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The cover design is by G. Cavett Taff, one of the most creative young men to cross the Tech campus in years. An architecture major at Tech, Cavett is presently earning a degree in graphic design at Georgia State.

And Technology Made the Difference

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The Houston Clan

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Twenty-five Years on a Portable Stage

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In Quest of the Cochlear Microphonic

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Middler's Mansion

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News of the Alumni

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Letters

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Vote for Alumni Officers

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GEORGIA TECH NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Officers and Trustees: James P. Poole, president/1. Frank Stovall. Jr., vice-president Thomas V. Patton, vice-president/L. Travis Brannon. Jr., treasurer W. Roane Beard, executive secretary/Roger H. Brown. Gainesville 'J. Doyle Butler George A. Ewing/James T. Gresham, LaGrange/Joseph A. Hall. Ill/Morris E. Harrison, Deeatur lohn S. Hunsinger Robert R. Jinright, Thomasville/A. J. Land.. J. Charles Lockwood, Tucker David D. Long. Jr./John O. McCarty/Dennis D. O'Brian, Florence/lames B. Ramage Chester A. Roush, Jr., Carrollton/Dan P. Shepherd/Wm. J. VanLandingham Norman J. Walton. Mobile/Richard K. Whitehead, Jr. Staff: R. Dan Davis. Assistant Secretary/Robert H. Rice. Assistant Secretary Mary G. Peeks, Director of Alumni Placement

Golden Anniversary Year

THE STAFF Ben L. Moon, editor Barbara Robinson, senior eilitorial assistant Andrea Keith Helms, editorial assistant Mary Joanne Smiley, class notes Nadia B. Tuley, advertising manager R. Dan Davis, executive editor John Stuart McKenzie, design consultant Published four times a year: fall (Nov. 1). winter (Feb. I). spring (May 1), and summer (Aug. 1) by the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association, Georgia Institute of Technology, 225 North Avenue, N.W. Atlanta. Georgia 30322, Subscription price S 1 .(HI p i' copy. Second class postage paid at Atlanta, G

GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION, INC. Officers and Trustees: Hal L. Smith. president/L. L. Gellerstedt. Jr.. vice-president Robert H. Ferst. treasurer/Joe W. Guthridge. executive secretary/Jack Adair/Ivan Allen, Jr. John P. Baum. Milledgeville/D. Braxton Blalock. Jr./FullerE. Callaway. |r., LaGrange Oscar G. Davis/Dakin B. Ferris, New York. Alvin M. Ferst/Jack F. Glenn/Henry W. Grady Ira H. Hardin George H. Hightower. Thomaston. Julian T. Hightower. Thomaston Wayne [. Holman, Jr., New Brunswick Howard B. Johnson. J. Erskine Love, Jr./George W. McCarty John J. McDonough/Walter M. Mitchell/L. Allen Morris. Miami/Frank H. Neely.'William A. Parker Hazard E. Reeves. New York/Glen P. Robinson. Jr./I. M. Sheffield. Jr. Charles R. Simons, Flowery Branch/John C. Staton Frederick G. Storey Howard T. Tellepsen, Houston/William S. Terrell. Charlotte Robert Tharpe William C. Wardlaw/George W. Woodruff/Charles R. Yates.

GEORGIA TECH NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD, 1971-72 William R. McLain. chairman, Nashville Charles A. Smithgall. vice-chairman. Gainesville Marion W. Buyer, New York/Dan H. Bradley. Savannah/Chester C. Courtney, Chicago Charles K. Cross. Columbia/James F. Daniel, 111, Greenville/Paul A. Duke. Atlanta Kenneth W. Dunwody, Macon/Dr. Wadley R. Glenn, Atlanta/Joe M. Haas. Dallas Frank W. Hulse, Birmingham/Raymond A. Jones, Jr., Charlotte/John R. Kinnett. Jr.. Columbus David S. Lewis, Jr., St. Louis/James B. Lindsey, Bakersfield.'Frederick H. Martin, Huntsville Joe K. McGutchen, Rome-Dalton/N. Richard Miller. Camden/William E. Moore. San Francisco L. Allen Morris, Miami/A. ]. Mundy. Jr.. at large/Dorroh L. Nowell, Jr.. Augusta Charles T. Oxford, Albany/S. B. (Skeet) Rymer. Cleveland 'Ben H. Sloane, Pittsburgh George A. Smith. Denver/Michael E. Tennenbaum, New York.'C. C. Tomlin, Jr.. Orlando R. W. Van Landingham. Tampa/William A. Verlander, Jacksonville/Charles M. Waters, Jr.. Alexandria Frank J. Whitley. Houston/Marvin Whitlock. at large.

ROY RICHARDS, ME '35, OF SOUTHWIRE COMPANY

And Technology Made the o,

Roy Richards, in the space of twenty-two manufacture.

years, has become a world leader in wire

"nly Eighteen years after its first wire was produced, the Southwire Company of Carrollton, Georgia was responsible for the largest industrial bond issue in the history of Wall Street. The story of the company's growth is an exciting account of technology providing the edge for a fledgling company faced with the prospect of competing with established giants in the field. The technological edge has been so effective that a tremendous number of larger, more powerful firms throughout the world have been compelled to come to the company in the cottonfields to obtain permission to use the latest advances in the manufacture of wire.

The company's president and founder, Roy Richards, who is on the Rolls of the American Newcomer Society, attributes a significant amount of his technological advantage to Georgia Tech, where he received the B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1935.

"It's important to describe the total impact of the down-to-earth mechanical and business training I received at Tech," asserts Richards. "My professors and teachers gave me more applications and uses of technology than I can ever put to work. Tech is not just an engineering school; it has done a great job of teaching practical applications. There may be more theoretical schools, but I don't think they turn out as good engineers."

Roy Richards worked his way through school in the dining halls,

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Soon after graduation the resourceful young man bought an old car for $25 and mortgaged it to Major Case, one of his favorite professors, for $256 of working capital to start a sawmill. After obtaining more financing he was on his way, taking part in the spread of electrical power across the South during the thirties. For awhile Richards' firm only provided, power poles and erected them, but on the suggestion of a friend he began to also string the wire itself and compete for whole jobs of constructing electrical power distribution systems. This introduction to the wire industry provided a kernel for the solidification of a dream that Richards had been entertaining since his college days.

But the dream was long in coming to fruition, interrupted by World War II when Richards volunteered for service in the Army. During his Army years he nurtured the idea of establishing a manufacturing facility in the electrical field. Gradually the concept of a wire mill for the South became more and more tangible.

A wire mill, for wire and cable manufacturing seemed to have lacked any recent technical advances and offered an Spring 1972

A mere few hundred yards from the Southwire plant water needs, is the Richards home.

main plant, across a Jake supplying

A blend of the pastoral and the modern, the Southwire plant is in view of the Richards' paddock.

Southwire's physical growth has paralleled its economic growthâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from 12,000 square feet in 1950 to over a million square feet today.

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The Richards center their home life on their children, spending time with them in sailing, riding, and working in the garden or workshop. Bottom, left to right, are Lee, James Case. Roy Jr. (Richie), the oldest.

Roy and Alice Richards, Nancy, Beth, and Robin, the youngest.

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opportunity for "putting technology to work." In the South, for here Richards felt he could do the most good and had the most opportunity.

He was acutely aware that his fellow Southerners were suffering from the dethronement of "King Cotton," and "I had been brought up to be a 'good neighbor.' My father had inculcated in our minds that we should make better the place where we lived —in every way, from supporting the local institutions to helping our neighbors 'build a better mousetrap.'" He also felt that the South was sort of an "economic last frontier." Perhaps the wisest thing the people of Carroll County, Georgia ever did was ask Roy Richards to chair the drive to raise money for a new hospital.

After the excellent opportunity the task afforded him to study local conditions, he reached a final decision to locate his wire mill at Carrollton.

"It seemed that at every turn there was a 'guardian' to warn us of the unfeasibility of what we were about to do." Capital was limited, building materials hadn't caught up with the postwar demand, and the area had no workers and technicians skilled in metal manufacturing.

But it seems that the statement "it can't be done" has always been a challenge to Roy Richards to do it. He assembled a crew of young managers and engineers.

Major Case, now retired from Tech as head of the machine shop lab, was persuaded to move to Carrollton where Richards built him a workshop at his home to train young workers from the surrounding area. Many supervisors still at Southwire were among that group trained by Major Case. Used machinery was purchased and installed. On March 23, 1950, the first wire was produced at Southwire.

But during the early years the company purchased its raw

material —aluminum rod —in 220pound coils from its competitors.

As the firm expanded, more young engineers and managers were added to the staff, among them Tech men D. B. "Pete" Cofer (M.E. '53), J. Frank Holladay (E.E. '50), and John C. "Chap" Candler (E.E. '52). Cofer was responsible for the construction of Southwire's most important "technological edge," a mill for the continuous casting of aluminum rod. Richards had looked at technological developments all over the world and had for three years worked with an Italian designer, Illario Properzi, adapting his machine for the continuous casting of lead and zinc products to the continuous casting of aluminum. Properzi didn't believe it could be done, but gradually the details of design and construction were worked out. After only one year of operation, the mill was producing twice the predicted tonnage of aluminum rod. By 1970 the firm had been awarded the "E Star" for continued excellence in exporting to over 17 foreign countries, presented by President Nixon.

Richards still keeps about two teams of Southwire representatives traveling all over the world each week, observing technological developments at work in other countries and selling rights to the techniques developed by his own company. The major companies of Japan, Germany, Switzerland, South Africa, Italy. France, Austria—almost every leading industrial country—are using the more than 175 patented techniques developed in the cotton fields of Georgia. By this fall Carrollton should boast the South's first electrolytic copper reduction plant.

"There's a lot of technology in the world that's not being used," Richards points out. "Probably half of it is waiting to be found and harnessed. One of our main businesses is the sale and use of The Georgia Tech A l u m n u s

technology.'' And that orientation shows on the balance sheet also — sales of patent rights make up a large portion of Southwire's net income.

But as successful as the company had been, sources of raw materials had always been a problem. So in 1968 Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith, Inc. and a group of Tech men on their staff handled an industrial bond issue for Southwire to build a 180,000 ton-per-year aluminum production plant in Hancock County, Kentucky in conjunction with National Steel Corporation. Therein lies a story of high finance that would put the most dramatic novel to shame.

William T. Kennedy (I.E. '52), now Assistant Vice President at Merrill Lynch's Atlanta office, had put his reputation and career on the line in 1965 by encouraging the highly respected, conservative firm to sponsor a bond issue for Richards' relatively small, unknown company. His boss at the time, Dakin B. Ferris. Jr., '50, backed Bill wholeheartedly in his efforts to convince the Merrill Lynch investment banking office in New York that Southwire was a good bet. The dramatic climax was a personal meeting between Roy Richards and Winthrop Lenz, chairman of the all-powerful Merrill Lynch investment banking committee and one of the oldest, most respected investment bankers on Wall Street. Without even having seen the Carrollton plant, Lenz gave approval to his firm handling the first bond issue in 1965 on the basis of facts and figures presented by Richards.

His evaluation of Roy Richards as an individual was an important factor—"They spoke the same language," according to Bill Kennedy. "It was a practical, technical, financial conversation between two pros." And the faith was well founded—Southwire's 1971 earnings were double those of 1970, while most other companies Spring 1 972

in the metal industry were having trouble or collapsing. The successful marketing of this first issue, as well as all following issues, was due in no small measure to the creative efforts of Walter W. Niebling, Vice President and Manager of the Municipal Bond Underwriting Department of Merrill Lynch in New York.

The 1968 Southwire industrial bond issue handled by Merrill Lynch became the largest in the history of Wall Street —$116 million. In all, on a net worth of roughly $30 million, Southwire raised over $200 million of capital.

The Kentucky project, which included a wire mill as well as the aluminum reduction plant, was almost unbelievably delicate in its coordination of elements. A $90 million steam plant was being built on the assurance that the yetunbuilt aluminum plant would use 70 percent of its output. Even if the aluminum plant had not been built. Southwire would have been obligated to a minimum of $400,000 per month for 25 years. And barges had to be committed years in advance to move a staggering tonnage of alumina up the Mississippi River. Options had to be purchased on power generators that had a three-year manufacturing lead time and, at a certain point in time, involved a 20 percent price increase if a final purchase arrangement had not been consummated. A failure at any point would have caused disaster.

Chap Candler was charged with the management of the Kentucky project, a three-way balancing act with Kaiser Corporation engineers in Oakland, California, the Daniels Construction Company in Kentucky, and the Southwire home plant in Carrollton. All three were tied in on a computer system that kept close track of progress and costs.

The results: a complex, modern plant constructed six months ahead of schedule and millions of

dollars under budgeted cost.

By now the reader should have formed his own mental image of Roy Richards, the man. Hard, cold, driving. All business. Three hours of sleep a night. Family, if any, left to fend for themselves in all but material ways. Exploitative of his employees. After all, how else does a person really make it big nowadays?

Nothing could be farther from the truth. Roy Richards comes on as anything but the ulcerated executive. His demeanor is quiet, cordial, absolutely unassuming yet calmly in possession of himself and the situation.

"He has an unusual ability to see the future," observes a business friend. "If other people are not able or willing to see, he plods along until they come around. He reviews his position periodically, sometimes reassesses, but he's like water dripping on a rock .. . persistent, steady. He doesn't move at a breakneck speed: his meteoric success has really been the result of a consistent course he set with great thought, planning and research. He just has a lot going all at once, and it comes together in rapid-fire order. He's methodical and controlled. He goes to bed around 10:00 and gets up about 6:00 or 7:00. He has a consistent pattern of behavior; he's predictable, and you always know what's expected of you. Roy allows you your own individuality; outstanding, capable people stay with him for a long time. He's a calm, commanding person who knows where he's going, knows how to get there, and wants to take you with him."

The Southwire employees are paid and treated better than most of their counterparts in larger companies, and enjoy a generous profit-sharing plan. Several times a year, notably on the Fourth of July, the employees turn out at the Richards farm, 500 yards behind the plant on the banks of a

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Expansion continues at the huge plant, with the Richards stable only a short distance away.

large, beautiful lake, for a social gathering. When the barbecue rolls around, for 48 hours prior to the event some of the employees are on the scene barbecueing pigs for 5,000 people. The affair just grew gradually as the plant expanded, not as a conscious public relations effort but as a natural outgrowth of cordial social relations.

Roy Richards enthusiastically pursues an outside-business interest â&#x20AC;&#x201D;his family. He has six children ranging in age from six to thirteen, and the seventh is due in April 1972. Photographs, paintings and busts of the three girls and three boys are among the main decorative elements of his office.

