and development on electromechanical devices.

Working with Boteler was Frank Smith, 34, Decaturville, Tennessee, a Tech mechanical engineering graduate and now a Tech graduate student.

The analog computer function generator for the stimulator was developed in Tech's Analog Computer Laboratory.

Boteler completed the first experimental accelerator for the School of Aviation Medicine at the Aerospace Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, in February of this year. He and Smith performed the theoretical and experimental work on Air Force requirements on Tech's campus. The two men used themselves as guinea pigs.

The seat for the pilots used in the experiment is provided with a canopy to block any visual reference. It was necessary to keep the inertia of the device as low as possible to permit maximum control with minimum power.

For constant angular acceleration of the subject, an electrohydraulic servo system is used for the drive. A function generator analog computer supplies "ramp" programs, bringing the subject gradually to the desired terminal velocity.

A sinusoidally varying velocity program is available for use in the study of the frequency response of the vestibular system.

During an experiment in the accelerator, electrodes are attached to the subject's head beside each eye to measure nystagmus. Nystagmus is a back and forth movement of the eyes produced when the body is rotated. This movement may continue briefly after rotation stops, due to the low frequency response of the vestibular system. Traces recorded from nystagmus show "sawtooth" voltage. By calculating slopes of the fast and slow phases of nystagmus, the researchers can determine the subject's relative sensitivity to vestibular stimulation.

In addition to eye movement studies, the subject is questioned about his sensations while in motion. This is another method of determining his sensitivity to movement.

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At maximum rotation for experimental work, the device makes 26 revolutions per minute and can reach this velocity in one second. It is capable of 50 revolutions per minute, but this is a higher rotation than presently planned by scientists in their experiments.

Air Force scientists are now making pilot runs in the laboratory and are expected to begin taking data shortly.

One very practical use for the angular accelerator or device would be in weeding out pilots and candidates for space flight who have a high susceptibility to motion sickness. It would also indicate how rapidly candidates can adapt themselves to angular acceleration.

This is hard to determine under normal conditions since man is already accustomed to the rotation of the earth.

It has been stated that little is known about how disturbance of the vestibular system produces motion sickness.

It is known, however, that certain drugs help suppress the reaction. But again, how the drugs do this is not fully understood. The device would be used in studying these drugs and their capacity to control motion sickness.

Mai de mer, seasickness, might prove fatal to an astronaut even though his space ship returned safely to earth.

If the astronaut should fall victim to motion sickness during acceleration and regurgitate in his space helmet, he might strangle. This sickness could be caused by tumbling of the space craft. It would be especially dangerous if the astronaut were in a supine position. Obviously persons whose low resistance to motion sickness has been detected by laboratory experiments would not be picked for space flight.

One of the programs for subjects being evaluated in the angular accelerator will be a "flight test." The subject will be asked to adjust dials and pull levers just as he might while flying.

In these movements, the subject's body will leave the axis of rotation. It is then that disorientation and motion sickness will become apparent. Brought into play here is a force called Coriolis which we will discuss later.

We intuitively like to know where we are. Sometimes, we are inclined to believe our senses rather than the instruments.

When the jet pilot traveling at supersonic speeds becomes disoriented, he might have a tendency to ignore instruments which tell him the plane has assumed a dangerous attitude. Sometimes, because of the terrific rate of speed, it is too late to make corrections when he realizes he is wrong and the instruments are right.

Scientists expect research using the angular accelerator will help to discover the area of the brain involved in stability control. Some investigations along these lines have already been conducted using sharks and cats as subjects.

Their vestibular systems are quite similar to man's.

A brief look at the anatomy and function of the inner ear, or vestibular system, shows that it is divided into two functionally separate parts. The first, the semicircular canals consist of fluid-filled tubes oriented in three planes essentially at right angles to one another. Each canal is OCTOBER, 1961

stimulated according to its own attitude to the plane of rotation. Collectively they render accurate information as to the axis of angular acceleration.

The fluid in the canals flows according to its inertia when the head is subjected to angular acceleration. The moving fluid displaces the sensing element, the cupula, which is a hinged projection at the cross section of the canals. When acceleration stops, the cupula returns to a "null" position restoring the fluid in the canals.

