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4 PRESCRIPTION FOR URBAN ILLS Dr. Constantinos Doxiadis, one of the world's foremost urban planners, gives some of his solutions for the multitude of problems that have become fashionable topics.

9 A SYSTEM KNOWN AS DART Tech's Complex Systems Design interdisciplinary course produces a unique solution to one of the major problems of the urban areas.

1 2 THE JETS ARE ON THEIR WAY A photo-text report on the work of a Tech professor with an organization that may do something to alleviate the shortage of engineers in this country.

1 6 THIRD CULTURES ARE BURSTING OUT ALL OVER A pair of articles by distinguished men in their field who feel that perhaps Lord C. P. Snow stopped short in his famous theory.

2 0 A DEATH IN THE FAMILY Photographer Bill Childress covers the destruction of the Old Shop Building with his fisheye lens, and a strange and different photographic essay is the result.

3 0 NEW FACES OF 1968 This fall it will be difficult to identify both the players and the coaches without a scorecard as the Jackets make many changes.

33 THE GEORGIA TECH JOURNAL In its new format, the news of the campus, clubs, and alumni plus the 1968-69 election page may be found back of the second cover.

THE DVER Moments after the entire east wall of the Old Shop Building had been yanked down, the fisheye camera of Bill Childress caught this proof of the ability of the ancient structure to fight against those who would destroy it. For more of the action, turn to page 20 of this issue.

THE STAFF ROBERT B. WALLACE, JR., editor I CAROLINE MCCONOCHIE, editorial assistant I CHARLOTTE DARBY, class notes I BILL POTEET, advertising manager

Published six times a year—Jan.-Feb./Mar.-Apr./May-June/July-Aug./Sept.-Oct./Nov.-Dec.—by the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association, Georgia Institute of Technology; 225 North Avenue, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30332.

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The Editor's Notes

T H E report forwarded from the Alumni Office to us simply stated, "For Class Notes: R. H. (Pud) Lowndes, Jr., ME '03, died on December 11, 1967. No further information available." '

It seemed to us to be a rather cold way* to dismiss a man who had served Tech as a teacher and administrator and who was the backbone of the first concentrated attempt to form the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association.

Back seven or eight years ago when we were researching our history of Tech, the name Pud Lowndes began to pop up quite often. We finally tracked him down and talked to him about the formation of the Alumni Association in 1906, which had been ignored by all of us. On page 37 of this issue we make amends.

Three days prior to the death of Lowndes, Tech lost another dedicated alumnus who worked at Tech from the time he graduated in 1914 until his retirement in 1959. His name was Roger Howell and we got to know him well in our early days of attempting to run a publications program. By that time he had been director of the Engineering Extension Division for 12 years, and he knew "his business well. It fell our lot to try and sell him on some changes we felt were needed in the old Extension Division catalogue.

The first attempt at the sell was to us an abject failure. The man wasn't convinced that this upstart knew his business and this is the way he judged you. We went back and prepared ourselves for the second attempt and this time he reacted a little better to our suggestions. From that moment on, we spent a great deal of time trying to convince Roger Howell that we would someday know our business as well as he knew his.

One of the great accolades we received in our lifetime was when Roger Howell, just prior to his retirement, made the statement that we had shown him the light, at least in the publications area. Roger Howell was a man you respected, a man who did his job, a good man. He will be missed by those of us who sought his counsel. R.B.WJr.

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Sketch by Marilu Wallace

Tech science writer, Julie McClure, reports on a famous man's personal prescription for the growing problems of the urban areas and in the process lets you know just why Dr. Constantinos Doxiadis has become "fashionable" as a lecturer on this subject

CROWDS, traffic jams, race

riots, air pollution, arbitrary boundary l ines, zoning squabbles—they all are part of the sardine existence man

has carved out for himself in the city, now his basic habitat. Unfortunately, the city has ceased to function properly for the humanity which gives it life. Instead, it places man in shackles. Because of the desire to cling to the old ways, humanity has failed to see the city for what it must be—a living, breathing organism.

While most of civilization sits and chews nails about what is to be done about the growing problems of the city, others, such as Dr. Constantinos A. Doxiadis, the internationally-acclaimed Greek architect-engineer, have made it their business to track down the ills of our cities and attempt to do something about prescribing for them. Doxiadis, president of Doxiadis and Associates of Athens, Greece, consultants on development and Ekistics, came to the Tech campus as the second Frank H. Neely Distinguished Lecturer

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of the year on February 27 and 28 to discuss his ideas on "Building Metropolitan Communities."

Ekistics, a word he coined and the foundation of his discussion, is the science of human settlements with emphasis on the interrelationship of man with his environment. I t brings together not only the architect, engineer and city planner, but also on an equal footing, the sociologist, economist, administrator, political scientist, geographer, mathematician and other artists and scientists. He lectures in Ekistics at the Athens Center of Ekistics of the Athens Technological Institute.

With 33 years of planning under his belt, Doxiadis places the blame for the insufferable mess our cities are in squarely on everybody's shoulders. All of humanity is to blame, he says, and the problems cannot be solved overnight. Today, "we are in a difficult position," he said, "unlike times in the past when people could define this as our city—and you either lived in the city or out in the country— this isn't possible anymore. The real boundaries of the urban systems in which we live cannot be drawn on a map." Since present day humanity finds itself in such a difficult position, "we get confused in the many types of action we expect," he added. "People say, for example, 'I don't live in the central city so I don't pay taxes. No matter that this is where I have all my interests—business, friends,

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PRESCRIPTION—cont. employment, cultural centers.' And, on the other hand, the people of the central city do not want to be identified with the outskirts for other political, racial, or ethnic reasons." As a result, a complex suffering system of cities has been created.

If these city problems are to be understood, he says, our thoughts about these cities must be placed in some kind of order. Why are our cities now in such condition? he asks. "We have to look back. We have to ask ourselves why do we admire the Athens of the old days, Florence, Venice, or Rome. These were cities of humanity. Urban problems were much easier to cope with in those times." These cities remained small, with a population of 50,000 or less, until a couple of centuries ago. "It has not been but in the last 200 to 250 years (when the scientific, industrial and technological revolutions caused the cities to grow into much more complex urban systems), that the difficulties began. Railroads brought interconnections leading to the confused urban system in which we live. Today, we allow our systems to grow without any control, thus allowing our cities to suffer." i

How do the cities suffer? "They \

suffer in many ways," he explained. "No matter whether you look at the economic, social, or political ways, you find them suffering. They are suffering in the same way you would suffer if you allowed yourself to gain weight. Allow yourself to gain 100 pounds. Then it is questionable, first, if you are going to survive; and second, if you survive, whether you can function normally (walking, climbing stairs)." But our cities are allowed to grow continually without any control, he charged. "You think cities are different than people?" he queried. "They are biological organisms."

Drawing a closer parallel to life, he said, "Go to any electrical engineer and tell him that you have a generator of 50,000 kilowatts and you want that generator to grow. He's going to laugh at you. He's going to ask, 'Why don't you add another generator?' People cannot grow without control and mechanisms cannot grow at all, yet we want our cities to grow. You see, we don't understand what we do, nor what we expect our cities to do."

So the cities suffer enormously. "I know that American cities suffer from traffic, social, economic and racial problems," he said, "and I know the gravity of these problems.

But to look at any one of them will be misleading and may, in turn, lead us to great failures and disappointments. We cannot take care of any one of the problems separately." Using his recent study of Detroit as an example (where with the use of computers, his firm offered them 49 million alternatives in the space of four months), Dr. Doxiadis proceeded to show the intricate interrelationship of these problems with the decline of the central city.

"Detroit's physical decline began in 1900 as a result of the wealthiest groups moving out of the central city from 1900-1951, as a result of this, weak economic groups and ethnic minorities gradually took over the central city, especially the Poles, Italians, and Greeks. As a result of this, the city was abandoned by shops of higher quality, and they moved out to regional centers. As a result of this, the middle income groups became dissatisfied with the central city and began to move, especially in the post-war years. As a result of this, the weakest income groups, especially the Negroes, moved into the central city in great numbers; not because they wanted it or liked it, but because it was the only place where they could find space.

