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Tech seems to suffer its losses in bursts.

You can almost bet that when one member of the Tech family dies, another will follow soon, which is an unpleasant thought to say the least.

In early October, Tech was again victimized by the loss of two men very close to the institution. Both died on a Saturday evening, both died suddenly, and both were friends of ours.

The first loss was R. J. "Jack" Thiesen, the man who served longest as secretary of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association and as editor of this magazine. Jack, who died on October 5, carried the Association, at times almost by himself, on his capable back for 26 years when the alumni business was much tougher than it is now. It was his solid groundwork that became the platform for the success of today's Tech Alumni program. After moving out of the alumni secretary job, Jack was executive secretary of the Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc. until 1955 when he headed into retirement.

The last time we saw Jack Thiesen was during the Association Trustees' Banquet in mid-September. He was his gracious self that evening, commenting on the magazine and the new history of Tech, a project in which we were somewhat involved at the time. But then, Jack Thiesen was always gracious — a man willing to take time to help a neophyte

in this business learn from his great source of knowledge on the subject. And that's the way we shall remember Jack Thiesen. * * * A SOME OF JACK'S closest friends have made contributions to the Foundation in his name. If you would like to contribute to this worthy cause in behalf of a gentleman, please send your check made out to the Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc. and mark it for the Jack Thiesen Fund.

A A WEEK TO THE DAY after Jack's sudden death, Robert L. "Bob" Allen, professor of mechanical engineering on the campus since 1937, died suddenly at his home in Atlanta. Bob — developer of the most promising fuel injection system in this country and holder of several patents —• was one of the most respected and best liked men on the Tech campus.

The respect was for his professional accomplishments, the rest for his personal kindness and obvious love of his fellow men.

In addition to his fuel injection system, he had made major contributions to the mechanical design of large radar antennas, gear reduction systems, and other research programs of importance on the Tech campus. The 1932 graduate of Tech who received his master's here in 1941 was a teacher who knew his

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subject, one who drew the respect of students and colleagues alike. And his research efforts were above and beyond the call of duty.

In the words of one of his closest friends, "You could have searched this campus a hundred times for the man Tech could least afford to lose and every time you would have come up with Bob Allen. He was the last of a breed — a man who could converse professionally with the highest level electronics theorist on the campus as well as the man in the machine shop. To replace him professionally will be impossible."

To which we might add, to replace him personally is also impossible. As a charter member of the 8:00 A.M. coffee, Coca-Cola, and king-bee society, he will never be replaced. And the biggest losers in the entire matter are Georgia Tech and its people. * * * ^ BOB ALLEN also left instructions that, in lieu of flowers, contributions be sent to the Georgia Institute of Technology.

We hope that someday enough will accumulate in this fund for a scholarship to be named for him. No one deserved the honor more. * * * ^ WHILE W E ARE on this subject of scholarships, we would like to add that a non-Tech man, who is an honorary alumnus, has established through his own gift a scholarship in the name of his brother, a past president of the Alumni Association.

Robert O. Arnold, for years the dedicated chairman of the Board of Regents, has sent Tech a check for $5,000 to establish the David Arnold Memorial Scholarship in memory of another man who had a great deal to do with the shaping of Tech. Ivy Smith, a 1920 Tech graduate, has already pledged $1,000 a year to this fund. Any one wishing to support this worthy cause can do so via the Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc. and designate it for the David Arnold Fund. * * * ^

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important to Tech. For one of the Institute's most desperate needs is scholarship support. Competing for the best high school graduates in the area of scholastic ability is now just as tough as competing for the best teachers or even athletes. Tech has done something about the teachers and the athletes, but seems to have fallen behind in the matter of competing for the students.

If the Institute is to continue on its climb to greatness, scholarships are a must. And the sooner we get to it, the better off we will be.

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GEORGIA TECH ALUMNUS Volume 42

Number 3

CONTENTS 2.

RAMBLIN'

— a pair of great Tech men are noted in passing by the editor.

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FOOTBALL — the Jackets whip Tulane, Duke and FSU to run their record to 6-2 with two to go.

9. AN INDUSTRY IN RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT —

Jack Holman takes a look at the textile industry.

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THE 7 5 T H YEAR — President Harrison's report on

one of the most important years of the Institute.

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THE GEORGIA TECH JOURNAL — all of the latest news about the Institute and the alumni.

Officers of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association W. S. TerreU, '30, Pres.

M. F. Cole, '41, VP D. A. McKeever, '32, VP W. H. Ector, '40, 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

I. F. "Bud" Foote is an English teacher by vocation and a folk singer by avocation. Early on the morning of November 1, Foote used both of his talents to lead off the most successful Alumni Institute in Tech's^, history. Over 120 alumni and wives came back a day early for homecoming to pick up some additional knowledge from five Tech teachers.

For more of what they learned see page 5.

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THE STIMULATING, different-to-say-the-least lecture by Professor Foote opened the 1963 Alumni Lecture series on a high note. Following Foote was Dr. Peter Sherry (below) of the School of Chemistry who made the transition from Folk Music to DNA without any trouble. After lunch, Dr. Vernon Crawford of the School of Physics maintained the pace with an excellent talk on "Beyond Outer Space."

Crawford's presentation was embellished further by a panel discussion on his subject by Dr. David Comer of the Department of English and Professor John Eichler of Civil Engineering. The day's program was closed by a discussion of "Emerging Latin America," and "Colombia—A Case in Point" by Dr. Sherman Dallas and Dr. Rod O'Connor, two of Tech's outstanding Industrial Management Professors.

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LOTHRIDGE LEADS JACKETS TO THREE STRAIGHT WINS a 3-2 record in their first five games, the Jackets came back strong to win three in a row and head into the final stretch with a 6-2 record.

Tech started the streak with a 17-3 win over determined but out-manned Tulane in New Orleans. At the half, Tech trailed, 0-3, the first time they had been shut out during the first thirty minutes of a game this season. In their poorest game of the season, the Tech team had put on the worst exhibition in years during that first half. When the Jackets came out for the second half, they trailed Tulane in every statistic except passing yardage and that only because the Greenies seemed to prefer to stay on the ground where they had done so well.

--^tThe second half started out the same way as Tech never got beyond its own 33-yard line until midway in the third period when end Dave Austin recovered a Tulane fumble on the Green Wave's 11. It took the Jackets four plays and a half-the-distance penalty to score with Lothridge going over from the one on a dive. Lothridge's point was good and 5:13 remained in the period when Tech finally went ahead, 7-3. Before the quarter was over, Tech added a field goal following a blocked punt. The ill-fated Greenies

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got a bad snap from center on this one, and Tech's Gary Lee and Dick Emerson rushed in to screen Tulane punter, David East. East turned to the east to avoid Lee's rush and kicked the ball into Emerson and tackle Tom Ballard recovered for Tech at the Tulane 18. A few minutes later another penalty helped put Tech in position to score, but this time the Greenies held and Lothridge settled for a field goal from the three. With 34 seconds on the clock, it was 10-3, Tech.

The Jackets—obviously embarrassed over the way things were going — finally mounted the day's only legitimate scoring march early in the final period. Beginning at their own 31, the Tech team drove down the field on a combination of Lothridge passes and short-gain running plays. A pass from Lothridge to Austin from the Tulane seven put the final score on the board except for Lothridge's extra point.

Johnny Gresham—aided and abetted by a cast of 35— made Tech's 1963 homecoming a personal triumph as the Jackets romped over Duke, 30-6, before a crowd of 52,266 on the first traditional-football-weather day of the season.

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the Jackets out of a 22-minute trance when he took a reverse handoff from Joe Auer and raced 38 yards down the sidelines for the Jacket's initial first down of a game in which they were trailing, 0-6. Six plays later, fullback Ray Mendheim swept end on an option from Billy Lothridge for five yards and the touchdown that made possible Lothridge's go-ahead kick. During the afternoon's proceedings, Gresham carried six times for 72 yards, caught a pass for a 27-yard score that for 17 yards was purely an open-field exhibition of plain and fancy running, returned a punt 28 yards, broke up a Duke touchdown in the Tech end zone with the best defensive move of the day, and generally bedeviled the Blue Devils for two hours.

Almost lost in Gresham's day of glory was what might have been Billy Lothridge's best afternoon of the year.

After Gresham lit the fuse, the Tech quarterback called a near-perfect game, hit nine of 14 passes for 159 yards, two for touchdowns (one to Gresham, the other to Frank Sexton), (his first three were all misses), ran for 52 yards in seven tries, tied the national career record for field goals with 1:22 remaining in the first half and then broke it with another kick on the last play of the same period, punted four times for 46 yards, added another field goal in the final period, and kicked three extra points. Oddly, all three of Lothridge's successful field goal attempts were against the stiff (15-22 MPH wind) and his only miss was with the wind.

November 9 was circus day at Grant Field and Billy Lothridge, taking his cue from the excellent FSU half-time circus show, put on an aerial exhibition of his own to lead Tech to a 15-7 win. In the process, the Jackets' all-America candidate broke four of Tech's standing records — most passes attempted in a game (34) which beats Bill Brigman's 30 in the 1952 Florida game; most passes completed in a game (20) which edges both Brigman and Darrell Crawford (against VMI in 1950) who held the previous record at 17; most yards gained passing (246) which beats Crawford's 229 in the 1951 Auburn game; and total offense in a game (274) which eclipses Lothridge's own record of 211 set in the Duke game the week before (as a matter of explanation, Crawford lost 19 yards rushing in that 1951 record thus bringing his total yardage back to 210, the record before the 1963 Duke game).

Unable to gain any appreciable yardage on the ground against FSU and trailing 3-7 at halftime, Lothridge approached the game like a pro and began filling the air with footballs, completing 12 of 15 attempts in the second half to bring Tech a tough victory over a team that is almost a carbon copy of LSU. His pet receiver during the afternoon was his high school chum, Billy Martin, who caught nine passes for 112 yards and one touchdown during the afternoon.

Ray Mendheim scored the other Tech touchdown on a four-yard swing around right end on the fullback option play. Lothridge missed two extra points and a field goal during the afternoon just to prove he is human.

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Punting, passing, kicking off, field goal and PAT kicking, or just running as he is here for seven yards against FSU to set up the second Tech score, Lothridge is the most complete football player in America.

Fullback Ray Mendheim has been the running star of the 1963 team and in this year has developed into Tech's best fullback.

Johnny Gresham broke up the Duke game with his runs and has been the best blocking and running halfback this year.

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AN INDUSTRY- IN RETROSPECT AND IN PROSPECT T is MY PURPOSE this morning to make some comments about our industry in retrospect and in prospect, with a word or two on the contemporary scene as we go from past to future. And, on this beautiful October day, the 19th, I cannot resist the temptation to observe that it was at just about this hour 182 years ago, that the Articles of Surrender at Yorktown, signed by Charles Lord Cornwallis and

by Thomas Symonds, Senior British Naval Officer on the York River, arrived at Washington's headquarters from the British lines. It was on this day, 104 years ago, that Colonel Robert E. Lee forwarded John Brown and his accomplices to jail in Charles Town, West Virginia, they having been captured in the fire engine house of the Armory at Harper's Ferry the day before. And, most sad to tell, it was on this day 99 years ago, that General Phil Sheridan defeated Jubel Early's inferior force at Cedar Creek in the Shenandoah Valley. Early lost three thousand men and twenty-three guns, thus ending all hopes of a diversion of men from Grant's Army facing Lee on the Richmond-Petersburg line.