This mechanism tells us which way is up, which way is down, which way the head and body are inclined and whether we are moving toward the left or right.

Individual responses to the "messages" sent from the sensing element have been found to vary.

The second part of the vestibular system consists of the otoliths. They detect linear acceleration. Whereas the canals may be characterized as a dynamic inertial system, the otoliths are a static inertial mechanism. They consist of small crystal deposits imbedded in a gelatinous membrane. Linear acceleration of the otolith "stones" serves as the stimulating mechanism. Centrifugal force associated with angular acceleration affects the otoliths.

Development is underway on a second related device which will go to the Army Medical Research Laboratory at Ft. Knox, Ky. It is more complex than the Air Force device in that it combines angular and linear acceleration. Not only does the subject's position rotate, it also moves back and forth on tracks, carrying the subject away from the rotation axis.

By adding linear movement, scientists will be given a chance at closer study of the otolith mechanism and the Coriolis effect mentioned earlier.

As we stated, Coriolis acceleration is extremely disorienting. The Coriolis force is illustrated by a fly walking on the spinning turntable of a phonograph. The fly is puzzled by an "added" force which pulls him away from the path he intends following. This added force is due to the Coriolis acceleration.

A paper on this force was first publicized in 1835 by a French engineer, Gasper Coriolis. It was once referred to as a "fictitious" force. The Coriolis effect causes any object moving over the surface of a rotating body to experience a force at right angles to its direction of motion.

Coriolis acts to the right of the direction of relative motion for a counterclockwise rotating reference and to the left for a clockwise rotation.

When a subject performs head movements during rotation, he has the sensation that he is going through wild gyrations. This is due partly to Coriolis acceleration.

Coriolis acceleration affects everything that moves on or over the earth. More knowledge of this force is particularly important now in the early stages of space conquest.

The scientists of the various vestibular laboratories expect to learn much more about the effects of Coriolis acceleration on human disorientation using angular accelerators capable of precisely controlled motion.

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Tfye- InstituteAlumni THE

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PHENOMENAL

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Alumni Institute held in conjunction with the 1960 Homecoming has prompted the National Alumni Association to sponsor another program of continuing education for engineers this year. T o p Tech faculty members from the College of Engineering are joining the Association in presenting this year's program (exclusively for Tech alumni) on Systems Engineering. Make your plans now to attend this stimulating and informative program, November 2 and 3.

Systems engineering is an area of specialization, but rather than being a single discipline it is a blend of nearly all engineering disciplines. Systems engineering teams —composed of versatile engineers from several disciplines—are being formed throughout industry. These engineers are able to consider a design system in terms of interdependences among the various technologies which enter the system.

In maintaining this point of view in the 1961 Alumni Institute, each speaker will discuss the importance of the systems engineering approach as applied to his discipline and, in turn, the contribution which his discipline makes toward the further development of the theory and practice of systems engineering. Emphasis will be placed on why the theory should be studied-^by all engineers. The discussion will also show the close interaction between the approach of systems engineering and the conventional engineering disciplines.

All registrants are invited to attend a special lecture by a nationally-known figure in the engineering world. The lecture will be given on Thursday evening, November 2nd, and will be a highlight of the Homecoming activities. Full details concerning this lecture will be announced.

Since enrollment will be limited t o stimu30

late discussion, registration should be made as soon as possible. Refund of the registration fee can be made if notice of cancellation is received by the Department of Short Courses and Conferences before October 26, 1961. The registration fee of $25.00 includes necessary supplies.

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Homecoming, Saturday, November 4 : 9:30 A.M.: Freshman Cake Race—Rose Bowl Field 10:00 A.M.: Annual Meeting of the National Alumni Association: Wilby Room, Library 10:00 A.M.: Wives' Coffee 11:00 A.M.: Ramblin' Reck Parade—Library parking lot 12:00 Noon: Alumni Luncheon — Old Gymnasium (Pay at door, $1.50) 2:00 P.M.: Football: Florida vs. T e c h Special Halftime show including Reunion Classes Parade Nine Tech classes will be holding reunion parties in conjunction with the 1961 Homecoming celebration. Holding parties on Friday, November 3, are the classes of 1911, 1926, 1931, 1936, 1941, 1951, and 1956.

