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A WE ARE NOT in this business of editing primarily to receive awards. But, you'll have to admit that they do help the old ego. The newest one received by The Alumnus reflects little upon the editor (except that it might have confirmed a hunch to keep our editorial paws away from certain articles by established writers).

However, the award—a special cita­tion in the faculty-writing category of Mademoiselle magazine's 1959-60 college publications contest—does reflect a great deal on the caliber of teachers now at Georgia Tech. This special citation went to The Georgia Tech Alumnus for Dr. Walter Buckingham's article, "The Con­sequences of Technology," which ap­peared in the February, 1960, issue.

On hearing of this award, a friend of ours, who fancies himself as a wit of sorts, commented: "How about that, the magazine for crusty old men has been formally recognized by the maga­zine for smart young women."

Any way you look at it, it was an honor for Georgia Tech to be listed with Sarah Lawrence (the winner, in this category) and MIT (the other special citation winner in this category). Our thanks to Dr. Buckingham, the dynamic young di­rector of Tech's School of Industrial Management, for his distinguished con­tributions to Georgia Tech and to this magazine. We promise you more articles by Dr. Buckingham in the near future.

* * * A SPEAKING OF Walt Buckingham (the column gets more informal as it goes along), his newest book "Automation: Its Impact on Business and People," is now off the presses. Published by Harp­ers, the book was selected as the Kip-linger "Book of the Month" for January, a high honor for any author. Our advice to you is to rush out and buy a copy of it right away.

All of these honors indicate to us that the School of Industrial Management here on the campus is in excellent hands. In the future, we look for it to grow in importance in the eyes of the business and industrial world.

* * * A AND SPEAKING OF Industrial Manage­ment reminds us that we owe an apology to Associate Professor Robert W. Carney of that school for erroneously crediting

Glenn Gilman for the lecture on "Human Aspects of Control" which appeared in the November/December issue as part of the symposium on The Engineer in Management. Actually, Professor Gilman was originally scheduled to give the lec­ture, but a change was made which was not recorded by the Alumnus reporter covering the talk.

* * * A AND, BACK AGAIN to books: we have been honored by being selected to write an up-to-date history of Georgia Tech for publication in 1963. The book, now in the research stage, will be a part of the 75th anniversary of the opening of Tech. If you happen to know any anec­dotes concerning the Tech of the first 75 years, we'd be happy to hear from you. We can't guarantee publication, of course, but we need all the help we can get on this project.

* * * A THERE is a great deal of talk and writing going on in this country con­cerning the fact that technological edu­cation is narrow and specialized and that the universities and colleges engaged in this type of education should give the students more "liberal arts" courses. The obvious answer to this particular brand of hokum is "Sure, we should, and the liberal arts schools should give their students more engineering and science than they do."

Today, the engineering universities are paying more attention to the humanities than at any time in history. Every Tech student must now pass at least 24 hours of humanities before he can receive his degree (and this does not count the fresh­man English courses). We are willing to wager that few liberal arts schools re­quire this many hours of engineering and science in their curricula.

Any way you look at it, this is a hope­less argument. We would just as soon forget the entire thing and let the liberal arts folks tend to their knitting while we tend to ours.

* * * A J U S T AS THIS ISSUE closed, we got wind of an important coaching change at Tech. Line Coach Marvin Bass went to South Carolina as head coach and Charlie Tate will be Tech's new defensive coach. More about this in March.

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Initial planning for THOR included volume production tooling, ground handling equipment and operational sys tems. Th is t yp i ca l Doug las approach made the giant IRBM avail­able in quantity in record time, and THOR has performed with such reli­ability that it has truly become the workhorse of the space age. Douglas is now seeking qualified engineers, physicists, chemists and mathematicians for programs like ZEUS, DELTA, SKYBOLT, GENIE, ANIP, SATURN, MISSILEER and others far into the future. For full i n f o rma t i on wr i te to Mr. C. C. LaVene, Douglas A i rc ra f t Com­pany, Inc., Santa Monica, California, N Section. /

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CONTENTS

VOLUME 39 • NUMBER 5

2. RAMBLIN'—a word about an unusual award

and an apology or two.

6. WITNESS FOR THE DEFENSE—Professor

Glenn Rainey has his say about the products and

problems of our public schools.

13. THE MARKED MARKSMAN—Tech's first ail-American basketball player, Roger Kaiser, in a profile by the editor.

16. INTERDISCIPLINARY—that's the word for Georgia Tech research in the sixties.

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

O ers of the Georgia Tech N nal Alumni Association

R. A. Siegel, '36, Pres. I. H. Hardin, '24, VP J. F. Willett, '45, VP J. L. Brooks, Jr., '39, Treas.

W. Roane Beard, '40, Executive Secretary

Bob Wallace, Jr., '49, Editor Bill Diehl, Jr., Chief Photographer

Mary Jane Reynolds, Editorial Assistant Tom Hall, '59, Advertising Mary Peeks, Class Notes

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A United Press International photographer catches the great­ness of Roger Kaiser during the final game of the 1960 Gator Bowl tournament at Jackson­ville's new coliseum. Although Tech lost the game, 60-63, Kaiser was selected the tourna­ment's most valuable player and was the leading scorer in the game with 29 points. For more about Tech's greatest basketball player see page 13.

ONE OF THE MANY pleasant aspects of being presi­dent of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Associ­

ation is the number <3f times that you are approached by an alumnus asking, 'What can I do to help Tech?"

My answer to this question has been always the same, "Support the Institute through the Annual Roll Calls and sell Georgia Tech."

But, to sell any product you must have the most complete available information concerning it. In this and future issues of the magazine, I intend to use this column to try and add to your knowledge of Georgia Tech. Along with the feature articles in The Alumnus such as the research report in this issue, I hope that we can help keep you better informed about Tech. And, you in turn can do a better job of selling the value of the Institute to your business acquaintances, legis­lators, and to top prospective students in your area.

Today, Georgia Tech is the largest and best-known technological institution in the South. Basically, it is made up of two colleges (the Engineering College and the General College) and a graduate division plus the South's largest engineering and scientific research or­ganization (the Engineering Experiment Station) and an Engineering Extension Division.

In the Engineering College, Tech has eight schools (Aeronautical, Ceramic, Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Industrial, and Mechanical Engineering; and Engineer­ing Mechanics). The General College is made up also of eight degree-granting schools (Architecture, Applied Biology, Chemistry, Industrial Management, Mathe­matics, Physics, Psychology, and Textiles) plus the service departments of English, Modern Languages, and Social Sciences.

Each of Tech's 16 degree-granting schools offer one or more degrees at the bachelor's level and all but two of them (Applied Biology and Psychology) offer de­grees at the master's level. In addition, seven schools (Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Industrial, and Mechanical Engineering and Chemistry and Physics) offer the Ph.D.

In the March issue, we will present more information on a facet of Tech's program. Meanwhile, if you are interested in learning more about Tech, you may re­ceive a Prospective Student Bulletin by writing to me at the Alumni Office, Georgia Tech, Atlanta 13, Ga.

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

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WITNESS FOR THE DEFENSE

As a witness, Professor Glenn Rainey of the Tech English Department makes a strong defense for public education. His

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J OHN W. GARDNER, President of the Carnegie Founda­tion for the Advancement of Teaching, in one of the truly brilliant addresses of our time, declared:

"No one can say that life has been dull for American ed­ucators since the dawn of the Space Age on October 4, 1957. The clamor has been deafening. And a good deal of the uproar has been produced by individuals who never had a consecutive thought on education before that fateful day. Characters we had never heard of went into orbit and started beeping . . . Looking back on it, I think we would all agree that nothing really surprising has come out of all the commotion. The wise men said some wise things; men who weren't very well informed said some uninformed things; and silly people said silly things . . . To those of us with a lifetime of concern for these matters, it often seemed that the foolish comments rang more loudly, but that may have been an illusion."

It ought not to seem alarming that a nationwide dis­cussion on education has been touched off. Such a debate may well prove to be extremely wholesome, and will so prove if it is sincerely directed to the improvement of our educational system, no matter what the shortcomings of some of the most earnest participants in the debate. What is, in fact, alarming is that many of the charges being hurled at public education seem to come not from those who want to improve and strengthen it but from those who seem mainly concerned to discredit it or to destroy it.

To have taught some ten to fifteen thousand students in a great public institution (which one loves and which one would not giadly see destroyed); to believe that the dignity and the destiny of America and of every state in America are bound up totally with public education; to know that the destruction of our public schools is the destruction of our children—none of these experiences and convictions are proof that one has the answers to some of the questions being asked nationally and locally about our schools. What they do guarantee, however, is an ability to point unerringly to the fact that certain of the "critics" of our schools do not know what they are doing, and that others of them know only too well!

With as much of indignation then as of humility, I should like to take the stand as a witness for the defense.

Question from the Prosecution: Why Don't the High Schools Prepare

Our Children for College?

They do. I have checked my own observations with those of teachers and officials at my own school who are in the

best position to judge. We are agreed that students of our present vintage are as well prepared as any students we have ever had—and possibly better prepared.

The truth is that Tech^is steadily raising its entrance re­quirements, is abandoning its remedial sub-freshman courses, is setting higher standards for its students, is turn­ing away large numbers of students whom it would once have thought fitted for entry, and is still expanding its en­rollment. I believe that in most modern colleges this is the situation, although I know that there are always individuals who will announce—to those who have time to listen to them—that the younger generation has gone to the dogs and that the schools are responsible.