The final result of that great conflict you all know full well.

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Before the War for Southern Independence the textile industry in Georgia really was quite small. In 1840 there were 19 plants with only 779 operatives; and by 1850 the number of mills had increased to 35, and the number of workers to 2,272. Investment in Georgia textile mills increased from $1,700,000 in 1850, to $2,100,000 in 1860, a very slow rate of growth.

After the war was over and after the infamous Reconstruction Era had passed, our people in Georgia and elsewhere in the South realized that it was to be through industry, through manufacturing, rather than through agriculture alone, that progress was to be made, that the standard of living was to be increased, and that at least some small measure of wealth was to be accumulated. It was this realization which led to the Atlanta Textile Exposition which opened on October 5, 1881, and which continued until December 31 of that year. It was this realization which led to the introduction, by Nathaniel E. Harris, and the NOVEMBER 1963

passage of the legislation establishing the Georgia School of Technology which was signed into law on October 13, 1885, by Governor McDaniel. And, as you may learn from the fine history of Georgia Tech by Bob Wallace which has just been published, the formal opening of this great and noble institution took place on October 7, 1888.

All of you are familiar, of course, with the founding of the A. French Textile School in 1899, and especially with its growth and development, due in great measure to the thought, planning, effort and generosity of many of you here today, and for me to endeavor to tell this audience of the growth and development of the industry in the State of Georgia would be purely gratuitous.

What I should like to do is to make some observations on which I conceive to be the trends in our industry and some comments on the outlook for the future. In reflecting on this I have thought of the opening paragraph of Samuel Johnson's Rasselas, which he turned out during the evenings of one week in order to get the money to pay for his mother's funeral, and which was published in 1759: "Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia."

Many of us have listened with credulity to the whispers of fancy, have pursued the phantoms of hope, and have expected that the deficiencies of the present day would be supplied by the morrow, only to be disappointed, and to be bitterly disappointed, again, and again, and again, as one who was once one of the leading public figures was wont to say.

In discussing what might be considered the future trends in our industry I shall mention, first, some factors which I believe to be significant, and then talk for a few moments on the overshadowing aspect of the actions of the Federal government. First, a brief comment on machinery develop-

AN INDUSTRY- continued ment: It seems to me that during the course of the next ten years there will be a tremendous amount of progress in the development and application of machinery, equipment, and auxiliaries which will greatly reduce the need for labor.

From the middle 20's until 1932, there was a great deal of machinery development which resulted in much higher productivity for workers. Long draft spinning was introduced in the Middle 20's. It was also in the Middle 20's that the high speed warper and the Barber Colman spooler were offered on a broad scale to the industry; it was in 1930 that Draper brought out its Model-X Looms with larger warp beams, larger shuttles, and somewhat higher speeds; and it was in 1932 that Barber Colman introduced a super speed warper.

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shall not endeavor to enumerate these developments.

Some of these, or some of their forerunners, have been installed in Roger Milliken's new Prototype Mill in Spartanburg; some might also have been noticed at the Textile Machinery Exhibition in Hanover, Germany. Without engaging in the realm of fantasy, I feel quite sure that the next ten years will bring about more advances in textile machinery than in almost any other similar period of modern history. Increasing wage rates of our own workers, the quest for more efficient means of production to meet competition from abroad, the prospect of a good return on money invested in improved machinery, and the desire to survive in the textile industry are all factors which are extremely pressing now, and which will tend to stimulate textile manufacturers to encourage manufacturers of machinery to further efforts in research and development.

The second broad trend in our industry is the one towards an increasing use of newer fibers; alone, but more especially in various combinations with the natural fibers. This phenomenon is with us today, and it is going to be an ever increasing factor in the future. It is going to be an increasing factor not so much because of the tremendous sums which are poured into the merchandising and advertising of the newer fibers by the manufacturers of them, but rather because some of these new fibers, alone or in combination with older fibers, create fabrics which will possess superior qualities for certain end uses than do fabrics presently in use.

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The third factor is an increasing emphasis on research and development for the companies in our industry. Sometime ago I saw a listing of the research expense of various industries as a per cent of sales. Aircraft and parts spent 26.9 per cent, most of which, I am sure, was paid for through the route of your income taxes. The drug industry spends from 8 to 9 per cent; electrical equipment 6.1 per cent; the chemical industry 2.5 per cent; the paper industry 0.52 per cent; and the textile and apparel industry 0.14 per 10

cent. The development of new products of the new raw materials available to us, the new machinery developments which are in progress, and the increase in technology generally which can be applied to some extent to our mills, are factors which will impel us in this direction.

One indication of this trend is the development of an •idea conceived by a member of this foundation, Mr. Fuller Callaway, for the establishment of an industry research institute shortly after World War II. The Institute of Textile Technology has grown and expanded over the course of the years, and presently from the standpoint of membership and funds spent on research is at the highest level in its history and is enjoying its greatest rate of growth.

The fourth point has to do with the manner in which our industry is organized. In September of 1930, Dr. Claudius T. Murchison, who at that time was Professor of Applied Economics at the University of North Carolina, published a treatise on the cotton textile industry under the title, King Cotton Is Sick. Dr. Murchison described the ills of the industry, the great waves of price increase, production increase, overproduction, price collapse, curtailment, until such time as the cycle would start all over again. And Dr. Murchison offered a solution of the problem, which was a radical reorganization of the industry into vertical, integrated combinations. He recommended that each unit of the industry, instead of being an enterprise with just one function, should be an enterprise which brings together all of the processes—spinning, weaving, converting, and selling—under a single unified control. Dr. Murchison's plan of organization took for granted that the basic controUing influence in the' textile industry arrives from conditions in the market, and that the direction of such integrated units should be carried out from the viewpoint of what can best be merchandised and sold profitably in any given time.

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specially since World War II the trend in our industry has been that recommended by Dr. Murchison. The independent selling house is insignificant in comparison with what it used to be; we have great integrated and diversified textile units; and the number of small, independent grey mills running on staple fabrics is vastly fewer than it was some years ago. In looking ahead to the future, it seems to me that the more successful units, from the standpoint of profitability, and even from that of survival, will be the large, diversified units which are integrated through converting. There will also be a place, and a very good place, of course, for smaller companies running on certain specialties which they manufacture and finish. The small mill— running on standard grey goods—is going to have a very difficult time.

A fifth point is one which has given us a great deal of trouble over the past twenty, or twenty-five years. Beginning probably in the 30's, there was a great displacement of textile fibers by non-textile materials. The advent of the TECH ALUMNUS

multiwall paper bag displaced cotton sheeting and other cotton fabrics in containers for cement, flour, sugar, fertilizer, and feed, among other packaged commodities. Moreover, the use of paper in facial tissues, in table service stock, and in towels also affected the market for textiles.

Unsupported vinyl film and sheeting has displaced many yards of textiles in shower curtains, raincoats, draperies, upholstery, and many other items. Non-woven fabrics have also displaced woven textiles in a variety of uses. However, in my opinion, the bulk of this displacement of conventional textiles by non-conventional textiles, or by non-textile materials has about run its course. While there will be, undoubtedly, some further displacement, it is my opinion that the worst of this has been seen.

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'ne factor which must not be overlooked, however, is that with the use of some of these newer manmade fibers, some fabrics have become more wear-resistant (for example, some of those used in work clothing and some children's clothing) and for this reason will need replacement less frequently in the future than they would have in the past. This will certainly have an effect on the consumption of textile fibers.

All of the things I have mentioned thus far shrink into insignificance, however, when considered with relation to the profound, and, possibly, devastating effect of the actions of the Federal government on our industry.

Insofar as the two-price cotton system is concerned, it seems to me that this is so blatantly unfair, so obviously unjust, and so vastly inequitable that it must be corrected sometime within the next year. I should like to add that I had the same thought very strongly a year ago, and it hasn't been corrected yet. In my simple, naive, and trusting way, however, I do believe we shall see a gradual lowering of the cotton support price to farmers, and an equalization of the prices of our cotton as sold at home and abroad.

A more important consideration is the fact that for almost thirty years the policy of our government has been to work toward a reduction in, and an elimination of, barriers to trade among all nations. This has been the policy of Republican and Democratic administrations alike.

Our government sponsored the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference which was held at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, on July 1-12, 1944, with 44 nations in attendance. The sense of this meeting was that the economics of the various countries could best be advanced by freely exerted market forces. The three great advantages expected were: (1 ) Freer trade among nations would lead to a greater efficiency in the use of world wide resources.

This is the classical economic viewpoint. (2) Less developed countries would be helped to develop. (3) Nondiscriminatory, mutually beneficial expansion of international trade and investment would foster political harmony and spread understanding, thereby helping to perpetuate a state of peace.

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The Bretton Woods articles of agreement contemplated the future creation of four organizations: The International Monetary Fund; The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the World Bank); The International Trade Organization; and the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade. The International Trade Organization failed of adoption; The International Monetary Fund has assisted with balance of payment problems; The World Bank has financed many projects in the underdeveloped countries; and GATT has worked toward the lowering of trade barriers.

It is most necessary that we thoroughly understand the basic philosophy of the administrative branch of our government, and the basic policies which determine the actions of the administration in the field of foreign trade. The two fundamental policies under which our government works are: first, that we have free trade, without tariffs, quotas, or restrictions of any kind; and, second, that we must assist the underdeveloped nations in achieving the industrial capacity which has produced the high standard of living in the advanced nations.

I think it would be well to digress, and to point out to you, however, that in its advocacy of free trade, the administration is philosophically inconsistent. When free trade is advocated, it is advocated for manufactured products, including textiles. It is not advocated for cotton, for wheat, for rice, or for peanuts. If free trade is good for cotton cloth, why isn't it good for cotton?

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second philosophical inconsistency in the free trade idea is that you cannot successfully have free trade among nations unless you have free trade within a nation. We don't have free trade within the United States for the wages of labor; our government has used almost every device imaginable, both legislative and administrative, to increase and to maintain wages, and they expect us freely to compete with the labor of Hong Kong, Formosa, and Pakistan.

If we really believe in free trade, we should remove the support price from cotton. Price supported cotton is not free trade. From this we could progress to buying cotton wherever we could buy at the cheapest price in the world— if we believe in free trade. So much for the digression and the inconsistencies.