"Now we have a complex problem

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The energy and enthusiasm, that the brilliant Greek planner brings to his lectures are shown in this group of pictures taken on the campus.

Photographs by Alan McGee

of a physical decline, which has been followed by the outward movement of the higher income groups, which has been followed by ethnic problems, which has been followed by racial problems, and all of them are interwoven into a very complex system," he explained while sketching on a large pad.

Often these issues are dissected and at tempts are made to solve them piecemeal. For example, proposing building of better housing. "If we try to build better houses without understanding how the system declines, without taking into account all of the elements, we must be prepared for some very great disappointments," he warned.

The Detroit urban system, and Doxiadis prefers the term urban system to city, exerts an influence over 37 counties (25 in Michigan, nine in Ohio and three in Canada ) . Over the past 20 years, the higher income groups of Detroit have been moving away from the city's core at the rate of two yards a day. "By moving outward, we create economic problems in the center of the city. We create and cause racial segregation, and a whole new set of problems, unless we face the whole system." But since the problem seems immense, this does not mean "we should not take

first-aid measures to solve the problems of the ghettos or acute traffic problems," he said. "But first-aid measures, as any good medical doctor will tell you, has nothing to do with the therapy which will be needed."

To help the cities, he said, "We must stop them from growing and suffering from greater pressures. To do this, we must create a double heart—bringing the business back to the central city. We can learn a great deal from medicine: the techniques of operating on the heart while the blood circulates on an artificial heart machine for several hours and finally, of transplanting the heart ."

Where did we go wrong? "You don't need me to tell you that humanity has failed to face the problems of the cities," he said. "Bu t just 11 years ago, when I was invited to lecture at a big university, I spoke in these terms. Over half of the faculty got up and walked out in protest of the statement about the failure of humani ty to face the problem. Now it is different. We accept it, discuss it, and we see it. And what was impossible 11 years ago, now begins to be possible. Although we went wrong in many ways, two basic points stand out from the rest, the

first is that all of us around the world continue to think of cities as static systems. Because humani ty has been living in cities surrounded by walls, represented by static plans, we tend to think in the same terms—that a city is confined within walls. We forget that it changes. M y hometown of Athens changes 18 ways every hour, day and night, and more than 2,000 feet of roads #re added every hour. We forget about this dynamic growth and, because we forget, we cannot ever catch up with what is coming.

"The other point is that as wide a time period as possible should be taken into account. Some cities are very proud because they have plans for the year 2000," he said. "What is the year 2000 in terms of cities which consist of people with a life expectancy of 70, houses that will last 50 to 100 years, buildings, 100 to 300 years, and networks of roads which may stay for thousands of years?"

Recent research work, analysis, development of methodology, all prove that the problems of the city can be faced. "But we have to behave in trying to do so," he said. "Now what do I mean 'behave'?" He pointed out that the problems of the cities cannot be solved overnight. "Most of our cities have suffered for the last 100 years. We have a disease of a whole system which has been developing over the last 100 years. We need some time to overcome it. This will not be so difficult."

Optimistically, he pointed out that as the population grows, so does income per capita. "Calculations show that over the next 32 years in the United States, you are going to build more than you built since the beginning of your country—so big will be the investment because of growing population and income. But our whole problem is not how to finance our cities, but how to guide this investment properly—and this we don't do. No mat ter how often we speak about plans, we cannot say that we guide the whole urban system, because the whole urban system has been previously committed by very big urban forces which have already exercised an influence."

He again cited the results of their research in the Detroit area. "Along the road from Detroit to Chicago, via Indiana, most of the lots have been bought by industries or by developers or by private people who expect to build there in the next

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PRESCRIPTION—cont. 10, 20, or 30 years. For many of these plots, feasibility studies were carried out 10 years ago, planning studies, seven years ago, architectural design, four years ago, engineering was done two years ago—and then the local community goes and says I want a park. Who wins? Industry. And for no other reason than that the local community cannot afford to lose the jobs. So the planner, and those who support him, either have to resign or be frustrated. Thus planning by authorities follows actions taken by private people and corporations and, therefore, cannot take a regulatory role between the highways, railways and airports. You see, we deal with a very complex, system."

Such problems as he described, he says will continue as long as we refuse to understand the dynamic character of settlements and the fact that so many urban decisions are made long before construction starts.

Planning, he says, is often considered as an action which tends to end when the report is published. On

the contrary, the planning really starts then. The real task of planning, according to Doxiadis, is to build the city and make it operate properly. It is necessary to show the average citizens what they are going to get out of the proposed plan. "You need this kind of measurement," he said. "If you tell a community that they will have 100 more miles of roads," he said, it is meaningless "unless you can say that by adding this 100 miles of roads, the average ctiizen will spend one-half minute less a day on the road. Is it right to be proud of building multi-story buildings downtown without knowing that this may mean five more minutes per day in commuting?" he asks. "Should we not make an attempt to translate the idea of planning and development in human terms like time—our most important commodity? Does it not mean more policemen or less security by having a greater number of roads to cover? And higher expenditures for postal services, for cleaning the city? So you see, planning cannot be confined to a two-dimensional map. Planning has a direct impact on our lives."

Having described the ills that befall our cities, where do we go from here? "Instead of dreaming and escaping, we have to face the problem more realistically," he said. "We have developed escapist's views in many respects. Our cities are going to continue to grow. By the year 2018 (he selected that year because at that time, this young generation will be stepping down for the next), the average American city will have twice the number of people and four to five times higher income per person. Where today we have a city here and a city there, in the future, they will grow into very complex systems somewhat similar to what has happened between New York and Boston."

What about making cities much smaller, he asks? "This is an escape. Like medical research, we cannot isolate it and throw it back to the small villages. So we cannot take the parts of the big cities and throw them back to the small cities and eliminate the big cities where they are produced. Conclusions? The big city of the present will be the small city of the future."

The megalopolis cannot be avoided. He said of the cities that will definitely grow more, Atlanta will be among them. The megalopolis from

Boston to Washington will be a fact and also from Milwaukee, to Chicago, to Detroit, to Pittsburgh. "Conditions in these systems will get worse and worse, until we start to recognize this and start building on a human scale . . . on the basis of human measurements. The challenge of the future is not to avoid the huge city, which is denned historically as the next step in human life, but to make it work for man—to give quality to the city. This we don't do."

The overall planning necessary for such a system undoubtdly would need tremendous cooperation among the numerous governmental agencies in a given area. "Consolidation of governments will come one day," he predicts. "Out of the cities of the past, which have created minor local units, we will move into huge cities of the future, and one day, local governments will be remodeled completely to satisfy future needs. But these are institutions and it takes time to change them."

But in the meantime, we should act to build better cities—even though consolidation is out of the question for a good while—by making regional agreements. "We can build proper urban systems by getting the approval of all of those concerned," he said, "but, the question is how do we get the consent. We get it simply by going to them, not with personal plans based on our subjective criteria of likes and dislikes (to say that 'this is the plan that I like' does not mean anything), but by presenting all of the alternatives and explaining why some of them make greater sense in operational terms (money, time, facilities, and quality of environment)."

Who is going to build these cities of the future? "Can we produce a generation that is going to turn its attention to building the cities of the future as better cities for mankind?" he asks. As an answer, Doxiadis sets two goals for our major universities: they should create the type of experts who will deal with the whole system, and experts who will inform the other groups how to contribute to the whole. He charges the products of these institutions—the present-day younger generation—to be the builders of the future, rather than protesters of the modes of life which by necessity exist around them. "Can these young people be builders instead of people who talk too much?"

8 The Georgia Tech Alumnus

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[ART Industrial Engineering graduate student Jack Kelly, a member of Georgia Tech's first class in "Complex Systems Design," reports on the unique rapid transit program for Atlanta that was the class project

T H E FACT that the Department of Transportation is the latest addition to the President's Cabinet highlights the immediacy of finding a solution to the traffic congestion problems in the cities. Entirely new concepts of moving people are being researched by groups all over the country. New urban patterns have been proposed by such renowned thinkers as Buck-minster Fuller and Constantinos Doxiadis.