As I listen to the attacks on the public schools I re­member all too well some of my own disturbances through the years. For one or two decades at Georgia Tech I was continually outraged by the fact that only a small number of Georgia boys were prepared to do well at Tech, and that most Georgia boys dared not even try to come to us. The small town or rural school of Georgia had only eleven years of relatively modest education. The product of such a school, if he could get into Georgia Tech at all, was in competition with graduates from Atlanta, Macon, Savannah, Boston, and New York, many of whom had had thirteen years of first class preparation and most of whom were a year older than our average Georgia boy. I have seen this injustice in some part remedied by the relatively recent establishment of twelve-year schools in Georgia and by the wonderful improvements in our state system. It remains for a new generation to turn the clock back!

I hope nothing in what I say here will be thought to in­dicate that I believe it to be the sole purpose of high school to prepare students, for college. Quite the other way about! The truth is that I think that preparation for college should never be permitted to interfere with the rightful function of education: to help a person to grow in self-discipline and self-realization; to discover his own resources of useful­ness and of happiness; and to equip himself richly and ma­turely for economic productivity, for parenthood, and for citizenship.

Question from the Prosecution: Why Can't Johnny Read?

He can. He can read far better on the average than Johnny ever could read before. Since so much of the talk in this whole area is elusive and anecdotal, I may be excused for saying that I have seen my own children go through the

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WITNESS FOR THE DEFENSE—continued

happy and rewarding process of learning to read in accord­ance with the best modern methods advocated by the pro­fessionals in the field, who by research and experimenta­tion have devised the systems being followed. Since I did not have sufficient knowledge of the vast amount of work and experimentation that had gone into the study of how to teach reading, I was glad not to intervene in the train­ing of my own children, and I was delighted with the results.

At Tech we have a well-conceived course in remedial reading. Its purpose, however, is not to restore the out­moded syllable-by-syllable, inching-the-way-across-the-page type of reading but to try to correct the crippling effects of such a method where it is still being followed. The Why-Can't-Johnny-Read people are trying to take us back to an old, wasteful method which good professional students of the problem have been trying to help us out-grow.

Every competent elementary school teacher knows that children learn to read at different rates and at different ages and to some extent by different methods. When the Shah of Persia was visiting in London on one occasion and was invited to the races, he declined with what must certainly have been one of the most urbane observations ever re­corded: "In Persia we have known for a great many cen­turies that certain horses run faster than others."

It may well be that a particular child is slow to read because of eye trouble, because of emotional difficulties, because of brain injury, because of lack of ability, or be­cause of lack of a certain special kind of ability. It may be that such a child does learn to read in some limping manner when the parent sits close to him and labors to help him with old-fashioned methods of teaching. But it may also be that, in learning to read, what the child needed most was to feel the body warmth of the mother or father.

Question for the Prosecution:

Why Don't We Do Something for the Bright Child?

We do something, and we try to do more—for the bright child and for all the children. The very heart of good mod­ern education is flexibility—is giving the student the individ­ual attention that he needs.

To think, however, that the need can be met by simply pushing the student ahead and piling on work to the point of exhaustion is to produce nothing but harm. One of the worst things that can be done to a bright child is to take him out of a group in which he is emotionally adjusted, where he has leadership and distinction, and put him in a higher group where he is isolated, friendless, and defeated.

By the same token, if a child's friends are in another group, and if by size and development and association he is badly placed, he ought to be shifted humanely into a more suitable group—whether higher or lower. Nobody is more contemptuous of the dangers of maladjustment in a human being than the person who knows least about the costs of maladjustment or who is himself most badly ad­justed. The true teacher knows that proper adjustment of

the individual in the group is not the whole problem, but is at the very heart of the problem.

The good and resourceful teacher, given a class of proper size (in Atlanta the English classes are fifty per cent larger than what ought to be .the absolute maximum for good work) can find adequately rewarding experiences for indi­viduals of different abilities grouped properly from the standpoint of their total welfare.

Question from the Prosecution:

Why Don't We Cut Out the Frills and

Get Back to the Fundamentals?

The answer to the question is, of course, a whole con­stellation of questions—the answers to which in turn will add up not just to a view of education, but to a philosophy and a religion: What are the frills? Is music a frill? Is drama a frill? Is art a frill? Is modern language a frill? Are athletics and physical training and folk dancing frills? Is public speaking a frill? Are libraries and laboratories and record players and closed-channel television frills? Are tastefully decorated cafeterias serving wholesome food at modest prices frills? Is the Gra-Y program a frill? Is it a frill to draw students into a Latin club and have them re­turn to the Latin class for the first time interested and alive? Is preparation for marriage a frill? (The people whom I have heard most heatedly attack such courses of prepara­tion have been extremely effective in helping me to under­stand why one out of every three or four marriages ends in divorce and why an appreciable number of the rest of the marriages are little better than precarious cold wars.) In a country in which the carnage on the roads is of disaster proportions, is it a frill, for a few hours out of thirteen years, to take eager young people and give them driver training—using it as a carefully motivated device for teach­ing courtesy, consideration for others, obedience to law, and public responsibility? Is it a frill, through the student patrols and student councils, to teach the imperatives of good citizenship and the role of democratic authority? Is the study of public problems and of public affairs a frill?

Is the kindergarten a frill? Many qualified people regard it as the most valuable single year in the whole educational program. Just as an individual's personality and character are molded by his earliest, never-to-be-recollected ex­periences with his parents and his brothers and sisters— so a child's chances of success and happiness in his whole career may be largely determined by the skill and under­standing with which the great transition from the home to the school is managed. We do not any longer teach children to swim by throwing them into water over their heads and leaving them to their own devices.

If we ask ourselves what the "fundamentals" are, we find the answer equally involved. Not many people soberly think you can keep a child at a desk from eight-thirty to two-forty-five (or three-ten), for nine months out of a year, for thirteen years, learning reading, writing and arithmetic—even in their elaborated extensions—and expel

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him from school if he does not conform to the rigors of such dreary treatment. The reason that we cannot yield to the cock-sure reactionaries who so glibly prescribe some such formula is that we know too much about the condi­tions under which children can learn and the rich and complex processes by which they learn.

Indeed we know what we are trying to do. We are trying to prepare children for usefulness and for maturity and for happiness in a society in which—entirely unprecedented on the face of the earth—a whole population is confronted not so much with learning how to "make a living" as learn­ing how "to live." Most Americans now work forty hours a week out of 168 hours, for five days a week. They retire at sixty or at sixty-five, and many live on for ten years or more. A central problem of the American school, the American church, and the American home is to guide the fabulously endowed American citizen into a life that is full and generous and rewarding—to help him to escape a graceless existence of meanness, of grubbing, and of vulgar thrill-seeking. No schools before ours have ever been faced with the problem of preparing a whole popu­lation for the appreciation and the fulfillment of life. For such a task we cannot look to Prussia or to Russia for our touch-stones—unless we want to turn out Prussians and Russians, Nazis and Communists.

Question from the Prosecution: Why Don't We Cut Out Progressive Education?

To certain people progressive education, if it means anything, means a situation in which a Dennis-the-Menace caricature takes a hatchet and gleefully chops down the piano while a permissive teacher stands by glowing with moronic approval. Now if this is what progressive educa­tion is—even in some watered-down version—we cannot do away with it, because it exists principally in the minds of those who do not dare to attack public education as such, but feel free to identify it with a bogey construction and then attack mercilessly.

If, on the other hand, progressive education means a concern with experimentation in educational method; if it means emphasis on sound motivation instead of on driving and compelling; if it means happy, wholesome, and creative atmosphere in the classroom and the enriching peripheral activities; if it means adjusting the work and the method to the special needs of different groups and of different in­dividuals; if it means helping the student to learn by doing, by experience, and by understanding instead of by merely memorizing and repeating; if it means putting the whole learning process in meaningful context; if it means empha­sizing the balanced development of a human personality instead of making a fetish of intellectuality and grades; if it means less concern with what the student can recite and more concern with what the student is and what the student can do—if progressive education means these commitments, then we cannot do away with it because we will leach out all the nutritiveness of education if we try.

Progressive education was born a half century or so ago in the attempt to bring a new vitality and a new flexibility into the learning process. Its methods being experimental, exploratory, and creative, there can be no doubt that some of its practitioners went to unjustified extremes and took untenable positions. None the less, the vigor of its ideal, the loftiness of its aim, and its basic good sense have given new meaning to education of every kind. Having derived many of its truths from the practices of great teachers of all time, progressive education has struck a balance with traditional education.

When the National Education Association polled the classroom teachers in the urban schools of America on their orientation in this respect, the results showed that only a small fraction thought of themselves as identifiably pro­gressive educators or traditionalists. More than eighty-nine per cent placed themselves somewhere in between the polar extremes at points representing what seemed to them some optimum fusion of the two emphases.

Mortimer Adler, of Great Books fame, was at one time a principal critic of John Dewey and all his ways. Recently he has publicly avowed a real change of heart: "Those attacks were unfortunate. It's one of those things that started a long time ago, and you can't kill it. My more mature judgment is that Dewey was nearly right. In those early days I didn't distinguish between Dewey and followers. In my recent writings I've said the Dewey's book Democ­racy and Education was the greatest of its kind in the century."

There is one point that needs to be heavily underscored. Motivation and method, properly emphasized, are not deter­rents to the effective teaching of basic subject matter. They are necessary routes to such teaching. I think there can be no question that the students who are best "pre­pared for college" and who have the finest "intellectual" development come from those schools in America—fre­quently the more distinguished of the big city schools— that have most profited from the enlivening effects of pro­gressive education.

Question from the Prosecution: Why Is European Education So Much Better?