In the carrying out of the policies of free trade, and help to the underdeveloped nations, the Federal government has vast support. This is not just a matter of a few egg heads in the State Department versus the American people. Not at all. The publications of the Committee for Economic Development, a blue ribbon list of businessmen, have supported these policies. They have been supported by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, and to some extent by the National Association of Manufacturers. They are supported by many of the great newspapers of this country, The Wall Street Journal, The Journal oj Com11

AN INDUSTRY- continued merce, and The New York Times among them. They are supported by the great farm groups of the country, who believe the sale of their products will be helped, if foreign nations can ship manufactured products here so as to get the dollars with which to buy the groceries they need so badly. They are supported by all of those who have a stake in foreign trade, and these are many. And, they are supported by the great group of economists, political scientists, sociologists, and the academic communities generally.

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he opponents of the trade policies of the Federal government are the American Textile Manufacturers Institute, the Georgia Textile Manufacturers Association, our other State associations, and a few other industry groups. Among these are those of the chemical, plywood, and china, glass, and clay industries, and among the opponents also, the domestic oil producers can be numbered.

Those who are neither actively for the policies, nor rabidly against them couldn't care less. They are ignorant of the facts, indifferent to our plight, and generally apathetic. The penchant of world travelers to purchase suits and dresses cheaply in Hong Kong will be multiplied millions of times in the years to come in every store in the United States where textiles are sold.

One of the things working against us is the very nature of our technology, of our manufacturing process. Among the various industries the investment per employee in the textile industry is relatively low, and the labor cost as a part of the cost of goods manufactured is high. Moreover, the degree of skill necessary for the great bulk of the textile workers is not so high that it can't be learned fairly quickly by laborers in the developing countries. Mr. Walter Montgomery, who has just attended the International Federation of Textiles Meeting in Greece, told me that representatives of the developing countries had come up to him at the meeting, and had told him that we had to let them manufacture textiles, that they could do this, and that in the United States our workers were going to have to make other things. Walter, as you can imagine, expostulated; but, it seems to me, this is the wave of the future.

A portent of tjiings to come can be seen in the growth of textile manufacturing capacity around the world. In 1950 the war devastated Japanese industry had 3.7 million spindles, while today they have 13.3 million. In this same period, Hong Kong has increased its spindles from 209,000 to 618,000; India from 10.5 to 14 million; Pakistan from 169,000 to 2 million; Egypt from 500,000 to 1.3 million; and Portugal from 500,000 to 1.5 million. These are only some of the increases.

All of you know of the flood of imports, the rate of increase of which was slowed, but not halted, by the Short Term Geneva Agreement, which was overshipped by 37 12

per cent, and by the Long Term Agreement, which has a built in expansion provision. You also know of the new quota agreement with the Japanese, under which shipments increase. In my opinion, what we have had thus far is a delaying action, and that there will be an inexorable increase in shipments of textiles into our country in the years which lie ahead. In the New York Times of September 8, it was reported that "The government plans to inform American industry that the tariff on virtually every product made will be subject to large reductions in next year's negotiations with the European Common Market and other countries." Next year is the "administration round" and you can let your imagination run on that one.

It was on May 2, 1961, that the administration promulgated his seven points for the textile industry. The three principal ones were the Geneva Agreements, which have helped, but which have been overshipped; the Equalization Fee, which the Tariff Commission rejected; and the application to the Office of Emergency Planning, which has not yet been acted upon. It seems quite obvious that if there had been any real desire on the part of the Federal administration to alleviate some of the conditions affecting us so adversely, action would have been taken long ago. There has never been any lack of action on the part of the administration when they really want to get something accomplished. That such action has not been taken, but points up the basic governmental policy which I have described to you.

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ver the course of the last forty years, one of the things which has lent strength to our Southern textile industry has been our ability through able and aggressive management, lower power costs, more modern equipment, and the employment of workers in a higher stratum of the labor market to take over the spinning and weaving formerly done in the North. But Northern mills are no more, and with the present policy of the Federal Government, unless something not yet visible comes into view, it seems quite probable that the process of shifting the manufacturing of fabrics for our own use to mills in far-off lands has got well underway.

Our only recourse is to impress upon our representatives in Washington—Congressmen and Senators alike—much more than we have ever done in the past, the seriousness of the outlook and its profound importance to us.

To us the ability to buy cotton at the world market price, and the stopping of the increase of textile imports come before the Area Rehabilitation Bill, before the so-called Civil Rights Bill, before the Tax Bill, before any other bill, for it is a matter of life or death for our industry.

And now is the time, for to fail to act immediately is simply to pursue the phantoms of hope, and with credulity to expect that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow. They will not be.

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the president's report for 1963

THE 75TH TEAR each of the first 75 years of Georgia Tech's existence, there has been progress—often slow, sometimes painful. But in all instances this progress has come about through the sacrifices and devotion of the faculty and staff—a faculty and staff who continue to contribute to the leadership which has brought the institution national recognition as a center of qualitative educational effort. Only the nature of the institution itself has limited the scope of its success.

Traditionally, Georgia Tech has avoided the expansion of its activities into new areas until existing programs received adequate support to enable them to operate at a level of quality that would equate them with the best. Pressures to establish numerous additional educational programs, to engage in research activities whose primary value is public relations, to proliferate graduate offerings to increased numbers at the expense of quality, and to expend disproportionate sums of money on activities which might have superficial value but which lack qualitative academic depth have been avoided. The reluctance of the institution to undertake these activities is not a natural abhorrence of mundane activities but rather the continued recognition that the insti-

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That Tech needs to expand its research activities both basic and applied and that it needs to undertake a more extensive graduate program is recognized by all who are familiar with the nature of the changes which are occurring in the pattern of technological and scientific education. In the past, it was sufficient for a technological institution to provide an undergraduate program of high caliber. But the rapidly expanding accumulation of scientific knowledge and its applications to economic and industrial growth have forced extensive revisions in the content, emphasis, and character of technological educational programs.

At a recent meeting Dr. Wernher von Braun stated that all of man's technological knowledge accumulated since the beginning of time doubled between the years 1750 and 1900. This amount of technological knowledge again doubled between 1900 and 1950 and repeated the process between 1950 and 1960. He predicted that the amount of such knowledge would again double between 1960 and 1967. This is a most graphic statement of the explosion of technological know-how that has engulfed the educational programs and research activities of America's technological institutions.

With the arrival of Sputnik in 1957, numerous voices of alarm were raised across America in criticism of the American system of education, particularly in the common schools. Criticism was often blunt and, in some cases, valid.

Aroused parents, irate businessmen, irritated college professors, and others banded together to force an upgrading of public education. The results have been most promising, and many of us feel a firm conviction that education has profited from the soul-searching criticism and action that followed Sputnik. In fact, a suggestion has been made by a school superintendent that American education should establish an outstanding award similar to the Nobel Prize to be given annually to the individual who contributes the most to American education. His recommendations were to give the first award to Khrushchev and the second to Admiral Rickover.

Because of these advances, emphasis on research activities, scholarships, fellowships, and the provision of new facilities has necessarily had to be concentrated in the areas of science and technology. It has been said that this emphasis has been detrimental to aicas of the humanities and social sciences, that the liberal arts have been slighted.

Actually, the reverse is true—the increased interest and support of education brought about by the recognized necessity for improving technological studies have benefited all aspects and all levels of education. A study of salaries, research support, scholarship support, and general gifts to liberal arts programs demonstrates this fact quite vividly.

It is not possible at the present time to overemphasize, especially in the State of Georgia, the necessity for catching 14

up and moving ahead in the support of technological and scientific education. Tech does not suggest that this be done at the expense of other valid programs of education, but we do insist that available State funds should and must be allocated on the basis of genuine need and value and not on any other basis.

The advantages of technological education are applicable to the moon race but, as noted earlier, the greatest benefits come from the stimulation of economic growth and industrial maturity that are a direct result of intensive academic activities such as occur on the Tech campus. The consequent advantages for increased tax revenue should be obvious to anyone.

The Financial Problems of the Technological Institute It has long been recognized that the public institutions of America will have to carry the greatest share of the burden of the expected increase in college enrollment in this decade and the years to follow. It has been predicted that by the year 1970 only 20 per cent of the 7,000,000 students expected to be enrolled in colleges and universities will be in private institutions. In 1960, by way of contrast, 42 per cent of the 3,600,000 college students were enrolled in private institutions. The State of Georgia (and Georgia Tech) must make every effort to contribute a fair share of the solution to this financial and academic burden.

The very nature of technological and scientific instruction makes it an expensive undertaking. The changing nature of instruction with the accompanying needs for increasingly costly laboratory equipment, the emphasis on graduate study, and the rapid expansion of research participation will continue the trend of increasing cost.

Too much emphasis cannot be given to the uniqueness of Tech's financial problems in expanding its activities into areas of graduate study and research. Graduate study, especially that which is scientific and technological in nature, is very expensive. Yet it is absolutely necessary for present and future growth. The smaller classes, the close personal supervision of student work, the use of top-rated scientists and engineers for teaching these courses, and the supervision of student research activities add to the financial burden. At the same time, the vital necessity for the expansion of graduate programs makes it essential that Tech's financial support for operations not be related to enrollment but to the nature of the programs.

Similarly, the almost total lack of anything but sponsor support for both basic and industrial research has been a growing problem that must be alleviated. Georgia's forced emergence into the technologically-oriented 60's has not been accompanied by the appropriate re-orientation of its educational emphasis.

It is encouraging that the State of Georgia has demonstrated an understanding of this trend by more than doubling its contribution per student over the past ten years.

But the next ten years will place an even greater burden on the State. Beginning in 1946, the birth rate leaped forTECH ALUMNUS

ward and created what the common schools referred to for many years as the "baby boom." These schools were hard pressed for many years to provide sufficient classrooms and teachers to handle successfully the large number of young people attending the public schools. During this 17-year period, the proportion of high school graduates who chose to enter college has increased, and the "baby boom" is now reaching the college level. Even though there remains a reluctance on the part of young people to undertake the rigorous academic programs required at the Georgia Institute of Technology, two factors work to assure an increasing enrollment pressure. The first of these is the higher proportion of entering students in these programs who are able to carry the academic burden and to conclude successfully the undergraduate program. The second is the growing necessity for capable bachelor graduates who are willing to undertake studies leading to the master's and doctor's degrees in order to acquire the specialized knowledge sorely needed for the expansion of research and development activities in the universities, industry, defense, and government activities.

Last fall Mr. J. Victor Herd, in a convocational address at Adelphi College in New York, made a statement indicative of the realization faced by business interests in assisting higher education to realize the financial support necessary to helping to face the challenges which have been thrust upon it: "Education in America today is one of the world's greatest bargains from the standpoint of the student and the parents. It costs much more per student to maintain present-day educational facilities and standards than the income yielded by fees, but fortunately the business community, foundations, and others at interest, including the public at large, are taking a much more enlightened attitude toward the financial needs of worthy educational institutions. I mention the public because of its role as stockholders of publicly owned corporations, whose managements dared not proffer financial aid to education until recently. Now, after some precedent-making court decisions, the stockholder readily approves the corporate gift instead of criticizing it. Great strides have been made during the past twenty years in this area of public education, but much still remains to be done. It must be kept out of the realm of contrived compassion and developed in a wholesome climate of enlightened community interest."