His wife, the former Alice Coyner Hufford of Bluefield, Virginia, goes with him often on his business trips, and frequently the children go also. They have taken month-old nursing babies on conventions.

When the children were in..the pre-school stage and prone to wandering in crowded air terminals, Richards would tie knots at intervals on a long string, have each child hold a knot, and lead them wending through the crowd.

"Kids travel well," Richards

TheRichards raise their own beef and vegetables, with their children pitching in on the routine farm and home chores.

assures. "There's no need to wait until they're grown to take them places. Just last week we took ours down to Disney World for three days. We've gone to the Virgin Islands for a week. Every year we take the whole family to some foreign area, and the wife and I take intermediate trips. But basically we take our kids with us wherever we go."

The Richards children raise their own food, both vegetables and livestock. They each have chores around the home, and each tends his own horse and feeds his own animals. "I feel it teaches them responsibility." In the home workshop each boy has his own set of tools; the three girls have a workshop also. The parents go horseback riding with the children at least once or twice a week, and frequently go sailing on the lake that is just beyond the back door. The Richards are outdoors types. Roy Richards likes golf, but doesn't play much because none of the others are interested. "As the children get older and become interested, I'll probably play more. We try to do things the family fits into.

"Children don't faze my wife. A

lot of the children's friends visit the house; we frequently have two or three extras spending the night, and one night there were twelve."

And Alice Richards still finds time to cook a casserole for a sick friend.

Roy Richards is skeptical of the "phony existence led by many harried, commuting executives.

"It's not a balanced life. We try to carry on a family pattern of life."

Another underlying life philosophy is Richards' belief in private enterprise. "I'm convinced it will solve our ecology problems.

It's the biggest thing our democracy is tied to in the world today. Countries without it are in sad shape; if only they could realize what can be done in the world with financial incentive and opportunity. Students need to get interested in what they can do in a positive way through private enterprise instead of looking at the negative side of life and all that's wrong with society."

Family living and private enterprise . . . he just might have something there. Al least, it seems to have worked for Roy Richards. â&#x20AC;˘ The Georgia Tech A l u m n u s

The Houston Clan i

t's always risky to feature a single alumni club in an alumni magazine, especially when a school has as many excellent, active clubs as Georgia Tech has.

An alumni magazine is supposed to be diplomatic and all that.

But sometimes the weight of evidence accumulates that a given club is truly outstanding, and it seems almost like hiding its light not to feature it. dissect it, and offer it as an example. More than one Georgia Tech alumni club fits in this category, and the The Greater Houston Alumni Association is beyond question a prime specimen.

Perhaps the most immediately visible evidence of the club's vitality is its Blake R. Van Leer Memorial Scholarship, awarded this spring for the eighteenth consecutive time to an entering freshman co-op student from the Houston area. The scholarship award. $850, covers almost all of an out-of-state student's first-quarter expenses.

Since the recipient is always a co-op student, usually he is able to earn most if not all of his subsequent college expenses. The award is quite an honor; the applicants must rank in the upper one-fourth of their high school class, and they usually have well

above average scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. The students must be recommended by their counselors or principals, and only as a last, all-other-thingsbeing-equal criterion is financial need considered. The result is that a significant number of outstanding young people have attended Georgia Tech who might have gone to college in their own state to avoid out-of-state fees or even who might not otherwise have been able to attend college at all. In fact, the scholarship's value for recruiting top-quality students for Georgia Tech is shown by the fact that 75 percent of the

The annual orientation program, held in the fall, features (left to right) Jim Wohlford. Tech's co-op director; two co-op students on their work quarter in (he Houston area such as Mark Vela from Dow and Mike Thurmond from Houston Lighting and Power; chairman of the orientation committee, Ron Martin; chairman of the scholarship committee. Howard Tellepsen; and an administrator from the campus such as Frank Roper, registrar.

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Many officers of the Houston club are recent graduates; left to right: Everett Conk, vice president and president-elect; Howard T. Teiiepsen, /r., chairman of the scholarship committee; Ron Martin, chairman of the orientation committee; and E. Marshaii Weaver, jr., secretary.

During the orientation program considerable free time is provided for high school students and their parents, such as Mrs. Lewis and her son. Larry, to talk with Tech representatives, /im Wohlford gives details on the co-op program.

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scholarship applicants attend.

The Houston area enjoys a return on their investment as well; a number of the students spend their co-op work quarters in Houston firms, living at home, and after graduation often return to Houston for permanent employment. Val Coerver ('65), the present treasurer of the Houston club, is now dispensing funds for the very scholarship that gave him a start at Tech.

The 1972 winner of the scholarship is Paul Bice, who graduated 11th in his class of 831 students at tough Springwood High School in Houston. He played the French horn in the high school band, and plans to play in the Tech band. An officer in the National Forensic League, he is active in debating and was tapped for the National Honor Society. Paul plans to attend Tech as an I.M. co-op. The competition for the scholarship was stiffâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; there were eight applicants, each of whom was interviewed at length and compared for background and qualifications. Three of the eight are going to Tech even though they did not receive a scholarship.

But the scholarship award is like the tip of the iceberg.

Underlying this overt annual surfacing is a well-organized and energetically operated structure.

The over 150 active, dues-paying members represent more than half the Tech alumni in the Houston area, a higher rate of participation than the national alumni association enjoys nationwide. The members are automatically counted as active members their first two years out of school, without paying dues; their third year they pay $6, of which $4 is applh:d toward the scholarship fund; all years afterward they pay S12 local dues, of which $8 is applied toward the scholarship. The stated purposes of the club are to "unite South Texas The Georgia Tech A l u m n u s

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alumni; support the scholarship fund; boost local Georgia Tech activities; aid and encourage Georgia Tech: and development."

These general aims are translated through eight regular committees provided for in the club's constitution. The Awards Committee selects an annual recipient of the "Outstanding Alumnus Award" from the Houston area. The Placement Committee helps in the placement of co-op students during their work quarters and assists alumni in finding permanent jobs.

The Hospitality. Nominating, Telephone and Program committees perform the activities implied by their titles.

The next two committees deserve separate paragraphs. The Orientation Committee sells Georgia Tech, working in close conjunction with the Scholarship Committee; the chairman of orientation is, in fact, usually chairman of scholarship the following year. Together the committees work up a list of all 11th and 12th grade counselors and math and science teachers at all the area high schools. A personal letter and flier on the orientation program is sent to each, and some schools are selected for personal visits by alumni. The orientation program takes place in the fall with all area high school students invited to attend. The meeting is always addressed by Jim Wohlford, director of the co-op program, and another Tech administrator such as Registrar Frank Roper. A panel discussion is held involving co-op students from the Houston area, who field questions from the attendees, and a slide or film presentation of Georgia Tech is shown. Members of the two committees also represent Georgia Tech at college-night programs held by area high schools. This past year 15 members visited 30 selected schools, almost half the schools in the Houston area, giving Spring 1972

special attention to Boy's Harbor, a school for troubled boys in nearby LaPorte. They feel that if even one lad from Boy's Harbor can be encouraged to enter Tech, their efforts will have been worthwhile; there seems to be a possibility that some will make it.

The Scholarship Committee cooperates with the Orientation Committee in corresponding and visiting with the high schools, and undertakes the selection of the final scholarship recipient. Each applicant is interviewed in depth by the committee for 45 minutes.

The award is presented at the May dinner meeting of the club, with the recipient, runners-up, and their parents invited as guests.

But the club isn't all work and no play. They hold at least three general meetings a year, trying to keep the cost down; no attempt is made to make money on the meetings. Usually one of the meetings is a beer bust at Busch Gardens, a stag affair. For the other two, visitors from the campus are often featured as speakers.

Sometimes in the spring the attraction is a golf tournament. In each case an attempt is made to keep the meeting lively and interesting, and the efforts have paid off in attendance. The young alumni are heavily involved as soon as they arrive on the scene, and the club spreads the responsibility for planning the meetings.

Is it a result of conscious effort, or has the Houston club simply been fortunate to establish such a strong island of enthusiasm for Georgia Tech so far from Atlanta?

Perhaps a sociologist or a political scientist could venture a guess and identify elements of the club that could be applied elsewhere. But for the practical mind â&#x20AC;&#x201D;why question it. It's there; enjoy it. The Greater Houston Alumni Association means a lot to Georgia Tech. O

This student, greeted by orientation committee chairman Ron Martin, is one of those who decided to attend Tech even though he didn't receive the Houston scholarship.

Young aiumni become involved in club activities soon after their arrival. Linn Yeager ('70), right, helps registrar Frank Roper, second from right, answer questions tossed out by high school students.

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Twenty-five Years

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l \ n engineering school might seem barren territory for the arts, but student theater has been at Georgia Tech for at least a quarter of a century. That quarter century has been one of Tech ingenuity and perseverance tackling frustrating odds.

The first drama group, the Marionettes of the 1930s and early 1940s, is only faintly remembered by alumni and faculty. Recorded theater history at Tech begins in 1947 when the Georgia Tech Dramatic Club (now DramaTech) was formed under the leadership of an industrial management student, Jack Pompan, and a Tech professor, James Glen. The organization started out with no money, no auditorium, no props or lighting equipment, and no girls to play female roles. Nonetheless, that year in the Tech YMCA the group presented its first play, the melodrama "The Drunkard." The next year the club performed in the Woman's Club Auditorium on Peachtree Street, and so began the wanderings of the homeless players. Plays were presented in whatever available building ingenuity and skill could convert into a theater, including Crenshaw Field House on east campus.

At first keeping a director was as difficult for the infant theater group/ as staying in one auditorium. Tech faculty members coached the players through their first season, followed by the club's first salaried director, Zenas Sears, an Atlanta radio personality.

Mr. Sears, who remembers

In "A Streelcar Named Desire" poker-playing buddies subdue [heir host, Stanley Kowaiski, who in a drunken lemper has just beaten his pregnant wife. The players are (L. to R.j Atlanta theater actor Don Swofford and Tech si intents Dan Garrett (seated,), Tom Hedges, and Alejandro Quinones.

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That temporary job lasted 16 years.

"The school and club just never got around to looking for someone else," laughed the auburn-haired Mrs. Santacroce.

Thus, over the years the one certainty about DramaTech was Mrs. Santacroce. The group might not know where it would perform next or how the bills would be paid, but the members did know that the untiring, vivacious Mrs. Santacroce would be coaching them through the laughter of comedies such as "Mister Roberts," "Harvey," "Much Ado About Nothing." and "Teahouse of the August Moon," or through the difficult performances of "Desire Under the Elms," "Oedipus Rex," and "Death of a Salesman."

From the long rehearsals of the drama group grew not only the inevitable close friendships but, for some, an interest in theater they carried into their adult lives.

According to Mrs. Santacroce a few DramaTech alumni, such as 1950s players Ricardo Matamoros and George Ormiston, Jr.. have pursued professional stage and Spring 1 972

television careers, while others have participated in community theater groups after settling into technological careers.

During her years as director Mrs. Santacroce, who now teaches speech at Georgia State University, especially enjoyed working with the war veterans, whom she remembers as "innovative, creative, and fun-loving."

"They had fun improvising, and they were always surprising me and audiences with their gadgetry and publicity stunts," she said.

Because she believed the students would "learn best by experimenting on their own," Mrs. Santacroce left the technical and publicity aspects of each production to the club members.

The technical work was particularly challenging, she said, during the ten years the group performed in-the-round on an arena stage in Crenshaw Field House.

The publicity stunts of the group entertained the campus and the city almost as much as did its plays. Promotional tricks included loosing a thousand balloons over the campus, playing a calliope, and bracing the floors of the Administration building to support a 2,400-pound B-36 engine as advertisement for "Command Decision."

DramaTech was especially known for its "opera gags," which Atlanta Constitution writer Celestine Sibley wrote about in her column. Each spring, to plug their upcoming play, DramaTech members would stage a "gag"

at the opening of a professional performance. In 1956, for example, Metropolitan Opera fans at the Fox Theater encountered togaclad, sandal-shod Roman Senators advertising the DramaTech production "The Road to Rome."

The stunts gradually faded from the theater scene as the war veterans graduated. Mrs. Santacroce noticed a change in the sense of fun and innovativeness of the DramaTech members.

"The students got squarer," she said. She described the 1960s students as being younger and having seen less of life than the veterans, and thus were not as imaginative or innovative. Also, unlike the veterans, the younger members were more interested in the technical work of lighting and set construction than in acting, she said. Mr. Sears had faced the opposite problem earlier with club members, who then were usually architecture or industrial management students. They wanted to act rather than work backstage. Today, DramaTech members' fascination with the technical aspects of theater productions is still strong. The present director, Dr. Fergus (Tad) Currie, a professional actor and Director of Alliance Theatre School in Atlanta, commented upon the students' technical interests.

"Tech students are very literalminded," he said. "When you tell them the stage setting is a house, they build you a house, not just a fantasy representation of one."

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Cast members of "A Streetcar Named Desire" share cramped backstage rooms. Experienced community theater actress Prisciiia Cronley makes up while electrical engineering student Alejandro Quinones styles hair of Atlanta actor Don Swofford.

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kitchen had running water. and community audiences must When describing the 1960s make up the cosl differences. This DramaTech students, Mrs. year the box office has cleared Santacroce noted that, as the enough to pay the production bills, Institute's academic standards but not enough to purchase were upgraded, the curriculum materials for building a sound and demanded more from the students lighting control booth or for new and they had less time for props and costumes. extracurricular activities. Today The club was recognized the curriculum demands more than academically in 195 1 by the English ever from students, as Dr. Currie department with up to six hours of has discovered. Dr. Currie, who elective credit being granted for has a Ph.D. in speech and theater participation in DramaTech from Columbia University, had productions. And, of course, Tech planned to hold noncredit drama now has coeds for female parts. classes for DramaTech members.

Having coeds at Tech, however, Lack of free time prevented the has not eliminated DramaTech's members from participating, so dependence on nonstudent Currie was never able to organize community talent. For major roles the classes. Many members are the club often brings in actors biology or physics major who and actresses from the city. devote long hours to laboralory According to Dr. Currie, who has courses. taught theater arts in colleges offering drama degrees, the lack Other changes in DramaTech of theater courses at Tech have usually been improvements. necessitates the use of outsiders.