Thousands of man-hours of work in all major cities have been devoted to the planning of future trends and needs involving land use, population changes and transportation. Atlanta has commissioned several studies along these lines and all the projections indicate a trend obvious to anyone who has traveled an Atlanta street at five o'clock on a Friday afternoon—namely that unless something is done, and done quickly, Atlanta will choke under the pressure of future traffic levels.

It has been apparent to most planners that the automobile is not the answer to growing transportation demands. For this reason, much emphasis has been placed on develop

ing acceptable rapid transit systems which could handle traffic levels without an increase over today's level of congestion.

Atlanta has recognized the need for rapid transit and formed the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority or MARTA, and if all goes according to plan, Atlanta should have rapid transit by 1983. Will rapid transit be the answer to Atlanta's traffic problems?

These questions and many others were investigated by a group of Georgia Tech graduate students in conjunction with a course called "Complex Systems Design." This class spent almost six months making a detailed study of Atlanta's predicted 1983 environment including building development trends, ethnic composition of the city's downtown population, employment trends, and estimates of rapid transit's effect on downtown traffic.

The result of this study was a 226 page report called "Downtown Atlanta Rapid Transit" in which the need for a distribution system to supplement rapid transit was developed and a solution called the

DART (an acronym derived from the report's title) proposed. The proposal is as professional and complete in scope as one would expect from a "group of consultants who had been given a similar amount of time to complete the project.

The literature announcing the complex systems course called it an interdisciplinary design course sponsored by the Aerospace, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Departments. The course, so the notice went, proposed "a study of necessary downtown distribution facilities for the Atlanta rapid transit system." The term "interdisciplinary" became more meaningful on the first day of class when 25 students from six engineering schools and city planning made their appearance. The aim of the course was to bring the specialized areas of knowledge represented among the class members to bear on a reasonably complex problem.

The idea for a course of this type originated at MIT in 1962 and spread to Stanford University the following year. Dr. Steve Dickerson of Tech's Mechanical Engineering School, who

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Downtown Atlanta Radial Transit

The complete report on this complex systems design problem occupied some 225 pages and is available by writing to the Director of Publications, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia 30332.

DART—cont. had attended the course while a graduate s tudent at M I T , went to Stanford during the summer of 1966 together with Drs . Tom Whi te of Electrical Engineering and Virgil Smith of Aerospace Engineering to participate in a course of similar design. Upon their return to Atlanta that fall, the three professors went to work setting up a complex systems design course at Georgia Tech. T h e topic for the course was chosen because most of the information needed could be obtained from people in the Atlanta area, and because the problem was felt to be of particular relevance to today's urban transportation problems. T h e course was designed as a two quarter sequence to begin in Winter Quarter, 1967.

The initial two months of the first quarter consisted of a series of seminars which provided background information on subjects ranging from traffic and city planning, current rapid transit technology, and advanced proposals for future transportation systems to specific details about Atlanta 's pecularities and problems. Halfway through the quarter the class was divided into two-and three-man teams to examine the material which had been presented up to that time/ research new information, and propose a conceptual approach to a(nd a solution for the problem. These proposals were presented during a class meeting and critiqued. The ideas included elevated and automated busways, elevated moving sidewalks, and malls covering large areas of the central business district. \

Following the conceptual reports, the class was organized into four design groups and group leaders elected. In addition, a project leader or "superchief" was elected to coordinate the work of the four groups toward the investigation of the problem. Each of the groups had its unique area of responsibility. The first group accumulated information about the employment density and physical characteristics of downtown Atlanta. I t also studied the social and financial impact of the proposed rapid transit, with and without a distribution system, as well as the legal factors involved in the property acquisition and construction associated with a downtown distribution system, whatever form it might take. In addition, the first group was responsible for developing a method for financing any proposed system.

The second group evaluated various route configurations, linear, grid, loop and radial, with the aid of a computer program written by one of the group members. The optimum station locations were selected by another computer program using employment density figures generated by the first group. Route capacity requirements were also determined.

T h e mechanical transportation modes were classifiable as moving belts or cars and the third group determined the characteristics of both of these alternatives as to capacity, speed, and cost. They also investigated general propulsion, suspension, and control schemes to aid in meeting the set of design requirements peculiar to any proposed solution.

T h e last group's first task was to investigate the mechanical aspects of

guideway location. In other words, they determined the construction requirements of locating the system at, above, or below street level. I n addition they designed the vehicle and stations which were finally proposed.

The last item of business for the course's first quarter was the presentation of the preliminary design work and recommendations of each of the four groups. I t had been hoped that a decision as to the final design could be made following those presentations but it was not unti l well into the second quarter that any semblance of a final design was reached. U p to the time of the preliminary design presentations, the groups had been working relatively independently of each other. Faced with the task of presenting a comprehensive systems design, the group discovered that the alternatives which appeared best to each of them separately simply wouldn't fit together in an optimum manner. The guideway location wouldn't work with the route proposed and it wasn't clear whether a belt system was superior to a car system or vice versa.

The group interaction and trade off among alternatives which characterize any complex systems design effort came into full play during the first half of the second quarter. Route efficiency was balanced against guide-way construction requirements. Belt and car systems were compared as to their ability to satisfy routing requirements, reliability, capacity, and cost, and gradually the final system design emerged.

The route was selected on the basis of the number of people served per foot of guideway. Based upon this criterion a radial configuration was chosen, hence the acronym D A R T for Downtown Atlanta Radial Transit . The D A R T system consists of four "spokes" 1000 feet long, two of which emanate from one rapid transit station with one spoke from each of the other two stations. This route configuration was only possible using tunnels a t the level of the rapid transit lines but the high costs of tunneling were offset by the advantages over other alternatives. The transportation mode which was determined primarily on the basis of cost was a 15-passenger vehicle powered by a revolutionary device known as a linear electric motor. This motor has no moving parts other than the car itself. Although no such motor has ever been constructed, several


students worked on the design of the device with one student writing a fairly complex computer program to determine the physical properties of the motor (coil windings, etc.) necessary to provide the required operating characteristics.

In order to get an idea how the DART system would operate, we shall follow a typical rapid transit commuter on his daily ride to work. Before entering the downtown area the commuter knows which DART radial will take him closest to his job. He rides to the appropriate rapid transit station and transfers to the DART station located at the same underground level. There is no charge

The basic subsystem of the DART system is the actual vehicle used to transport the commuters in Atlanta.

for riding DART so the patron can enter the station directly without, having to deposit a token or buy a ticket. The patron will descend an escalator to a loading platform and board a moving belt which brings him alongside a vehicle moving at the same speed through the station. He boards the vehicle and after a two-and-a-half minute ride the patron emerges at street level 1000 feet away from his place of employment.

Based upon the assumption that rapid transit patronage will be dependent upon the convenience of the station locations in the downtown area in terms of walking distance to job locations, the class predicted an

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increase of 50,500 passenger trips per day with DART over the rapid transit patronage level without the additional service. This patronage increase, if it came about, would cause an increase in rapid transit revenues which would not only pay the operating costs associated with DART but would also pay off the capital cost over a nine-year period. In addition DART would reduce the mean walking distance from job to a transit station of DART or normal typ&irom 1050 feet to 600 feet for all people within the central business district.

The DART proposal described above was presented on May 25, 1967 to the Institute of Rapid Transit which was holding its annual meeting in Atlanta. Even more gratifying than the acceptance given the presentation by those in attendance were the over 100 requests for copies of the finished report. At this writing the initial printing of 200 copies has already been exhausted and a further printing is planned to meet the backlog of requests on hand.

The success of this initial course in complex systems design insured the continuity of this type of course at Georgia Tech. After this year the course will be sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the projects will be more aerospace oriented. The topic for the latest course is the design of an earth resources detection satellite. The Department of Transportation has also expressed interest in the type of work done by the DART group and it is possible that funding for further studies in the area of urban transportation might be available at some future date.