Scheduling celebrations on Saturday, N o vember 4, are the classes of 1916 and 1921.

Additional information on these parties is available from the Alumni Office.

Blame the computer for your 1961 tickets T E C H ALUMNI now have a new scapegoat for

their football ticket frustrations. It is an electronic digital computer located in Tech's Rich Electronic Computer Center.

The computer was called in to help with the tough job of making the decisions on who gets the best season tickets this year

by Athletic Business Manager Bob Eskew, who worked at the computer center for a year back in the middle fifties. Before the computer, it took Eskew and his staff six weeks to deal out tickets. This year, without fanfare, the computer parcelled out all of the season tickets in 30 minutes, an average of over 900 ticket decisions per minute.

Of course, it took a Tech mathematician, Clarence Miley, weeks to set u p the elaborate program used by the machine. But, in the future, the same program can be reused with minor modifications.

This year's distribution program was organized according to a complicated system of priorities established by Tech's experienced ticket committee. Simply stated, the system gives priority to the active alumni (by class with the earlier classes getting the top priority) who have purchased season tickets the preceding year.

Stiemke is new Station Head MR.

ROBERT E. STIEMKE, director

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Georgia Tech School of Civil Engineering, was approved in September by the Board of Regents of the University System to be director of the Institute's Engineering Experiment Station. The Board of Regents also approved the appointment of Dr. Frederick W. Schutz, Jr. as acting director of the School of Civil Engineering.

Mr. Stiemke was graduated from the University of Wisconsin with the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Civil Engineering in 1936 and 1940. In 1953, the University of Wisconsin also awarded him the professional degree of civil engineer.

Before coming to Georgia Tech in 1950, Mr. Stiemke served as instructor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Wayne University in Detroit, Michigan, 1940-42; and from 1942 to 1947 as associate professor of Sanitary Engineering at North Carolina State College, where he also was in charge of the Engineering Experiment Station during 1943-44.

In addition to his teaching experience, Mr. Stiemke has had varied engineering practice. During the years 1936-39, he was active with the Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, Milwaukee District, in river and harbor work. In 1941-42, he served as consulting engineer for sanitary facilities of the City of Detroit. In 1944-45, he was sanitary engineering officer for the U. S. Public Health Service, N e w York District, and from 1945 to 1950 acted as consulting TECH ALUMNUS

engineer for a number of sanitary engineering projects.

Mr. Stiemke has been active in a number of professional scientific, and engineering societies. He has served on various national committees of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Society for Engineering Education. From 1957 to 1960, he was national director of the Water Pollution Control Federation; in 1956, he was president of the Georgia Engineering Society; and has served as accreditation inspector for the Engineers' Council for Professional Development. He is a registered engineer and an active member of the National Society of Professional Engineers.

He succeeds Dr. James E. Boyd, who resigned to become president of West Georgia College in Carrollton.

Doctor Schutz was graduated from Auburn University in 1947 with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.

In 1950, he was awarded the Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois and received his doctoral degree from the same institution in 1952.

Before coming to Georgia Tech in 1955, Doctor Schutz had industrial experience with the Mobile Steel Company, Mobile, Alabama, and also with the Atlantic Refining Company in Dallas, Texas. From February, 1948 to September, 1948, he was an instructor in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas. From September, 1948, through August, 1952, he was engaged in research work at the University of Illinois. From September, 1952, to March, 1955, he served as research assistant professor at Lehigh University. Doctor Schutz is a consultant in the field of structural engineering, having performed research work in structural problems that involve steel connections and various types of structural frameworks. He is the author of several engineering papers in these fields.

He is an active member in a number of professional, scientific, and engineering societies, among which are American Society for Engineering Education, Georgia Engineering Society, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Concrete Society, Tau Beta Pi, Chi Epsilon, and Phi Kappa Phi. A registered engineer, Doctor Schutz was given a leave-of-absence from Georgia Tech in 1959-60 to serve in the Engineering Department of the E. I. duPont de Nemours and Company in its program of "Year in Industry for Engineering Educators."

He served in World War II, both in this country and in the Pacific Theater of Operations. Released from active duty in December, 1946, he re-entered the service in February, 1947, as a Regular Army Officer.