Perhaps the best answer to this question is to reverse it. The proofs are equally hard to produce. What European countries? Better in what ways? Dr. Bryon C. Hollinshead, who returned to America in 1957 after five years as Direc­tor of the Technical Assistance Department of Unesco, notes that at the end of the sixteenth year seventy per cent of the children in America are in school compared with ten per cent in England and France. In college he points out that about twenty-five per cent of American youths are attending and about five to six per cent of the European youths. Indeed, he says, "We have almost as many students in the national honor societies in our high schools, and in Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and Phi Kappa Phi in our colleges as Europe has in its entire student bodies. If com-

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parisons are to be made, perhaps it is only the students in our honor groups who should be compared with the total European group."

Dr. Hollinshead's conclusion, to which I would like to say the most reverent amen is: "We can be genuinely proud of what our schools and colleges have accomplished, proud of their present efficiency, variety, and scope, and particularly proud that the professional conscience of our educators has given them the humility to see faults and the desire to correct them. In our criticisms let us remember that such faults as our system may have result from the generous grandeur of an idea unique in the world. Our future does not lie in a retreat to lesser ideals. It lies in the enrichment and invigoration of what is already ours."

Question from the Prosecution:

Why is Russia So Far Ahead of Us?

If the question has to do with space competition, which has been going on for a relatively few years, the answer, whatever it is, can hardly throw much light on our educa­tional practices.

The truth would seem to be that Russia, building on the foundations of its capture of Nazi scientists, has chosen to channel into rocketry and its related fields a far larger proportion of its national resources than we have. Had we been willing or able to divert to this type of activity some proportional part of our five hundred billion dollar gross national product, and had we been able sensibly to plan and execute the program, who can doubt that we should be well ahead in this competition?

If we had boasted a moral leadership in America capable of repulsing the McCarthy assault on our national scien­tific fortress—an assault not unlike that now directed against public education—we might in spite of other ob­stacles have retained unquestioned leadership in these areas of international competition.

It is, of course, perfectly clear that unless we call upon our vast resources to support a suitable educational program we shall lose not only the space race but everything else as well to the Soviets.

Question from the Prosecution: Why Are the Private Schools So Superior

to the Public Schools?

It depends on what private schools you are talking about. If you are talking about certain private schools long estab­lished, with great endowments, picking and choosing teach­ers and students at will, then you can make a kind of case. If you are talking about private schools scrounging for funds, selecting students on the basis of what they can contribute to the budget rather than on the basis of what the schools can do for the students, then you are in another boat entirely. Some private schools, within their frame of reference, are doing good work. Some are phony and

pretentious. Some are pitiably bad. The best of the products of our public schools—schools which must take all comers •—stand up entirely in quality to the best of the products of the private schools. Give any one of our better public schools the right—and the inclination—to exclude or expel any students unsuited to scholarship and intellectual dis­cipline and it could obviously show nearly any private school a clean pair of heels in "scholastic" competition.

On the other hand, take away from the private schools that part of their staffs subsidized by the retirement bene­fits of public school teachers and they would be hard put to operate on anything like their present level—whatever it may be.

Question from the Prosecution:

Why Don't We Break the Hold of the

Schools of Education on our Educational System?

For the same reason that we do not attempt to break the hold of the medical schools in medicine, the theology schools in theology, the law schools in law, and the engineer­ing schools in engineering. In all of the great professions there are specialists who devote their lives to the study of the vast funds of relevant material and whom we must trust for guidance.

Conscious of the charge that the curriculum of the School of Education at Athens greatly over-emphasizes teaching method and neglects the substance to be taught, I went to the Georgia catalogue to look for the curriculum. To this extent at least, I was following a course which I modestly commend to others.

I am ashamed to say that what I found took me by surprise. I found that there was no such thing as a "curriculum." There were some fifteen different curricula, each one calculated to prepare a student for some kind of teaching which in most instances he could not do unless he had a special type of intensive preparation.

The over-all picture was not unlike that of Georgia Tech, where it does not occur to us that a specialist in electrical engineering and one in ceramics and one in textile engineer­ing all need the same total preparation.

So I discovered, what I ought to have expected, that at Athens young people going into speech therapy were trained differently from those going into agricultural education or those going into industrial arts. In addition to the special programs of study for these three fields I found curricula planned for the students who would work respectively with libraries, art, music education, distributive education, home economics, health and physical education, trade and in­dustrial education, mentally retarded children, and motor handicapped children.

I found that the curriculum for elementary teachers is different, as it seems to me it should be, from that provided for teachers in the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades. And I found that for high school teachers there was a curriculum which varied with the subject matter being taught—with heavy emphasis on this subject matter.

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If I were asked whether in each of these different fields there was a correct balance between subject matter and the learning of method I would have to say that the balance seemed about right to me—especially in the light of my own certain knowledge that one of the best ways to learn subject matter is to study methods of teaching the. subject matter or of applying it. Nobody but a real expert in a field is in position to pass judgment on a curriculum, and no­body but such a person can tell where method begins and subject matter leaves off.

What is most tragic in some of this attack on the schools of education is that it demoralizes or drives away the ed­ucational statesmanship which is so important to our state and to our children. A wise, well-trained, devoted pro­fessional in the immensely difficult field of education does not have to stay in a community where he is insulted and traduced. He simply goes elsewhere—as he most easily can do—and our schools deteriorate. It is not possible to have good schools without a well-spring of properly prepared young people, enlisted and heartened by devoted profes­sionals.

If I am told that some of the courses at Athens are poorly taught, that some of the teachers are less lively than others, that some of the students are not as bright as some other students—I can only reply that it was so in Athens, Greece, and is so at Georgia Tech. What comes closest to me is the position of those in the preparation of teachers, who, trying too often to make bricks without straw, trying resolutely to improve the quality of education in a great commonwealth, are contemptuously told by the most un­likely critics that they are somehow betraying their trust.

My wife, whose training has been in Latin and modern foreign languages at Randolph-Macon, at the Sorbonne, and at universities in this country, says that the best and most rewarding courses that she has ever had were in the field of education. When she undertook recently the new and exciting experiment of teaching French to children at the ages when they are best fitted to learn language, she found herself wishing for a variety of courses and of skills to make her teaching of the language meet the standard she set for herself.

In the elementary school work, she was deeply impressed by the quantity of professional research and knowledge in the field of teaching, which every conscientious teacher might wish to have—a body of material so vast that, as with similar material in medicine or science or engineer­ing, it would take not just a few courses in teacher training but a lifetime of faithful study to begin to master it.

The Summation for the Defense To answer these nine questions in the way that I have

answered them does not, even if I am one hundred per cent correct, mean that all is well in the house of education. Nationally the problem of over-taxed schools and under­paid teachers is a dismaying one. In Georgia this problem is even weightier but seems rather less so because of the gravity of the other problems that form its context.

At the very time when the public schools could least spare their friends, a large number of people have decided that we must close them down in order to escape obedience to the courts. They have gone through the remarkable process of rationalizing (1) that the public schools have been doing a poor job anyway; (2) that private schools can quickly and efficiently spring up to do a good job for our million children; and (3) that good teachers will rally in adequate number to the classroom, once the schools in which we prepare teachers are closed down also—in short that we can whip the Yankees with corn-stalks!

Nearly as formidable as^these heroic visionaries are the parents who take their children out of the public schools and put them in the private schools. Not in every case certainly—and the exceptions warm the heart—their proc­esses follow a pattern also:

(1) The public schools cannot give my child the costly, specialized care he needs.

(2) I am making the sacrifices necessary to protect my child.

(3) Why should I pay taxes to support a shoddy public education which I cannot even use? As for the poor, "let them eat cake!"

It is not too much to say that in one way or another, and to a degree, the public schools of Georgia have, in this group of highly influential parents, lost some of the most impressive support they so desperately need. If the children had stayed in the public schools, their parents would have been sturdy, dependable fighters for better teachers, for better schools, and for adequate support in taxes and legislation. When the children went to the private schools the hearts of their parents went along.

Finally, I must say that one cannot deal responsibly with the subject of public education without seeming to talk out of both sides of the mouth. Public education neither in Georgia nor in the nation has failed. In Georgia, how­ever, it is deteriorating dangerously and it needs all the friends that it can get. Our teachers, paid more than a thousand dollars less than the national average, can get places in the crowded schools throughout the states around us and in the nation generally. When we try to enlist young people for education or to employ them in it, no one has to tell them that over their heads and over the heads of their pupils and over the heads of their own children lowers the macabre threat of school-closings. In the face of terribly overcrowded and under-equipped classrooms; in the face of free-floating and irresponsible attacks on their profession; in the face of dishearteningly low salaries; and in the face of a completely uncertain future—Georgia teachers and potential teachers who are young, well-trained, free of restraining commitments, and concerned to find real teaching opportunities are quietly leaving the state. The erosion is slow, and, in the circumstances, inexorable. The situation, however, is not hopeless. It demands only that we decide what we want, and then take certain obvious steps. The only real question is: how much do we love our children? -A. A. A .

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THE MARKED MARKSMAN Roger Kaiser, Tech's first ail-American basketball player takes

a real beating as he continues to fracture all of the records

R OGER ALLEN KAISER, a 6' 1" 190 pound crew-cut senior from tiny Dale, Indiana (population 850) has an im­

pressive number of claims to fame. He is Tech's first all-American basketball player. He

also holds the school individual scoring record for one season (638 points in 1960), the best average for a season (22.8 points per game in 1960), and several other individ­ual records.The way he is going this year, he is a sure-bet to set a new career record for scoring by a Tech basketball player. Last spring, he became the first Tech player to be selected for the Olympic tryouts (he played for the winning NCAA All Stars and narrowly missed being selected for the 1960 Olympic team). He was the highest point-getter in both Associated Press and United Press International's Southeastern Conference teams last year and led the con­ference in scoring for the season.