The players no longer have to wander from stage to stage. They "DramaTech is very much a now perform in a 160-seat community-oriented theater auditorium owned by Georgia because for many major roles it Tech; but, as during earlier days needs experienced actors, who on in Crenshaw Field House, a liberal arts campus would be DramaTech must share its facilities the theater majors." with other organizations. Housed in To student DramaTech members the renovated church building are who complain that outsiders the Tech band, the glee club, a prevent Tech students from student coffeehouse, learning to act some of the leading administrative offices, and, it is roles, Dr. Currie explains that "the reported, friendly ghosts who were presence of professionals on the members of the former church. stage with the students is a DramaTech is more stable learning opportunity for the financially than it was 25 years amateurs." ago, but limited funds restrict any "Acting," said the professional major improvements in facilities stage and broadcasting actor, "is or equipment. The club receives learned mostly through $1,000 a year from the Institute observation. An all-amateur cast in addition to the director's salary, can only learn one another's bad and it owns lighting and sound habits, while in a mixed cast the equipment, props, and costumes students will perform up to the worth an estimated $10,000 to level of the best performer." $15,000. The $1,000, though, covers Dr. Currie always expects the less than half the cost of the three best possible effort from his annual plays. Each production students. "Just the manhours put costs about $750 in royalties, into producing a play," said the insurance, printing of programs director, "warrants their taking and tickets, props, and publicity. theater seriously and doing their Ticket sales to student, faculty, best."

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Dr. Currie, a theater educator for almost 15 years, feels that "theater should be a growth experience." lie hopes to see the students learn responsibility and cooperation in a group effort and to "know competition as a reality of life." Mosl important, however, he hopes the students will "adopt a learning attitude." So he encourages them to attempt plays beyond their present capabilities, drawing upon outside talent when necessary.

Student club members interviewed said they were learning from "Tad," as they address their director.

"He's interested and knowledgeable in every phase of theater, the business end of it as well as the directing," said club president Jim Ilarriss.

"He's always on the go â&#x20AC;&#x201D;usually at a run and never slower than a trot," the members concurred.

While on the run between professional acting engagements and his duties as Director of Alliance Theatre School, Dr. Currie has supervised DramaTech members in the renovation of their present stag(! and has sparked ideas for celebrating the club's twenty-fifth anniversary. One of his ideas was to select plays for this season that had been written

by American playwrights within the past 25 years â&#x20AC;&#x201D;the musical, "Auntie Maine"; Tennessee William's Pulitzer Prize winner, "A Streetcar Named Desire"; and for this spring the comedy, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum."

Apparently Dr. Currie impresses students and other club members as a strong personality, just as did Mrs. Sautacroce. If a persuasive, energetic director instructing interested students is the key to the longevity of DramaTech. the club should be able to look forward to many more years of entertaining campus and city audiences. [__] Spring 1972

Hundreds of hours are used to design, construct, and paint stage sets. John WyJder, junior in economics, paints the New Orleans-style set for DramaTech's winter production. "A Streetcar Named Desire."

Lighting technician Russell Smart, junior in chemical engineering, adjusts switches on the panei of the "Polychromatic Electromagnetic Illumination Control Complex" as the technical crew calls the lighting control booth. The control panel is constantly rebuilt for more complex lighting effects.

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In Quest of the Cochlear Microphonic

by Barbara Robinson

In initial experiments, equipment used to instrument the guinea pig's inner ear gave measurements of the electrical activity of the ear.

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v J n e of many projects at Tech which coordinates engineering methods and the life sciences is a four-year effort led by three enthusiastic young professors in Tech's School of Electrical Engineering.

Their research using electrical techniques to examine the auditory processes of guinea pigs has exciting potential applications for human hearing.

Even though the researchers are naturally cautious about stating possibilities, a significant one is the development of techniques to promote hearing in some cases of deafness.

Probable results include perfecting a simpler and cheaper method of screening large numbers of people for hearing ability and application of signal processing methods from the ear to electronic communications systems.

In the auditory process, the eardrum vibrates in response to sound waves.

The small bones in the middle ear transmit the vibrations to the cochlea (inner ear) fluids, where an electrical signal, called the cochlear microphonic, is generated. The exact means of its generation is unknown, but many investigators think it is actively involved in the stimulation of the auditory nerve fibers which go to higher areas of the brain.

During the last 40 years several theories concerning the purpose of the microphonic have evolved. The researchers at Tech hold the view that the cochlear microphonic initiates the nerve fiber responses either through direct action on the fibers or by freeing a chemical mediator which then acts on the fibers. This idea is called the The Georgia Tech A l u m n u s

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Leaders of the project to study the electronic mechanisms of hearing are Drs. Roger Webb (seated!, Neal Nunnally (standing, leftj, and lay Schlag, all professors in Tech's School of Electrical Engineering.

"microphonic trigger theory." Thus a a major theme of their research has been to clarify the relationship between microphonic and nerve fiber activity.

They eventually plan to study the possibility of inserting artificial microphonic signals to treat certain types of hearing problems.

Implementation of this project can be credited to Dr. Walter L. Bloom, now Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Tech, who in 1968 wanted to start some type of biomedical research Spring 1972

on campus. Two Atlanta eye, ear, nose and throat specialists, Dr. Marton Majoros and Dr. Robert F. Thompson, offered their services and Dr. Bloom recruited two E.E. faculty members, Associate Professor Roger P. Webb and Assistant Professor Jay H. Schlag, to form the initial four-man research team.

The possibility of developing clinical applications intrigued Dr. Webb, while Dr. Schlag viewed the project as a great opportunity to relate his interest in health programs, which began when he 15

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was an undergraduate at Duke University, with his background in electrical engineering.

The next member recruited, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Dr. H. Neal Nunnally was, in his words, "seduced" by Dr. Webb into the research as a Ph.D. graduate student. His thesis subsequently evolved from the research in 1971.

The group met and agreed on the ear as the research area and the cochlear microphonic theory as the test hypothesis.

The next step was finding a test animal.

"Guinea pigs were chosen for two reasons," according to Dr. Schlag. "They are relatively cheap and the guinea pig's cochlea is unique. It spirals up instead of coiling inside itself like a human's, which allows easier instrumentation and testing."

In 1968, the initiaj year of the project, funds from National Science Foundation and Ferst Foundation grants were used to set up the facilities on the third floor of the Van Leer Electrical Engineering Building. Containing equipment now valued at around $25,000, the facilities include an 8' by 12' soundattenuated experiment room and a collection of electronic signal-processing equipment.

Drs. Webb, Schlag, and Nunnally, all of whom hold Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tech, spent the second year of the project learning a new trade â&#x20AC;&#x201D; surgery. Ear specialists Drs. Majoros and Thompson, who now hold the titles of Adjunct Associate Professors of Electrical Engineering at Tech, played their major roles in this stage. They laid the groundwork which enabled the others to perfect the intricate preliminary surgical procedures necessary to instrument the guinea pig for testing.

Special diligence is required because the anirnal's auditory nerve fibers and cochlea are so minute; the nerve fibers are about 0.0005 inches in diameter.

All work must be done under an operating microscope, exactly like those used by eye and ear surgeons.

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From left to right, electrical equipment for conducting the tests includes a teletype, digital computer and tape recorder, sound stimulus generation and control units, and frequency analyzing and readout instruments.

"An important technical problem we had to deal with," says Dr. Nunnally, "is that an anesthetic is necessary as a painkiller but it disturbs the animal's respiratory and temperature control systems."

So, tracheotomies must be performed on the animals and an artificial respiration system as well as a body temperature control unit used to keep them alive during the tests. An electrocardiograph hooked to a loudspeaker monitors the animal's heartbeat throughout each experiment so that the experimenters can be constantly aware of the animal's physical condition.

After surgical procedures were perfected, actual research began in the third year and has had two main focuses.

One area has been to catalogue the guinea pigs' responses to sounds in order to compare responses for the guinea pig with those previously known for cats and monkeys. To do this, the test animals are subjected to various tone bursts of controlled frequency, level, and duration.

A microelectrode inserted into the auditory nerve feeds the electrical impulse responses through an amplifier into a mini-computer data processing system which calculates the activity in histogram form as the data comes in. The nerve responses are also amplified and are played through a separate loudspeaker system.

"Our biggest thrill," according to Dr. Nunnally, "was the day we first heard sound-response impulses through the The Georgia Tech A l u m n u s

amplifier. It meant the experiment was really working. As a sidelight, he says that the guinea pig can hear his own fiber responses and will respond to them, making himself a "tone generator." The resulting signal is an even sine wave rather than uneven spikes; if heard it would be an even tone rather than the static-like sound of the microphonic.

This finding has interesting implications for understanding tone perception.

The other major area of research has been to gather data supporting the microphonic impulse trigger theory.

Microphonic levels are modified by two non-acoustic means â&#x20AC;&#x201D;by passing electrical currents through the cochlea, and by applying heat to the cochlea. Auditory nerve fiber sound responses are measured simultaneously. Test results from both methods appear to support the theory.

All guinea pigs in the experiment are young adults, weighing between 250 to 300 grams. Out of a total of 300 guinea pigs used so far, 200 passed initial tests for having acceptable hearing. About half of these were used in perfecting the surgical techniques and half of the other hundred have actually given usable test data.

In applying the results of this basic research to human hearing problems, for which a National Science Foundation grant has just been received, the researchers will try to artificially recreate the microphonic field in the cochlea. If this can be done, electrodes could conceivably be inserted in a deaf person's cochlea, the microphonic field recreated, and the person hear some type of sound.

This has been tried in humans by Robin Michelson, a West Coast otolaryngologist. However, since Michelson's techniques do not work well with animals under anesthesia, the Tech researchers are currently studying techniques to try to "disconnect" the guinea pig's brain from its pain sensory inputs before studying the effect in the animals. This would allow testing without use of anesthetics.

Another area of research, for which a proposal is soon to be submitted to the Johnson Foundation, will be to develop techniques to simplify the mass testing Spring 1 972

of people for hearing problems.

"This is a very important area today," Dr. Schlag emphasizes. "There is a real possibility of future legislation forcing industries to hold hearing exams periodically for their employees.

Industries already doing this are required by law to use a standard audiogram room which is extremely ' expensive to set up." /, Other researchers are trying techniques in which a hole is drilled into the eardrum and an electrode inserted in it to measure hearing ability. Since this is not really practical for mass testing, Dr. Schlag's plans call for a three-year research program to perfect a nondestructive technique in which the electrode is inserted just to the base of the eardrum. Experiments would be conducted with the guinea pig the first year; the techniques would be applied to campus volunteers the second year and to industrial workers the third year.

With the previous test data forming the basis for their future areas of concentration, the researchers have not been active in experiments for about six months as they write reports and await additional funds to secure equipment needed for the advanced work. Interest in the project is high, both because of its possibilities and because of the current upsurge of interest in bioengineering research. Each professor devotes about one-fourth time to research; two graduate students are presently involved in the project, and undergraduates have helped with special problems such as building the control unit for a motor used in placing electrodes in the nerve.

Even though the project is within the School of Electrical Engineering, informal discussions and exchanges occur frequently with other Tech departments in the interdisciplinary spirit of combining knowledge to solve a human problem.

This project, only one of many, reemphasizes Georgia Tech's campuswide research involvement in problems that affect the life quality of the individual and his society. Engineering and the life sciences are strong partners in a new age of technological synergism, fj 17

Middler's Mansion

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by Ben Moon I t was a brand new century. World War I had not even begun its very earliest rumblings, and the possibility was far from anyone's mind. Atlanta was still just a village laced by open sewer ditches, and North Avenue was a mudhole in rainy weather with an occasional wagon bogged down. The nearest pavement was on Spring Street, and that was cobblestones. Girls of 15 took their first buggy rides with boys who were their sweethearts until they were married at 20.

At Tech the class of '03 painted their year on the tower —they called it the steeple —and the class of '02, not to be outdone, painted theirs a little higher up. Tech had a five-year curriculum then, with sub-apprentice, apprentice, junior, middle, and senior years. The students wore coats and ties to class, and the closest thing approaching student unrest was a petition submitted to the faculty respectfully requesting permission to remove coats during classroom and laboratory work. Well, there was one other revolt —the class of '01, incensed because the faculty wouldn't allow them New Year's Day off, boycotted school that day anyway. Upon their return, however, the stern professors informed them they needn't return until the following fall for their graduation.

Parents were up in arms, but Dr. Lyman Hall and his faculty stuck to their guns and the class finally complied.

And there were a few examples of individual misbehavior, such as the time Frank Markert and Tom Fisher went to town one Saturday without permission to a show at the Grand Theatre. Caught in the act by a couple of faculty members, they were "fired" (thrown out of Knowles, Spring 1 972

F. Markert, ME '03, relishes the memory of his coiiege days and the construction of "Middler's Mansion."

the only dormitory) the next day.

Mr. B. F. Markert (M.E. '03), now 92, chuckles at the memory. ."It didn't make much difference to me, because I just moved in with Mrs. Butler, where I ate my meals, and took both room and board."

At least two of Mrs. Butler's daughters married Tech men; Mrs. Markert w a s one.

A friend kids her that her mother knew how to get a son-in-law —she took 'em in by the dozens. "She sure did," replies the full-of-fun 83-year-old charmer, "I lived in the house with him from the time I was 13 and married him w h e n I was 20."

Quite a few Tech men of the day took their meals with Mrs. Butler, and not all of them lived in a dormitory. Two lived in a shack in the dense woods at what is now Peters Park. It was on the banks of a stream directly across from the site of the present Athletic Association office.

"Middler's Mansion," they dubbed it.

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Fambrough, president of the class of '03, into going along with it. Both men were members of Kappa Alpha fraternity.

"I had had a lot of experience in home building, and they put me on the committee to look after that house," recalls Markert. "It didn't cost them anything for the lumber —the mills gave them all they needed." He and a friend, Mr. Lowndes, did most of the building.

"They were supposed to have done all the building themselves —and Billy Fambrough did do some of it. Snowden left soon after it was built to go to New York. He stayed out of school for a year and when he came back Dr. Lyman Hall let him back in school to graduate with his class."

"As I recall, there were just two shelves for beds, mattresses, a few sheets and pillowcases, some chairs, and a bucket.

They had a rain barrel out back to catch water, and had a little stove for cold weather. There was an old-timey oil lamp. I often wonder what they did about their toilet arrangements, but I think they just walked in the woods back there .. . ." The boys' sweethearts helped furnish the shack, and Fambrough was the proud possessor of a hand-crocheted pillow with gold ribbon woven through it, a gift from his future wife.

What sort of life style did the "middlers" have; did they do their own washing and cleaning?

"I don't know if they did any at all," cracks Mr. Markert. "They patronized the same laundry the dormitory residents used; the wagon came by once a week and picked up."

Though the rough shack didn't have plumbing or electricity, it did sport a telephone. It was a direct line to the Butler house, which was located on the present site of the old infirmary.

"If they wanted to know something about their studies, who worked out what, they'd call up to our house," Mrs. Markert recalls.. "They rigged it themselves."

Was it battery powered?

"I don't know," she laughs. "I was too young to be interested in batteries — I wasn't even interested in him then."

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Bright and witty. Mrs. Markert was understandably a favorite among Tech men of her day. Her met IKS- "took 'em in bv the dozens" at her boarding house.