Since that time he has served as Instructor at the Field Artillery School, Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Chief, Plans and Inspection Division, GI Section, Headquarters, Eighth U. S. Army, Yokohoma, Japan; Office of Assistant Chief of Staff, G3, Department of the Army; and Senior Artillery Instructor in the ROTC Unit at Georgia Tech. Upon his promotion to the rank of Colonel in January, 1955, he was assigned as Special Assistant to the Deputy Commanding General, Third U. S. Army.

His decorations include the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, and Army Commendation Medal.

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DR. HAROLD E. SMALLEY, Georgia Tech In-

dustrial Engineering professor, has received a Public Health Service grant of $53,992 to continue his research in the development of a decision theory for hospital and medical administration.

The objective of this research program is the development of procedures for making rational hospital supply decisions, with regard to both economic and human considerations. Cost prediction models and decision procedures for supply items used in patient care will be subjected to field tests in hospitals across the nation. The general approach involves the use of industrial engineering principles and practices in hospital management.

The project is being conducted through the Engineering Experiment Station in cooperation with the School of Industrial Engineering at Georgia Tech, Emory University, major hospitals in the Atlanta area, and the Georgia Hospital Association.

Other professional staff members on the project are Dr. John T. Doby and Dr. Jerry L. L. Miller of Emory's Sociology Depart-

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ment; Miss Louelia Owen and Miss Pamela Hendrix of the Nursing Division of Emory University Hospital; Dr. A. D. J. Emerzian, on leave from the University of Connecticut; and Mr. Howard W. Woods, Jr. Tech receives NSF institutional

grant

GEORGIA TECH has received an institutional

grant of approximately $7,800 from the National Science Foundation for the academic year of 1961-62. The purpose of this grant, as stated by the National Science Foundation, "is to strengthen the general research functions and programs of the institution in the mathematical, physical, biological, social, and engineering sciences, by supporting the development and maintenance of a sound, well-balanced program of basic research, research training, and related scientific activities, without specifying the precise research and related activities to be undertaken with the grant funds. Such grants, for example, could be used for the employment of research staff, purchase of research supplies, or other appropriate measures to strengthen basic research and related scientific activities."

The funds provided by this grant are to be used to supplement, rather than replace, institutional funds already budgeted for such scientific activities.

Dean Griffin offers free Blue

Prints

IF YOU NEED a 1947, 1948, 1951, 1957, or

1959 Blue Print, write to Dean George Griffin, Georgia Tech, Atlanta 13. The dean has a few copies of these issues and will send them to the first alumni who write to him.

New

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featured in a new Mitch Miller album on American college fight songs.

At the August 31 dedication of Tech's five new dormitories, Dr. K. G. Matheson, Jr. and his wife (2nd and 3rd from left) pose with friends in front of the building named for his father. Names of the other buildings are Perry, Hopkins, Hanson and Field.

Colonel Leigh is named A r m y ROTC Commandant

COLONEL BEVERLY MATTHEW LEIGH, JR. is

the new Commandant of the Army ROTC Unit at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He replaces Colonel Donald C. Little, who recently retired from the Army.

For the past three years, Colonel Leigh has been on assignment in Rome, Italy, as Executive Officer, Military Assistance Advisory Group.

He was born in Meridian, Mississippi, and upon his graduation from Mississippi State College was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve.

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'asses ' 0 ( j Leon Moulton Pearsall, ME, retired fcU June 1 after 38 years with Manning, Maxwell & Moore, Inc. He lives at 620 Llewellyn Place, Charlotte 7, North Carolina. ' O O Howell D. Humphries, CE, died at *•*• his home in Birmingham, Alabama, September 17. He was vice president and general manager of the Dunn Construction Company. » O C Gerald E. Wilcox, C E , died August £ * * 1 in Albany, Georgia. He was a retired Army Captain and was self-employed at the time of his death. ' O Q Kenneth McAlister, Sr., died Sep^ 3 tember 12 in an Atlanta hospital.