Kaiser is also a leader. He has been Tech's basketball captain for two years and is a member of the Student Coun­cil, ODK, and other campus organizations. He maintains an average which will graduate him in the top section of the middle third of his class come June. And, for two years, he has been the inspirational and batting leader for the Tech baseball team.

And to top it all, Kaiser is a modest,unassuming team man who likes to remark that his father once played basket­ball for Santa Claus (as a matter of fact, his father was a starter some years back on the Santa Claus High School team in Indiana).

But this year, Kaiser is having his troubles. He is a marked marksman, and in every game he has had to do his shooting with opponents hanging on his arm or hitting him on the back of the head. Special defenses have been de­signed by some of the best coaches in the business just to stop Kaiser. He has spent almost as much time on his back

on the floor as he has shooting during the first month of the season. And, he is playing with a predominately sopho­more team. Yet, after the first ten games of which Tech won five, Kaiser has poured through 243 points for a 24.3 average. Through January 3, Kaiser has accounted for over 36% of the total points scored by the Jackets this season.

More important than his scoring has been the quality of leadership Kaiser has given to an inexperienced team. There is no Duke Denton this year to pass the ball in and run the team on the floor with deadly efficiency. There is no Bobby Dews of the quick hands and the blinding speed. Yet, the Jackets have made some spectacular comebacks in every game after showing a great penchant for getting far behind early in each contest. And, right in the middle of every comeback has been Kaiser, as a shooter, as a ball-handler and as a defensive player.

Tech got off to a fast start by whipping Georgia, 74-56; Furman, 80-54; and SMU, 67-64. In these first three home games, Kaiser hit 25, 31, and 25 points. The Jackets went to the Blue Grass Tournament in early December and drew the country's fifth-ranked team, the home-court Louisville Cardinals. In one of his only two below-20 nights, Kaiser still managed 18 points and led Tech back from a 19-point deficit to a graceful 65-74 loss. The next night was Kaiser's worst as Utah State edged Tech, 62-67. Kaiser had 16 points as Tech again came from right field to close it to 62-63 before falling behind after Kaiser missed a 25-footer which would have put Tech ahead with less than a minute to go. This missed shot—something that happens even to the best of them—prodded Kaiser to his greatest perform­ance of the season, a 28-point night against another top ten team, North Carolina State. State finally edged Tech, 76-82, after another Tech last-ditch rally fell short.

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Back at the Alexander Coliseum two nights later, Kaiser hit for 21 as the Jackets rallied to lead Duke, 39-38 with less than 10 minutes to play only to see the Blue Devils (another top-ranked team) come roaring back for a 48-61 win.

In the Gator Bowl Tournament, Kaiser was picked the "outstanding player in the tournament" after leading Tech from 15 points back with only six minutes to play to a 54-51 win over Georgia and scoring 29 points in Tech's 60-63 loss to Navy in the finals. In the Navy game, Kaiser was finally pulled out with Tech leading 53-48 and four minutes on the clock after being 18 points behind a couple of times during the game. Kaiser was at the point of sheer exhaus­tion when Coach Hyder had to pull him out for his own good.

In Tech's final warm-up for the SEC race, Kaiser played less than 30 minutes and racked up 27 points as the Jackets beat South Carolina 85-65.

Kaiser showed the country why he was an all-American in the national TV game with Kentucky as he scored 38 points, the most ever scored by an opponent in a game with the Wildcats. Tech lost the game 79-89, but Kaiser also established a new individual high in the game for himself.

The Jackets faced Georgia again in a non-conference game in Athens and Kaiser again came up a hero as he hit a 45-foot shot from a falling position to send the game into overtime. Tech finally won, 89-80. In Tech's second conference game, Kaiser had his worst night in two years (10 points) as the Jackets lost in Oxford, 67-69.

In the Mississippi State game, Tech carried the league leaders into overtime before bowing, 62-63. Kaiser hit 31 points and set a new Tech career scoring with his next-to-the-last point.

Kaiser—an all-State choice in Indiana—came to Tech despite over 30 grant-in-aid offers because as he says, "Coach Hyder acted like he needed me as well as wanted me." He played 8-man football in high school also. And, as an end, he was the team's leading scorer in his junior year.

His father—a rural mail carrier—built a regulation bas­ketball court in his back yard when Roger was only 12 years old. "It seemed that's all I ever did, shoot baskets and play basketball," he says in looking back at his days in Dale. Whatever he did, it prepared Mm to be as Whack Hyder says, "the greatest player that I have ever coached."

Now married to his high school sweetheart, the former Beverly Hevron, Kaiser is looking to professional baseball as a career. But, he still might be tempted to go with one of the AAU teams supported by major companies in this country with the idea of giving one more effort to make the Olympic team in 1964. Whatever he does, the odds are that Roger Kaiser will be a success. Defeat does not rest well with him.

This year, Kaiser has shown a new tendency to fight for the ball more than he ever has.

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Kaiser, no gunner on the court, does his share of the screening as the others shoot.

4 * Kaiser drives around a man to get his shot against Georgia (above) and chases Navy's Al Hughes on defense in the Gator Bowl.

The marksman moves down the floor as he gets ready to set up a scoring play against Georgia in Tech's opener at the Coliseum.

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by DR. JAMES E. BOYD, director Georgia Tech Engineering Experiment Station

Today's word for Tech's research

is INTERDISCIPLINARY I N A MODERN research laboratory at Oak Ridge, Tennes­

see, a Georgia Tech nuclear physicist—awaiting com­pletion of the Tech research reactor—conducts neutron dif­fraction experiments to determine magnetic structures of materials.

In another laboratory located in a temporary building on the Tech campus, an electrical engineer uses microwave techniques to study magnetic properties of materials.

In Tech's main Research Building, a chemical engineer uses extremely low temperature equipment to determine changes in magnetic properties of materials.

In Tech's solid state physics laboratory physicists, en­gineers, and chemists utilize extremely high vacuum equip­ment to study the surface properties of materials.

Different professional training . . . different research techniques . . . different research divisions. Yet, all of them are part of a new solid state program—an excellent example of interdisciplinary research effort toward a common goal.

Tech's radioisotopes development program for the Office of Isotopes Development of the Atomic Energy Commis­sion is another fine example of this interdisciplinary ap­proach to research. Under this program, now just a year old, civil engineers, chemical engineers, radiation chemists and physicists are working on many important problems concerned with the use of radioisotopes by American indus­try.

The concept of today's Georgia Tech is interdisciplinary. Georgia Tech's research plays the supporting role in the drama of education. But, without a strong research pro­gram built on an interdisciplinary foundation, technological education cannot hope to keep abreast of times in this fast-moving age.

The year in retrospect

The Station's research growth for the past year was un­precedented for Georgia Tech and, in retrospect, incon­ceivable under the congested research conditions. This year's new high in research propagated whole divisions, many new staff members, and a great increase of scientific knowledge and understanding. Total dollar volume of re­search effort increased by 27 per cent to $3,767,000. This voluminous amount of new activity caused 78 members to

Dr. James E. Boyd, director of the Georgia Tech Engineering Experiment Station, is in his third year as head of the South's largest industrial and scientific research agency.

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TECH RESEARCH—continued be added to the Station's staff. New divisions and branches were established. Several major items of research equip­ment were obtained. But, the amount of working space re­mained constant.

The increase in the number of projects, the new fields added to the Station's capabilities, the additional personnel needed to carry out this increased volume, and the already crowded conditions combined to push the working space problem to the acute stage. Research areas in which Geor­gia Tech should be working in order to better serve the State and to create new opportunities for its people are not being developed only because space is not available. Technical areas where the Station has already established sponsor confidence and a national reputation are being en­dangered because space is not available for required staff­ing. Able graduate students who need financial assistance or room to work with experimental apparatus must be denied employment even though outside funds are available to pay all costs. In short, the future of research at Georgia Tech now depends largely on the provision of working space for research scientists, faculty associates, and graduate students who participate in sponsored research programs.

Research and the Institute

Education, employment, and service to Georgia Tech faculty and students also reached a record high during this past year.

The Station's research program provided stimulating re­search activity for 117 faculty members. One hundred and eighteen graduate students and 183 undergraduate students gained valuable research experience and needed financial help through employment by the Station. Many of these could not have continued their graduate work without this financial assistance. A large number of graduate theses were made possible through wSrk on Station projects or were facilitated by equipment and staff assistance in the Computer Center, the X-ray Laboratory and other labora­tories. The Station's total support of faculty research and the graduate program was much larger than ever before.

Tech research and the State

The communities of Brunswick, Columbus, and Macon will reap the benefits of nearly-completed projects by the Station's Industrial Development Branch. Work at Valdosta

was completed last year. Contracts with the Rome-Floyd County Planning Commission and the city of Thomasville mean that these areas will be analyzed to determine their industrial and economic potentials. Other projects of special significance for the State are those undertaken for the State Highway Department (together with the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads) to find ways of improving the quality of roads and to reduce the costs of construction. These in­vestigations involved new types of pavements, improve­ments in pavements using Georgia materials, and highway systems.

Tech research and the Nation

Georgia Tech research plays an important part in the nation's defense. Seventy-four projects were sponsored by various agencies of the Department of Defense during the year. Many of these projects were concerned with basic research and involved strong participation of both faculty and students. Urgent demands are being made upon Tech's research resources now, when the safety and strength of the free world depend so greatly on maintaining a high level of science and technology.