A question often asked by people who hear about this project is, "Do you think Atlanta will use your results?" In all honesty one would have to doubt that Atlantans will ever see the DART in operation, since the rapid transit authority is having substantial difficulties in raising the money they consider essential to their own needs. This doesn't diminish the usefulness of the work, however. When urban traffic levels reach even more intolerable levels than today's and a typically American crash program is initiated to support mass transportation, perhaps then some planner will draw inspiration from Tech's DART proposal as a means of distributing commuter traffic in urban centers.

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On the day of the JETS visit, Bill Schutz was the busiest and the happiest man on the Tech campus

THE JETS ARE ON THEIR WAY

A Tech Civil Engineering professor with the help of students and faculty gets a most important program off the ground in less than a year

DH. F. W. (BILL) SCHUTZ, JR. is a deadly serious engineering educator who established a reputation for developing the best professional counseling program for students on the Tech campus during the years he headed the School of Civil Engineering. Eighteen' months ago, weary of the paper jungle of administration, Bill Schutz handed in his resignation as a director to devote more of his time and energy to teaching and to his counseling program. By September of 1967, he was back in administrative work, at least on a half-time basis, as the first state coordinator

of the Junior Engineering Technical Society ( JETS) . It is a measure of the man's drive, talent, and dedication to his profession that the first year of the JETS program in this state has already been an unbelievably successful one.

The JETS program was created nationally in 1950 when a group of professional engineering societies and several of the nation's top corporations who employ large numbers of technical manpower banded together in an attempt to do something about the growing shortage of engineers in this country. The idea behind the

new organization was to search out and interest more and more bright high school students in the engineering and scientific fields.

According to Bill Schutz, JETS is a national high school club activity which is trying to do for the technical professions what the 4-H Clubs have done for agriculture. But as he points out, "There is one big difference between the two—JETS is supported totally by the engineering profession and by private industry."

JETS activities are designed to give students a preview of careers in a wide range of professional fields.


Dean Arthur Hansen's lecture on "Engineering as a Creative Profession was by all measures the most popular one with the students and their parents and friends

In the Electrical Engineering School, the students got an explanation of the design and operation of the first remote-control Ramblin' Reck, which was an entry in last year's parade.

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During the afternoon, the students and their parents visited departments where displays awed them or they discussed their future with faculty and students and administrators

The 400 plus students spent the entire morning taking the tests in the new Space Science and Technology Building at Hemphill and Uncle Heinie Way


Photographed for the Alumnus by Bill Childress, Jr.

JETS ARE 1ING—cont.

Students have an opportunity to apply classroom theories to actual technical projects or individual research with the assistance of a faculty member and advisors from the technical professions. The JETS experience and the acquaintance with professional men and women will enable a student to appraise his interests and abilities for pursuing a technical career—before he chooses a curriculum at a college or university.

Any educational institution where there is a group of students with an interest in engineering and science may participate by forming a JETS chapter. Existing science and other school clubs may affiliate with JETS and retain their original identity.

With Georgia almost a full two decades behind much of the country in this JETS program, Bill Schutz wasted no time in getting things going. He wrote and talked endlessly to high school counselors throughout the state in attempts to get JETS chapters established. But he soon found out that the high school counselor of today, at least in this area, was normally so bogged down in other duties that he could not give the time to get the program started properly. Schutz then switched to the high school science teachers as his prime target and the program began to move. He sold the Atlanta area schools (which have a sympathetic science coordinator in Mrs. Annie Sue Brown) on joining Tech in a special monthly program of lectures, demonstrations and tours on the campus. Tech's top teachers and researchers volunteered to help with this phase of the program and by late fall some 100 to 150 students were visiting Tech each month for these special seminars.

But still ahead for Bill Schutz was his biggest challenge—organizing the newest, and perhaps the most important, program undertaken by JETS— the National Engineering Aptitude Search. This program features a series of tests that may be taken by high school students in grades nine through twelve. Designed to supple

ment and not to replace existing local testing programs, the tests help students determine their aptitudes and qualifications for undertaking college-level engineering programs. They took three hours to complete, cost each student $2.50, and were offered on February 17 in nine Georgia cities—Albany, Atlanta, Augusta, Brunswick, Columbus, Gainesville, Macon, Rome, and Savannah.

Estimating correctly that the majority of the students interested in these tests would be taking them in Atlanta, Schutz set up the local testing center in Tech's new Space Science and Technology Center. He then organized an additional half-day program of lectures, demonstrations, consulting sessions, and campus tours to make the day appealing to the parents as well as to the students taking the tests. On the morning of JETS Day, over 400 students of the 700 plus taking the examinations in Georgia arrived on the Tech campus. That afternoon, they were joined by an equal number of parents and friends for the special program.

Schutz and his student and faculty aides presented lectures ranging from Dean Arthur Hansen's "Engineering, a Creative and Essential Profession," to Dr. Jim Strickland's "Problems Adjusting to Georgia Tech." Departments and schools offered special displays and demonstrations, and the tours featured such well-known campus facilities as the Frank H. Neely Nuclear Research Center and the Rich Electronic Computer Center. In the Skiles Classroom Building, Schutz set up a number of rooms where the visitors could talk with top Tech teachers, administrators, and students about career opportunities, academic programs, and other matters that interest today's high school students.

The program went well by practically every measure but Bill Schutz was not satisfied. He went from place to place checking on how things were going, making notes, and getting ready to do a better job for his profession and for Tech during the next year. As the day ended, one interested observer was heard to remark that it was a shame there weren't more Bill Schutzes in engineering education, today. "Lord knows, we need them if we are ever going to do anything about easing the engineering shortage that gets worse with each passing year."

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THIRD CULTURI ARE

Dr. C. Vann "Woodward once was an English teacher at Georgia Tech.

Yale historian Dr. C. Vann Woodward suggests, with tongue in cheek, that the social scientists would be an excellent choice as a third culture

• As MAN continues his attempts to make this a better world, his progress, however great or miniscule, will be set down in permanent form and placed in his archives. There is yet a lot of history to be written, but how will it be recorded? Have the traditional methods of keeping up with man's successes and failures fallen by the wayside in the wake of scientific innovation—epitomized by the computer?

One of the greatest customers of the computer outside the scientific community is the social scientist. Under Lord C. P. Snow's concept of two cultures and the effect the scientific revolution has on them, the social scientists and the historians are grouped with the other artistic and literary segments of society in the first culture. Within the second culture are the natural scientists. While on campus as a Franklin Foundation Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities, Dr. C. Vann Woodward, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, further divided that first culture setting the social scientists apart in a culture of their own—his third culture; which he admitted was not to be taken too seriously.

In suggesting this additional partitioning of the influential segments of our society, the eminent historian made it clear that he did not feel that there was a comparable barrier of incomprehension between history and social sciences as the one Lord Snow insisted existed between the humanities and science. In fact,

Woodward pointed out that there is a great deal of fear in several parts of the world, mainly in England, that history in America is being absorbed by the social sciences. Woodward, who taught English at Tech in the early thirties, emphasized that history was, "after all, an art and not a science."

He then pooh-poohed the views of the alarmists that history was losing its identity by absorption with a phrase from Mark Twain—who once complained that the press reports of his death were exaggerated. "Far from being revolutionized by new techniques, transformed beyond recognition, or swallowed up by the social sciences, much the greater part of history as written in the United States has remained obstinately, almost imperviously, traditional," he said. "Like their predecessors and masters, contemporary historians write narrative, largely non-analytical works. They set great store by working from manuscript sources, verifying the facts and marshalling the evidence. Their publications are praised or blamed in the professional journals according to the old-fashioned canons and values: thoroughness of research, objectivity of view, and clarity of logic, together with lucidity and grace of the writing."