He was associated with Thomson & McKennon, stock brokers. His widow lives at 35 Peachtree Hills Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. ' O O Robert J. McCamy has been named * * ^ vice president in charge of all finished piece goods production for Pepperrell Manufacturing Company. He will maintain his office at Lindale, Georgia. ' 0 0 Hubert D. Raby, M E , died August <»» 24 in an Atlanta hospital. He was an engineer with Robert & Company. > 0 * Emit B. Powell, ChE, formerly FlorO T " ida sales representative for DuPont's Explosive Department in Ocala, is now in Atlanta as Field Sales Manager of the Explosives Department. His business address is 1430 Peachtree Street, N.W., Atlanta, Ga.

' 0 C Colonel Robert E. Hammond, USAR, OQ has completed the mobilization designee refresher course at The Quartermaster Corps. He is manager of the budget department at Lockheed in Marietta, Georgia.

Dr. Ernest Lindsey, C h E , professor of chemical engineering and head of the department, has been named associate dean at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts.

Dalton, Georgia plant.

G. R. L. Shepherd, C h E , has been granted a U. S. patent disclosing a method for making lubricants that are lighter colored and last longer in the engine. H e is assistant head of the Research and Development Division at Humble Oil in Baytown, Texas.

Major Carlysle W. Woodruff, USAR, EE, has completed the associate command and general staff course at the Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, ' 0 0 Edward W. Klein, Jr., ME, has an- Kansas. He is with the Georgia Power w O nounced the relocation of his firm, Company in Atlanta.

E, W. Klein & Company, to 3227 Cains Hill Place, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia.

Joe Hamilton died unexpectedly Benjamin H. Spurlock, Jr., GE, has been August 17 at his Dalton, Georgia named acting head of the Department of home. He was secretary of the Crown CotMechanical Engineering at the University ton Mills and superintendent of its indusof Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. H e will trial fabrics division. serve in this capacity during the depart1 ment head's leave of absence for two years.

A"l James W. Lazenby, M E , partner in 'I the firm of Lazenby & Borum, an' 0 0 Colonel Archie R. Lewis, USAF, IM, nounces their move to 1942 Monroe Drive, w w has assumed command of EvreuxN.E., Atlanta 9, Georgia.

Fauville Air Force Base in France.

Married: William Calhoun Peterson to H. Gordon Morgan, EE, has been Miss Susan Oswald, September 16. elected vice president of the William L. Bonnell Company, Newrtan, Georgia. He ' A f t Hayne Palmour, HI, CerE, is co-auwas with Creole Petroleum in Venezuela • O thor of a paper which appeared in prior to joining Bonnell. the August issue of The Journal of the American Ceramic Society. Hayne is with the Department of Engineering Research at ' A f l ^ ' ^' Cl°ntz n a s been named KenNorth Carolina State College, Raleigh, • " tucky general personnel manager with Southern Bell.

North Carolina. H e is a research engineer.

Major Francis B. Sheetz, Jr., USAR, completed the associate command and gen'^1 Lt. Colonel John R. Mumma, USA, " ' is now deputy chief of staff at Fort eral staff course at the Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KanCarson headquarters, Fort Carson, Colorado. sas. He is associated with Tomberlin-Sheetz, Born t o : Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Plaxico, Architects, in Atlanta.

IM, a daughter, Paula Anita, September 1.

Tommy is on the Physical Training staff at William I. Steele, ChE, is now associated Georgia Tech. They live at 2648 Drew Valwith J. D. Robertson, Inc., Atlanta manuley Road, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. facturers representative. His business address is 3133 Maple Drive, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. ' A ' X Walter W. Logan, IM, has been •** named vice president of sales at Candlewick Yarn Mills, Inc., a wholly' A Q Major Thomas W. Connolly. USA, owned subsidiary of Dixie Mercerizing Com• u C h E , is attending the associate pany. He will maintain his office at the course of The Command and General Staff

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Major Walter H. G. Weissenberger, USAR, ChE, recently completed the chemical officer refresher course, The Army Chemical Corps School, Fort McClellan, Alabama.

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George M. DeVere, IM, has been named field representative in Texas and Oklahoma for the Protection Products Manufacturing Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Harold W. Kraft, Jr., EE, is protection and planning engineer with Savannah Electric and Power Company. His mailing address is Route 3, Box 297, Savannah, Georgia.