Research for other government agencies, such as the Atomic Energy Commission and National Institutes of Health, continues to grow. During the year, 64 projects were active in this category.

Tech research and industry

One thousand and eighty-six small businesses in the State of Georgia were contacted this past year in an effort by the Industrial Development Branch to identify their prob­lems. This information will provide the basis for developing more practical and useful management and technical as­sistance programs for small businesses in the near future. But, all projects initiated were not of such a general and broad nature—many programs included projects of direct assistance to individual industrial firms. The Branch pro­vided such information as labor resources, opportunities for diversification, and data on other questions best suited to research at the university level.

Georgia Tech Research Institute

The Georgia Tech Research Institute is a non-profit Georgia corporation closely integrated with the Engineering Experiment Station. As the major contracting agency, the Research Institute negotiated 126 new research contracts for Georgia Tech during the year. Its patent department administered patents resulting from Station research.

The Research Institute also assisted in the promotion of Georgia Tech research programs by helping to maintain outside interest and support. Its personnel participated actively in workshops, pilot studies, and organizational activities to improve Federal government-university research relations. As a further aid to the school and the Station, the Institute continued to make available funds for the further­ance of research on the campus.

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. . . a hand in things to come

To brine: them back alive

Hurtling toward earth at thousands of miles per hour, a spaceship

will have to survive the withering heat of air friction. Today, scientists are ap­

plying every known test to conquer the problem of re-entering the atmosphere.

Fortunately, a great deal of this materials testing can be done

right on the ground. At Union Carbide laboratories, the fiery zone of re-entry

is being duplicated in a wind tunnel with the new plasma arc torch. By squeez­

ing a blazing electric arc and forcing a large volume of gas through it, the

plasma arc torch shoots out a 30,000 degree jet—the highest sustained heat

ever created by man. This is an example of the many areas in which industry

is working to help make space travel a reality.

Exploring the unknown is part of the everyday routine for the

people of Union Carbide. They are constantly searching for new and better

things for the world of today and tomorrow.

Learn about the important work going on now in gases, carbons, chemicals, metals, plastics, and nuclear energy. Write for "The Exciting Universe of Union Carbide" Booklet N, Union Carbide Corporation, 270 Park Avenue, New York 17, N. Y. In Canada, Union Carbide Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Tfye- Institute-Tech scientist to study libraries

D R . MARY EDNA ANDERS, Special Research Scientist at the Industrial Development Branch of the Engineering Experiment Sta­tion, has been selected as one of a four member survey team to study state library agencies in the fifty states.

The survey, financed by the Carnegie Cor­poration, is being sponsored by the Amer­ican Library Association and the American Association of State Libraries. Besides Dr. Anders, the survey team includes Dr. Rob­ert Leigh, Dean Emeritus, Columbia Uni­versity, Dr. Leon Carnovsky, University of Chicago, and Dr. Edward Wight, University of California. As part of the survey Dr. Anders will visit state library facilities in each of the twelve Southeastern States. In addition to graduate research at both the masters and doctoral level Dr. Anders has conducted independent investigations of var­ious phases of Southern library develop­ment. Her most recent research concerned the Tennessee Valley Library Council, a regional planning group active in the 1940's. The report of that study appeared in the winter issue of Southeastern Librarian.

Prior to coming to Tech, Dr. Anders served on library school faculties at the University of North Carolina, Florida State University, and Emory University, and on library staffs at the University of Florida, Birmingham Southern, and Huntingdon Col­lege. She holds degrees from the ^Jniver-sity of Alabama (AB) , the University of North Carolina (BS in LS and M A ) , and Columbia University (DLS) .

New industrial development project begins

Three Georgia communities are being se­lected by Georgia Tech as the first "models" for intensive efforts to generate healthy new economic growth in key sections of the state. The unique project, expected to take three to five years for completion, is one of sev­eral whose initiation was made possible by

the recent allocation of $100,000 from Gov­ernor Vandiver and the University System Board of Regents for industrial development research.

Technical assistance will be provided by staff members of the Industrial Develop­ment Branch of Tech's Engineering Experi­ment Station on the wide range of problems confronting Georgia's smaller cities—from the selection and development of industrial sites to more effective use of human re­sources. The Branch's full-time staff of more than 30 persons, including chemical, industrial, mechanical and textile engineers, manpower specialists, city planner, econom­ists and statisticians, will be supplemented as needed by engineers and scientists from other divisions of the Engineering Experi­ment Station.

Selection of the "model" towns will de­pend heavily on evidence of local interest and support. Specific points which will be considered are:

(1) Communities selected will be as nearly as possible in the center of those sec­tions of the state where new payrolls are most needed. Population losses and low per capita income are two factors which will be given consideration.

(2) Because of the limited funds availa­ble, the towns selected must be basically "healthy" even though they desperately need new payrolls. They must be in good enough condition so that results can be achieved with a limited investment. Other towns with perhaps more critical needs cannot be con­sidered because they would have to be al­most literally rebuilt before they could ex­pect to attract new payrolls. Not enough money is available for the more extensive work which would be required for the very weakest communities.

(3) The communities selected as pos­sible "models" will be asked to indicate their willingness to support the project financially and through action programs. City and county officials will be requested to pledge their active cooperation to assure that rec­ommendations of the research teams will be carried out with a minimum of delay. A formula based on population and per capita income will be used to determine the

amount of local support required. These requirements are being made for

two reasons: one, it is essential that as­surance be provided that action required by local governing bodies will be forthcoming when important recommendations are made; and two, there is an urgent need for stretch­ing available funds as far as possible. In­dustrial Development Branch staff members feel that greater results will be achieved if local citizens have a financial stake in the project.

The number of towns selected will de­pend in part on the amount of local funds put into the project. Additional communi­ties will be selected as quickly as addi­tional funds become available.

The estimated three to five years which will be required to carry the program to completion is based on the assumption that time-consuming projects such as the con­struction of needed waste disposal facilities, the revision of existing tax structures, and other major tasks will likely be involved.

More research grants to Tech

Tech recently received a special research grant from the National Science Foundation in the amount of $38,900. It will be used in support of research under the direction of Dr. Maurice W. Long, head of the elec­tronics division of the Engineering Experi­ment Station.

Another grant—this one for $43,221—has been awarded to Dr. Werner N. Grune, school of civil engineering, by the division of radiological health of the United States Public Health Service.

Tech student SAM chapter cited

For the third consecutive year, the Georgia Tech student chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Management was one of ten out of 178 university chapters to receive the Remington Rand Performance Award in recognition of its outstanding record dur­ing the 1959-60 academic year. Faculty ad­visor for the group is Dr. James Caldwell.

Debate team scores in contest

The Georgia Tech debate team scored a surprising second-place finish in the over-

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all division of the annual Peachtree Invita­tional Debate held at Emory University in November. Maryville College (Tenn.) was the winner in the over-all division entered by 15 teams from throughout the South­east. Debate topic was "Resolved that the United States should adopt a program of compulsory health insurance for all citizens."

I it Clubs CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE—For the second consecutive year, the Chattanooga Georgia Tech Club is sponsoring a scholarship plan for an outstanding high school graduate from the Chattanooga area. The scholarship will provide funds to cover the cost of tui­tion and certain other fees for the first two quarters of study under the cooperative program at Tech. Applications for this scholarship are now being received by the Chairman of the scholarship committee. Closing date for applications is March 1, 1961. For further information, write Scholar­ship Committee, Georgia Tech Club, P. O. Box 211, Chattanooga.

GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA—Coach W. L. "Dynamite" Goodloe, '42, was the guest speaker at the November 14 meeting of the Greenville Club. Goodloe talked on Tech, its football program, and its recruiting pro­gram and narrated the Tech-Florida film. Officers elected for the coming year in­cluded S. Y. Stribling, III, president; J. Cooper Shackelford, vice president; and C. L. Renfroe, secretary-treasurer.

MACON. GEORGIA—Dr. William F. Atchison, head of Tech's Rich Electronic Computer Center, and Tom Hall, associate secretary of the National Alumni Association, were the speakers at the November 22 meeting of the Macon Club. Dr. Atchison spoke on Tech's expanding computer facilities and staff and conducted a lively question and

answer session. Hall briefed the alumni on the Association's new programs including the highly successful alumni institute held during Homecoming.

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE—Over 50 alumni and guests attended the December 9 meet­ing of the Nashville Club to hear Joe Guth-ridge, director of development, speak on the "Nine Faces of Georgia Tech." George Hicks, vice president of the club, presided at the meeting and special decorations for the meeting were provided by Mrs. Wallace Rogers. The door prize—a large Christmas centerpiece arranged by Mrs. Rogers—was won by Wendell Arthur—the only bachelor attending the meeting. The club's next meet­ing is set for March 4.

N E W YORK, N E W YORK—Dean George Grif­fin and Buck Andel, Tech's athletic trainer, were the guest speakers at the December 8 meeting of the New York Club. Over 115 alumni turned out to hear the Dean rem­inisce about Tech and Buck talk about the problems of an athletic trainer at a major university. Club member Harvey Cohen, one of the country's top sanitation experts, spoke to the members on his field. The club's "Operation Library" netted $125 for the evening. President Herbert W. Dieckman appointed Jack Pruitt to head the nom­inating committee for the 1961-62 year.