"Middler's Mansion" didn't become a gathering place for the middle classmen, however. According to Mr. Markert. social life was limited. "Those boys living there had to study—the middle and senior classes were pretty tough in those days. I don't think the senior class is as bad now as it was when we were going to school."

Whenever Fambrough and Snowden graduated, the shack was sold to another group of boys. "Peculiar thing about that," observes Markert. "Those boys thought they were buying the house, lot and all . . . for quite a while there was some confusion there. But the land belonged to the Peters Land Company.

I think that company gave a lot of property for the football and baseball field." George Griffin recalls living about 1914 or 15 in a shack Henry Cole built where the old Civil engineering building now stands, but "Middler's Mansion" was the first.

The class of '03 posted a prize of $5.00 for the member who married first after graduation; the best the Markerts can determine, the Fambroughs are entitled to the money. "Be quite a bit of interest by now." Mrs. Markert observes.

"The way I talk you would think I was a Tech boy," Mrs. Markert smiles. "I grew right up with 'em. It was just a lark with all the youngsters around the house . . . We had the nicest crowd of boys. If I got mad with him (Mr. Markert), one of the others would say 'don't fool with him —the rest of us would be glad to go with you.' That's what one of them told me one morning. I was just weeping I was so mad with him . . . 'Now don't waste your time—the rest of us. any one of us, would be glad to go with you.'

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Shucks." She shrugs with pleasure at the remembered chivalry. "I wrote a theme about 'Middler's Mansion' when I was in high school. The teacher, Miss Burchell, laughed and read it aloud to the class.

Then the whole class wanted to go see it."

Today the Markerts still maintain their own home in Decatur, Georgia. Mr. Markert still works in his workshop, and has made many of the items of furniture in their home. The living room wall displays two profile relief carvings of the Markert grandchildren that he carved by hand from the ends of an orange crate.

At least a portion of his activeness could possibly be explained by an athletic youth; Frank Markert played on the 1902 Yellow Jacket football team. "That year we didn't win a single game," he recalls.

The Petition of '08 Registrar Emeritus William L. Carmichael recently brought a file of old letters by for inclusion in the archives at the Georgia Tech library, and in the file was the following "Petition for Action of Faculty at Next Meeting." The petition was handwritten on a 15 by 21inch sheet of heavy brown paper.

To the Faculty, Georgia School of Technology: — We, the undersigned members of the Sophomore class do most respectfully petition that we be allowed the privilege of removing our coats during class room work. We ask this after a deliberate consideration of the matter and discussion with several of the professors. We believe that greater class room efficiency of both instructor and student will be secured by the removal of the discomfort occasioned by wearing a heavy garment during several consecutive hours of black board work. This physical discomforl interferes with the best mental effort.

We do not believe that the absence of coats will show a lack of discipline, or any slovenliness, but just as our overalls have become in the shops a style of uniform, so shirtwaists and belts will identify us with the earnest and

They tied two and lost six. He allows that the coach wasn't very good.

The Markerts' two sons both attended Tech, Frank Jr. graduating in 1933 as a civil engineer and Jack leaving before graduation to enter insurance.

As for the residents of "Middler's Mansion," Snowden, a brilliant young man, returned to New York to make a name for himself as a member of the stock , . exchange. Billy Fambrough, after working for the J. B. McQuary Company following graduation, started his own firm. He died during the influenza epidemic of 1918. Most of the members of the class are gone now, but a lone marble fountain near the tower bears their names —and bears the memory of early Tech ingenuity and refusal to conform to the ordinary. •

business like class room work for which our institution is famous.

(These, the members of the Sophomore class, have taken the initiative in this matter, and as an assurance of the sympathy of the Junior and Senior Classes have obtained the signatures of several representatives of these classes. The two lower classes have also promised their co-operation in this request. Owing to lack of time a complete roll of school has not been prepared but will be if considered necessary.)

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Gas turbines have proved such a boon to utilities that sales of them are soaring. Last year, they actually accounted for more than one fifth of power companies' total new .generating capacity.

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News of the Alumni western neck-tie lanyards. A large group of Tech fans and alumni attended the SMU-Tech basketball game during that week.

NASHVILLE Dean Emeritus George C. Griffin exhibited his magnetic and outstanding ability to attract and entertain Tech Alumni at the Hillwood Country Club in Nashville, Tennessee on February 4. 1972. At the winter meeting over 75 Nashville Tech men and their ladies gathered to pay homage to Dean George and revel again in some tall tales of Georgia Tech and its history.

Elected as officers for li! 72 were Harry Nichol, President; Clyde May, Vice President; and Zolli Searcy, SecretaryTreasurer. Outgoing President was Hank Whitehead.

CHATTANOOGA On March 14th, over 240 football partisans of the Chattanooga Georgia Tech Alumni Club and the Chattanooga Quarterback Club combined were introduced to Coach Bill Fulcher and Coach Maxie Baughan.

The meeting was highlighted by enthusiasm and optimism of the coaches and Alumni for the future of Tech football. Coaches

ATLANTA Dr. Joseph M. Pettit, the eighth President of Georgia Tech, was introduced to over 240 Alumni at a Greater Atlanta Georgia Tech Club meeting on March 16, 1972. The occasion was further accented by the presence of Coach Bill Fulcher, several members of the coaching staff, and other officers of the Athletic Association. Plans were completed for the T-Night football game scheduled for April 28, 1972. The Greater Atlanta Club sponsors this event and the proceeds are channeled into fifteen or more Bobby Dodd Academic Scholarships.

The officers of the Atlanta Club are: President, Frank Smith, IM '55; VicePresidents. Bob Eskew and Bob Devore; and Treasurer, Kim King.

CENTRAL FLORIDA On January 21, 1972 over 65 Central Florida Georgia, Tech Alumni and their wives gathered at the Arnold Palmer Bay Hill Country Club in Orlando for their winter meeting. The meeting was highlighted with a report from Tech's Vice President for Development and Public Relations, Mr. Joe Guthridge. Mr. Guthridge brought the Alumni up to date on recent campus developments with predictions for future 24

Fulcher and Baughan presented their plans and hopes for the coming season, and predicted that Tech Alumni would be justly proud of the 1972-73 team. Officers of the Chattanooga Alumni Club are: President, Fred E. Trainer, IM '59; Vice President, John H. Woody, Jr., ChE '53: and Sec./Treas., Claude Hemphill, Jr., IM '60. Above, left to right, are Trainer, Baughan, Fulcher, and Gerdes.

expansion and progress. Visitors from Tech included Mr. and Mrs. John Culver. Bob Rice, Steve Wilkerson, and Miss Karen Teske. Al Boissy, recently elected President of the Central Florida alumni group, was master of ceremonies. Other officers of the club include Charles Barber, Vice-President; Lewis McCoy, Secretary; and Wayne Heasley, Treasurer.

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HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA The Huntsville Georgia Tech Alumni Club held a Winter meeting on Thursday, February 24, 1972 at Huntsville's historic Russell Erskine Hotel. Approximately eighty members and guests attended the reception and dinner. After a short business meeting Coach Bill Lewis, one of Tech's outstanding young assistant coaches, spoke to the club. Coach Lewis related the changes in personnel, attitudes, and methods taking place on campus, and he presented a clear picture of the plans and goals established by the new football staff.

Mr. Paul Butler is the president of the Huntsville club. Below, left to right, are Lewis and Butler.

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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA On January 14, 1972 over 45 Georgia Tech Alumni and their guests gathered at the Los Altos Golf and Country Club in Los Altos, California to welcome Dr. Joseph M. Pettit as the President of Georgia Tech. The meeting was Dr. Pettit's first appearance before a Tech Alumni Club, and was characteristic in its outstanding enthusiasm and welcome.

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During the month of December, a group of Tech alumni welcomed coach Hyder and his basketball team to the Dallas, Texas area. The alumni club presented deluxe Texas western hats to coach Hyder and his staff, and the members of the Tech basketball team were presented with

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1500' C furnace was specially designed to lire these new substrates. The relatively low temperature results in smooth substrate surfaces for practically fault-free thinfilmbonding.

Electron micrographs show the great difference in grain size between new ceramic material (lower) and the previous material (upper).

Thin film integrated circuit shown here is part of a resistor network. It is one of many that benefit from the improved substrate. Metal leads on sides are bonded by thermocompression to tantalum nitride resistor film.

Smoothing the way for perfect thin film bonding.

Aluminum oxide, or alumina, is considered to have the best combination of properties for thinfilmcircuit substrates.

Until recently, however, the bonding of metal elements to gold-coated tantalum nitride resistorfilmon alumina was somewhat unpredictable.

Now, an advance at Western Electric has made it possible to get practically fault-free bonding of these materials.

This new perfection in bonding came through the development of finer grained alumina substrates.

The process has four basic steps: milling, casting, punching and firing.

During milling, alumina is combined with magnesium oxide, trichlorethylene, ethanol and a unique defiocculant. For 24 hours, this mixture is rotated in a ball mill. In a second 24-hour period, plasticizers and a binder are included.

The defiocculant plays a major role by dissipating the attraction forces that exist between the highly active alumina particles. This prevents thickening, which would ordinarily make an active alumina mixture unworkable.

The 48 hours of milling is followed by casting. When the material comes off the casting line, it is in the form of a flexible polymer/alumina tape, dry enough to be cut into easily handled sections.

After casting, a punch press cuts the material into the desired rectangles or

other shapes. Holes can be punched at the same time.

Finally, because of the use of active alumina, the material is fired at an unusually low temperature which results in smooth substrate surfaces for reliable thin film bonding. The finished substrate is then ready for the various processes of thin film circuit production.

In developing this new process, engineers at Western Electric's Engineering Research Center worked together with engineers at the Allentown plant.

Conclusion: This new way to produce substrates is a truly significant contribution for thin film circuit production.

The ultimate gain from this smoother substrate is for communications itself.

For through the achievement of nearly perfect bonding of metal leads to tantalum nitride, thin films can be produced with even greater reliability and economy.

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Paul K. McKenney. Sr.. TE, died on January 13, 1972. Mr. McKenney, former Columbus, Georgia textile executive and one of Tech's oldest alumni, moved to Winter Park. Florida in 1966. He was a most loyal alumnus. Among his survivors are a son, Paul, Jr., a daughter, and five sisters.

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John Addison Whitner. ME, of Jacksonville, Florida died December 8, 1971. Among his survivors are a brother. Joseph Whitner. EE '20, and his wife who reside at 3767 Ortega Boulevard, Jacksonville. Florida.

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James M. Moore, Sr., died on January 27, 1972. Mr. Moore was an engineer with Southern Bell Telephone Company for 45 years before he retired.

Among his survivors are his wife, who resides at 1875 Moores Mill Road, N.W., a son James, Jr., and a brother. Judge Virlyn B. Moore.

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Clarke Donaldson. CE, of 190 Boiling Road. N.E. Atlanta. Georgia died recently.

'/Wl ^7 Edward Epstein. Sr.. of Fort Walton \J / Beach, Florida died on January 1, 1972. Among his survivors are two sons, Edward Epstein. Jr., CerE '41, and Charles S. Epstein. AE '52.

John W. McLarty. EE, died on October 13, 1971. ' ' 1 O William B. Simmons. ME, died in J . •—• November 1971. He was building commissioner for the city of Jacksonville, Florida during most of his working life.

' 1 * 3 C a p t ' W , " i a m Alfred. Jr. of 10821 _L O Alloway Drive, Potomac. Maryland, died recently.

Frank R. Beail, ME, died January 28. 1972. Mr. Beall was a retired executive manager of General Adjustment Bureau, Inc. He was a veteran of World War II and a member of SAE fraternity.

Among his survivors are his widow who resides at 188 Peachtree Way. N.E., a son, Frank R. Beall, Jr., IM '47, and a brother.

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John W. Humphreys. Arch, died on March 4, 1972. Surviving are his wife, who resides at 800 Adair Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, and a daughter.

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John C. Butner died on July 21.

1971. Surviving is his widow, who resides at Drawer B, Atascadero, California 93422.

' O O Af F. Hodges was the topic: of an LA Z J interesting and humorous writeup in the December 16th Roto-.Scope. publication of the Rotary Club of San Marino, California.

Edward V. Wallace. EE. died January 24, 1972. Mr. Wallace retired several years ago from A.T.&T. At the time of his death he was an administrator at Roosevelt Hospital in New York. His father, S. S. (Cocky) Wallace, was head of Tech's English Department. His Jirother (now deceased) was S. S. Wallace. Jr.. EE '20. He is survived by his widow, who resides at 63 Rockledge Road, Bronxville. New York 10708, a son, a daughter and a sister.

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Joseph M. Smith of Albany. Georgia died November 21, 1971. Mrs. Smith resides at 206 North Monroe Street Albany, Georgia 31701.

' O A Joseph B. Davison died on LljL February 1st, 1972. Mr. Davison was a retired employee of Rhodes Furniture Company. Surviving is his widow, who resides at 2325 Hurst Drive, N.E.. Atlanta, Georgia, and a brother.

DeJmar D. Robertson. ME, a retired vice president in sales for the Rockwell Standard Company's North American division, was recently in Caxias do Sul, Brazil. Mr. Robertson volunteered for an overseas assignment with the International Executive Service Corps to share his managerial knowhow with enterprises in the developing nations. Mr. Robertson worked with Carrocerias Nicola S.A.— Manufactures Metalicas to advise on bus body manufacturing.

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Melvin H. Boots. Arch, died in Statesville, North Carolina on December 15, 1971. Mr. Boots was Assistant Bridge Engineer for the state of

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Mississippi Highway Department prior to his retirement in 1969.

Arthur B. Edge, Jr.. TE, recently retired from the Board of Directors of the Citizens and Southern Bank of LaGrange, Georgia.

He was honored at a dinner for his many years of service. Mr. Edge, past president of Callaway Mills, was elected to the bank's board in 1956.

Jacob L. HiJJis, Com. died on June 29, 1969, according to information received recently. Mr. Hillis was a Methodist Minister for 39 years. He is survived by his widow, who resides al Route 3.

Louisville. Georgia 30434. one son. Dr. Charles Lewis Hillis. and three grandsons.

Joseph B. Raivls. Executive Secretary of the Alabama Branch. Associated General Contractors, has retired after 34 years on the job. Mr. Rawls will continue as counselor to AGC as Executive Secretary Emeritus.

James W. Thornton TE, died on January 19th, 1972. Mr. Thori ton was a retired Southeastern Manag< r of Brown Company.

His widow resides al 127 Sycamore Street, Jefferson. Georgia 30: .40.

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Bolan H. Boatner. EE, was named to the new post of Chairman of Westinghouse Electric Supply Company.

He was formerly the president of the company.