Vincent M. Meagher, IM, has been appointed manager of the Orlando, Florida district office of the data processing division's Consolidated Electrodynamics Corporation. fCI

James E. Roberson, ME, has joined the Cincinnati, Ohio sales office of The Babcock & Wilcox Company. '

Ernest C. Clay, CE, has joined the staff of Concrete Manufacturing Company, 747 Forrest Road, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia.

Francois D. Martzloff, EE, has joined the General Engineering Laboratory as an engineer-power conversion. His home address is 1173 Glenwood Boulevard, Schenectady, New York.

Married: Harry S. Gibson, Jr., Chem, to Miss Charleen Buchanan, August 20. They live at 1301 Cherokee Street, Apartment 9, Marietta,"Georgia.

Frank J. Prehoda, ME, has been promoted to senior engineer with Sonoco Products in Hartsville, South Carolina.

ment engineer with Schlumberger Well Surveying Corporation. He is now working on his masters degree in math at the University of Houston. They live at 5862 Overdale, Houston 33, Texas.

Philip F. Fote, AE, received his masters in Physics at Northwestern University, Boston, Massachusetts. He is with Avco Research and Development in Wilmington, Massachusetts.

Philip G. Hart, ME, has been promoted to senior engineer with Sonoco Products in Hartsville, South Carolina.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Emory Glenn Hicks, Jr., IM, a son, Steven Glenn, July 5.

They live at 205 Boxwood Circle, Birmingham 15, Alabama.

William P. Killian, ChE, has been appointed supervisor of the Special Process Development Section of Thiokol Chemical Corporation in Brigham City, Utah. He lives at 576 South 7th West, Brigham City, Utah.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. James E. Leben, ME, a daughter, Melinda Jo, July 5. Jim is with Applebee-Church, Inc. in Atlanta.

They live at 1328 Lynn Drive, Marietta, Georgia.

Lt. Colonel Woodford T. Moseley, USA, IM, recently completed a course at The Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.

Lt. Robert W. Roane, Jr., USA, CE, recently completed two weeks of annual active duty at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. He is a civil engineer with TVA in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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James L. Ward, Jr., EE, has been promoted to Group Engineer at The Martin Company in Orlando. He lives at 2024 Cricket Drive, Orlando, Florida.

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Bob Porter, IM, has been separated from the Air Force (SAC) and is now with IBM. He lives at 6550 Haley Drive. Columbia, South Carolina.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Marcus P. Borom, CerE, a son, Frederick Winston, September 13. Marcus is working toward his Ph.D. in Ceramic Engineering at the University of California. The Boroms live at 1815 Addison, Apartment C, Berkeley 4, California.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Grant, IM, a son, Andrew Burton, January 13.

They live at 612 West 6th Street, Siler City, North Carolina.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. William D. McCnrry, CE, a daughter, Carmie LeeAnn, July 17. Mr. McCurry is an engineer with Plantation Pipe Line Company. They live at 230 Kensington Circle, Bremen, Georgia.

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Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Berman, BS, MS, EE, a daughter, Pleas, July 31. Mr. Berman is a senior developOCTOBER, 1961

' E Q Married: Kenneth deVaughn RatJ O cliffe Chauncey to Janet Lee Giese, August 1 at Bridgehampton, New York.

Roger George Gilbertson, IE, has been commissioned ensign in the Navy. He was awarded a sword by the City of Newport (R.I.) for being the top man in a class of 240. He is assistant bureau of ship technical representative at the Remington Rand Univac Company, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Lt. Richard D. Gillem, USA, IM, is executive officer, Company B, 3rd Battle Group, 6th Infantry in Berlin, Germany.

Ralph P. Lebkuecher, Jr., IM, is attending the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. His address is 211 Judson Hall, Godfrey Avenue, Louisville 6, Kentucky.

Richard E. Mauney is an architect with Robert J. Bennett & Associates. His new home address is 129 Savannah Street, Westover, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Morrell, ChE, a daughter, Lisa Ellen, May 25.

They live at 1009 Marabon Avenue, Orlando, Florida. Mr. Morrell is with the Martin Company.

Donald S. Pirkle, IE, is enrolled in the Chemical Sales Engineering course at Dow Chemical Company. He lives with his wife and daughter at 2431 Damman Drive, Midland, Michigan.