Georgia Institute of Technology is most grateful for the exceptional support it has received from business, industry, and from its alumni. The efforts of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association, the Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc., and the Joint Tech-Georgia Development Fund have been especially significant in enabling Tech to maintain a reasonable academic growth during the recent years of increasing faculty salaries and operational costs. This support has provided some of the necessary "frosting on NOVEMBER 1963

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the cake" and cannot and should not replace the State's obligations in supporting a program vital to industrial and economic growth.

In the past I have stated my convictions that the Georgia Institute of Technology is the greatest single economic asset possessed by the State. Let me submit substantiating statements : In June, 1962, the Office of the Secretary of Defense published a statement entitled "The Changing Patterns of Defense Procurements" in which a quotation from a brochure published by the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest appears. The Center is located in Dallas and the brochure is entitled, "Charter of Progress."

"Management planners, in considering sites for new or expanded facilities, have found that the availability of trained minds over-shadows even such factors as the labor market, water supply, and power sources.

The evidence is overwhelming: Route 128 encircling Boston, the industrial complex around San Francisco Bay, that related to the California Institute of Technology and UCLA in the Los Angeles area, and other similar situations are cogent examples of the clustering of industry around centers of learning. Such a migration arises from the need by industry for access to persons with advanced training who can translate the new science into vastly improved or wholly new products."

In addition, I offer this evidence: Recently, one of America's largest companies located a $30,000,000 space technology center in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The company searched many areas before making this gigantic investment and chose the area because the company ". . . is less impressed with perpetual sunshine than with the long-range educational outlook. The major educa16

tional institutions in Philadelphia and surrounding suburbs provide a source of graduating engineers and assure availability of graduate educational opportunities for employees..."

The basic attraction for industrial and economic growth could not be more succinctly stated, and Tech again calls for the support from the State of Georgia necessary to permit her to achieve that which this State so sorely needs.

The Future Georgia Tech Campus One of the most significant forward steps in the life of the institution was achieved by action of the Board of Regents in endorsing the efforts of Georgia Tech to undertake an urban renewal program covering the area immediately to the west of the existing campus. The complete details of this program will be developed in the future.

Nevertheless, the approval in principle by the Regents and by the appropriate officials of the City of Atlanta, along with the general endorsement by the planning authorities, indicate that the prospects for fulfilling this planning are good.

The Formula for Growth study conducted for Georgia Tech by Keck Engineering Associates, Inc., will form the basis for future planning. The addition of Mr. David Savini as campus architect and the allocation of a portion of his time to the development of long-range programs for campus growth should help us overcome some of the planning deficiencies which have been so pronounced in the past.

The realization of the proposed program will enable the institution to acquire approximately 90 badly needed additional acres to provide growth area for academic and research facilities, housing and student-support functions, recreation areas, and parking space.

Recognition that Tech's growth will be steady represents only a portion of the institution's changing nature. The proportion of students undertaking graduate study will increase from year to year. Emphasis on more advanced education will continue to increase as demands for holders of advanced degrees continue their present precipitous growth. We shall continue to offer a strong undergraduate program, but increasing emphasis and funds must be placed on the support of graduate education.

If, however, a decision is reached that will permit Tech to develop an industrially-oriented research center in the campus area, additional buildings and funds for the purchase of equipment and the support of operating costs would be necessary.

I wish to re-emphasize the necessity for increasing operational support to our existing programs. This is a matter of urgent necessity and transcends any arguments for the expansion of programs or the introduction of new programs until it is met.

With special reference to the dormitory problem at the Southern Technical Institute, it appears that existing public housing now in use will not be available beginning in the Fall of 1964. A crisis exists in the necessity for providing some type of dormitory accommodations to replace this TECH ALUMNUS

housing. It was thought that federal assistance would help to alleviate at least a part of the dilemma, but at present no assurance has been received that a solution is in sight.

(Through the efforts of Mr. John E. Sims, Director of the University System Building Authority, the dilemma was resolved in September, and the project is proceeding.)

The Cosmopolitan Nature of the Institute Tech has been criticized frequently for the large proportion of out-of-state students brought to the campus. This factor is not a gigantic financial waste as some seem to think.

First of all, it must be realized that in the operation of a technological school the absolute necessity for staffing and equipping of extensive laboratories for teaching and research purposes goes hand in hand with the quality of the technological program. It also must be realized that these laboratories would have to exist to offer a high-caliber program if only one student were enrolled. In practice, the addition of enough students to use these laboratories more effectively adds only small pennies to the large dollar costs of institutional operation. Similar irrefutable logic applies to the faculty requirements. Technical specialties are not found in variety in one individual. The technical competence of each program is the sum total of the competencies exhibited by each of the members of the faculty.

This criticism is nothing new. On January 7, 1932, the trustees of the Georgia School of Technology wrote their farewell letter to the first chairman of the Board of Regents.

These noted Georgians and their predecessors had been administering Tech since its beginning in 1888 and were putting down on paper some concepts which the Regents might wish to adopt as they took over the operation of the newly-organized University System. The fourth point in the letter read: "We strongly advocate encouraging out-of-state students. It would be a great thing to have 50 per cent of our students coming from outside the State of Georgia. This in itself gives our entire student body a wide acquaintance and a national position, and automatically reduces the cost per student to the State of Georgia. This policy we strongly advise." This is the only intelligent way to look upon the utilization of these facilities, and one can hardly doubt the economies resulting from such utilization.

If one recalls the earlier statements concerning the location of prime industries and then realizes that the number of engineers in Georgia jumped from 5,700 in 1950 to 10,700 in 1960, there is added impetus for increasing the production of this type of specialized talent. During the decade mentioned, engineering enrollment in Georgia jumped 88 per cent. Georgia ranked 16th among the 50 states in this rate of growth. The South as a whole showed an increase of only 69 per cent. By comparison, the Western states, including the Rocky Mountain area and the Pacific Coast, had an average growth of 123 per cent; the North Central states, a growth of 49 per cent; and the Northeastern states, a growth of 47 per cent. This is not an indiNOVEMBER 1963

cation that more engineers are being utilized in Georgia than elsewhere—but rather that the expansion of technologicallyoriented industries and activities is increasing rapidly in this state.

Add to this the fact that Georgia, even with an 88 per cent increase in the number of engineers employed during the sixties, is still the "land of plenty" for industries seeking to locate near a source of capably trained technological manpower. This is undeniably an important factor in connection with the attraction of new research and development-type industries.

Also, the opportunity>to bring to Georgia for study students from outside the state gives us a chance to retain in the state highly qualified young people whose presence is some compensation for the hundreds of young men and women who leave Georgia each year with the help of generous scholarships to attend educational institutions elsewhere. Most of these do not return to the state but remain relatively near the institution of higher learning from which they graduated.

Finally, it should be realized that the economic operation of the institution requires an adequate number of students at the junior and senior level to operate efficiently the diverse teaching requirements and research activities of the various curricula. At the present time, no qualified Georgians are being denied admission to the Georgia Institute of Technology. Here I should like to repeat the statement I have made many times in the past. The entrance requirements and demands set for admission are not arbitrarily selected by Georgia Tech to achieve a status position or to satisfy academic ego.

The caliber of the graduate of Georgia Tech must be equal to the best from comparable curricula over the country. The institution has a four-academic-year program to achieve this level of competency. By doing all within its power, Georgia Tech must educate the individual student to this level and must have from that student on admission certain basic educational achievements and inherent ability to make such an education possible. Should the student not have the necessary prerequisites or ability, it is exceedingly improbable or impossible for him to complete the program successfully.

As time goes on, it is quite likely that the proportion of out-of-state students attending may have to be curtailed in order to provide space for qualified Georgians. If this should become necessary, it will be done.

Another Educational Task for Tech Another aspect of the changing nature of technological and scientific education which will require increased support from Tech is the necessity for those once educated to return to college at intervals to receive additional instruction and updating. Recognition of the extent and necessity for the re-education (or continuing education) of scientists and engineers has resulted in a series of conferences held throughout the United States. One such conference was held 17

THE 75TH YEAR - continued under the auspices of Georgia Tech last January. Others have been held at leading technological universities throughout the country. It is evident from the comments of the industrialists, managers of federal laboratories, directors of research and development organizations, and others that the rate of expansion of knowledge will soon make it necessary for institutions such as Tech to carry out continuing programs to bring technical graduates up to date on the latest developments in their fields of specialty.

Within a few years it will be necessary for Georgia Tech to establish and operate a continuing education center to provide the necessary short courses, conferences, and related programs for technological personnel in the Atlanta area and, in addition, extension activities in principal industrial centers of the State to augment the on-campus program.

Closely associated with continuing education is the increasing urgency for the establishment of a new undergraduate degree-granting program. In all likelihood it will be of a General Engineering nature or perhaps an undesignated Bachelor of Science degree emphasizing basic engineering and management. Similarly, the likelihood of increasing the number of graduate-level courses during the evening hours is also great, and both possibilities for additional evening studies are being pursued. Again, funds must be provided for this type of work or our obligation will have to remain unfulfilled.

W o m e n Students

The increasing pressures and demands of all aspects of technology for capably trained and educated personnel lead me to recommend that the present restrictions on women students attending the Georgia Institute of Technology be removed. At the present time, women are permitted admission to the undergraduate engineering schools, to architecture, and to applied mathematics. The regulations require special approval of the Board of Regents in other instances.

The number of women students attending engineering colleges will never be large in proportion to men students, if experiences in the past are any indication of the future.

Administrative procedures and the general welfare would both be helped by the removal of all restrictions on the admission of women to programs at Georgia Tech.

The Administration of Research

Recognizing the necessity for .closer liaison between the various research activities on the Georgia Tech campus, an administrative change was undertaken which resulted in the establishment of an office of the Associate Dean of Faculties—Administrator of Research, effective July 1, 1963.

The complexities of expanded research activities involving institutional funds, grants, and contracts, with the associated management activities, have made the inauguration of such an office imperative. Mr. Robert E. Stiemke, Director of the Engineering Experiment Station, has been 18

selected to assume the new responsibilities of this office.

Here in the State of Georgia a growing awareness on the part of civic, political, and industrial leaders has reflected the fact that no institution in the State has been able to undertake its full responsibility in the support and conduct of research and development activities. These activities contribute to the economic and industrial growth of the region and to the technological and scientific necessities for expanding graduate programs in areas related to economic and industrial growth.

This increasing enthusiasm for the conduct of research of both a basic and an applied nature has added to the cost of operation of technological institutions to a degree far in excess of that burden placed on non-technological institutions. Much of the research activity at the Georgia Institute of Technology has had to be financed from limited State funds, from industrial contributions, and from grants and contracts made available by both industrial and governmental sources. Although on the surface this appears to be a reasonable and logical method of upgrading technological and scientific education and of expanding contributions to knowledge on which new industries and economic growth are centered, there remains a great over-riding and restrictive financial burden in the support of such programs.