Contemporary craftsmen, he noted, "are even more addicted than those of earlier generations to overspeciali-zation and narrowness of subject-matter. Like their predecessors they work with monumental patience

through mountains of material for unimpressive conclusions. They aspire, as they modestly say, to 'make a contribution.' The storms of philosophical discourse concerning their basic assumptions and principles go over their heads, and the innovations of scientific technique in sister disciplines go largely unheeded. The history profession," he added, "is in many ways a living fossil from the prescientific age."

A restless and innovative minority then turned to the social sciences in their disenchantment with tradition. They turned to sampling and statistics. Citing H. Stuart Hughes, Woodward said that "the study of history offers living proof of the complementary nature of art and of science," and asks his fellow historians to "take pride in the mediating character of their own discipline."

In their adjustment to the social sciences, Woodward continued, historians have in mind the long history of relations between their guild and other disciplines within their own humanistic culture. "They were for centuries at great pains to adjust to the preoccupations and strange ideas of theologians and metaphysicians, for example, without themselves becoming theologians or metaphysicians or wholly subscribing to their laws and methods. More recently they have survived the ordeal of exposure and invasion from the second culture, the natural sciences, who

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Tech's Dr. Arthur G. Hansen, in a much more serious vein, makes his case for

engineers and applied scientists as the rrmen in the middle of the cultures" Dr. Arthur G. Hansen is currently Dean

of Engineering at Georgia Tech.

• T H E LACK of understanding between the so-called humanists and scientists, two of the most influential segments of our present society, is a problem of long standing. And during the years of the tremendous explosion of scientific knowledge that has followed World War II , this communications gap has widened considerably. I t has now approached the point where statements like this are being made much too often by members of the non-scientific community.

"The problem with the world today is tha t the scientists have brought into being forms of technology that have hur t more than helped mankind. We are faced with atomic annihilation, pollution of our atmosphere, and a mechanized society that has lost sight of the individual. This would not have happened if the scientists had been properly exposed in nontechnical areas and if they had been educated to develop a sense of social responsibility. The scientist is not a whole person—his vision is warped and here he is exerting a tremendous influence on our lives."

In turn the scientists fire back their replies which usually take this tact:

" T h e scientists are not responsible for the evil applications of their discoveries. More often than not, persons in responsible positions in indust ry and government made the decisions to use scientific discoveries in ways that proved detrimental to human welfare. In fact, the problems tha t we face today are ap t to be the result of actions taken by those who

do not understand science and its traditional function. The lack of rigorous thinking, the application of the scientific method to problem solving by non-scientists, and the formulations of fuzzy theories by this same group have led to the so-called evils of technology of our age."

And there we have it, a stalemate. Perhaps the best-known and most significant discussion of this problem in recent years was made by the British scientist-author Lord C. P . Snow in his discourse, "Two Cultures." Lord Snow separated what h e considered the significant segments of modern society into two groups or cultures as he elected to call them.

The first culture was composed of the li terary intellectuals; the second of the scientific elite. I t is Lord Snow's belief that there is little understanding between these groups, an opinion shared by many of the top minds of our age. The problem as Lord Snow sees it is that l i terary intellectuals represent, vocalize, and to some extent, shape and predict the mood of the non-scientific culture. As he once stated, "They do not make decisions, but their opinions seep into the minds of those who do."

Lord Snow sees this lack of communication as serious for our creative, intellectual, and, above all, our moral life. In his words, " I t is leading us to interpret the past wrongly, to misjudge the present, and to deny our hopes for the future. I t is making it difficult for us to take good action."

I t is most important that Lord Snow and others of his s tature have pinpointed this serious problem of the lack of understanding between these cultural groups that have such an influence in the decisions that affect our daily lives. However, if we are going to do something about removing the communication barriers between these two groups, i t is also important that we define them and identify their membership.

In the process of doing this, I propose that there should be a third group or culture added to Lord Snow's two. The first remains humanistic, just as was his. I t includes writers, philosophers, artists, musicians, theologians, and the others normally listed in such company. This culture is distinguished by a concern for values. And the members of it are continually asking the fundamental questions about the meaning of life and the purposes of society.

T h e second culture in Lord Snow's discussions is that of the scientific elite and here is where I begin to make the change that will bring into focus a third culture. Instead of calling this second group scientists, I suggest that it be designated as "pure scientists." This culture is chara-terized by its continuous search for the t ruths of nature. I t s members a re not primarily interested in the applications of their findings—truth for truth 's sake is usually all tha t drives them in their work.

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WOODWARD—cont.

came upon historians with the overbearing prestige and arrogance of world conquerors. We still bear the scars of that encounter, and the compromises of r ecen t memory we seemed compelled to make with the laws of biology and physics are still a source of historiographic embarrassment."

With these traumatic experiences fresh in mind, he said, history is now confronted with the necessity of another accommodation, an adjustment to the third culture. "It has not overwhelmed us with the power and prestige of, say, 12th-century theology or 19th-century biology. But its cohorts are endowed with the vigor and confidence of youth and have friends in powerful places—the foundations" he explained. Thus, he said, it is not surprising that historians have grown a bit wary and seem on the defensive.

The more flexible historians, he said, urge a policy that combines accommodation with resistance. They propose in effect "that we learn the language and techniques of the aliens, that we consult with them amiably on problems of mutual concern, that we press upon them the doctrine of free trade in ideas, and that we benefit from such exchanges whenever we can. But they would draw the line at adopting the new religion or subscribing to the new mystique."

As a result, he said, it has had a civilizing effect upon some of the social scientists and they have shown a gratifying improvement in manners. However, "they still habitually approach history with the urge to teach rather than learn, as instructors rather than pupils, with answers rather than questions" and the younger ones, in unguarded moments will confess that "they are really trying to do much the same thing as historians in trying to free men from the burden of the past by helping them understand it."

In the meantime, warned -Woodward, the historians' policy of accommodation and watchful waiting is not infallible, and that the powerful eruption of the cult of quantification is placing that policy under dire stress. He says that quantification has become like an ideology which dominates the social sciences, and that compromises historians have worked out with the older establish^ ments are now in jeopardy.

Woodward said that he feared abstraction and unequivocal conclusions about equivocal and inscrutable problems. "I renounce the postulate that a man's purpose and conscious will may not be the cause of his action, and that man's actions are not as legitimate a subject for study as his 'behaviour.' I think there is a certain amount of anti-intellectual-ism as well as a delusive pretense of finality implicit in exclusively statistical statements. I deplore an obsession with gadgetry, and I regard the vulgar disdain for style as barbarous." Humanistic aversions, he said, however, will not make quantification go away. "It is here to stay and we must find more effective means of coping with it."

Smashing computers is not the answer.

America is well-known for her weakness for numbers, he explained. Illustrating this fascination he referred to a story in the New York Times about the unveiling of an abstract by Picasso in Chicago. "With unerring instinct for news essentials, the Times first reported that 12,000 square feet of blue percale were used to veil the 50-foot sculpture of 163 tons of steel on a plaza 345 by 220 feet—and only then turned to esthetic details and qualities." In America statistics command attention, if not something like reverence, he added. "All too often a lively discussion in my graduate seminar has been brought to a dead stop by anyone who waves a graph, a column of figures, or a stack of computer printout—though they may entirely beg the question."

Recorders of contemporary history, he said, are obliged to learn the language, as they are concerned with mass societies that march to the drum beat of numbers and counters. "They are preeminently numbers-minded, not only in their getting and spending, but in their fighting and voting." Thus, he continued, "the techniques of data manipulation developed by the social sciences for their purposes are often adaptable to those of history, and seminaries of eager proselytizers invite historians to 'retool' at summer sessions, expenses paid. As for the 'hardware,' each successive 'generation' of computers grows more fabulously ingenious and intricate, and professional programmers are ready to oblige. And as for the funds available, the mere mention of the word 'computer'

in an application elevates the historian to scientific citizenship, and makes him eligible for National Science Foundation grants, and quadruples his normal humanities-class stipend."