Howard Sutherland Cole, Jr. died in December, 1971 in Houston, Texas. Among his survivors is a son. Howard S. Cole, III, ME '51, who resides at 1202 Chimney Rock, Houston, Texas 77027.

Lt. Col. James A. Hard USA-Ret.. EE, recently administered the oath of office to his son, Harold Lloyd Hart, IE '69, when his son was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.

OJon Albert Scott. Com. died on February 20, 1972. Mr. Scott was a Mason and a member of the American and Georgia bar associations. Survivors include his widow who resides at 1502 Victoria Falls Drive, N.E., Atlanta, a daughter, two sisters and a brother.

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William F. Hodgin, Jr. retired from the City of Miami. Florida, Department of Public Works on April 30, 1971. The Hodgins reside at 301 De Leon Drive, Miami Springs. Florida.

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Plato S. Rhyne, ret: Bell Company, effect: Rhyne held the positi manager at the four-s Atlanta headquarters

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Rice F. Cren; completed 4t Bell Telephone Comp located in Atlanta.

H. Griffith Edward February 7, 1972 in a Mr. Edwards was a s firm that designed th House and Peachtree was a member of the Tech School of Archi Edwards formed the Portman in partners!: BS '50. He retired in consultant to Portma Surviving are his wic 1681 Lady Marion La and two daughters.

Guy G. Sanders of died. Mrs. Sanders r.

Winchester Trail, Ch Charles M. Woolfc February 5, 1972. Mi for many years on th Board of City Tax As president of the Hist Foundation. Survivin daughter and two gr

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Frank N. Ma professor of the University of Sou pledged $50,000 tow new building for the Science at U.S.C. Julius A. (Diddyj K Georgia died on Deo extended illness. Mr 1930 West Wesley R Georgia 30305. Also his son, Stuart, IM '/ John A. Murray. '26.

' O O HughM. Ch O 2 J December 1 resides at 908 Madis Georgia 31701.

Samuel Howard C January 25, 1972 of 1 chief chemist at Pitt Company.

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Plato S. Rhyne. retired from Southern Bell Company, effective February 1, Mr. Rhyne held the position of general defense manager at the four-state company's Atlanta headquarters.

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Rice F. Crenshaw, EE, has completed 40 years with Southern Bell Telephone Company. Mr. Crenshaw is located in Atlanta.

H. Griffith Edwards, Arch, died on February 7. 1971 in a Houston hospital.

Mr. Edwards was a senior partner of the firm that designed the Regency Hyatt House and Peachtree Center Complex. He was a member of I he faculty of the Georgia Tech School of Architecture. In 1956 Mr. Edwards formed the firm Edwards and Portman in partnership with John Portman.

BS '50. He retired in 1968, but remained a consultant to Portman and Associates.

Surviving are his widow, who resides at 1681 Lady Marion Lane, N.E.. Atlanta 30309, and two daughters.

Guy G. Sanders of Chamblee, Georgia has died. Mrs. Sanders resides at 1858 Winchester Trail. Chamblee, Georgia.

Charles M. WooifolJs, Jr. died on February 5. 1971. Mr. Woolfolk had served for many years on the Columbus, Georgia Board of City Tax Assessors and was vice president of the Historic Columbus Foundation. Surviving are the widow, a daughter and two grandchildren.

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Theodore S. Heriot, EE, has been appointed a member of the advisory commiltee for Business Management by Montgomery College's Board of Trustees.

Mr. Heriot is the Personnel Supervisor.

Executive Department of the C & P Telephone Company.

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Frank W. Hulse. BS. president of Southern Airways. Inc. has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Air Transport Association of America.

John R. Lenhardt died on November 18, 1971. His widow resides at 141 Moultrie Street. Charleston. South Carolina 29403.

George W. Reid, an inventor, professor and long-time head of the University of Oklahoma's School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, was appointed a Regenls Professor.

Richard S. Wellons, EE, died recently.

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William A. Darden. CE, has been appointed executive assistant to the dislrict engineer for the Nashville District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Mr. Darden had formerly been the emergency operations and security officer with the Corps.

Dr. Benjamin J. Dasher. EE. died on December 13, 1971 in Houston, Texas where he was undergoing heart treatment.

Dr. Dasher, former Director of the School of Electrical Engineering, was serving as Tech's Associate Dean of Engineering at the

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time of his death. Among his survivors are his wife^Anne. who lives at 1560 Cave Road. N.W., Atlanta 30327. six children, and a brother. Campbell K. Dasher, an honorary member of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association.

' Q l"7 W. Hal Roberts of Atlanta died on \J / December 30, 1971. He-was senior vice president of Coca-Cola Export Corporation, supervising the company's export operations in the Pacific.

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General Raymond G. Davis. ChE. a Marine Corps general and Medal of Honor winner, has been named executive vice president of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. General Davis has accepted the position pending his expected retirement from the Marine Corps April 1. General Davis has a daughter, Willa Kay, attending Tech.

Robert S. Holmes. CE. has been promoted to General Manager of Construction Marketing for the United States Steel Corporation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In his new position, Mr. Holmes is responsible for all non-residential construction.

Arthur C. Smith. Jr. died on September 24. 1971. His widow resides at Box 264, Hogansville, Georgia 30230.

Lucien Williams. TE, died in January 1971. This was not known until recently.

His widow resides at 606 Milledge Road.

Augusta, Georgia.

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Frank N. Magill, CE, an adjunct professor of the library school at the University of Southern California, has pledged $50,000 toward construction of a new building for I he School of Library Science at U.S.C. Julius A. (Diddyl Murray of Atlanta, Georgia died on December 9, 1971 after an extended illness. Mrs. Murray resides at 1930 West Wesley Road. N.W.. Atlanta, Georgia 30305. Also among his survivors are his son. Stuart. IM 71, and a brother, lohn A. Murrav. 26.

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Hugh )Y1. Christian. BS. died on December 11, 1971. His widow resides at 908 Madison Circle. Albany, Georgia 31701.

Samuel Howard Crowe, ChE, died on January 25, 1971 of heart disease. He was chief chemist at Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company.

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Marvin G. Mitchell, CE, has been elected to the board of directors of McGraw-Edison Company.

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Edward D. Biggerstaff. Jr.. ME, has been awarded the Navy's Superior Civilian Service Award for his outstanding efforts in the fleet ballistic missile program.

Brigadier General Charles S. LeCraiv, Jr. (USAR). IM, has been appointed Vice President Corporate Planning for Wilbur Smith and Associates in Washington. D.C. Brigadier General LeCraw had formerly been the General Manager of Construction Marketing for U.S. Steel in Pittsburgh.

Harry B. Neal. Sr. of Atlanta died December 30, 1971. Mrs. Neal resides at 6475 Colebridge Road, N.E.. Atlanta.

Georgia.

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Charles M. (Bucky) Goodman. IM. was featured in the January 1972 issue of Southern Bell Views. Mr. Goodman is forecast supervisor for the Orlando District, a fast-growing area for Southern Bell.

' / 1 0 David VW. Johnston, IM. has been JLL-l named. president of the Danville Division. Dan River. Inc. He is located in Greenville. South Carolina.

Edgar Allen McCaa. of Port Gibson.

Mississippi died on September 6, 1971. He was manager of Southwest Mississippi Electric Power Association.

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Charles W. Bastedo was elected to the Atlanta Atlantic Steel Company's board of directors on February 16, 1972.

Mr. Bastedo is the senior vice president and general manager of the company's Steel Division.

John Q. Kessinger, EE, of Melbourne.

Florida died November 26, 1971. Mrs. Kessinger resides at 2305 Sea Avenue, Melbourne, Florida 32901.

Brian J. Sturman. Jr.. EE. has been appointed general manager of the Western U.S. apparatus service division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation.

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named to the board of directors of Scripto, Inc. Mr. Aderhold is president of

the Rayloc and John Rogers divisions of Genuine Parts Company, and a vice president of the parent company. Before joining Genuine Parts in 1967, Mr. Aderhold was a Scripto executive.

William H. Lane has been elected a trustee of Rice University. Mr. Lane had been serving as a term member of I he board of governors since August 1968. Mr. Lane is president of Riviana Foods, Inc. Lon S. Shealv. GE, recently gave an address entitled "The March Toward Professionalism" at the Seventh Annual Metal Building Industry Exposition in Las Vegas. Mr. Shealy is Vice President — Marketing of the Slar Manufacturing Company in Oklahoma City.

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Robert A. North has died. His widow resides at 84 Willow Street, West Action, Massachusetts.

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Donald L. Chase, ME, has been appointed the Assistant General Manager (maintenance) in Texaco's Refining Department —United States. Mr. Chase will be located in Houston. Texas.

Martin L. Gurskv, Phys, has rejoined the staff of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory to work with the Theoretical Division.

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Charles L. Davidson. Jr., IM, has been elected a director of The Citizens and Southern DeKalb Bank. Mr. Davidson is the president of Davidson Mineral Properties, Inc. and of the Gainesville Stone Company.

Thaddeus Gilmore Greene. Ill, IK. died February 25.1972. Mr. Greene was assistant vice president of the Robinson-Humphrey Co.. Inc. Mr. Greene's widow resides at 2687 Ellwood Drive. N.E., Atlanta.

Hoyt M. Kirby, IM, general auditor for the Citizens and Southern National Bank, was selected to participate in Emory University's 15th Annual Advanced Management Program at Sea Island.

Georgia.

Thomas G. Moskal. Jr.. EE. has been elected a vice president and member of the board of directors of Armor's U.S. operations and Armor Elevator Canada Limited, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Mr. Moskal will also remain responsible for Armor's central region operations.

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including sales, service and construction.

Mr. Moskal joined Armor in 1970 after being with Westinghouse Electric Corporation for 20 years.

H. G. Pattillo, BS, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta for a three-year term beginning January 1. 1972. He was also named Deputy Chairman.

ToyF. Reid, MS-ChE. has been named a vice president of Tennessee Eastman Company. Mr. Reid is a registered professional engineer in Tennessee, a member of NSPE, AIChE and the American Society of Quality Control. He was named Kingsport's Young Man of the Year by the Jaycees in 1955. Mr. Reid. his wife and their three children reside at 2141 Heatherly Road, Kingsport, Tennessee.

Joe Roberson. IE, has been appointed president of AMAX Aluminum Mill Products, Inc., Riverside, California.

Alan E. Thomas, IE. has been appointed general manager for Southern Bell's new Atlanta Area, which was created when the company split its Georgia operations into two areas.

Carl H F u i t o n I M a n d ' ^\C\ ' ' ' I- Charles \J\J Collins, '68 have formed a new real estate company, Collins-Fulton Realty Company. Their offices are located at Suite 133, One Dunwoody Park, Atlanta, and Suite 103, 2321 Fourth Street, Tucker, Georgia.

John H. O'Neill, IM. Business Manager of the Georgia Tech Athletic Association, was elected President of College Business Managers Association of NCAA at their convention in Miami, Florida in January 1972.

James R. Yongue, BS. has been appointed to the Commercial Leasing Division of Ackerman & Company, an Atlanta-based real estate broker and developer.

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David Charles Davis, EE, has been named chief engineer for Southern Bell's new Atlanta area.

J. M. Martin, ME, has been named maintenance supervisor —field at Dupont's Chattanooga nylon plant. Mr. Martin has had several supervisory jobs in maintenance, manufacturing and power areas. He was assigned to the company's international department in 1965 and transferred to

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Hamm, Germany. He : Chattanooga plant in to the maintenance sr W. Gardner Wright Georgia is the 1972 St Chairman of the Amei Education-Funds Cam and state cancer socii Dellinger, Jr., IM '53, months visiting volun in preparation for the

' C O Roger A. Dys< \J L-i appointed Sal United States and Cat Inc. of New York. The Shelby, North Carolin John H. McGaughe] 1971. His widow resic Seventeenth Street, L Illinois 62439.

Pendleton Read Mo promoted to general c marketing manager fo outstate area, which i company split its Geo two areas.

Thomas C. Pace, EI third suspense novel, copyright 1971. The p is Harper and Row. M novels are Afternoon Treasure Hunt.

Harry H. Powell, Jr. appointed one of the ' the local industrial dii Mills and Lupton Sup Chattanooga. Mr. Pow Lupton in 1966.

James E. Sawyer, B to Vice President and the J. E. Greiner Com]

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James Delh'ng Cartersville. I President of the Amei in Georgia. Mr. Delhi] Mr. W. Gardner Wrig spend the next three volunteers around th( for the April Crusade Mario J. de la Guar graduated from the pr development of the H Graduate School of Br Joseph B. Jones, Jr.

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Hamm, Germany. He returned to the Chattanooga plant in 1969 as staff assistant to the maintenance supervisor.

W. Gardner Wright, Jr., Text, of Rome, Georgia is the 1972 State of Georgia Chairman of the American Cancer Society's Education-Funds Campaign. Mr. Wright and state cancer society president James Dellinger, Jr., IM '53. are spending three months visiting volunteers around the state in preparation for the April Crusade.

' C O Roger A. Dysart, ChE, has been \J U4 appointed Sales Manager for the United States and Canada by Chemtex, Inc. of New York. The Dysarts reside in Shelby, North Carolina.

John H. McGaughey died on October 26, 1971. His widow resides at 1311 Seventeenth Street. Lawrenceville, Illinois 62439.

Pendleton Read Montague. IE, has been promoted to general commercial and marketing manager for Southern Bell's new outstate area, which was created when the company split its Georgia operations into two areas.

Thomas C. Pace. EE, has written his third suspense novel. Fisherman's Luck, copyright 1971. The publisher of the book is Harper and Row. Mr. Pace's previous novels are Afternoon of a Loser and Treasure Hunt.

Harry H. Powell. Jr., IM, has been appointed one of the vice presidents for the local industrial distribution company of Mills and Lupton Supply Company in Chattanooga. Mr. Powell joined Mills and Lupton in 1966.

James E. Sawyci\ BS, has been promoted to Vice President and Chief Engineer by the J. E. Greiner Company, Inc.

' £T O James Dellinger. Jr., IM, of *J yJ Cartersville. Georgia is the President of the American Cancer Society in Georgia. Mr. Delinger, accompanied by Mr. W. Gardner Wright, Jr., Text '51, will spend the next three months visiting volunteers around the state in preparation for the April Crusade.

Mario J. de la Guardia, ChE, was graduated from the program for management development of the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.

Joseph B. Jones. Jr.. EE, has been honored Spring 1 972

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by the Apollo 15 astronauts for his superior work at the NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center.

William R. Kelly, IE, has been awarded a Superior Achievement certificate for his work during 1971 in managing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Manned Spacecraft Center's resources. Mr. Kelly is the Chief of the Institutional Resources and Procurement Division in Houston. Texas.