Beirne M. Prager, Jr., IM, has completed his masters degree and is now with Arthur Anderson and Company. He lives at 209 - 14th Street, N.E., Apartment 9, Atlanta, Georgia.

tjaces wtfjeKews Ivan Allen, Jr., '33, was elected mayor of Atlanta in the September 22 runoff race. On September 12, Allen had eliminated two other Tech alumniâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Charlie Brown and M. M. "Muggsy" Smith to get into the run-off. The race drew the largest vote in Atlanta's history.

George A. Trigaux, '45, has been named manager of new product development for Union Carbide Olefins Company. In his new position, he will be responsible for developing new business for the company as well as for the commercialization of new products.

Homer M. Carter, Jr., '48, has been appointed head of a new marketing organization set up by Courtaulds, North America, Inc., to promote imported products made from "Courtelle" acrylic fiber. Carter has been manager of marketing and merchandising.

Robert F. Knight, '49, has been appointed sales manager of The Hobart Manufacturing's Dealer Sales Division. Knight, assistant sales manager for the division since 1958, joined Hobart in 1950 as a dealer division representative in Atlanta, Georgia.

Gerald B. Thomas, '50, has been named director of eastern commercial sales for Douglas Aircraft Co. Thomas has been assistant director since 1960. Prior to joining the sales staff, he was an aerodynamicist who made contributions to Douglas' models.

Stewart M. Graham, '50, has been named district sales manager for the Anaconda Wire and Cable Co. of Birmingham.

Following a tour of duty as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force, Graham joined Anaconda in 1955. He has been a salesman in Atlanta and Birmingham.

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tjocestntlje^ews David Dunstan, '60, is one of 32 young men and women who have left the U.S. to begin three years of specialterm Methodist missionary service in Asia, Africa, and North and South America. Dunstan has gone to Latin America as a missionary.

Calvin S. Moore, '60, a chemical engineering graduate of Tech, has joined the research and development department of Ethyl Corporation in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Moore will serve as a chemical engineer in process design at the Baton Rouge plant.

NEWS BY CLASSES-continued Major Grayson D. Tate, Jr., USA, AE, is attending the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Wexler, IE, a daughter, Elaine Beverly, August 14.

Mr. Wexler is with General Electric in Syracuse, New York. »CQ Lt. James M. Akridge, USA, ME, is J 3 assigned to Headquarters Company, 300th Transportation Group, an Army Reserve Unit at Fort George R. Meade, Maryland.

Major Edwin W. Basham, USA, EE, is attending the associate course at The Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Engaged: Samuel Hurt Fowlkes, III, IM, to Miss Linda McCroy. Mr. Fowlkes is with IBM in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Married: Law son Jackson McConnell, IM, to Miss Patricia Winn, September 26.

Mr. McConnell is with the First National Bank in Elberton, Georgia.

Lt. Oliver W. McGowan, USA, TE, has completed the officer orientation course at The Engineer School, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Lt. Jerry M. McKenzie, USA, IE, recently completed two weeks of annual active duty at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. He is with Peerless Woolen Mill, Cleveland, Tennessee.

Engaged: Lt. James T. Oliver, USAF, IM, to Miss Emelda Lou Freiberger. Lt. Oliver is stationed at Westover AFB, Springfield, Massachusetts.

Engaged: Edward Theodore Rempe, III, EE, to Miss Nancy Sibley, October 28. Mr. Rempe is with Texas Instruments, Inc. in Dallas, Texas.

Married: A. G. Walker, IM, to Miss Wilma Doss, September 30. Mr. Walker is with the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company in Atlanta.

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"" Arthur, IE, a son, Daniel Paul. Mr. Arthur is a production engineer for Eitel McCullough, Inc. They live at 1671 Longspur Avenue, Sunnyvale, California.

Lt. Gerald P. Carson, USA, BC, has completed the fixed-wing aviator course at The Aviation Center, Fort Rucker, Alabama.

Married: James McKay Davis, EE, to Miss Anne Camp, September 16. Mr. Davis is with Westinghouse Electric in Buffalo, New York.

Married: Henry Lewis Faucett, ChE, to Miss Janet Zachary, September 9.

Richard N. Houze, ChE, has been promoted to assistant research chemical engineer in the development division at Humble Oil in Baytown, Texas.