ST. LOUIS. MISSOURI—The Georgia Tech Club of St. Louis held a winter meeting on Tuesday evening, December 13. Guest speaker was Roane Beard, Executive Secre­tary of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association. Roane talked about the Alumni Association work and objectives and gave a quick picture of Georgia Tech today. The '59 Highlights were shown. There were 35 present including wives. Gary Matthews, Ladue High School student, was a guest.

SAVANNAH. GEORGIA—The Savannah Geor­gia Tech Club sponsored a highly success­ful and unique seminar on "The Successes and Shortcomings of Chatham County Schools in Preparing Students for Tech­

nological Education." The meeting—attend­ed by over 65 Chatham County educators— featured Tech's Dean of Engineering Jesse W. Mason and its Registrar William L. Car-michael. It was held on December 8 at the Manger Hotel in conjunction with the an­nual meeting of the Savannah Georgia Tech Club. Joe Ward is president of the Savan­nah Club. The seminar was received by the Savannah newspapers with fine reviews and strong editorials citing the Tech alumni group for its "emphasizing the academic." John Pidcock was chairman of the alumni meeting (which drew 60 Tech alumni that evening) and of the afternoon seminar.

' Q Q Alva B. Matthews, Barnesville, Geor-***» gia, died August 4, 1960.

» n i Ed H. Bacon, TE, died of a heart " ' attack in London, September 2. He

and his wife had been touring Europe. Mrs. Bacon lives at 3677 Hedrick Street, Jack­sonville, Florida.

' | 1 0 Weldon Henley, of Palatka, Florida, " " • died November 17. He was an out­

standing pitcher for the Athletics from 1902-08. In recent years he served as a director of the Palatka baseball team in the Florida State League.

' f l Q James D. Dawson, Jr., retired vice * '* ' president of Fidelity Products, died

July 16, 1960. Hugh K. Thurston died of a heart attack

May 29, 1960. His widow lives at 408 Thurston Avenue, Thomaston, Georgia.

EDGAR E. DAWES & CO, Manufacturers Agency Since 1924

405 RHODES BUILDING • JAckson 4-7571 • ATLANTA 3, GEORGIA

Also, Field Representatives

Birmingham • Jacksonville • Tampa • Greenville • Cleveland

S A L E S & A P P L I C A T I O N E N G I N E E R I N G S E R V I C E S F O R : Steel City Electric Co.

Spang Electric Div.

The National Supply Co.

(Subsidiary ARMCO)

Plastic Wire & Cable Corp.

Kelek Company

Kam-Lok Pressure

Contact Switch Div.

Wagner Malleable Products Co.

Jet Line Products, Inc.

FEBRUARY, 1961 21

tJaceswtfjeNews Charles R. Beacham, '23, was appointed to the top sales post in the Ford Motor Co. in November. Beacham's new position is vice president-market­ing in which capacity he reports directly to Henry Ford, II, chair­man of theboard.Beach-am is a former vice president of Ford.

John Staton, '24, vice president of The Coca-Cola Company, has been named co-chairman of the 1961 Joint Tech-Georgia Development Fund drive. The Joint Fund raises money from business and industry to help the State's two top schools. Staton is past pres. of the Association.

Oscar H. Thompson, '36, head of Thompson-Bo-land Lee shoe stores in the Atlanta area, be­came the third Tech man in the past four years to be named on the Silver Anniversary football team sponsored by Sports Illustrated. The team is made up of 25 former footballers.

Robert S. Holmes, '38, has been appointed to the position of manager, highway construction marketing, in the market development division of United States Steel C o r p . , P i t t s b u r g h . Holmes joined the com­pany in 1956 as highway construction representa­tive in Pittsburgh.

Joe E. Roberson, '49, is the plant manager of Reynolds Metals Com­pany's Richmond (Va.) North plant. Roberson jo ined R e y n o l d s as technical assistant to the foil production control manager in 1949. He moved to his present job from staff assistant at the Richmond plant.

Leon Hardeman, '54, has been promoted to sales manager of the Atlanta plant of the Owen-Illi­nois paper products divi­sion. Hardeman, former great Tech halfback, joined Owens-Illinois in 1957 following his mili­tary service and has served as a salesman in Atlanta since then.

NEWS BY CLASSES - continued

William P. Fleming, ME, retired vice I I president of Taylor Iron Works in

Macon, Georgia, died November 9 after a long illness. His widow lives at 757 Mul­berry Street, Macon, Georgia.

' 1 7 ^an Holt Hall, government sales I I manager for Scripto's U. S. Division,

has been named salesman of the year. The award was made for Mr. Hall's efforts in posting the largest increase in business in all territorial salesmen in the United States. Mr. Hall retired December 31 after 25 years with Scripto.

' O O John Paul Locke, ME, retired in ^ ^ October as Colonel, Corps of Engi­

neers, Reserves. Mr. Locke is a stock broker with the Francis I duPont Co., 1 Wall Street, New York, New York.

' 0 9 John J. McDonough, president of the ^*» Georgia Power Company, has been

awarded the Georgia Recreation Society's presidential plaque for the "outstanding contribution" made by him and his com­pany to recreation in Georgia.

*OA Ira H. Hardin, ME, has been named ^•* vice president of the Georgia Tech

National Alumni Association. His business address is c /o Ira H. Hardin Company, 174 Mills Street, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia.

' O K Arthur B. Boazman, president of the » * * Keyes Company in Miami, Florida,

has been elected to head the Florida Asso­ciation of Realtors. He has been with the Keyes Company since 1933 and became head of the firm in 1959.

Robert L. MacDougall, CE, president of the MacDougald-Warren Construction of Atlanta, died of a heart attack in an Atlanta hospital on December 6. Mr. MacDougall, a former trustee of the National Alumni Association and the Georgia Tech Founda­tion, was one of Tech's best-known grad­uates. Tn 1951, he received the Alumni Dis­tinguished Service Award at Commence­ment. He was one of the State's leading civil engineers who took an active part in Atlanta and Fulton County civic affairs. MacDougall was one of the prime movers in the drive to start a modern expressway system for Atlanta, and in 1946 he served as chairman of Atlanta's Metropolitan Bond Commission. In 1956 he also served as chairman of another giant bond group, the Atlanta-Fulton County citizen's bond com­mittee. He was also one of the top leaders in Tech's Alexander Memorial Coliseum fund drive of the early fifties. He served as chairman of this drive in 1951. He is sur­vived by his wife, the former Margaret Clarkston McDow. and three brothers. His widow lives at 4141 Club Drive, N.E., At­lanta.

' O C Marthame Sanders, Arch, has been ^ O elected to serve on the board of trus­

tees of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association. His business address is c /o

Marthame Sanders and Company, 800 East Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia.

' 0 " 7 Beverly S. Embry, retired comptrol-** • ler for Gordon Foods Company, died

November 17 at his home. His widow lives at 2124 Mt. Paran Road, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia.

Henry D. Morgan, a partner in the Mor­gan-Parker Insurance Company, died of a heart attack December 1. His widow lives at 3710 Peachtree Road, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia.

' O Q Henry M. Garner, Com., an Atlanta fcO attorney, died December 19. His

widow and two daughters live at 1054 Fern-cliff Road, N.E., Atlanta.

Lee Meyers, G.S., died November 4. His widow lives at 500 Peachtree Battle Avenue, N.W., Atlanta 5, Georgia.

' 0 Q Richard P. Dieckmann, Com., died un-fcW expectedly December 13 of a heart

attack. He was with the Hartford Mutual Insurance Company in Bel Air, Maryland. Mr. Dieckmann is survived by his widow and daughter who live in Bel Air; son, George, with the service in Germany; bro­thers, Herbert, Tech '32, and Ralph Dieck­mann.

Ray C. Johnstone is now associated with the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, 680 West Peachtree, Atlanta, Georgia. He was formerly with the Center Chemical Company.

'30 W. Steve Jenkins, of Grantville, Georgia, died October 8, 1959.

' Q 1 Augustus P. Persons died June 6, ** I I960. No further information was

available at this writing. C. G. Scrutchin died September 29, 1960.

' 0 0 D. E. Hendricks, Jr., AE, has been Wfc named manager of the products and

commercial division of Shell Oil Company's advertising department. He has been with Shell since 1933. Mr. Hendricks lives at 7 Stonybrook Road, Darien, Connecticut.

James Washington McCook died unex­pectedly November 6 at his home. He was owner of the J. W. McCook Lumber Com­pany and the Macon Concrete Pipe Com­pany. His widow lives at 1276 Nottingham Drive, Macon, Georgia.

Daniel A. McKeever, EE, has been elected to serve on the board of trustees of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association. He is general manager of the J. E. Hanger, Inc., 947 Juniper Street, N.E., Atlanta.

Joseph A. McKeon, Jr., CE, has been serving as resident engineer for the U. S. Geological Survey in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. He returned to the states in December for a temporary assignment in the southeast and will then go to San Juan. His permanent mailing address is c/o J. S. Geological Survey, P. O. Box 310, 1109 N. Highland Street, Arlington 10, Virginia.

George E. Viereck has been appointed Chairman of the School and College Com­mittee of the National Football Foundation

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and Hall of Fame. He is owner of the George E. Viereck and Company, Inc., 1507 M Street, N.W., Washington 5, D. C.

Randolph Whitfield, ME, has been named assistant manager of the general services department with the Georgia Power Com­pany in Atlanta.

' Q Q Jack Adair, Com., president of Adair *»** Realty Company, has been elected

to serve on the board of trustees of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association. His business address is 56 Peachtree Street, Atlanta.

Abraham Hyatt, AE, has been named planning and evaluation director of the Na­tional Aeronautics and Space Administra­tion in Washington, D. C. He has been with the agency since it was organized in 1958.