John E. Knighton, Jr., ChE, has been appointed sales engineer for the Badger Company, Inc. in Cambridge.

Massachusetts.

Louis H. Stahl, CE, has been promoted to Assistant Vice President —Department Head, Structural Engineering by J. E. Greiner Company, Inc. John T. Wills, IM, and his wife have a new son. Christopher John, born on December 14, 1971. Mr. Wills is currently the president of the Tech Alumni Club for the Greater Dallas-Fort Worth area, Mr. Wills was also a member of Tech's undefeated 1952 football team.

' J™ A Ben G. Christopher, CE, has been %J TC promoted to Assistant Vice President-Department Head, Civil Engineering by the J. E. Greiner Company, Inc. Joseph Frederick Mulling, IM, has received his M.S. degree in Administration (Management Engineering) from the George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Mr. Mulling is a senior systems analyst with the DuPont Company at its Seaford, Delaware nylon plant.

* f" f" H. William DiCristina, Jr.. IM, has yj yj been elected an assistant vice president of Kidder, Peabody & Company, Inc., underwriters and distributors of investment securities.

Charlie Ray Lord, EE, of Decatur, Georgia died December 27, 1971 in an automobile accident near Florence, Alabama. He was an employee of the research department at Tech. Mrs. Lord resides at 818 Whelcher Drive. Decatur. Georgia.

Lee IVeal Smith, Jr., IM, married the former Sunny Elizabeth Harris on December 31 in the minister's study of the First Baptist Church of Atlanta. Mr. Smith is secretary and treasurer of Scott Equipment Company.

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' PT O Charles Cobb, TE, was recently yj U installed as the new president of the Association of Georgia Real Estate Exchangors. Mr. Cobb was also named "Exchangor of the Year" by the Association at the recent quarterly meeting of the Georgia Association of Realtors.

James J. Diffley, IM, has been promoted to Assistant Vice President-Maintenance by Delta Air Lines.

W. Burt Grant. IM, has been selected to fill the Carolina Power and Light Company's new central division general manager post.

Mr. Grant will supervise the utility's central North Carolina customer service operations and will be headquartered in Southern Pines.

Jack J. Zbar. ChE, is now associated with three different businesses. He is president of Arrow Engineering, Inc., which services the textile industry with equipment and specialty chemicals. Mr. Zbar is also Vice President of Coral Reef Photographers and recently became the Director of Technical Affairs for Certified Testing Laboratories.

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Fred E. Berman. EE. former Southeastern Conference Shot Put and Discus champion from Georgia Tech. has recently received an honor. A trophy in his name is to be presented to the winner of the Shot Put event of the 1972 Georgia High School Track competition to be held May 20 in Jefferson. Georgia. Mr. Berman is director of the Division of Special Studies at Georgia State University and teaches in the School of Business Administration.

Dr. Richard A. Dean, ME, has been named a vice president of Gulf United Nuclear Fuels Corporation in Elmsford, New York. As head of Utility Fuels Engineering Operations, Dr. Dean has responsibility for the design and development of nuclear fuels for the electric utility.

Lee Edwards, Jr., Phys, married Sue Barger of Fort Lauderdale, Florida on December 30, 1971. Mr. Edwards is with the radar branch of the Georgia Tech Experiment Station.

J. Tally Johnston, Jr. has been elected Vice President of Administration and Personnel for Volunteer State Life Insurance Company in Chattanooga. Mr. Johnston was assistant vice president of administration and personnel before his promotion. He joined Volunteer in 1963.

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appointed plant manager of the Ashton.

Rhode Island plant of Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation.

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William 0 . Banks. IM. has been named Division Vice President and Eastern Area Manager of Inland Container Corporation, manufacturers of corrugated shipping containers. Mr. Banks was a member of the Georgia Tech football teams of 1952 (Orange Bowl) and 1953 (Sugar Bowl).

Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Davis, IE, are proud parents of a daughter, Jenna Kathleen, born November 10. 1971. The Davis family resides at 4145 Katrina Court, Decatur, Georgia.

Robert H. Ledbetter, IM, is one of nine men who have together purchased the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League franchise for Atlanta, and The Management Company. The Management Company will operate the new $17,000,000 Atlanta Coliseum. With this purchase, Mr. Ledbetter and his group have made Atlanta the best sports-rounded city in the South.

' ÂŁT Q Harry F. Carlson, Jr.. ME, has been \J WWr named plant supervisor for the new liquefied natural gas plant being built by Atlanta Gas Light Company south of Riverdale, Georgia.

Thomas J. Crawford. IM. has been promoted to general manager of Union Camp Corporation's School Supplies Division.

Maj. Robert W. Glenn (USA), ChE, has been awarded the M.S. in Civil Engineering at Auburn University and will join the staff of the U.S. Army Engineer School at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Rev. Dan F. Laird. BS. was elected to serve as chaplain on the Board of Directors of Tau Kappa Epsilon International Fraternity. Rev. Laird is pastor of the Woodland Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky.

Lewis C. Lindsey, Jr.. IM, has been appointed an assistant treasurer in the Southern Division of Bankers Trust Company, New York. Mr. Lindsey joined the bank in 1969 as a credit trainee.

Sam A. Tatum. Phys, has been promoted to manager of research projects in the research division at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company of 30

Newport News, Virginia. Mr. Tatum has been with Newport News Shipbuilding's engineering lab since he joined the company in 1959.

G/~JJ Brannon B. Lesesne.'Jr., IM, has U U been elected an assistant vice president of Kidder, Peabody & Company, Inc. underwriters and distributors of investment securities.

L. I. Morgenstern, Phys, is very much alive, contrary to the notice in last quarter's issue of the Georgia Tech Alumnus. Mr. Morgenstern is the programs manager of Motorola Inc. Semiconductor Products Division in Phoenix, Arizona.

Oscar N. Persons, IE, has been admitted to the partnership of the Atlanta law firm of Alston, Miller and Gaines.

Freeman Strickland, Jr. has been appointed manager for the Georgia Natural Gas Company operations at Washington and Warrenton, Georgia. The appointment was announced by the Atlanta Gas Light Company.

Dr. Charles W. Walden, IE, has been named assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at Emory University. Dr. Walden continues as chief of the day hospital at the Veterans Administration Hospital.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Smets Blitch, Jr..

IE, are proud parents of a daughter, Joanna Catherine, born October 23. 1971.

The Blitch family resides at 3621 Dewsbury Road, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Frank Blount, EE, has been promoted by Southern Bell to general manager of the company's Atlanta area. He formerly was district plant manager in Athens, Georgia.

Bill Delk, EE, has been promoted by Southern Bell to general plant supervisor in the company's Atlanta area. He formerly was district plant manager for Southern Bell in Columbus.

David O. Lawson, ChE, has been appointed Technical Manager, Container Coatings, for PPG Industries' Coating and Resins Division in Delaware, Ohio.

Charles L. Parham. IM. has been appointed Manager of Grantville Mill, Georgia, a manufacturing organization of West Point Pepperell's Industrial Fabrics and Consumer Products division.

Donald W. Roeseke, CE, has been named Chief of the Environmental Resources Branch. Planning Division,

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Baltimore District, Army Corps of Engineers.

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Mr. and Mrs. John W. Bates, CE, are proud parents of a daughter, Robin Elizabeth, born October 25, 1971.

Mr. Bates is a senior planner for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. The Bates family resides at 4303 Rocking Chair Lane. Stone Mountain, Georgia.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Alfred Bolton. Ill, CE, are proud parents of a son, Herbert Alfred "Hal" Bolton IV, born January 22, 1972. Mr. Bolton is president of Griffin Engineering Company, Griffin, Georgia. The Bolton family resides at 414 West Taylor Street, Griffin, Georgia 30223.

LCDR Donald G. Gcntrv fUSNj. IE, was named Fellow to the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. The post was created to give outstanding young naval officers an opportunity to observe and participate in the development and administration of naval policies and doctrines.

Henry L. Hicks, IM. has been appointed Controller of Cushman Corporation, developer of Colony Square.

The Corporation is located in Atlanta.

George R. Jacob. Jr.. IM. has been named general agent of a new Aetna Life & Casualty general agency in Atlanta.

Dan Session Morris. IE. married Patricia Ann Peacock on March 4 at the First Baptist Church of Atlanta. Mr. Morris is president of Spratlin Palmer.

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Panders, Jr., IM, are proud parents of a second daughter, Jennifer Lee, born on March 17, 1971. The Panders family resides at 712 Longbow Road. Winston-Salem. North Carolina 27104.

Richard A. Pickens. IE. has been appointed the President of Robil Marine Products, Inc. Mr. Pickens resides at 2250 N.E. Thirty-Eighth Street. Lighthouse Point, Florida 33064.

Capt. William A. Slinlcr IUSAF), IM, has received his second and third awards of the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Bronze Star Medal, and nine awards of the Air Medal for service in Southeast Asia.

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IE. financial planning and control executive with Ford Motor Company, has joined The Knutson Companies as director The Georgia Tech Alumnus

D. G. Gentry, IE '62

of planning and contn Development and Con David G. MoJiga, IV social group worker a Circle Community hoc Missouri. Mr. Moliga February 1st and is re group activities and c! organization activities formerly employed by where he was an assii of the Kansas City sto Charles A. Pfaff, IV the Advanced Manage Harvard University Gi Business Administrati Mr. and Mrs. Bob P parents of a son, Matt October 21, 1971. Mr. transferred to Cheseb: Ltd. as Materials Man Popp and family now : Rolph Boulevard, Mar Canada.

Joe D. Wallace, CM director of design eng and air conditioning p Coleman Company Sp in Wichita, Kansas. Ir Mr. Wallace will diret development and desi the Coleman Compant conditioning systems : commercial, mobile/m recreational vehicles.

' O A B. Richard Ba U L J I elected a prof directors of the North Bank.

Jomey B. Ethridge. I degree at the Pennsyh on December 18, 1971 Frank M. Holland, J. position of Comptrolle County Board of Educ, Georgia. Mr. Holland's be 1546 Maplewood D 31204.

Mr. and Mrs. Kennt proud parents of a sor born July 7, 1971. The at 4909 Dryad Street. ' James F. Martin, IE, Emory Law School in Martin has formed a L the name of Johnston, at Suite 1724 Lenox T< Spring 1972

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of planning and control for the firm's Mr. and Mrs. Martin now have four Development and Construction Group. children.

David G. Moliga. IM, is now a full-time Jerry R. Phillips, ChE, has been promoted social group worker at the Whatsoever to supervisor, Dope Preparation and Circle Community house in Kansas City, Spinning. Acrilan Manufacturing-South.

Missouri. Mr. Moliga started work on William O. Riley, senior vice president of February 1st and is responsible for youth the Atlanta Atlantic Steel Company, was group activities and clubs and community elected to the company's board of directors organization activities. Mr. Moliga was on February 16, 1972. Mr. Riley has been formerly employed by Robert Hall Clothes with Atlantic Steel since 1940. where he was an assistant manager of one Edwin Austin Smith, ME, was married to of the Kansas City stores. the former Stephanie Jane Cartee on January 23, 1972. Mr. Smith is a data Charles A. Pfaff. IM, has graduated from processing manager. the Advanced Management Program of the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.

Mr. and Mrs. Bob Popp, IM, are proud parents of a son, Matthew George, born on ' /?» £~ lames G. Carellas, CE, is studying October 21, 1971. Mr. Popp has been D O to become a Greek Orthodox priest transferred to Chesebrough-Pond's (Canada) at the Greek Orthodox Theological Seminary Ltd. as Materials Manager. Mr. and Mrs. in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Popp and family now reside at 28 Captain Ralph W. Lawrence, ME, has been Rolph Boulevard. Markham, Ontario, promoted from project engineer to senior Canada. project engineer at the International Paper Company Mobile mill's Plant Engineering Joe D. Wallace. ChE, has been named Department. director of design engineering for heating and air conditioning products for the Mr. and Mrs. George E. Lenaeus, ME, are Coleman Company Special Products Group the proud parents of a second son, George in Wichita, Kansas. In this new position, Eric, born on December 14, 1971. The Mr. Wallace will direct research, Lenaeus family resides at 301 Sunset development and design engineering for Boulevard, Carrollton, Georgia 30117. the Coleman Company's heating and air Craig H. Martin, IE, is attending conditioning systems for residential, light Harvard Business School where he will commercial, mobile modular housing and graduate with an MBA in June 1972. Prior recreational vehicles. to that, Mr. Martin spent five years in the U.S. Navy Supply Corps.

Capt. Julius H. Massey. Ill (USAF), ME, took part in a recent U.S. strike command joint forces training exercise at Eglin B. Richard Baiter, IM, has been AFB, Florida. elected a property officer by directors of the North Carolina National Mr. and Mrs. lose A. Reyes, ME, are Bank. proud parents of a daughter, Christina Elizabeth, born on January 21, 1972. Mr. Jomey B. Ethridge. IE, received his M.A. Reyes is a Senior Project Engineer with degree at the Pennsylvania State University Continental Can Company in Hopewell, on December 18. 1971.

Virginia. The Reyes family resides at 3615 Frank M. Holland. lr., IM, has taken the Portsmouth Street, Hopewell, Virginia position of Comptroller for the Bibb 23860.

County Board of Education in Macon, Georgia. Mr. Holland's new address will Mr. and Mrs. Allan Irwin Scher, EE, are be 1546 Maplewood Drive, Macon, Georgia proud parents of a daughter, Andrea 31204.

Gabrielle, born on January 29, 1972. Mr. Scher is employed as a systems engineer Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth A. Jones, IM, are with IBM in Atlanta. proud parents of a son, Kevin Watson, born July 7, 1971. The Jones family resides John E. Stamm, ChE, process engineer for at 4909 Dryad Street. Tampa, Florida 33609.

Gordon Chemical Company, Inc., Oxford, Massachusetts, has been appointed James F. Martin. IE, graduated from director of research and engineering, a Emory Law School in 1971. Since then, Mr. new position at the company. Mr. and Mrs. Martin has formed a law partnership under Stamm now reside at Shady Lane, the name of Johnston, Martin and Martin Thompson, Connecticut. at Suite 1724 Lenox Towers, Number 1.

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Capt. Larry K. Whipple (USAF), EE, has been decorated with the meritorious service medal at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.

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Norman D. Askins, Arch, is engaged to Stephanie Burns of Boston, Massachusetts. A late June wedding at Cape Cod is planned.

Barry J. Benator, EE, has completed his active naval service where he was awarded a Commander United States Sixth Fleet Commendation for his performance as Auxiliary Division Officer of the deck during operations in the Mediterranean Sea in the 1970 Jordanian Crisis. Mr. Benator has joined the Power Generation Division of The Babcock and Wilcox Company.