But, he said, quantification does not eliminate error and can be the means of entrenching it more deeply and securely. "It does not insure accuracy and it can go further than a felicitous literary style in making error plausible. No technique or machine has yet been devised to eliminate the need for intuition and imagination and no gadget invented to serve as a substitute for thought." The gathering, processing, and manipulating and machining of data can be used as effectively as the endless taking of notes and verifying of facts for postponing or escaping "hard intellectual work of interpreting and writing history."

Among the young historians, he said, he finds a mood of incipient panic, "a mounting fear of technological displacement." There is much history to be written, he said, and "the larger part of it will continue to be written without much reference to these innovations." Historians have a comfort to fall back on, he said, their tradition. In America, at least, "it was not the social scientists, but the historians of the latter part of the last century and the earlier years of this who were the pioneers and innovators of quantification."

"Happily," he said, "a comparable situation exists in reverse within the heritage of the third culture. All the social sciences find in their legitimate lineage 19th century masters and founding fathers whose work was deeply concerned with historical problems and informed by historical learning."

In view of the directions the two are moving, he said, "history toward the social sciences and the social sciences toward history, there would appear to be ample meeting ground and the promise of closer relations. I should hope that the social scientists will approach history with questions as well as with answers, with the desire to learn as well as to teach, as allies with common interests and not as imperialists seeking territorial aggrandizement. If they do, then the prospects of mutual commerce, cultural interchange, and peaceful coexistence with the third culture would seem propitious."


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HANSEN—cont.

Now for that added culture which I call the man in the middle. It is composed of technologists—the engineers and applied scientists. Its prime characteristic is that its members are application-oriented. It is the technologists who put science to work and influence our lives in so many ways. In spite of much of the news coverage, the pure scientists do not launch the rockets and satellites. This is the province of the engineers and applied scientists. Rather than ask for meaning or truth, this new culture asks if a discovery or development or activity is useful or contains possible benefit for mankind.

Over the next decade, the technologists will transform our society as it has never been changed before. The great problem of our urban environment, the pollution of our atmosphere, the feeding of starving nations, and countless others must be met head on by engineers and applied scientists.

But will these technological changes and others brought on by new scientific discoveries best serve the needs of the people they are meant to benefit? Insight on the answers to these questions must come from the members of the humanistic culture. This means that more than ever before, the technologists, the scientists, and the humanist must learn to communicate intelligently.

The best bet for breaking through this communication barrier which seems to be growing with every new development rests with our educational systems at all levels. Here we have a long way to go. Today, all engineering and applied science students are grounded solidly in the pure sciences and exposed to a number of courses in the humanities. On the other hand, while all high schools and colleges require courses in the humanities for every student, there are virtually no offerings in technology for the non-engineering students.

The hue and cry of recent years to humanize the technological curricula has been answered by a significant change in the education of engineers with the new emphasis on the liberal offerings. But how many writers or philosophers or theologians have ever taken a college-level, or even a high-school-level, course in the impact of technology on our society or in the

basic concepts and tools that form the language of the engineer and applied scientist?

Granted, some progress is finally being made in the physical and biological sciences. And the prime example of this progress is a five-year pilot project here in Atlanta. Now in its second year under the direction of Dr. O. P. Puri of Clark College, this experimental project, first of its kind and scope in this country, is a joint venture of Clark, Mojehouse, Morris Brown, and Spel-man Colleges, and it is supported by the U. S. Office of Education.

The new course approach dissects physical theories rather than frogs and de-emphasizes the how and why of mathematics and physical concepts while accentuating their effects on man and his environment. The students are, for the most part, liberal arts majors. And the idea behind the program is not only to provide information about the influence of science on society both past and present, but also to show that the achievements of science first alter the thinking of individuals, then become imbedded in their institutions, and finally take the role as a part of man's cultural life. The first year's results, according to Dr. Puri, have been impressive. And he freely admits that it is a good feeling to have some 1,000 students as proof of his original conviction that such a program was feasible.

But this is just a beginning. Science remains ahead in efforts to acquaint our people with its problems. Now, the time has come to begin a program to acquaint both the humanists and the pure scientists with the true responsibilities of the technologists. And we, who are engineers and who believe in the ever-growing importance of our profession, must take the lead in insisting that this be done at every level of education, just as the humanists successfully insisted that we be thoroughly exposed to the liberal subjects.

Without an all-out effort on the part of all three of the cultures to understand the language, thinking and activity of the others, the world of tomorrow may turn into a marvel of engineering populated by an unhappy people. And more tragically, the great wonders of technology could be warped to selfish and non-human ends because our leadership does not comprehend their true potential.

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Welsh poet Dylan Thomas would have been proud of Ihe way Tech's ( ) ld Shop Building resisted its scheduled demol i t ion in February. The second of the Iwo buildings thai made up the Tech physical plant when the doors first swung open to students in 1888 had been through a leveling before1 when it was hit by fire on Apri l 12,1892. But by the fo l lowing December, it was back in business, sans its distinctive tower (there was not enough money to rebuild all three floors fo l lowing the fire).

Since that t ime, the bui lding has served as a home for a w ide variety of departments and schools including mechanical engineering, mathematics, English, social sciences, biology, public health engineering—in fact, practically every campus department has at one time or another spent t ime in the O ld Shop. And men of the likes of D. M. Smith and Uncle l le in ie and H. A. Wycoff have located their offices and taught in the structure.

By the time the decision to do away wi th the bui lding had been made, students by the thousands had left their marks on its stairs and its desk chairs and its floors and its blackboards as they moved through the bui lding on the way to a degree or something less.

Now the Old Shop is gone and in its place wi l l be a park designed to break the monotony of the crowded cluster of buildings ^nd automobiles on the hill that makes up the old campus area. But before it was done in, the old structure did its share to postpone its demise by taking Thomas' advice to "Rage, rage against the dying of the l ight." The tough old timbers resisted the 2,700 pound "headache ba l l " and at one t ime actually forced it into a few surprising bounces before they gave in. And the double brick walls often refused to fall in the direct ion the demol i t ion crew ordered them to. And once when the steel cable was placed around the small companion structure at the back of the bui lding and the big bulldozer began its straining to bring that section down, the bot tom half of the sec l ion came out and the top half, practically intact, fell straight down to take its place.

But, as in any life, the inevitable came to pass as the pictures on this and the fo l lowing pages so graphically testify.

PHOTOGRAPHED FOR THE ALUMNUS BY BILL CHILDRESS, JR.

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Just prior to the beginning of the destruction of the building, photographer Childress took a last look at a classroom with its desk-chairs etched by hundreds of Tech students over the many years.

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COACH BILLY WILLIAMSON COACH LAMAR LEACHMAN

COACH BILL CRUTCHFIELD ACADEMIC COACH SLAYTON RECRUITER JACK THOMPSON

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T H E ONLY THING that outrivals the percentage of new faces on the Tech coaching staff this year is the number of untested players that will have to open the season as starters come fall. A mere six of the top 22 players from last year's offensive and defensive units will return for 1968, while an equal number (including Coach Carson) of the 14 coaches and recruiters listed in the 1967 football brochure will greet the squad at the opening spring practice session on April 15. The coaches who have departed the premises for a wide variety of reasons have now been replaced. The problem now becomes how to go about replacing 16 starters and manage a better season than the unfortunate one the Jackets completed last November.

The first of the staff to leave was Dynamite Goodloe, the assistant recruiter who returned to his Valdosta home base to enter business before the 1967 season ever got started. He was followed by Richard Bell, who earned a promotion when Jim Carlen offered him the job as head of the defense at West Virginia in December. Bell, who coached defensive ends, offensive linemen, and defensive linebackers during his three years at Tech, replaced ex-Tech coach, Dick Inman, who decided in favor of private business after a most successful defensive year for the Mountaineers.