Charles S. Peete, Sr., Arch, died Decem­ber 12. He operated an architectural office in his name in the Madison building which he designed. Mr. Peete was active in civic and church affairs in Memphis. His widow lives at 162 Palisade, Memphis, Tennessee.

Col. Henry D. Southerland, Jr., USA, has been named commandant of the Bir­mingham U. S. Army Reserve School (3385). Col. Southerland is assistant man­ager of the Tennessee Coal & Iron land de­partment.

' 0 John M. Martin, ME, has been named *» a vice president of Hercules Powder

Company. He joined the company in 1934 and has served in various capacities. He became manager in 1953 and held that position until his recent appointment.

' O R. A. Siege! ChE, president of the *» R. A. Siegel Company, has been

elected president of the Georgia Tech Na­tional Alumni Association. His business ad­dress is 1175 Chattahoochee Avenue, N.W., Atlanta 18, Georgia.

Donald C. Johnston, TE, has been ** appointed a trustee of the Georgia

Tech National Alumni Association. He is vice president of J. P. Stevens Company in Milledgeville, Georgia.

James B. Ramage, IM, has been appointed a trustee of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association. He is agency manager of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, 739 West Peachtree, At­lanta.

'Qi / . L. Brooks, Jr., CE, vice president **' of Tharpe & Brooks, Inc., has been

named treasurer of the Georgia Tech Na­tional Alumni Association. His business ad­dress is 728 West Peachtree, Atlanta 8, Georgia.

Colonel J. E. Carmack has purchased the woodworking and furniture refinishing busi­ness of Gross and Company, 1036 West College Avenue, Decatur, Georgia, and has changed the name to Carmack and Com­pany.

John H. Woodall, Jr., ME, has been elected to serve on the board of trustees of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Asso­ciation. He is general manager of the Wood­land Furniture Manufacturing Company,

Woodland, Georgia. Tom R. Jones, IM, has been appointed a

trustee of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association. His address is P. O. Box 966, Dalton, Georgia.

' A f l Bernard D. Ashbaugh, ME, has been " U appointed manager of Plastics Equip­

ment with Farrel-Birmingham, Inc. He has been with the company since 1940. Mr. Ashbaugh's business address is 565 Blossom Road, Rochester 10, New York.

' A 1 Madison F. Cole, TE, has been • I elected to serve as trustee of the

Georgia Tech National Alumni Association. He is with the Mutual Life Insurance Com­pany of New York. His business address is P. O. Box 179, Newnan, Georgia.

Robert S. Overstreet, ME, has been trans­ferred from the Air Weapons Development Laboratory to the Space Flight Test Ve­hicle Development office at Eglin AFB, Florida. He is a senior project engineer in the development of the "Lofter" space probe vehicle.

* AO David Murphy, Arch, architect in " « • charge of design for Aeck Associates

in Atlanta, was visiting Design Critic at the School of Architecture, Syracuse University, in October.

' A Q ^ ' """ Holmes, IM, has been ap-•** pointed College Relations and Em­

ployment Supervisor with Southern Bell in Columbia, South Carolina.

Dr. Seymour Lampert, AE, is heading a team of space technologists at Aeronu-tronics at Newport Beach, California. The team is working on advanced Air Force ve­hicles that would operate at the edge of the atmosphere and in space.

' 1 C John E. Aderhold, EE, vice presi-"** dent of Scripto, Inc., has been ap­

pointed a trustee of the Georgia Tech Na­tional Alumni Association. His business ad­dress is P. O. Box 4847, Atlanta.

/ . Frank Willett, EE, has been named vice president at large of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association. He is with Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Chat­tanooga, Tennessee. His business address is 928 Volunteer Life Building.

M7 T- W- G R'cn"rdson, EE, has been • • transferred by Shell Oil from New

Orleans to Los Angeles, California. His new business address is 1008 West Sixth Street, Los Angeles, Calif.

' A R Robert w- Brisendine, TE, has been • 0 promoted to city sales manager with

Eastern Air Lines in Chattanooga. Prior to this move he was assistant district sales manager for Eastern in Atlanta.

John Corry, IM, has been promoted to assistant field division engineer for the State Highway Department in the Fourth Divi­sion with headquarters in Tifton, Georgia.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Ashby Gibbons, CE, a son, Ashby, III, December 8. Their address is 3800 Academy Drive, Metairie, Louisiana.

James H. Reece, IE, has been promoted from the position of special agent to super­visor of the Atlanta Service office of In­surance by North America.

Glen P. Robinson, Jr., Phys., president of Scientific-Atlanta, Inc., has been elected to membership in the Young Presidents Or­ganization. Membership in this organization is open to men who have become presidents of sizable corporations before reaching the age of 40.

' A Q Raymond A. Jones, Jr., CE, vice " * » president and assistant manager of

the Atlanta branch office of the J. A. Jones Construction Company, has been named to the firm's executive committee and transfer­red to the home office in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Married: Donald Melvin Meadows, EE, to Miss Doris Dameron, December 11. Mr. Meadows is attending graduate school at Georgia Tech and is associated with Lock­heed Aircraft in Marietta, Georgia.

» C Q Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Charlie E. **^ Quentel, EE, a daughter, Patricia

Louise, last May 3. They live at 5159 North Santa Monica Boulevard, Milwaukee 17, Wisconsin.

' C O Born to: Mr. and Mrs. C. Carter J O Graham, IM, a son, Richard Mal­

colm, October 17. Mr. Graham is an office engineer with the J. B. Beaird Company, Inc. Their home address is 2419 Meriwether Road, Shreveport, Louisiana.

Donald M. Hartman, ChE, has been trans­ferred by Shell Chemical Company's Indus­trial Chemicals Division to the New York City Office. His new assignment is as tech­nologist in the Sales Development Depart­ment. Mr. Hartman lives at 154 West Rocks Road. Norwalk, Connecticut.

William G. Humphrey, ME, has been ap­pointed plant engineer of the Libby Divi­sion, Owens-Illinois Glass Company in Buf­falo, New York. He and his wife and four children live at 40 Loralee Drive, Ton-awanda. New York.

Edmund A. Waller, IM, has been elected trust officer of the First National Bank in Gainesville, Georgia.

*tlA Engaged: Lt. I sham Barlow Daugh-« " arty, USAF, CE, to Miss Janice

Thomas. The wedding will take place Feb­ruary 11. They will live in Topeka, Kansas where Lt. Barlow is stationed at Forbes Air Force Base.

Fred E. Ehrensperger, ME, is with the Nuclear Power Section of Southern Services, Inc. in Birmingham, Alabama. His home ad­dress is 5631 11th Avenue, South, Birming­ham 12, Alabama.

Married: James Thomas Richardson, IM, to Miss Eve Moseley, January 1. Mr. Rich­ardson is with Southern Bell in Augusta, Georgia.

' C E Married: Seymour Clarence Ander-*'*» son, Jr., IE, to Miss Marion Fallow,

December 24. Mr. Anderson is with Rey­nolds Aluminum Supply Company in At­lanta.

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NEWS BY CLASSES - continued

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Car-den, 111, EE, a son, Robert C , IV, June 5. Mr. Carden is with the Space Technology Lab, Inc. in Los Angeles. Their home ad­dress is 5387 Cota Street, Culver City, Cali­fornia.

James H. Stewart, Jr., USMC, ME, was recently commissioned a lieutenant after completing the Officers Candidate Course at the Marine Corps School in Quantico, Virginia.

Frank Summers, IE, has been appointed general sales manager of Scott Hudgens Realty and Mortgage in Atlanta.

Roy A. VaiHant, ChE, has been appointed manufacturing superintendent of Colgate-Palmolive (West Indies), Inc.. Guatemala. He has been with the company since 1955. Mr. Vaillant's business address is c /o Col­gate-Palmolive. P. O. Box 765, Guatemala City, Guatemala, C. A.

' E C Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Marcus * » " Borom, Cer, a son, Michael Preston,

May 8 in Cleveland, Ohio. Fernando Guerrero, IE, has been ap­

pointed mechanical engineer for resin ap­plications research at Allied Chemical Com­pany's Shadyside, New Jersey laboratory.

Born to: Lt. and Mrs. Michael H. Hull, USA, IE, a son, David Fort, November 5 at Wheelus Air Base, Tripoli, Libya. They will return to the United States in February of 1961.

Married: Robert M. McAHster, ME, to Miss Mary Shower, December 10. Mr. Mc­AHster is with the International Paper Com­pany in Georgetown, South Carolina.

Richard S. Myrick, CE, is now with Adams-Cates Company, Atlanta realtors.

Robert E. Poupard, EE, has been ap­pointed staff engineer, Advanced Guidance Design, at the Owega (N. Y.) facility of IBM's Federal System Division. He lives at 171 Front Street, Vestal, New York.

Lt. Jerry L. Terrell, USN, IM, is serving with Attack Squadron 46 at the Cecil Field Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida.

'C"7 Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Joe Davison, J ' TE, a son, Joseph L„ Jr., October 22.

Mr. Davison is with Tennessee Eastman Company. They live at 1382 Waverly Road, Kingsport, Tennessee.

James John Hamill, ME, recently received a Bachelor of Law degree from the National Law Center, George Washington University, in Washington, D. C.

Married: William Richard Newton, IE, to Miss Ann Fickling, December ^ . 0 . Mr. Newton is employed by the Georgia Power Company in Atlanta.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Iborg, IM, a daughter, Diane. Eugene is supervisor of planning at Singer Manufacturing Com­pany's Central Research Lab in Denville, New Jersey. They live at 2 Suffolk Lane, Middletown, New Jersey.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Jrby C. Shepard, Jr., IE, a daughter, Lisa Rene, September 15. They live at 43 Hollis Heights, Newnan, Georgia.