W. H. Chadwick, Jr. has been named manager of engineering at Sherman and Reilly, Inc. in Chattanooga. Mr. Chadwick was with the Tennessee Valley Authority and Western Electric before joining Sherman and Reilly in 1965.

Raymond Lee Dorton, IM, married Deatra Faye Foster on February 19 in Dallas, Texas. Mr. Dorton is past president of the North Texas Georgia Tech Alumni Club.

Lt. Col. Billy W. Fugitt, MS-IM, received the Meritorious Service Medal at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The'medal provides recognition for achievement between the standards of the Legion of Merit and the Army Commendation Medal. Col. Fugitt received the award for his exceptionally meritorious service during his last assignment with the Office of the Chief of Research and Development, Headquarters, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C. Col. Fugitt holds two awards of the Bronze Star medal, five awards of the Air Medal and the Army Commendation Medal.

Robert Edward Horton, IM, is engaged to Barbara Jo Kenda of Montgomery, Alabama.

Mr. Horton is a systems analyst for Southern Bell. The wedding is planned for May 13, in Montgomery.

Joe B. Maffett, MS-Text, has been appointed to the newly created position of Vice President —Merchandising and Product Planning for the West Point Pepperell Carpet and Rug Division. In addition to product planning, Mr. Maffett will have full responsibility for the . formulation of product policy and the preparation and implementation of merchandising programs associated with the introduction of new products.

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Mr. and Mrs. Warren D. Perrine, IM, are proud parents of a second son, David Lee, born on New Year's Day 1972. Mr. Perrine is the Manager of Metal Preparation and Finishing and Plant Engineering for Berg Electronics, Inc., New Cumberland, Pennsylvania.

William E. Phelps, ChE. has been appointed area market manager, Africa, by the Monsanto Industrial Chemical Company's rubber chemicals and instruments business group. He will assist area representatives in customer relations with the international tire companies operating in Africa.

Richard J. Rogers, IM, has been appointed manager, corporate planning and reporting for Massachusetts Blue Cross, Inc.

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Kenneth Eugene Adams, IM, married Joan Thomas on April 8.

1972 at the First Baptist Church in Orlando. Mr. Adams is employed by Anchor Hocking Corporation.

Robert Morris Bush, Arch, left the Air Force in Colorado Springs in November 1971. He is now employed by Thomas E. Stanley & Associates, Architects.

Savannah, Georgia.

Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Jarrett, IM, are proud parents of a daughter, Natalee Jean, born on November 4, 1971. Mr. Jarrett has been appointed to a new position in the Medical Plans and Regulatory Affairs component of Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is the Medical Information Administrator with primary responsibility in the field of diabetes.

Mr, and Mrs. Paul B. Kelman, CE, are proud parents of a daughter. Melissa Gail, born December 14, 1971. The Kelman family resides at 8755 S.W. 92nd Street, Apartment 4, Miami, Florida 33156.

Mr. and Mrs. S. Elliott Kicklighter, IM, are proud parents of a daughter, Candace Nicol, born on December 29, 1971. Mr. Kicklighter is on the NASA launch team at Cape Kennedy.

Julio C. Pita. Jr., Chem, has won the Dr. Richard S. Brookings Medical School Prize for meritorious academic performance at Washington University School of Medicine.

Brian H. Schlifke, IE, married Diane K. Rowcz of South Bend, Indiana on January 8, 1972. Mr. Schlifke recently finished a three year tour of duty in the U.S. Army, 20 months of which was spent in Vietnam. He was awarded the Bronze Star.

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Robert Luke Snelson, Text, married Judith Lynn Durrett on March 4th in Marietta, Georgia. Mr. Snelson is a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps.

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John E. Barnett, Jr., EE, married Suzanne LeGrand Wyatt on March 11. 1972 at the All Saints' Episcopal Church in Atlanta. Mr. Barnett is employed by Blakely-Ward-Stuckey and Associates, consulting engineers.

J. Charles Collins, IM. and Carl II. Fulton, '50, have formed a new real estate company, Collins-Fulton Realty Company. Their offices are located at Suite 133, One Dunwoody Park. Atlanta, and Suite 103, 2321 Fourth Street, Tucker, Georgia.

Capt. Derek L. Duke. IM, is on duty at Da Nang AB, Vietnam. Captain Duke, an EC-47 Skytrain aircraft pilot, is assigned to a unit of the Pacific Air Forces, headquarters for air operations in Southeast Asia, the Far East and Pacific area.

Martin E. Gurian, MS, has joined Burlington Men's Wear in the newly established position of Director of Product Development.

Mr. and Mrs. B. Bill Harris, ]r.. CerE. are proud parents of a son, Peter Crawford, born on January 20, 1972. The Harris family lives in Marietta, Georgia.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Jackson, Jr., CE, are proud parents of a son, James Anthony, born on October 4. 1971. The Jackson family resides at RFD #7, Apartment 1-R, Ledyard, Connecticut 06339.

Jeffery L. Maxey, Psy, is employed by the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) Division No. 4, Fort Benning, Georgia, as a research associate. Mr. Maxey and his family reside at 3728 Armour Avenue, Apartment D-3, Columbus, Georgia 31904.

Capt. Robert H. McDonald (USA). CE, after graduating at the head of his basic engineer officer class in September 1968, married the former Bernadette Glasgow, and was assigned to a construction engineer unit in Germany. In November 1970, Capt. McDonald was selected to serve as a liaison officer and resident engineer in Munich, Germany for Olympic-related Munich city construction projects which affect the U.S. Forces in Munich. The McDonalds' first child, Christopher Robert, was born in Munich on March 4, 1971.

Ens. Robert Mitchell. IM. an instructor at

the Naval Training Center Service School Command in San Diego, California, is training for the Summer Olympic trials to be held in Rockford, Illinois this July. Mr. Mitchell is one of America's top contenders for the U.S. Olympic Kayak Team.

Capt. Lamar H. Murphy, (r. has terminated his tour in Vietnam. While in Vietnam, Capt. Murphy earned the? Vietnam Civic Action Medal, 1st Class, two Army Commendation Medals, the Bronze Star Medal and the BG P.M. Timmerberg's personal medal for outstanding professionalism. Capt. Murphy is now at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey where he will attend the Signal Officers Advanced Course through January 16, 1973.

Walter A. Wren, IE. was married to Diane Johnson of Covington, Georgia on December 19, 1971. The Wrens reside at 404 Vermont Avenue, Warner Robins, Georgia. Mr. Wren is an industrial engineer for the Warner Robins Air Materiel Area, Directorate of Distribution.

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Mr. and Mrs. Samuel F. Burke, Jr., Biol, are proud parents of a son, Samuel Francis Burke III. born on December 19, 1971. Mr. Burke is now a junior at the Medical College of Georgia.

Mr. and Mrs. Jeralri L. Deriso. IE, are proud parents of a son. Thomas Andrew, born on June 22, 1971.

Harold Lloyd Hart, IE, was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force recently. His father, Lieutenant Colonel James A. Hart, U S A - R e t . CE '28, administered the oath of office.

Dennis J. Lehmann. MS-City Planning, has been promoted to Vice President of Planning and Development for Carolina Caribbean Corporation, a resort land developer based in Banner Elk, North Carolina.

Samuel F. Loeffel, IE. married the former Nanci Kemp on January 15, 1972. Mr. Loeffel will be attending Asbury Theological Seminary and is now residing at 101 Gaile Morris Court. Wilmore, Kentucky 40390.

Michael J. Montgomery. IE, has been stationed in Kaiserslautern, West Germany for the past year and a half, and has now finished his tour of duly with the army.

Daniel H. Moss, IM, has changed jobs.

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Summerour and Asso Atlanta, Georgia.

Conrad W. Ponder, commissioned a 2nd 1 upon graduating from Candidate School, Fo Peter A. Ross, EM, two-year tour in the I Headquarters Platoor weapons company, H working for Deltona C Germany.

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Frederick W. commissionei lieutenant upon gradi Infantry Officer Canb Benning, Georgia. Lt. army in June, 1971 an at Fort Jackson, SoutJ 2nd Lt, Michael D, has been awarded his Force Base, Georgia t U.S. Air Force pilot tr being assigned to Pop North Carolina for fly of the Tactical Air Co provides combat unit U.S. ground forces.

Lawrence H. Beasl; promoted to Manager for Litton Unit Handli Florence, Kentucky.

Elwood Harry Cam, Mildred Louise Ozier Nashville. Mr. Camp ; engineer for the regie Eastern Airlines.

Mr. and Mrs. Robei proud parents of a so born on October 31, 1 employed by Western Greensboro, North Cf promoted recently to The Cheek family res Road, Greensboro, Nc Charles P. Efstratioi in the army, recently i ordnance officer basil Army Ordnance Centi Aberdeen Proving Gn 2nd Lt. W. D. Doug wife are the proud pa Jonathan Craig, born 1971. The Douglas far Palmetto Drive, Shaw Carolina 29152.

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Summerour and Associates, Inc. of Atlanta, Georgia.

Conrad W. Ponder. Jr., IE, was recently commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in the army upon graduating from the Infantry Candidate School. Fort Benning, Georgia.

Peter A. Ross. KM. recently completed a two-year tour in the U.S. Army as the Headquarters Platoon Leader in a special weapons company. He is presently working for Deltona GMBH in Frankfurt, Germany.

* ^7C\ Frederick IV. Ansley, IM, was / \J commissioned an army 2nd lieutenant upon graduation from the Infantry Officer Candidate School, Fort Benning, Georgia. Lt. Ansley entered the army in June, 197 1 and was last stationed at Fort Jackson. South Carolina.

2nd Lt. Michael D. Asher fUSAFj, IM, has been awarded his wings at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia upon graduation from U.S. Air Force pilot training. Lt. Asher is being assigned to Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina for flying duty with a unit of the Tactical Air Command, which provides combat units for air support of U.S. ground forces.

Lawrence H. Boa.sly, Jr., IM, has been promoted to Manager of Distributor Sales for Litton Unit Handling Systems of Florence, Kentucky.

Elwood Harry Camp, 111, IE, will marry Mildred Louise Ozier on April 29, 1972 in Nashville. Mr. Camp is an industrial engineer for the regional office of Eastern Airlines.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Cheek, IE, are proud parents of a son, Robert Leonard, Jr., born on October 3 1. 1971. Mr. Cheek is employed by Western Electric Company in Greensboro, North Carolina where he was promoted recenlly to Planning Engineer.

The Cheek family resides at 1709-C Fairfax Road, Greensboro. North Carolina 27407.

Charles P. Efstrafion, IM, a 2nd lieutenant in the army, recently completed a nine-week ordnance officer basic course at the U.S. Army Ordnance Center and School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

2nd Lt. W. D. Douglas, Jr., EE, and his wife are the proud parents of a son, Jonathan Craig, born on November 25, 1971. The Douglas family resides at 272-A Palmetto Drive, Shaw AFB, South Carolina 29152.

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Kenneth P. Gould, EE. is engaged to Shirley Joan Block. The wedding is planned for June 17 at the Seminole Methodist Church. Mr. Gould is an associate engineer for Florida Power Company in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Stephen McDonough, ME, is married to Candy Holder of Mooresville, North Carolina. Mr. McDonough is a mechanical engineer trainee with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

William W. Mcllwain. IE, died on January 10, 1972 of a brain tumor.

Charles Michael Olive, AE, was married on March 18th to the former Janeice Marie Long at St. Jude's Catholic Church. Mr. Olive is working toward an M.A.S.E. degree.

John W. Roach, IM, was commissioned an army 2nd lieutenant upon graduation from the Artillery Officer Candidate School at Fort Still, Oklahoma. Before entering the army, 2nd Lt. Roach was employed by Inland Manufacturing, Division of General Motors, Dayton, Ohio.

' - 7 ' I Pvt. Gregory Balestrero, IE, recently / _L completed eight weeks of basic training at the U.S. Army training center, Armor. Fort Knox, Kentucky.

Harry R. Blauser, ID, an army 2nd lieutenant, recently completed a nine week ordnance officer basic course at the U.S. Army Ordnance Center and School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

William C. Burgess, IM, a private in the army, recently completed eight weeks of basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.

Thomas H. Crawford, ChE, a private in the army, completed eight weeks of basic training at the U.S. Army Training Center, Armor, Fort Knox, Kentucky.

Douglas E. Crockard, IM, an army 2nd lieutenant, recently completed a nine-week air defense artillery officer basic course at the U.S. Army Air Defense School, Fort Bliss, Texas.

Pvt. Marcus S. Curtis, AE, recently completed with honors a light vehicle driver course at the U.S. Army training center. Infantry, Fort Jackson, South Carolina.

Ben II. Edwards, IE, a 2nd lieutenant in the army, completed a nine-week ordnance officer basic course at the U.S. Army Ordance Center and School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

M. D. Asher, IM ' 7 0

Terry W. Miller, EE '71

M i c h e l Loyd Fitzgerald, ChE, married the former Sandra Eugenia Graham on March 25th at Virginia Avenue Baptist Church. Mr. Fitzgerald is a 2nd lieutenant in the U.S. Army, stationed at Fort Dix, New Jersey.

Arnie J. Huffman, ChE, was tragically killed in an automobile accident in Rome, Georgia on September 2, 1971.

2nd Lt. Terry W. Miller (USAFJ, EE, has entered U.S. Air Force pilot training at Laredo AFB, Texas, where he will fly the newest Air Force jet trainers and receive special academic and military training.

Richard Edward Newsome, CE, was married on March 18 to Nancy Gower Randall at the First Baptist Church in Bolivar. Mr. Newsome now attends graduate school.

Lance Whitfield Ozier, Math, is engaged to a former Tech "mouse," Linda Sue Maloy of Stone Mountain, Georgia. Mr. Ozier is working toward a Ph.D. degree in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Linda graduates from Agnes Scott in June. A May wedding is planned.

Lt. Robert M. Paxton, IM, is engaged to Carolyn Penzien. A late spring wedding is planned at the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection at East Point.

Richard Clark Peterson, IM, is engaged to Nina Jean Bindley. An April 15th wedding is planned at Ousley United Methodist Church. Mr. Peterson is employed by the Deering-Milliken Research Corporation in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Jeffrey Laurence Skelton, IM, married the former Anna Lisa Blackstone on March 11, 1972 at the East Point Presbyterian Church. Mr. Skelton was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in the U.S. Army recently.

William Carroll Smith, II, IM, is engaged to Lynne Timmers, a senior at Georgia Tech. A late fall wedding is planned. The future bridegroom is associated with General Truck Sales and Service, Inc. in Memphis.

2nd Lt. Daniel R. Snyder, IM, completed a nine-week ordnance officer basic course at the U.S. Army Ordnance Center and School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

William Joseph Todd, IM, married Patricia Celene Bergen on March 18, 1972 at Sacred Heart Church. Mr. Todd is employed by Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.