Less than a month later, Lewis

Woodruff, offensive backfield coach since 1961, suddenly handed his resignation to Athletic Director Bobby Dodd while Carson was busy at the NCAA convention in New York. Woodruff, longest-tenured assistant on the Tech staff with 20 years as an assistant, gave as his reason, "a business opportunity I couldn't turn down and I had to make up my mind in a hurry." Meanwhile, Jesse Berry was handed his release as a "Scout Team" coach and wound up at South Carolina. A few days later, Spec Landrum, chief recruiter for 11 years at Tech, tendered his resignation. Spec, however, did not leave the campus. He was named coordinator of special events for the Institute and will work with Joe Guthridge's staff on the Hill keeping the multitude of special days and weeks going and working on a new Tech project— a summer employment program for students.

George Barclay, who came to help Carson out on a six-months basis last year, returned to his business in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and the staff turnover seemed to be at an end. Then Bobby Franklin, just promoted to the open slot left by the Berry departure, was suddenly offered almost twice his Tech salary to go back to the pros as defensive back-field coach of the Dallas Cowboys, and Dub Fesperman took the head defensive coaching job at the University of Massachusetts.


As all the resignations were coming in, Carson was busy lining up replacements and shifting the remaining members of his depleted staff around to other assignments.

First new man hired was Bill Crutchfield, the offensive backfield genius who was responsible for the development of a great number of quarterbacks — including Norm Snead of Wake Forest, George Mira of Miami, and Steve Tensi of Florida State—during his career. Crutchfield —a North Carolina graduate and a former assistant at Presbyterian, Furman, Wake Forest, Miami, and Florida State and once head coach at Atlantic Christian and Presbyterian—was approached about a staff opening last year but took another offer from the Atlanta Falcons. This time when the opening came, Crutchfield grabbed it. He will head up the offense with Dick Bestwick, last year's offensive chief, moving over to head the defense. Bestwick, who did wonders with the offensive line last season, inherits the toughest job on the staff for 1968. He will have to work with the greenest defensive unit to open a season at Tech in the longest memory of several observers. But if anybody can do anything about this situation, Bestwick has to be the man.

Carson then went after a defensive backfield coach to replace Bob Thai-man who was moved up front as coach of the defensive line. He decided on Billy Williamson, the great Tech back of the 1959-61 teams, who had just come off a tremendous year as coach of the defensive backs at Colorado, the 1967 Bluebonnet Bowl winners over Miami. Williamson accepted the challenge to return home, and you can look for great improvement in this area of play in 1968 if his success at Colorado is any indication of his coaching talent. To head the offensive line, Carson hired a tough ex-Tennessee star, Lamar Leachman, who had been coaching in the same area at Richmond for two years. A former high school coach at Jenkins High School in Savannah, Leachman is noted for his talent of getting more out of an offensive line than they have in them. His reputation will not go unchallenged this year, either.

Rounding out the offensive staff will be Jack Griffin, who will again coach the ends and flankers, a position that is perhaps the best stocked of them all this season. Griffin turned

down the head coaching job at Tampa University to remain at Tech for his fourteenth season. Bill Ful-cher, who will again coach the freshmen, also rejected the Tampa job and several others to remain and work with what is shaping up to be one of the great freshman squads in recent Tech history. Still open at this writing are a replacement for Bobby Franklin on the "Scout team" staff with Jim Luck and an assistant recruiter to Jack Thompson, the eminently successful swimming coach and recruiter from South Carolina, who arrived in January to take over the chief recruiting job at Tech.

The staff is just one area that will undergo considerable change before the TCU game opens the season on September 21. Carson has decided to dump his famed "Wrecker" defense that was so successful in 1966 but which had its share of problems last year when injuries struck at the key positions. Tech will probably come out in a defense this year somewhat like the Notre Dame one, an 8-3 which becomes a six- or four-man front with a four-deep system of coverage. The Wrecker will still be around but this year he is more likely to be a roving linebacker than a moving backfield type. The offense will be more wide open with Crutchfield in charge. The multiple pro-type approach of the Florida State teams in the years that the erudite Crutchfield worked there will more likely than not be the model, with variations, of course. As a rule of thumb, Tech will probably throw one-third of the time in the coming year, an increase over previous seasonal averages.

Carson and his staff are also studying new uniform designs, and the Jackets will have a different look on the field than in previous years if present plans are carried out. On top of this change, Carson has hired George Slayton, a young mathematics teacher at Tech, as full-time academic coach, a position that is becoming very common around the country. Slayton is the man who brought wrestling back to the campus with a determined campaign a few years back. With the schoolwork getting tougher and tougher, this appointment was long overdue at the Athletic Association.

There is not much point in discussing personnel prior to spring practice except to point out the obvious. Tech will be loaded at flanker

and split end with All-America candidate John Sias, Tim Woodall, Percy

> Helmer, Tommy Chapman, Larry Williams, and top freshman Lindsay Walker available. In fact, the position is so rich that Carson has already moved last year's starting split end, Joel Stevenson, to tight end, where he should have another great season. Larry Good is the obvious choice at quarterback and, if his arm and leg troubles are over, should have a good year. Fighting for the back-up spots-will be Ken Bonifay, Jim Person (both injured last year), and freshman Jack Williams, Mike Wy-song, and Steve Norris. John Weaver and Bain Culton return to continue their battle at fullback. With Gene Spiotta (the best of the runners), Ken Bounds, and Johnny Tullos recovering from either injury or surgery or both, the tailback fight in the spring will probably be between Dennis James, the hero of the Georgia game, freshman Steve Harkey, and others.

The offensive tackles will be headed by Terry Storey, a sometimes starter in the past, who is expected to mature this year into a strong one, and Galin Mumford, a giant of a man cursed by injuries for two seasons, who has been moved from center. A number of freshmen plus returnee Harold Clifford will also figure in this one. Top guard Joe Vitunic is back for a second year at one guard spot, and the other will go to one of a large group including Tim Eubanks, Larry Davidson, some freshmen, and perhaps one of the two top centers returning, Billy Kidd or John Collins.

Generally, this is a year that you expect the offense to be ahead of the defense if only because it has more experienced personnel. The folks left on defense are good ones. There just are not enough of them, and several members of last year's fine freshman squad are expected to end up as starters. Back from the 1967 team are senior linebacker Eric Wilcox, defensive backs Bill Kinard, Joe Bill Faith, and Doug Dale and former linebacker (now an end) Mike Bradley. Each of this group logged some starting time but only Kinard and Wilcox were regular starters from the beginning to the end of the season. Top freshmen are linebackers John Riggle and Bill Flowers, both former high school running stars, defensive end Steve Foster, and defensive tackle (or line-

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NEW FACES—cont.

backer) Steve Kramer. Others who showed well as freshmen on defense include backs Stan Beavers, Lloyd Snow, Bob Hornbuckle, and Bill Kelly. Returning substitutes Greg Wilkes, (a defensive back), Danny Adams (a defensive end), and Steve DeBardelaben will figure in the Best-

wick plans. But outside of Wilcox, Kinard, Bradley, and Faith, nobody has locks on a position at this writing. Experienced tackles are non-existent although Jim Taylor began to come very strong at the end of last season.

Practically the same schedule, with Navy replacing Vanderbilt, returns to haunt Carson. And he will need all the luck he didn't have last season

and some superior coaching to better a 5-5 season this fall. This is the year he falls heir to those three poor recruiting years of 1964, 1965, and 1966. If he can get through this one with a 5-5, things will begin to look up. After the T-Night game of May 17, the muddled picture should at least clear enough to identify those best 44 players Carson wants to put together for his squad.

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NEWS FROM THE CAMPUS

Spring sports schedule begins BASEBALL

**Mar. 18 East Tennessee State Atlanta

**Mar. 19 East Tennessee State Atlanta

**Mar. 20 Alma College . . Atlanta **Mar. 21 Alma College . . Atlanta **Mar. 22 Earlham College . Atlanta *Mar. 23 Earlham College . Atlanta

**Mar. 23 DePauw University, Atlanta Mar. 25 Milligan College . Atlanta Mar. 26 Milligan College . Atlanta Mar. 29 Hillsdale College . Atlanta

**Mar. 30 Hillsdale College . Atlanta #Apr. 1 William Jewell

College Atlanta Apr. 3 Tennessee . . . . Atlanta Apr. 4 Tennessee . . . . Atlanta

**Apr. 6 Chattanooga . . . Atlanta Apr. 11 Anderson College . Atlanta Apr. 12 Anderson College . Atlanta

**Apr. 13 Indiana Central College Atlanta

Apr. 15 Clemson . . . ." Clemson Apr. 16 Erskine College . . Atlanta Apr. 19 North Carolina . . Atlanta

**Apr. 20 North Carolina . . Atlanta Apr. 23 Georgia Atlanta Apr. 24 Berry College . . . Rome Apr. 26 Jacksonville (Fla.)