Engaged: Lt. Houston Longino Welch, Jr., USNR, EE, to Miss Leila Caldwell Stroud. The wedding will take place January 28. Lt. Welch is serving aboard the USS Bache.

' C O Engaged: Lt. Richard Douglas Gil-3 0 lem, USN, IM, to Miss Frances Mit­

chell. The wedding will take place January 21 at Fort Benning, Georgia.

Married: Will Rogers Smith, EE, to Miss Mary Annelle Sauls, January 14. Mr. Smith is with the Alabama Power Company in Birmingham, Alabama.

Lt. Elvin F. Walker, USA, ChE, recently completed the officer orientation course at The Chemical Corps School, Fort McClel-lan, Alabama.

' E Q Married: Robert Guy Barrow, IM, *»0 to Miss Nancy Clark, December 17.

Mr. Barrow is employed by Polyco, Inc., Smyrna. Georgia.

Born to: Lt. and Mrs. Ronald M. Bell, IM, a daughter, Deborah Lynn, August 31. They are living in Yokosuka, Japan. Lt. Bell is the supply officer of the USS Westchester County (LST 1167), whose home port is in Yokosuka.

Engaged: George E. Cates, IE. to Miss Bena Broyles. Mr. Cates is with Buckeye Cellulose Corporation in Perry, Florida. The wedding date will be announced later.

Franklin B. Chance, USN, CE. was re­cently commissioned Ensign upon comple­tion of 16 weeks training at the Naval School of Pre-Flight at Pensacola, Florida.

Married: Joseph Franklin Cornelius, Jr., ChE, to Miss Jennie Finley Farrior, October 2. They live at 2608 Overbrook Drive, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Joe is in research and development at Firestone Tire & Rubber Company's Synthetic Division.

Gustavo L. Casson, IE, is Dean of En­gineering at the University of Carabobo. Vallencia, Venezuela.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Foster, ME, a son, Kenneth Robert, November 14. They live at 568 Tarrington Road, Haddon-field. New Jersey.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Lovick O. Hay-man, Jr., AE, a son, Christopher Keith, November 17. Mr. Hayman is an aeronau­tical research engineer with the Aeronautics and Space Administration, Langley Field, Virginia.

Ensign Robert A. Kinsley, USN, IM, has qualified as a carrier pilot after serving aboard the USS Antietam. He is now with Training Squadron 29 at the Naval Air Sta­tion. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Engaged: William Boyce Pearson, III, EE, to Miss Scottie Gaines. Mr. Pearson is with Collins Radio Company in Dallas, Texas.

Born to: Lt. and Mrs. Steve M. Solomon, a son, Steve M. Solomon V at Martin Mili­tary Hospital, Columbus. Georgia. Lt. Solo­mon is stationed at Fort Benning.

Lt. George P. Turner, Jr., USMC, IM, is currently undergoing training at Saufley Field, Pensacola. Florida.

Married: Regis V. Walker, CE, to Miss Bernandine Felkowski. Mr. Walker is an en­

gineer with Standard Oil Company. Their home address is 1631 Atchison Avenue, Whiting, Indiana.

' f i f l Engaged: Clovis Elliot Cornwall, IM, " U to Miss Suzanne Foster. The wed­

ding will take place in the spring. Lt. John L. Dascanio, USA, IM, has

completed the airborne course at the In­fantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia.

Lt. R. Lenton Hill, Jr., USAF, Phys, has been assigned to active duty for three years in the Technical Planning Division at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.

Married: Samuel Gleiser-Katz, TE. to Miss Evelyn Schreiber. The wedding took place in September in Lima, Peru.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Keaton, CE, a daughter, Rendy, August 31. Mrs. Keaton also received her degree in Building Construction from Georgia Tech in 1960. Mr. Keaton is now office engineer with Winston, Greene and Tecon. They live at 1311 West Powell, Dothan, Alabama.

Engaged: Aaron Jenkins Land, Jr., IM, to Miss Lynn Coppage. The wedding will take place February 4. Mr. Land is attend­ing Emory University Law School and is associated with Pope and Carter Real Estate Company in Atlanta.

Eugene R. Pledger, EE, is an associate engineer with Westinghouse Electric. He is in research and development of solid state power conversion devices at the New Products Laboratory in Pittsburgh.

John E. Rudolph, USMC, CE, was com­missioned a lieutenant after completing the Officers Candidate Course at the Marine Corps School at Quantico, Virginia.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Moore Singleton, IM, a son, Timothy Moore, Jr., December 8. Tim is employed by the In­dustrial Development Branch of Georgia Tech's Engineering Experiment Station.

Married: Lt. James H. Stewart. Jr., USMC, IM, to Miss Connie Carroll. Decem­ber 27. Lt. Stewart is stationed at Quantico, Virginia.

Ensign William J. Stewart, USN, EE, is undergoing primary flight training at Sau­fley Field, Pensacola, Florida.

Married: George Thomas Weather, Jr., EE, to Mary Loretta Alexander, June 12.

Married: Lt. Robert George Young, IE, to Miss Olive Weigand, December 10.

Married: David L. Bergman, IE, to " I Miss Anite Cohen, December 25.

Mr. Bergman is with Mathews Conveyor Company. He lives in Ellwood City. Penn­sylvania.

Lt. Ronald J. LeChance, USA, IE, re­cently completed the signal officers orien­tation course at the U. S. Army Signal School, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.

Married: James Glen Nance, TE, to Miss Martha Mitchell. The wedding took place in December. Mr. Nance is with Tennessee Eastman in Kingsport, Tenn.

Lt. John D. Wiley, USA, IM, has been assigned to the Third Armored Division in Friedberg, Germany for three years. His address is 2nd ARD, 52nd Infantry. 3rd Armored Division, APO 39, New York.

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NEW HORIZONS IN COMMUNICATIONS

The Bell System will spend

2yh billion dollars for

new equipment, new services

and new ideas this year

to grow with America

That's a lot of money.

But the Bell System has been in­vesting in additional plant at a high rate for the past five years.

With those dollars, during that time, we've opened up some far-reaching frontiers.

For example:

We put nearly 15 million more telephones into service. We added facilities for a billion more Long Dis­tance calls a year.

We bounced telephone calls off the moon and Echo I as a prelude to a world-wide satellite communication system.

We developed Data-Phone service so that electronic business machines can "talk" to each other over regular telephone lines. (Some day, machines will do more talking than people!)

We extended Direct Distance Dial­ing so that more than half our cus­

tomers can dial their own Long Dis­tance calls quickly and easily.

We introduced the lovely little Princess phone that lights up for easy dialing—and the Call Director tele­phone that gives business a versatile, efficient intercom system in one com­pact instrument.

More Advances Ahead

We're testing pushbutton phones that are faster than dialing—and an Electronic Central Office that provides telephone services never known before.

We're launching Bellboy—a small pocket receiver that tells you when someone wants to reach you on the phone.

These are only a few of the notable new products and services from Bell Telephone Laboratories being made available for nation-wide use.

Our job is BIG—and growing at a

fantastic rate. Right in the midst of America's population explosion, tele­phones have been multiplying faster than people!

More Capital Needed

To meet this demand . . . to improve and extend your service . . . takes dol­lars by the billions. And investors will continue to put up the billions only if they expect to be reasonably well paid for the use of their money.

Only with continued adequate earn­ings can we conduct the research and plan the orderly expansion that keep the quality of your telephone service going up— while holding the price of it down. All these things benefit the telephone user, of course.

But, in addition, those dollars gener­ate local jobs and opportunities—add to national progress and prosperity— and further advance the finest, fastest telephone service in the world.

A FREDERICK R. KAPPEL, PRESIDENT

AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY

POLARIS: Northrop's Datico checks out Polaris at all levels of mainte­nance and operation.

SKYBOLT: Guidance and navigation systems are being developed by Nor­throp for this new and highly secret air-launched ballistic missile.

MERCURY: The Northrop landing sys­tem is designed to bring the Mer­cury astronaut down safely.

Northrop is now active in more

X-15: Northrop produces Q-Ball, the flight angle sensor for safe re-entry of X-15 and other aerospace vehicles.

AERODYNAMICS: Northrop's Laminar Flow Control technique is designed to greatly increase aircraft range, flex­ibility, cargo and passenger capacity.

TITAN: Northrop supplies complete technical and industrial management to activate the T-2 Titan missile base.

For work on these advanced programs, we seek exceptional engineers, scientists and mathematicians.

HAWK: Northrop produces airframe components, ground handling and launching equipment for this air de­fense missile.

COMMUNICATIONS: Northrop designs the trans-Pacific Scatter Communi­cations Network and other world­wide communication systems for U.S. and free world governments.

T-38: World's first supersonic twin-jet trainer is built by Northrop for the United States Air Force.

than 70 important programs

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TARGET MISSILES: Northrop has pro­duced more than 50,000 electroni­cally-controlled aerial targets, and surveillance drones.

COMMERCIAL METAL PRODUCTS: Nor­throp produces aluminum architec­tural shapes for many important industrial and commercial buildings.

SPACE RESEARCH: Northrop's accel­erated space research programs reach into such advanced areas as maneuverability, rendezvous, space vehicle maintenance, space probes, and the survival of men in space.

Write Northrop Corporation, Box 1525, Beverly Hills, California. Divisions: Norair, Nortronics, Radioplane.

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