The Congress of the United States has limited the amount of indirect research costs recoverable by educational institutions. The history of this restriction indicates that some congressmen consider the funds expended as outright gifts, or, since the colleges would conduct research anyway, they should pay as much as possible. Some even feel that overhead payments are a form of profit and if the colleges participate, research must be profitable. Extensive efforts are under way to bring about a realistic sharing of costs and hopefully to permit the institutions to have a less restrictive choice in developing research activities.

With much talk about the establishment of research parks, a committee of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association obtained the backing of an interested Georgia firm in financially supporting a study presently being undertaken by the Arthur D. Little Company of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to determine the role which Tech should play in Georgia's participation in space-age activities as they relate to industrial development.

It is intended that the report be completed in the fall of 1963. The report will be submitted to the committee of the Alumni Association and later to the president of the institution for information and advisement.

The Faculty

The greatest asset which an educational institution can possess is a faculty of competent and dedicated teachers, adequate supporting and secretarial help, and most of all, recognized leaders in the several fields of activity to create and enliven a program of academic enthusiasm in major areas of teaching and research competence.

The complexity and rapid change in today's technology TECH ALUMNUS

shortage of qualified personnel. Competition by government and industry for scientists, engineers, architects, and managers with advanced degrees has raised the salary levels of these groups at a rate faster than those of other professions, and the production of new professionals in these fields continues to lag behind the needs. The dependence of Georgia Tech on research activities and the necessity for emphasizing and expanding the graduate programs add to the critical problem and indicate why their support must necessarily be costly if the institution is to carry out properly the role which it has been assigned.

Georgia Tech must mqs>*e quickly to overcome the salary discrepancies between it and other leading technological institutions. Although salaries have improved markedly during the past six years, the gap between salaries at Tech and at other comparable institutions has not been closed appreciably. Coupled with the general salary picture is the necessity for making special professional appointments with salaries and supporting funds adequate to attract the most capable persons available. These people would form the nucleus of an expanding dynamic research and graduate program.

An encouraging result of faculty efforts, better selection and preparation of new students, and conscientious concern by all concerned has been the maintenance of good academic standards. The improvement, although slight, is encouraging.

require a reduced teaching schedule for all faculty members to permit time for the conduct of research, the preparation of lectures, the handling of graduate students, and the counseling of undergraduates. Faculty members must be encouraged to attend seminars, short courses, conferences, and technical meetings in their fields of specialty. The presentation of papers, the participation in discussions, the exchange of ideas, and the stimulation of the academic community are vital to the maintenance of an alert, interested, and competent faculty.

It is the goal of the administration to reduce administrative procedures to a minimum, to provide adequate services and physical facilities, and to encourage and support academic accomplishments at all levels of research, teaching, and counseling. Inherent in the development of faculty enthusiasm is the availability of students capable of carrying out the academic assignments to which they are subjected, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. It is not incumbent on the institution to accept for admission students whose academic progress appears to be of a definitely inferior or doubtful nature. The faculty is handicapped in teaching by such a policy, and the financial burden placed on the institution to support such students is out of all proportion to the return on the investment.

A very large proportion of Tech's teaching and research staff are specialists in fields in which there is an extreme NOVEMBER 1963

Institutional Self-Study The Institutional Self-Study was initiated by a request to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools on December 9, 1960. After receiving permission from the Association, a Steering Committee was appointed in May, 1961.

Upon the recommendation of the Steering Committee, ten committees, each drawing ten members from the faculty and administration, were appointed. During the progress of the study, the Steering Committee met periodically with the chairmen of the ten committees, with members of the administration, and with a representative of the Chancellor's office. The Steering Committee also kept the Education Committee of the Board of Regents informed of the activities of the Self-Study. The reports of each of the eleven Self-Study committees were completed during the winter of 1963, and a visiting team representing the Southern Association visited our campus in connection with the Self-Study during the dates of May 5 to 7, 1963.

The Committee advised that the reports dealing with the faculty, the Graduate School, and the Library were especially good. It was felt by the Committee, however, that the Self-Study had weaknesses concerning the role and scope of Georgia Tech. This committee recommended that a carefully worked-out projection of Georgia Tech's future aims and objectives should be undertaken as soon as possible.

It should be concerned with all divisions of the Institute and should reflect all areas of endeavor. The Committee 19

THE 75TH YEAR — continued also recommended that consideration be given to undertaking comprehensive unit studies for use at least at an appropriate time in the near future.

The preparation of the Self-Study, its review by the campus visitation team, and the comments of both the SelfStudy Committee and the team will serve as a point of departure for further efforts to improve and develop the potential of the institution.

The 75th Anniversary

Georgia Tech's 75th Anniversary celebration had its beginning in May, 1961, when a committee of five faculty and staff members was appointed. Beginning in the Fall of 1962, this committee, aided by faculty sub-committees, conducted a series of programs aimed at acquainting all of Tech's many publics with the importance of the institution as a center of scientific and technological education and research.

Although publicity was generally centered on two visitors who were considered to be controversial, there remained the imposing fact that over one hundred nationally-known scientists, engineers, educators, and business leaders visited the campus during the first six months of the 75th program as guests of Georgia Tech and various related groups such as the Neely Visiting Professor Fund established by Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Neely.

The anniversary celebration will continue through the final six months of 1963. Despite all of its attendant problems and additional work loads, it has to date been a successful program in accomplishing its original aims and in bringing a better unity to the Tech family.

Business O p e r a t i o n of the Institute

From time to time in the past it has been found valuable to bring to the campus consultants in specialized fields to advise the administration concerning our operational problems.

The success encountered in bringing in an expert on the operations of radio stations to consult and advise in connection with the operation of Radio Station WGST and the success engendered through the establishment and inauguration of a non-professional employment program led us this year to hire a consultant to investigate the operation of the campus business activities.

The institution was fortunate i s obtaining the services of Mr. David W. Harris, a prominent Chicago business leader and former Chairman of the Board of Universal Oil Products Company. Mr. Harris was willing to undertake this study as a normal consulting activity and because of his personal interest in the institution founded by his father (Governor N. E. Harris) and of which he was a graduate.

The findings and recommendations made by Mr. Harris have been extremely valuable to the institution, and along with similar studies, will assist in obtaining the greatest good 20

for each dollar expended. In our efforts to improve the business operation and the educational offerings of the institution, we are constantly reminded of a remark attributed to Albert Einstein, "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."

Acquisition of O'Keefe High School Property

In previous reports the necessity for the ultimate acquisition of the O'Keefe High School, presently isolated within the Tech boundaries, has been stated. It now appears that the ultimate purchase and reconversion to the uses of Georgia Tech of this property can and will be undertaken in such a way that neither the operation of the high school nor the Atlanta School System will be affected.

Southern Technical Institute

The Southern Technical Institute has profited in enrollment and activities by the occupancy of its new campus and by the increased recognition of the outstanding educational opportunities available in the engineering technician fields.

Under its capable leadership Southern Tech is continuing to provide further advantages to the State of Georgia through this vital educational opportunity and its consequent attraction to new and existing industry.

Enrollment

For the third consecutive year, the total day school enrollment for the academic year 1962-63 reached a record high level for each of the three quarters. The fall quarter, 1962, enrollment of 5,982 was 135 larger than the preceding year. The freshman enrollment declined again and was approximately 90 less than it was two years ago. In both Engineering and non-Engineering, the sophomore enrollment declined slightly, whereas the junior enrollment was up approximately 100. The senior enrollment in Engineering was up a little, whereas it declined in non-Engineering.

The total enrollment in Engineering was up a little over last year, and a further increase is expected next year. The graduate enrollment in the fall quarter increased by 110 over last year to a record high of 645. The summer quarter (1962) enrollment was almost exactly the same as that of the preceding year—2,080.

A Realization

It should be universally recognized that the great benefits of higher education come to the general public as well as to the individuals concerned. It is true that the recipients of college degrees profit financially from college attendance, but it is equally true that per capita income of a state or region closely parallels the ratio of college graduates who live in the area and also upgrades all levels of employment. Public funds, therefore, invested in higher education benefit others than the individuals who attend the institution, and the investment of State tax dollars in the support of a high quality technological program will bring dividends far in excess of the investment.

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Tfye- InstituteNew faculty members join Tech staff

FIFTY-SEVEN new faculty members have joined the Tech staff according to Dr. Paul Weber, Dean of Faculties. The new faculty members are: School of Applied Biology— Dr. Hong Shik Min, assistant professor; School of Architecture — Mr. Joseph N. Smith, assistant professor; School of Ceramic Engineering—Dr. Charles E. Weaver, associate professor; School of Chemistry—Dr. Eugene C. Ashby, assistant professor; School of Civil Engineering—Mr. C. S. Martin and Mr. P. H. Wright, assistant professors: School of Electrical Engineering — Mr. J. Lamar Allen, instructor; Dr. M. F. Moad, Dr. C. L. Phillips and Mr. R. P. Webb, assistant professors.

Also the School of Engineering Mechanics —Dr. Helmut F. Bauer, professor; Department of English—Mr. Frederick N. Henderson and Mr. William R. Spruill, instructors; Miss Annibel Jenkins, Mr. James C. S. Rivers, and Mr. Douglas J. Robillard, assistant professors; School of Industrial Engineering—Dr. Robert N. Lehrer, associate director; Mr. Jackson Holt Birdsong, lecturer; School of Information Science—Mr. Dewey E. Carroll, assistant professor; School of Industrial Management—Dr. Mack A. Moore and Mr. William A. Schaffer, assistant professors; Mr. Ewing E. Hunter, insttwctor.

Also the School of Mathematics — Dr. Julio R. Bastida and Dr. M. Zuhair Nashed, assistant professors; Mr. Cloyd S. Goodrum, instructor; Department of Modern Languages—Mr. Carl E. Steinhauser, assistant professor; Mr. Richard L. Hawkey, instructor; School of Nuclear Engineering — Dr. Geoffrey G. Eichholz, professor; School of Physics—Mr. William E. Woolf, instructor; Department of Social Sciences—Mr. Morris Mitzner, lecturer; School of Textile Engineering—Dr. William L. Hyden, professor; 22

Mr. Frank J. Clarke, liaison assistant to the director; Department of Air Science— Lt. Col. Alexander K. Johnson, Capt. Wallace C. Ryan, and Capt. Gordon J. Milliken, assistant professors; Department of Military Science—Lt. Col. Wythe P. Brookes, Lt. Col. Mayo J. Elliot, Maj. Thomas H. Murray and Capt. Joseph F. Hatcher, assistant professors; Department of Naval Science— Maj. Rollin R. Powell, Jr., Lt. Edward Sanford, Lt. Channing E. Jones, Lt. Philip S. Kent and Lt. Melton E. Rhodes, Jr., assistant professors; Co-operative Division— Mr. William F. Leslie, assistant director.

New faculty members in the Price Gilbert Memorial Library are: Miss Ann Grimes Evans, assistant librarian in Science and Technology; Miss Sara Lee Lane, assistant librarian in General Studies; Mrs. Mary R. Power, assistant librarian in General Studies; Mr. Harry Paul Schrank, Jr., assistant librarian; and Miss Mary Harriet White, cataloger.