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Letters

This is the first letters column in many issues; quite a few of these letters have been held over for several months. It always does an editor's heart good to know there's someone out there reading and reacting, positively or negatively. Readers are the life of a magazine, and as long as you occasionally get mad at me or debate with each other you're contributing to the vitality of the Alumnus. So —take time to drop a line. Please be certain to state if the letter is not intended for publication, and please realize that space limitations will sometimes necessitate excerpting. —ed.

Editor Incompetent Let me unburden myself from some comment on your editorial policy and competentcy with specific reference to the Fall 1971 issue of The Alumnus.

I am not aware of your qualifications which would justify your endorsement of Georgia Tech entering into degree granting programs in the humanities and social sciences. I do recommend to you a review of the recent experience of MIT in such an adventure. As stated by an alumnus of MIT. and also of Georgia Tech. "They ruined a perfectly good trade school".

On the other hand, the article on Mr. Jack F. Glenn emphasizes a point to which I subscribe. In part, he stated "true education teaches you to think, and in most engineering courses you think through to definite conclusions more so than in the liberal arts courses". Few students, fewer educators (Administrative types in particular), and some industrialists, do not understand this truism. The results of the questionaire from the 1960-1970 graduates in a previous issue of The Alumnus points this up; "I wasn't trained for the job".

Conversely, the Georgia Board of Education spoiled an excellent technical school when the Southern Technical Institute in Chamblee was put on a four year basis.

An example of mediocre journalism was the article "The'Most Famous Run". The first rule of journalism. I believe, is "get the name right". Who is Peter Pundt? It was H. R. (Peter) Pund in my time. I do not know the second rule, but I deprecate the reporting an event rather than an honor, which indicates an absence of understanding of Alumni "journalism". My 34

complaint is the ommission of the names of the members of the team in contrast to listing those attending.

L. D. Bellinger. '29 Newport News. Virginia My thoughts on the humanities al Tech were, of course, my own very personal opinions expressed in a signed editorial column. A lot of Tech students, because they love Tech, graduate here in a field relatively unrelated to their lifework rather than get a degree in liberal arts from another school. I don't ask a duplicate of the University of Georgia, but liberal arts disciplines related to technology. History of Science and Technology, to produce graduates who can refute irrational critics on the basis of historical perspective.

Technical writing, a fast-growing professional discipline. There are others.

But there are a number of views possible on any question, and your taking the trouble to write has ensured the airing of one I am certain is shared by a large' number of alumni. —ed.

Deaths separate?

I have enjoyed reading THE GEORGIA TECH ALUMNUS for a long time and feel it is very well done.

There is one suggestion, however—I would feel better if the first ten or more items under "News of the Alumni" in each issue were not simply a list of those who have died. Wouldn't it be better to separate the news of the living alumni from the notices of death?

Fred Hollow-ay. Ch.E. '35 New York. N.Y.

"Ramblin' Wreck" as old as Tech?

The following letter appeared in a recent issue of the Atlanta Journal: Editor, The Journal: In The Journal recently was an article concerning "Ramblin Wreck," the school song of Georgia Tech, in which A. A. Walker Jr. is quoted as identifying the late Frank Roman as the author of "Ramblin' Wreck." written around 1913.

Mr. Roman's son, William J. Roman, is quoted as saying that his father made less than $500 out of the nationally-known song.

No doubt the tune came from the original

song of the Gambolier, and the boys sang it as though it was the son of a gambler.

But, of course, we have no fathers whom you term gamblers. I want to state that the song was sung on the campus as early as about 1890. The day on which Georgia Tech opened one September morn in 1888 found me at the entrance of Tech, knocking for admission. There must have been around 170 who were admitted after standing the various examinations. In those days football was not even played in the manner in which it is today.

We did play a game of football as follows: A spherical rubber ball about 12 inches in diameter was used. It was strictly football, no handling or running with the ball. Only kicking was permitted. I remember well the first intercollegiate game we had was baseball. Nearly the whole school went to Athens in a game with Georgia. This musl have been in 1890.

A classmate of mine from Rome pitched and we brought home the bacon, and I know that "Ramblin' Wreck" was sung by our boys at that time, and I am sure that William P. Walthall, of Palmetto, Ga., another classmate, was tin? author and leader of the class. He was a born leader and a man who just knew things by intuition .. .

I say this without prejudice against what Mr. William J. Roman or Mr. A. A. Walker Jr. may think, and I am sure Mr. Frank Roman was a fine bandleader for Tech, and this is not intended to be derogatory to Mr. Walker or Mr. William J. Roman or Mr. Frank Roman.

H. D. Cutter. '92 Macon

technical side and chi good grammar, the im public speaking and li I think when I finally : had about as many En some English majors a Two items stand ou class and I'd have to c with them—you'll hav authored them, or pos name of Ragsdale. Bu Walker put the follow board one day in an a on to writing some po remember it all, but ii like this: The time I've sp( in watching ai The light that lie has been my h Though wisdom I've scorned tl My only books w, and folly's all; I'm pretty certain h wrote that on the boa The second item at which has always stu statement that "worm should be educated, 1 real responsibility for they spend many mor and teaching them." 1 educate children at y ages, this statement 1 If Dr. Walker doesr of either of the above they came from Tech and very likely Andre R<

Park

Memories of Dr. Walker The July-August issue of the Tech alumnus magazine was interesting, and you are to be commended. One article in particular brought back pleasant memories of Tech-the article on Dr. Walker. I had Dr. Walker in the forlies-and he should know that his influence on students, and that influence of other English professors, has always been good, in fact English class was a welcome break from all of the technical courses with the continual study of Theory and possible applications in English class the professors I think took the attitude that these engineering students needed a little bit of the lighter touch. They took our minds off of the The Georgia Tech A l u m n u s

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Captain Lewis "Wl in the July-August iss attempt to build supp Vietnam policies—an ignores the real welf E and their families by as pawns in our effor something from our ti work. The American armed forces have co far greater magnitudf done to the prisoners Spring 1 9 7 2

technical side and eluded us into learning good grammar, the importance of writing, public speaking and literature. In fact I think when I finally finished at Tech, I had about as many English courses as some English majors at other schools.

Two items stand out from my English class and I'd have to credit Dr. Walker with themâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you'll have to ask him if he authored them, or possibly a man by the name of Ragsdalc. 13ut I do believe Dr. Walker put the following poem on the board one day in an attempt to spur us on to writing some poetry. I can't remember it all. but it went something like this: The time I've spent in wooing, in watching and pursuing, The light that lies in women's eyes, has been my life's undoing, Though wisdom oft has sought me, I've scorned the lore it taught me.

My only books were women's looks, and folly's all they've brought me.

I'm pretty certain he was the man who wrote that on the board one day.

The second item attributable to him and which has always stuck in my mind was his statement that "women are the ones who should be educated, because they have the real responsibility for raising childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; they spend many more hours with them and teaching them." With the trend to educate children at younger and younger ages, this statement becomes more true.

If Dr. Walker doesn't claim authorship of either of the above, I know for sure they came from Tech's English Department, and very likely Andrew J. Walker.

Robert L. Bailey, C.E. '48 Parkersburg, West Virginia

Answers to Capl. Lewis Captain Lewis "Where Are They Now? in the July-August issue is a sentimental attempt to build support for American Vietnam policies an attempt which ignores the real welfare of the prisoners and their families by cynically using them as pawns in our efforts to salvage something from our tragic defeat. It won't work. The American people know that our armed forces have committed war crimes of far greater magnitude than anything being done to the prisoners. After learning Spring 1 972

about the My Lai massacre and the contents of the Pentagon Papers, do you expect any American with any sense of justice to believe that we have the moral right to make an issue of the prisoners' treatment while ignoring the continuing suffering of the Vietnamese people?

If you question that the United States has done monstrous atrocites, I recommend to your attention In the Name of American, by Clergy and Laymen Concerned; Against the Crime of Silence, by the Bertrand Russell War Crimes Tribunal; At War With Asia, by Noam Chomsky; and a number of other well-documented studies.

Poet Robert Bly says: "But if one of those children came near that we have set on fire, came toward you like a gray barn, walking, you would howl like a wind tunnel in a hurricane, you would tear at your shirt with blue hands, you would drive over your own child's wagon trying to back up the pupils of your eyes would go wild . . . " Mr. Moon, we are all guilty, some more than others. Please try to end the war so that we can try to remedy the damage we have done. fames R. Gibb. ME '49 Cincinnati. Ohio

Who could argue with Capt. Lewis' plea for concern over our POWs in Vietnam (July-August 1971)? I regret, however, that his recommended course of action is more of the same pap that we have been exposed lo for so long from those who defend our past and present involvement in such a moral and military disaster as the war in Southeast Asia. Rather than sending ineffectual communiques to North Vietnam and congressmen urging the release of POWs, Capt. Lewis' readers should wire his Commander-in-Chief to withdraw American troops from Vietnam nowâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the only clear course of action which would ensure the early release of all our POWs.

Faith in Tech Your article. Are Americans Losing Faith in their Colleges, merits a reply which discusses what we think of colleges in general and Georgia Tech in particular. Alumnus Y's letter to the president is a letter I might have written to the president of the college I graduated from, if that college had been one of the group that has succeeded in building a reputation for riots, radicalism, and politics. I have had to write the president of the college my daughter attended last year in this tone.

It is very probably true that, where many colleges are concerned, particularly liberal arts colleges, Americans have indeed lost faith. I wish I could say that the reply of President X succeeded in erasing some of my concern, but it did not. Georgia Tech taught me to make analytical judgements based on data. President X's reply offers no supporting data for his stand. We have indeed lost faith in many of our colleges, and re-gaining it will be a hard task for the schools concerned.

Note that my loss of faith now is selective, and that I still believe there are colleges which are doing a good job. Georgia Tech is in this category; however, if Georgia Tech chose to go the route of a "politicized" university, then I too would become an Alumnus Y. These comments are based on a background which includes 18 years industry experience and 8 years teaching, the last two in the North Carolina Dept. of Community Colleges.

T. B. Harbison. ME '50 Hickory. North Carolina

EDITOR'S NOTE: The letter appearing in the July-August issue of the Alumnus signed K. King was not written by Kim King, former member of the Jacket football squad. Kim informs me that his views are, if anything, in disagreement with those expressed.

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Vote For Your 1972-73 Alumni Officers X h e Nominating Committee of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association submits the following slate of officers and trustees who have been nominated to serve for the year 1972-73:

The nominee for President —f. Frank Stovall, Jr. is president of United Cotton Goods Company, Inc. of Griffin, Georgia.

He is currently serving as Vice President, has served twice in the past ten years as a member of the Board of Trustees, and has served as chairman of the Continuing Education Committee. He is presently chairman of the Committee for the Alumni Placement Service and the Committee for the Tech Today program. While at Tech Frank was active in student government, president of ATO fraternity, and a member of ANAK. He graduated in 1941 with a degree in textile engineering.

The nominee for Vice President—Thomas V. Patton is president of Triton, Inc. in Doraville, Georgia. He is currently serving as Vice President of the Association, is chairman of the vital Fund Raising Committee, is a member of the Board of Trustees, and provided liaison between the Homecoming Committee and the Executive Committee. Tom received his degree in aeronautical engineering in 1943.

The nominee for Vice President— L. Travis Brannon. Jr. is a partner in the law offices of Hansell, Post, Brandon and Dorsey of Atlanta. This year he is serving as Treasurer of the Association, is chairman of the Long-Range Planning Committee, and is a member of the Scholarship and Alumni Club committees.

While at Tech he was an officer in ODK, ANAK, and other honorary and social fraternities. Travis received his degree in industrial management in 1949 and a law degree from Emory in 1952.

The nominee for Trustee—George H. Brodnax, III is executive vice president of the Thoben Elrod Company of Atlanta.

George is active in community and professional affairs, and is presently serving as chairman of the board of trustees of the Methodist Children's Home.

While at Tech he was president of ANAK, and held offices in ODK, ROTC, and student council. As a member of the football squad, he was All-SEC and AllAmerican in 1948, and has been inducted into the Georgia Tech Athletic Hall of Fame. George received his degree in industrial engineering in 1949.

The nominee for Trustee — Joseph F. Darsey is president of the Darsey Manufacturing Co. of Tallapoosa, Georgia. In 1969 he was named Man of the Year in Tallapoosa. He is president of several apparel manufacturing firms, serves on the board of directors of a local bank, and is on the executive board of the Atlanta area boy scouts. While at Tech Joe was tapped for Tau Beta Pi. In 1960, twelve years after his graduation in 1948 with a degree in industrial engineering, he founded his own firm.

The nominee for Trustee—Jere W. Goldsmith is a senior account executive with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith, Inc. in Atlanta. Active in civic and religious affairs, he is currently serving on the board of directors of the Georgia Arthritis Foundation. He is also president of the Vanguard Housing Corporation. Jere

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The nominee for Trustee — L. P. (Bud) Greer, Jr. is vice president of Coats and Clark, Inc. in Toccoa, Georgia. He has served as Director of the Executive Council of the Boys Scouts of America, Director of the Rotary Club, a member of the local hospital authority, chairman of the local planning commission, and mayor of Toccoa, and is still active in civic and religious organizations. Bud received his electrical engineering degree in 1942.

The nominee for Trustee — P. Harvey Lewis is president of the industrial and commercial real estate firm P. H. Lewis and Co., Inc. of Atlanta. He is vice president of the Peachtree Kiwanis, a trustee of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and first vice president of the USO Council. Last year he served as president of the Greater Atlanta Georgia Tech Club, and has served as an officer in various other civic, business, and fraternal organizations. Harvey received the industrial management degree in 1957.

The nominee for Trustee —James W. Summerour, Jr. is president of Summerour and Associates of Atlanta. While at Tech he was editor of the Blueprint, associate editor of the Technique, and secretary of ATO fraternity. He was also active in IFC, Pi Delta Epsilon, SAM, and AIEE. James received his degree in electrical engineering in 1947.

BALLOT FOR NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES: 1972-73 •

The nominee for Treasurer—John O. McCarty is president of The Audichron Company of Atlanta. He is a member of the Board of Trustees, and is presently serving as chairman of the Publications Board and the Scholarship Committee. He has helped obtain funds for humanities lecturers, the Technology Week II seminar, and a greater number of merit scholars at Tech. He is a member of the Georgia Nuclear Advisory Committee, and has served as director of the Atlanta Boys Club.

John received his electrical engineering degree in 1943.

received his industrial management degree in 1956.

My check in box indicates approval of nominees or I vote for the following write-in candidates:

For President: For Vice President: For Vice President: For Treasurer:

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For Trustees (Vote for six for three-year terms)

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