Married: H. William King, Jr., IM, to Miss Barbara Harris, September 9. »C1 Lance H. Arrington, USAR, EE, has "' been commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Reserve.

Sidney Ray Barrett, Arch, has been awarded the Second Lloyd Warren (Paris Prize) Fellowship for 1961-62 with a stipend of $3,500 for 8 months travel and study abroad.

Married: Gary Jackson Braswell, EE, to Miss Virginia Johnson, September 17. Mr. Braswell is with General Electric in Atlanta.

Robert Alexander Britton, ChE, has joined the chemicals research division of Esso Research & Engineering Company, Linden, New Jersey. He lives at 33 Lyons Street, Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Engaged: Dwight Benno Bronnum, ChE, to Miss Rachel Tanner. Mr. Bronnum is stationed at Fort McClelland, Alabama.

Lt. Harcourt Bull, HI, ChE, is a sanitary and industrial hygiene engineer at the U. S. Air Force Hospital, Carswell AFB, Texas.

Millard M. Burgess, EE, is an applications engineer with Century Electronics and Instruments, Inc. He lives at 10646 East Admiral Boulevard, Tulsa 15, Oklahoma.

Lt. Buford H. Carter, Jr., USA, EE, has completed the officer orientation course at The Signal School, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.

Terry Chacon, AE, is a flight test engineer with Convair. His address is 15641 K Street, Apartment 4, Mojave, California.

Lt. Albert F. Creighton, Jr., USA, IE, has completed the officer orientation course at the U. S. Army Signal School, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. C. H. "Gus" Dallas, IE, a daughter, July 12. Mr. Dallas is with General Electric. They live at 5350 Waltella Place, Apartment 8, Cincinnati 12, Ohio.

Lt. Leroy H. Feagin, Jr., USA, ME, has completed the missile officer orientation course at the Air Defense School, Fort Bliss, Texas.

Engaged: Perry Leonard Frank, IE, to Miss Sherry Zimmerman. The wedding will take place October 8. Mr. Frank is with

Reynolds Metals Company, Sheffield, Alabama.

Alvin Gann, EE, will attend MIT this fall where he will work toward his masters in Electrical Engineering. He is attending under Raytheon's Advanced Study Program.

Pvi. Joseph E. Grabuskie, USA, IM, is in training at The Armor Training Center, Fort Knox, Kentucky.

Lt. Herbert R. Gresham, USA, TE, has completed the officer orientation course at The Signal School, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.

Married: William Franklin Harmon, Jr., IE, to Miss Judith Nan Priesmeyer, September 13.

Lt. Jesse Reid Home, Jr., USA, IM, recently completed the airborne course at The Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia.

Married: James Warren Jacobs, IM, to Miss Mary Hogg, September 2. Mr. Jacobs is attending the U. S. Naval Aviation OCS at Pensacola, Florida.

Lt. John B. Martin, USA, EE, has completed the officer orientation course at The Signal School, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.

Lt. Emory L. Moore, USA, IE, has completed the officer orientation course at the Engineer School, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Engaged: Whitney Carter O'Keeffe, IE, to Miss Marion Gaines. Mr. O'Keeffe is with the First National Bank in Atlanta.

He will enter Wharton School of Finance in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in September.

Major Francis A. Richter, USA, EE, is attending the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Walter L. Roberts, USAR, ME, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Reserve after completing the Reserve Officer Training Corps summer camp.

Lt. James W. Standard, USA, IE, has completed the officer orientation course at the Signal School, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.

Howard Thrailkill, EE, will attend MIT this fall under Raytheon's Advanced Study Program.

Thomas G. Wicka, USAR, ME, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Reserve.

Major Dan H. Williamson, Jr., USA, ME, is attending the associate course at The Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Rodney D. Wood, ME, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Reserve.

Ross H. Woods, USAR, ME, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Reserves.

James G. Wright, Jr., USAR, ME, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Reserve.

Honorary Carlyle Fraser, chairman of the Fulton County Commission and chairman of the board of Genuine Parts Company, died September 12 in an Atlanta hospital. Death was attributed to a heart attack. Mr. Fraser was very active in civic and business affairs in this area. His widow lives at 7 Vernon Road, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia.

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