At the Engineering Experiment Station, additions to the faculty include: Dr. L. J. Gallaher, research physicist; Mr. Ross W. Hammond, senior research scientist; and Mr. Milton E. Cram, Mr. H. C. Hill, Mr. James K. Howard, Mr. O. H. Ogburn, and Mr. R. H. Poinsett, research assistants.

World Student Fund Drive falls off

THE ANNUAL drive for funds for the support of foreign students studying at Georgia Tech was launched at half-time of the Georgia Tech-Auburn football game on Saturday, October 19. Bringing in only $4,454, the drive was the least successful one since 1957.

Each year the World Student Fund Committee of the Tech YMCA brings a number of foreign students to this country to study at Tech as guests of the student body. By providing an opportunity for outstanding foreign students to spend a year on the campus studying and getting a better understanding of the American people and their educational system, Tech students seek to aid the cause of world peace and international friendship.

This year seven students representing the countries of Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, and Iraq are at Tech under the auspices of the World Student Fund. These students live in the dormitories, eat at the fraternity houses, and take an active part in campus life.

The World Student Fund was founded by a group of student veterans shortly after the close of World War II, and is unique among colleges and universities in this country. The program is run by a studentfaculty committee who are selected by their fellow students and faculty members.

Most of the funds for financing this educational program are raised during the halftime of a Tech home football game. The drive on October 19 was conducted by about 300 members of the student body, who passed cups up and down the aisles of the stadium during the half-time activities.

Noted lecturers speak on campus

DR. ROBERT F. LEGGET, world famous engineer and geologist, presented two lectures at Tech October 28-29 on the relationship of geology to soil engineering and to civil engineering construction.

Well known as the author of Geology and Engineering, Dr. Legget was the first in the 1963-64 series of lecturers being brought to Tech by the Neely Visiting Professor Fund.

The fund was established by Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Neely of Atlanta to sponsor outstanding scientists, engineers and educators on the campus. Dr. Legget is editor of the Engineering Geology Case History Series of the Geological Society of America.

His October 28 lecture, "Geology and Soil Mechanics," was given at 2 p.m. in the Wilby Room of Tech's Price Gilbert Library. The second lecture was given at 9:30 a.m., October 29, in the Wilby Room and was devoted to "Geology and Foundation Engineering."

Dr. F. E. Zeydel, senior staff scientist, Lockheed Propulsion Company, Redlands, California, gave a lecture at Tech on October 29. The second Neely Lecturer to appear TECH ALUMNUS

Instant portable power... any time, any place In this battery-sparked new world of portable convenience, hand tools are driven by their own rechargeable batteries . . . toys perform their tricks by remote control . . . a hearing aid with its button-size power cell can be slipped into the ear . . . cordless radios and television sets are lively companions in the home or outdoors . . . missiles and satellites are guided through the vastness of space. • Developments like these have brought more than 350 types of EVEEEADY batteries into use today, 73 years after Union Carbide produced the first commercial dry cell. Ever-longer service life with power to spare is opening the way for portable power sources, such as the new alkaline, nickel cadmium, and silver batteries, to serve hundreds of new uses. • For the future, along with their research in batteries, the people of Union Carbide are working on new and unusual power systems, including fuel cells. And this is only one of the many fields in which they are meeting the growing needs of tomorrow's world.

A H A N D IN THINGS TO COME

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at Tech in the 1963-64 series, Dr. Zeydel spoke on "Panel Flutter" at 11 a.m. in Tech's Aerospace Engineering Building.

Before joining Lockheed Propulsion Company, Dr. Zeydel was head of the Mathematical Analysis Section of the Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City, Missouri.

He is author of ten technical publications and papers involving aerodynamic problems.

achieving the objective. A proposed budget should be included.

Last year proposals which were funded included payment of transportation and living expenses for a Visiting Research Metallurgist, travel to other universities to study curriculum revisions, provision of funds to hire a replacement instructor, establishment of an "internal sabbatical" for a faculty member, construction of an experimental facility, and support of a basic research study.

Tech receives NSF grant for institutional funds

Other grants received by Tech

GEORGIA TECH has received an institutional

A RESEARCH contract involving an extension of AASHO Road Test performance concepts has been assigned by the Highway Research Board, National Academy of Sciences—National Research Council to Georgia Tech.

The project is one of 34 awarded by the Highway Research Board as part of an accelerated drive to find solutions to a number of traffic and highway problems. The National Co-operative Highway Research Program, sponsored by the American Association of State Highway Officials and administered by the Board, has earmarked $1.6 million for such projects during fiscal year 1962-63.

The objective of the Tech study, under the direction of A. B. Vesic, Civil Engineering, will be to examine existing hypotheses and to develop new hypotheses of pavement performance as related to fundamental principles of engineering mechanics and materials science. Researchers will test these hypotheses with data from the road test and elsewhere. It is part of a general effort to translate the findings of the $27-million AASHO Road Test to local conditions.

A National Science Foundation grant in the amount of $11,200 has been received by Tech and will be used for the support of an "Undergraduate Science Education Program" under the direction of John R. Dyer, Chemistry.

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grant of approximately $25,000 from the National Science Foundation for the academic year of 1963-64. Funds remaining from previous grants, when added to this amount, now provide a total of about $35,000 which could be allotted this year. As stated by the National Science Foundation, "these funds may be used for basic research in all areas of science and science education, for research training, and for related scientific activities. Existing activities may be supplemented or new programs initiated with these funds."

Proposals from the faculty are being invited. They will be evaluated by a committee consisting of the Dean of Faculties, Dean of the General College, Dean of the Engineering College, Dean of the Graduate Division, the Director of the Engineering Experiment Station, and the Administrator of Research. Any faculty member may submit a proposal for a project he would wish to conduct and which could be supported from the NSF Institutional Grant funds.

The proposal need not necessarily be a request for support of contemplated research.

The broadest possible perspective should be employed in suggesting items for support which would strengthen the general research functions and programs of the institution.

Further, the subject need not necessarily be a piece of work that the faculty member himself would actually conduct, but could be suggested as a program the Institute should pursue. Each proposal, wherever possible, should include a statement of the objective and an outline of a procedure for

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tion of R. Kenneth Jacobs, is a "service" department offering various courses in engineering graphics or graphic science—the common language that links the closely oriented fields of engineering and science.

In addition to extending and improving the rapid communication between the efforts of engineers, and scientists, the department takes on the added task of providing the engineer with means of expression in his newer role in the area of analysis and synthesis without relinquishing his command in design, which has long been his primary responsibility.

In addition to Jacobs, the instructional staff of the department includes: Joseph C. Durden, Jr., associate professor; I. L. Ellis, E. M. Heim, G. Dewey Hilding, John D. Hutcheson, Donald H. Smith, and Earl M. Wheby, assistant professors; and Joseph W. Adams, T. C. Linthicum, and Robert H. Smith, lecturers.

Joseph F. Nutting, retired president "I of Nutting Realty Company, died October 9 at his home. His widow lives at 116 Montgomery Ferry Drive, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. * f l 7 A- C- KniSht> Sr-> o f Albany, Geor" ' gia, died June 21, 1963. > f | 0 E. M. Smith, 1000 Euclid Avenue, "0 N.E., Atlanta, Georgia, died October 9.

New department established at Tech

GEORGIA TECH has established a new depart-

ment, the Department of Engineering Graphics. This department, under the direc-

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TECH ALUMNUS

Here is one repairman who doesn't send a bill!

Of course, you may never need him, either. The average telephone gives years of good service without repair or adjustment of any kind.

But if your phone ever does demand attention, just call the Repair Service (see your directory). A telephone man

will come promptly. He'll do a careful job. And there will be no extra charge for his visit.

Does anything else you use so often give you such dependable, low-cost service as your telephone—year after year after year?

[ J y BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM SERVING YOU

tJacesmtfyeKews Clarence E. Hale, '33, Vice President of Batten, Barton, Durstine & O s b o r n e , I n c . , was named in the first edition of Who's Who in advertising. Hale is a member of A.A.A.A. Advertising Association of the West, San Francisco Advertising Club.

NEWS BY CLASSES-confinued Atlanta. He served as executive secretary of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association for 27 years, retiring in 1955. His widow lives at the above address.

William B. Houseal, Sr., veteran Birmingham realtor, died unexpectedly at his home, 100 Azalia Road, Mountain Brook, Birmingham, Alabama in October.

His widow lives at the above address.

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A. J. Hackl, '46, has been named president of the Worthington Air Conditioning Company, which has been formed as a division of Worthington Corp. Hackl formerly was General Manager of Worthington Corp's Air Conditioning Division.

Thomas A. Parks, Jr., '47, recently was appointed Manager of Production Planning and Control. He will be responsible for the Planning of Mohasco Industries Carpet and Yarn Production. Parks joined the Dixiana Mills Division of Mohasco after his military service.

A. P. Little, '48, has been appointed to the new position of supervisor, special processes of the Process Engineering Section of Chemstrand Company's Engineering Department, Decatur, Ala. Little joined Chemstrand in 1955 and has served as a process design specialist.

Herbert H. Rogers, '48, Regional Program Director for the U.S. Public Health Service's New England Water Supply and Pollution Control Program is now responsible for the federal government's plans on water quality management in six Northeastern states.

Ellis H. Peniston, of Newnan, Georgia, died October 17 after a brief illness. He was president and treasurer of Arnall Mills, Inc. and Arnco Mills, Inc. '01

S. P. Rosser retired as service manager with Western Electric in November after 43 years of service. He lives at 1201 South Haynes Street, Arlington, Virginia.

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'00 William H. Connerat, ME, has been L **' named to the professional staff of the Research Analysis Corporation as an operations analyst. His business address is 6935 Arlington Road, Bethesda, Maryland.

Walter K. Graham, ME, is now director of industrial relations for The New York Daily News, New York, New York.

G. R. Taylor died unexpectedly July 22. H e was chief engineer with the Nestle Company at the time of his death.

His widow lives at 647 West First Street, Fulton, New York.

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Harry Cook Robert, Jr., CE, consultant engineer for Robert & Company, died October 13 at his home. His widow lives at 2631 Ellwood Drive, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. / . Howard Stone, former plant manager of the P&S Division of Westinghouse in St. Louis, Missouri, died July 5, 1963.

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J. William Lang, Jr., EE, has been made president of the Coastal Oil Company and the Onco Oil Company. Both companies are headquartered in Newark, New Jersey. Mr. Lang lives at 27 Hampton Drive, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey.

Dr. Hamnet P. Munger, ChE, has been named to the newely created position of special materials development at Republic Steel Corporation's Research Center. He lives at 7562 Sugarbush Trail, Hudson, Ohio.

'00 J. P. Craven, M E , has been named * - ° a director of the Babcock & Wilcox Company. He is vice president in charge of the company's boiler division. His address is P.O. Box 126, Barberton, Ohio.

Paul Weir, CE, has been elected president of the Atlanta Downtown Kiwanis Club.

This is the second largest club in Kiwanis International. Mr. Weir is general manager of the Water Works Department for the City of Atlanta.

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A. E. Gibson, of 140 E. 42nd St., New York, New York, died June 15,

1963.

Leo L. Kornjeld, '51, has been elected a partner of Cresap, McCormick and Paget, international management consulting firm headquartered in New York City.

Kornfeld joined the firm in 1957 and will continue to be associated with the firm's institutional division.

system. His widow lives at 240 Beverly Road, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. A daughter, Mrs. Eugene Talley, is currently living in Tokyo, Japan.

Robert G. Strauss, ME, has been appointed an engineer with Monsanto Chemical Company's Packaging Division at St. Louis, Missouri.

Robert L. Allen, ME, professor of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, died unexpectedly October 12 at his home. Professor Allen joined the staff at Georgia Tech in 1937. He made major contributions to the mechanical design of large radar antennas, gear reduction systems and to the development of fuel systems for internal combustion engines. H e held several patents, including one on a fuel injection

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Captain Frank W. Allcorn, III, USNR, 1M, has been named commanding officer of the largest Naval Reserve command ever created in the Atlanta area.

He will have command over the 17 units connected with the Naval Reserve Training Center on the Georgia Tech campus. He is with Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Atlanta, Georgia.

Col. James H. Voyles, Jr., U S A F , GE, is director of manpower and organization at Headquarters, Air Force Systems Command at Andrews AFB, Maryland.

' i | 0 Melvin S. Feder, ME, has been pro•** moted to engineering manager — Polaris with Sperry Gyroscope Company.

He lives at 68 Burton Avenue, Plainview, L. I., New York.

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'AQ Charles M. Anderson, IM, has been ^ * » appointed Chemstrand Company Division controller. He is headquartered in the New York City office.

Dr. Lewis C. Emerson is on leave from the Nuclear Research Laboratory of Oak Ridge, Tennessee to teach a major portion of a graduate physics course at Vanderbilt and the University of Tennessee for this school year. He received his doctorate in physics from the University of Tennessee last June.

Lt. Col. Allen C. Hart, USAF, has been awarded the U.S. Air Force Commendation Medal for meritorious service at Maxwell AFB, Alabama where he is chief of the college programs division.

R. T. Lowrence, CerE, is president of the Jackson Tile Manufacturing Company, Jackson, Mississippi.

Douglas V. Maffett, IE, has been appointed Vice President-Railroad Sales, with Southern Wood Preserving Company, Atlanta, Georgia.

TECH ALUMNUS

New England Life's Eugene Carroll, CLU (Fordham '52), left, with Ben S. Stefanski, President and Board Chairman of Third Federal Savings and Loan Association of Cleveland.

Many men change careers to get ahead; this one didn't have to.

There was no question in Gene Carroll's mind that he had picked the right field for a career. Selling life insurance.

But, after a year and a half with an agency in Cleveland, his work had attracted the attention of several other companies who expressed interest in his services. This stimulated Gene to look around on his own initiative. He discovered New England Life's Clare Weber Agency and liked what he saw. Says Gene: "I've been a New England Life man since the day I entered that office."

Gene Carroll specializes in business and personal estate planning, which brings him into frequent top-level sessions with prominent men in the Cleveland area.

For example, just recently he met with Mr. Ben S. Stefanski, President and Board Chairman of the Third Federal, one of

Cleveland's leading financial institutions. Together they worked out an incentive plan which provides supplemental pension benefits for the firm's executives as well as financial protection for their families.

Gene likes doing business with men like Mr. Stefanski.

And he's proud of the caliber of the insurance he can offer them. "Our Company's contract is so outstanding" says Gene, "that it gives me confidence to be able to recommend New England Life to my clients."

Does a career in life insurance sound interesting to you ?

Learn more about this rewarding career as well as the particular advantages of associating with New England Life.

Write: Vice President John Barker, Jr., 501 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02117. We'd like to hear from you.

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These Georgia Tech men are New England Life

Representatives:

G. NOLAN BEARDEN, '29, LOS ANGELES CARL S. INGLE, CLU, '33, JACKSONVILLE JOE A. SOWELL, '47, MONTGOMERY

tJacestntf)eNews David C. Garrett, Jr., '55, has been promoted to Assistant Vice President-Operations of Delta Air Lines. Garrett joined Delta's Reservation Department in 1946 and has consistently been promoted to positions of increasing responsibility.

William O. Banks, '58, has been promoted to Productions Manager at Inland Container Corporation's Biglerville, Penn., plant. Banks joined Inland in 1958 as a management trainee at Rome, Ga. In 1959 he was made a foreman and in 1961 a plant supervisor.

NEWS BY CLASSES-confinued Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Peftnis, IM, a daughter, Maria Constance, October 4. Mr. Pefinis is district manager with SCM Corporation, 309 West Pascagoula Street, Jackson, Mississippi. ' E H S.P. Grant, ChE, has joined the Engi**** neering Department of the Atomic Energy Division Babcock and Wilcox Company in Lynchburg, Virginia as a senior materials application engineer.

Clifford B. McManus, Jr. is assistant superintendent of distribution in the Atlanta office of Georgia Power Company.

Thomas A. Bussey has been ap* * ' pointed division supervisor, western division-frozen foods, with the Campbell Soup Company in Los Angeles, California.

W. R. Jones, CE, has been promoted to maintenance supervisor, Nylon Intermediates, with Chemstrand in Decatur, Alabama. ' C O Born to: Dr. and Mrs. O. M. Fuller, * * ^ Jr., ChE, a son, Edward Grayson, April 26. They have a daughter, Mary Claire, 3. Dr. Fuller received his P h D in Chemical Engineering from Tech in 1960.

He is now with the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady,< New York. His address is 1727 Rugby Rd., Schenectady, N . Y. C O Leonard O. Hinton, Jr. is a research V*" analyst in the Baptist Sunday School Board's research and statistics department, Nashville, Tennessee.

Charles F. Rich, IM, has been named vice president of personnel with Wallace Hardware Company. His home address is 1878 Pinecrest Lane, Morristown, Tennessee.

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' C 4 Married: Stanley Dopierala to Miss *J* Ursel Isolde Magielski, May 19 in Germany. They live at 540 Fourth Avenue, Garwood, New Jersey. ' E C D. C. Aubrey, ChE, has been named ^ ^ engineering supervisor of the polyolefin section, Chemical Products Division at Humble Oil Company's Bayton, Texas refinery.

G. G. Cobb, M E , has been promoted to assistant plant superintendent of the Palatka plant, Florida Power and Light Company.

He lives at 102 Belmont Drive, Palatka, Florida.

D. Jack Davis, TE, is president of the newly formed company, Herdman's Linen Yarns, Ltd. with offices at 350 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York.

Married: John Edward Roller, CE, to Miss Christie Radford, August 10. They live in Mount Vernon, Georgia. ' E C Donald W. Linde, ME, received his * J ^ masters in metallurgical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in June. ' C I Born t o : Mr. and Mrs. Alex Benson, * * ' ME, a son, Alec Stephen, October 31. They live at 7 Indian Road, Savannah, Georgia.

Born t o : Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Berman, EE, a daughter, Blair, August 7. Mr. Berman is a senior engineer on the scientific staff of Project Mohole. H e is also working toward his doctorate at Rice University.

Their home address is 5862 Overdale, Houston 33, Texas.

Born t o : Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Borsh, ChE, a son, May 9. Mr. Borsh is a group leader, Product and Application Development Department, Celanese Polymer Center, Clark, New Jersey.

William F. Leslie, IE, has joined the faculty at Georgia Tech as Assistant Director of the Co-op Division. He was previously with RCA in Bloomington, Indiana.

He and his family live at 985 Bruce Circle, S.E., Atlanta, Georgia.

Engaged: Roy Boyd McCrorey, Jr., EE, to Miss Frazier Jackson. Mr. McCrorey is with IBM in Atlanta, Georgia. ' C O Engaged: William Charles Boswell, J O Jr., CE, to Miss Betsy Brooks. Mr. Boswell is with Macon Prestressed Concrete Company, Macon, Georgia.

George Sherlock, IE, was killed October 8 in an automobile accident near Atlanta.

Formerly with C&S Bank in Atlanta, he had entered Emory University Dental School this past summer. His widow lives in Monroe, Georgia.

Born t o : Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Strickland, IE, a son, Lynn Richardson, in September.

They live at 3813 Jackson Boulevard, Birmingham, Alabama. ' C O Born t o : Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Barker, *Âť** / / / , ME, a daughter, Anne Gordon, September 24. They live at 3528 Grandview Drive, Richmond 25, Virginia.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Little, ME, a daughter, Jodi Gayle, October 18.

They live at 1419 Christmas Lane, N.E., Atlanta 6, Georgia.

Engaged: James Branson Mathes, Jr., ME,EE, to Miss Margaret Anderson. The wedding will take place November 30. Mr. Mathes is a field engineer with Square D in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Lyle D. Wescott, Jr., Chem, received his doctorate in organic chemistry from Penn State in June. He has accepted a post-doctoral research fellowship at Penn State until June, 1964. Lyle lives at 500 Linden Road, University Park, Pennsylvania.

Born t o : Mrs. Barbara Cass Wilson, Arch, and Mr. Wilson, a daughter, Darby Kathryn, March 13. They live at 114 Ridge Spring Drive, Route 4, Taylors, South Carolina. ' f i f l -^"Sustus T. Allen is attending Har" " vard Business School. He lives at 127 Washington Street, Brighton 35, Massachusetts.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Pedro P. Gomez, EE, a son, Pedro Andres, September 2. Mr. Gomez is national manager of Product Service for General Electric de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia, South America.

Captain Henry W. Heermann, USAF, IM, has received a regular U.S. Air Force commission. He is a KC-135 navigator at Robins A F B , Georgia.

Lt. John G. Hunter, USN, has been awarded the Navy Citation for Achievement Award for his outstanding performance in the field of antisubmarine warfare. He is serving aboard the USS Charles P. Cecil ( D D - 8 3 5 ) , Norfolk, Virginia.

Lewis P. Kravitz, ME, is with the firm of Stevens & Wilkinson, Atlanta architects and engineers. His business address is 157 Luckie Street, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia.

Married: John R. Minter to Miss Susie Gatliff, August 3. They live at 2416 Vineville Avenue, Apartment 6, Macon, Georgia.

Charles E. Mitchell, ChE, has been transferred by Phillips Petroleum to the Special Products Division of the Chemical Department's Market Development Group as a Technical Sales Representative. He lives at 821 South Johnstone, Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

Born t o : Mr. and Mrs. Charles William Walden, IE, a son, Charles William, Jr., July 18. Mr. Walden is a junior at Emory University School of Medicine. Âť C 1 Ensign Robert F. Bland, USN, IM, " ' received his Navy wings in October at Corpus Christi, Texas. He will be stationed at Baronpac, Barkers Point, Hawaii.

Married: Lt. Robert A. Britton, USA, ChE, to Miss Patricia Finney, October 5.

Lt. Britton recently returned from a 13 month tour in Korea and is now stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. His address is 661st Ordnance Company, Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

James V. Fowler, IM, is assistant to the converter sales manager. Film Division, Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation, Asheville, North Carolina.

Born to: Lt. and Mrs. George T. Gannaway, USA, CE, a son, Samuel Whitfield, TECH ALUMNUS

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He's a vital man in the General Motors picture. H e doesn't build a product—he doesn't sell a product. B u t he deals in a commodity infinitely more valuable—the safety of our employes.

He is Safety Director of a G M plant—a specialist in safety. H e tests, evaluates and demonstrates all sorts of safety equipment and safety devices. He studies men and machines in motion.

H e considers the psychological factor in accidents. H e is a member of the management team t h a t formulates rules of safe practice, and makes sure t h a t they are followed.

There is no single statistic of which General Motors is prouder t h a n its remarkable safety record. G M recently received the National Safety Council's annual Award of Honor for t h e 17th time. I n t h e past five years, G M employes have averaged less t h a n one on-the-job injury per million man-hours. All this is convincing evidence t h a t General Motors is a safe place to work.

G M represents millions of people—employes, stockholders, suppliers, dealers. None of them is more important in his role t h a n t h e plant Safety Director.

GENERAL MOTORS IS PEOPLE...

Making Better Things For You

NEWS BY CLASSES-confinuecf July 19. Lt. Gannaway is a paratrooper with the 307th Airborne Engineer Battalion at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. They live at 5212 Catalpa Road, Fayetteville, N . C. Engaged: Robert Eugene Harmon, EE, to Miss Cornelia Hammond. The wedding will take place in December. Mr. Harmon is vice president and sales manager of Harmon Electronics, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri.

Walter R. Herbert, EE, has joined the Sarasota Division of Electro-Mechanical Research, Inc., Sarasota, Florida.

Born t o : Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth F. Howell, Jr., IE, a son, Kenneth Francis, III, August 15. Mr. Howell has been promoted to associate systems engineer with IBM. They live at 1201 Carraway Street, Tallahassee, Florida.

Born t o : Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Kase, Phys., a daughter, Evelyn Claire, September 13. Mr. Kase is a Health Physicist at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Livermore, California.

Michael J. McCullough, USA, M E , has been promoted to first lieutenant while serving with the 94th Ordnance Company, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

Lt. Dan H. Norton, USA, EE, has completed the officer orientation course at T h e Southeastern Signal School, Fort Gordon, Georgia.

Lt. Mike Pacholek, USMC, IE, completed Naval flight training at Pensacola and is now stationed with the 3rd Marine Air Wing, Santa Ana, California.

G. Wayne Page, IM, has been promoted and transferred from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Birmingham, Alabama as supervisor of sales services for the district sales office of Chain Belt Company. He lives at 321 Bush Street, Birmingham 10, Alabama.

George B. Pilkington II, CE, is working on his masters in city planning and civil engineering at Georgia Tech. He lives at 211 Tenth Street, N.W., Atlanta 13, Georgia.

Married: Lt. Robert Steven Solomon to Miss Marie Jones. The wedding took place October 20. Lt. Solomon is stationed at Ft. Benning, Georgia.

Engaged: John C. Staton, Jr., IM, to Miss Susie Glenn. The wedding will take place December 2 1 . John received his law degree from Emory and is a member of the Georgia and Federal Bars and Georgia and American Bar Associations. He is employed by the Federal Courts in Atlanta, Georgia.

James B. Terry, CE, is with F . E . J b r t e n berry and Sons, Inc. He lives at 3407 Canadian Way, Tucker, Georgia.

Born t o : Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Williams, a son, Drew Timothy, October 19. They live at 1103 Hewitt Street, Huntsville, Alabama.

Engaged: Stephen Louis Williams, M E , to Miss Francelia Landrigan. The wedding will take place in February. Mr. Williams is with North American Aviation in Canoga Park, California.

Engaged: Lt. Larry Glen Willoughby, 30

USMC, IM, to Miss Anita Gegan. The wedding will take place December 28. Lt. Willoughby is stationed at Camp Pendleton, California.

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been commissioned a second lieutenant following graduation from Officer Training School at Lackland A F B , Texas.

He is now assigned to Moody A F B , Georgia.

Ens. Richard B. Bell, USN, has been reassigned from his post in Taiwan to Naval Intelligence, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Washington, D. C. Engaged: Clarence Foy Bentley, TE, to Miss Myrna Weatherford. The wedding will take place December 21 in Watkinsville, Georgia.

Charles R. Brown, BC, is now on the sales staff of Allan-Grayson Realty Company in Atlanta. Prior to joining the sales staff he was maintenance engineer with the firm.

Born to: Ens. and Mrs. William W. Brown, USNR, IE, a daughter, Elizabeth Ellen, March 15. Ens. Brown is stationed aboard the USS Manley (DD-540), Charleston, South Carolina.

Lt. William E. Evans, USA, has been assigned to the 11th Air Assault Division at Fort Benning, Georgia.

P. Kemp Fain, Jr., ME, has been appointed a sales representative for Tenite plastics, Division of Eastman Chemical Products, Inc., Framingham, Massachusetts.

Lt. Joe B. Foster, USA, has completed the officer orientation course at The Chemical Center, Fort McClellan, Alabama.

R. H. (Johnny) Hemrajani, IM, is working on his masters in industrial engineering at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois.

Following graduation from Georgia Tech he visited his home in Bombay, India and made a trip around the world. His address is 1316 West James Street, Peoria, Illinois.

Ens. George William Knight, USN, IE, is serving aboard the USS A L T A I R (AKS32), with home port in Naples, Italy.

Charles W. Lines, Jr., USAF, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force following graduation from Officer Training School at Lackland A F B , Texas. He is now assigned to Tyndall A F B , Florida.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. W. Joel Livingston, IE, a son, Gregory Joel, October 2.

Mr. Livingston is with Robins A F B . They live at 200 Palomino Lane, Warner Robins, Georgia.

Kenneth Keith Ingram, IM, is an administrative assistant with C&S Bank in Atlanta. He lives at 129 Lanier Boulevard, Norcross, Georgia.

Harold P. Pope, CE, is now living at 3210 Moorewood Drive, Nashville, Tennessee.

Married: Charles R. Powell to Miss Dorothy Vandegrift, August 24. Mr. Powell is attending graduate school at Harvard.

They live at 8-A Forrest Street, Apartment 2-R, Cambridge 40, Massachusetts.

Lt. Robert L. Redd, USA, IE, has completed the officer orientation course at The Engineer School, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Born t o : Mr. and Mrs. William B. "Snook" Saye, IM, a son, Stephen Bryant, April 7. Mr. Saye is in his junior year at Tulane Medical School. They live at 3934 Cambronne, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Yagle, IM, a son, Charles Robert, February 7. Mr. Yagle is with General Motors. They live at 1352 Lorenzo Drive, S.W., Atlanta 10, Georgia.

L ]r " Adams' -> U S N > C E > received his commission at the Officer Candidate School, Newport, Rhode Island in September.

Engaged: Lt. Bertram Burdell Dales, 111, USA, to Miss Ann Perkerson. The wedding will take place in December. Lt. Dales is stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Lt. Larry R. Edens, USA, has completed the Officer Orientation Course at The Chemical Center, Fort McClellan, Alabama.

Engaged: Wayne Aubrey Fisher to Miss Theresa McDaniel. The wedding will take place October 19. Mr. Fisher is with General Dynamics Aeronautics, Cape Caneveral, Cocoa Beach, Fla. John F. Gee, 111, U S A F , IM, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force following graduation from Officer Training School at Lackland A F B , Texas. He is now assigned to Kadena A F B , Okinawa as a manpower management officer.

Lt. Frank A. Greek, USA, has completed the infantry officer orientation course at The Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia.

Engaged: Robert F. Holman, Jr., IM, to Miss Linda Lehner. The wedding will take place December 27 in Atlanta. Mr. Holman is employed by Seydel-Woolley Company in Atlanta, Georgia.

Robert C. 'ohnson, Jr., U S A F , IM, has been commissioned a second lieutenant following graduation from Officer Training School at Lackland A F B . He is now assigned to Chanute A F B , Illinois.

Lt. John C. Kidd, USA, EE, has completed the officer orientation course at The Armor Center, Fort Knox, Kentucky.

Engaged: Brian Ellis Mickler, EE, to Miss Donella Dietrich. The wedding will take place December 7.

Lt. Thomas H. Mitchell, USA, IM, has completed the infantry officer orientation course at The Infantry Center, Fort Benning, Georgia.

Engaged: Ens. John Kelso Morrow, Jr., USN, IM, to Miss Donelson Rawls. The wedding will take place December 28. Ens. Morrow is stationed aboard the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, New York, New York.

Lt. Thomas C. Redford, Jr., USA, CerE, has been assigned to the U.S. Army Training Center at Fort Knox, Kentucky.

Engaged: Ens. Thomas Dennis Strickland, III, USN, to Miss Patricia Reilly. The wedding will take place November 16. Ens. Strickland is attending the Navy Supply Corps School, Athens, Georgia.

W. R. Sullivan, USN, Math, received his commission at the Officer Candidate School, Newport, Rhode Island in September.

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TECH ALUMNUS

'Working for myself and Mass Mutual

my first million-dollar year came after only 3 years' experience!"

says John E. {Buddy) Leake, Jr., Memphis, Term. " T h r e e years after graduating from the University of Oklahoma, I found myself in the top quarter of my field. " I n that year, 1959, I sold nearly two million dollars of insurance. Every year since then has been a highly successful year for me. W h e n I graduated I had gone into business for myself as a life insurance agent with Massachusetts M u t u a l . " I can't think of any other field where a m a n can progress so rapidly.

Believe me, I ' m in for the long h a u l ! " I t occurs to me that there must be m a n y men who are tired of working

for somebody else, and would like to get into business for themselves. I n a business that requires no investment or inventory . . . where you select the type of people you want to do business with . . . where you profit in direct proportion to your own efforts . . . and where you have the satisfaction of knowing that your work is really helping people. " I t seems to me that men like this should investigate the opportunities of selling life insurance with Mass Mutual. It is a fine company with over 2.6 billion dollars in assets. It is

solid, yet progressive. It offers m e a career with a wonderful income a n d with plenty of time for Carolyn a n d our five children.

"If you're interested in a career like mine, the President of Massachusetts M u t u a l would like you to write him a personal letter about yourself. This could be one of the smartest things you have ever d o n e ! His name is Charles H . Schaaff, and you can write to h i m at the home office in Springfield, Massachusetts.

"There's always room for good men at Mass M u t u a l . How good are you?"

Some of the Georgia Tech alumni in Massachusetts Mutual service: Stanley A. Elkan, '22, Macon William C. Gibson, '39, Atlanta

Donald I. Rosen, C.L.U., '49, Macon

Henty F. McCamish, Jr., C.L.U., '50, Atlanta Norman C. Oien, '61, Atlanta

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