University . . . . Atlanta **Apr. 27 Jacksonville (Fla.)

University . . . . Atlanta May 1 Furman . . . . Greenville May 2 Georgia Atlanta

**May 4 Clemson . . . . Atlanta May 7 Mercer Macon May 8 Georgia Athens May 9 Furman Atlanta May 13 Georgia Atlanta May 14 Berry College . . Atlanta May 16 Mercer Atlanta May 17 Tennessee . . . Knoxville May 18 Tennessee . . . Knoxville

*Game to start at 10:00 a.m. **Game to start at 2:00 p.m. #Double Header

with first game to start at 2:00 p.m. All other home games will start at 3:00 on Rose Bowl Field. Coach: Jim Luck (Georgia Tech 1948)

GOLF

Mar. 18 Florida State . Tallahassee Mar. 19 Florida . . . Gainesville Mar. 21 -

23 Cape Coral Invitational . . Cape Coral

Apr. 1 Tennessee . . . Knoxville Apr. 3 Purdue Atlanta Apr. 5 Georgia State . . Atlanta Apr. 9 East Tennessee

State Atlanta *Apr. 15 Georgia Athens *Apr. 15 Auburn Athens *Apr. 15 South Carolina . . Athens #Apr. 22 Auburn Auburn #Apr. 22 Alabama . . . . Auburn tApr. 26 Vanderbilt . . . . Atlanta tApr. 26 Georgia Atlanta *Apr. 30 Tennessee . . . . Atlanta *Apr. 30 Georgia State . . Atlanta *Apr. 30 Wofford Atlanta

May 6 East Tennessee State . . . Johnson City

May 7 Wofford Tyron

* or # Four-way match. tThree-way match. Home matches will be played at the Standard Club in Atlanta and start at 1:00 p.m. Coach: Tommy Plaxico (Georgia Tech 1946).

TENNIS

Mar. 18 St. Petersburg Ten. Club . . St. Petersburg

Mar. 19 Tampa Univ Tampa Mar. 21 Army Miami Mar. 22 Miami Miami Mar. 29 Florida Atlanta Apr. 2 Clemson Atlanta Apr. 5 Sewanee . . . . Sewanee Apr. 6 Vanderbilt . . . . Nashville

Georgia Tech Journal w THE SECOND COVER

There is a certain gamemanship within the so-called minor sports that is too often missing In the major ones. The swimming teams give their "cheer for the other team" at the end of each meet, the track men walk off the field after a tough afternoon discussing their craft, and the tennis players stand at the net congratulating each other on the match as this picture by Deloye Burrell indicates. The photograph serves to introduce this year's extensive spring sports schedules on this page.

Apr. 8 Apr. 10 Apr. 11 Apr. 15 Apr. 16 Apr. 17 Apr. 19

Apr. 20 Apr. 23 Apr. 24 Apr. 26-

30 May 1

Tennessee . . . . Atlanta Georgia Atlanta Columbus College . Atlanta Murray State . . . Atlanta Georgia Athens Presbyterian . Louisiana State . . . . Tulane . . . . Oglethorpe . . South Carolina Georgia Collegiates . Florida State

. Atlanta

Baton Rouge New Orleans . . Atlanta . . Atlanta

. . Athens . . Atlanta

Home matches will be played on Georgia Tech's Laykold Surface Courts in Peters Park (on campus). They will start 2:00 p.m. weekdays and 1:30 p.m. Saturdays. Coach: Jack Rodgers (Rice 1942)

TRACK

Mar. 23 Piedmont Relays . . . . Greenville

Mar. 30 Florida Relays . Gainesville Apr. 6 Carolina Relays . Columbia Apr. 13 Memphis State . . Atlanta

*Apr. 17 South Carolina . . Atlanta Apr. 19 Boston Marathon . Boston Apr. 20 Dogwood Relays . Knoxville Apr. 27 East Tennessee . . Atlanta May 4 Auburn Auburn May 11 Georgia Athens May 25 Southeastern

USTFF Atlanta June 8 All-America

Invitational . . . Knoxville

*Meet starts at 3:00 p.m. All other home meets will start at 1:00 p.m. at Grant Field. Coach: Buddy Fowlkes (Georgia Tech 1952).

Tech gets $350,424 in grants DESPITE the draft threat hanging over graduate students, Georgia Tech has recently received a $262,865 grant from the National Science Foundation to provide support for 53 graduate traineeships.

The grant, which will be administered by Tech's Acting Dean of the Graduate Division, Dr. Karl M. Murphy, will support 48 graduate trainees beginning in the fall of 1968 and an additional five summer trainee-ships for graduate teaching assistance for the summer of 1968.

Tech has also received a $52,101 grant from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the specialized area of radiological health. The grant will help, provide instruction to prepare students in the evaluation and establishment of proper working conditions where radiation is prevalent. This would include conditions where x-ray machines, nuclear reactors, and other industrial equipment involving radiation is used. The grant will be under the direction of


F. E. Chambers, Jr., of Tech's School of Nuclear Engineering.

Also, Dr. Willis Moody from Tech's School of Ceramic Engineering has received a renewal grant of $35,458 from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to continue his work on dental enamel. Moody is trying to develop restorative material which can be used effectively in tooth repair.

Students to tour Russia T H E Iron Curtain will lift this summer for 13 Georgia Tech students with a tour of Russia and Eastern Europe sponsored by the Tech YMCA Student Exchange Program.

Tech is one of the few institutions in the country which has its own cultural exchange program with the USSR. This is the third year this program has been offered to Tech students.

The tour, starting in mid-June on through August, will probably include visits to East and West Germany, Poland, Rumania, Hungary, and Austria, plus several cities in Russia.

Pat Connell of Tech's School of Architecture will accompany the group.

Those included on the trip are: Mark Anthony Smith, III, a junior in Civil Engineering from Dunwoody, Ga.; Henderson Crawford Ward, Jr., a junior in Chemical Engineering from Atlanta; John Kenneth Smith, a senior in Civil Engineering from Atlanta; Thomas W. McLeod, Jr., a freshman in Industrial Management from Albany, Ga.: Alfred Edward Lyle, a junior in Mathematics from Macon, Ga.

Also Richard M. Crouch, a senior in Electrical Engineering from Nashville, Tenn.; John Roy Wright, a senior in Civil Engineering from Nashville, Tenn.; Gerald B. Thompson, a junior in Mechanical Engineering from Ashland, Ky.; Joseph Eugene Juban, a sophomore in Industrial Management from Baton Rouge, La.; James Martin Hertenstein, a sophomore in Electrical Engineering from Beloit, Wis.; Frederick Howell von Cerrmann, a senior in Electrical Engineering from Birmingham, Ala.; Thomas Clyde Davis, a sophomore in Aerospace Engineering from Oklahoma City, Okla.; and Paul Taylor Conte, a sophomore in Industrial Engineering from Richmond, Va.

Leading chemist at Tech ONE of the world's outstanding inorganic chemists, Dr. F. Albert Cotton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, taught at Georgia Tech this past quarter as a Seydel-Woodley Visiting Professor in the School of Chemistry.

Born in 1930, he was voted one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of Greater Boston in 1964 by the Boston

Junior Chamber of Commerce. He received his A.B. from Temple University in 1951 and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1955.

He began teaching at M.I.T. in 1955 as an instructor in Chemistry. In 1957, he was promoted to assistant professor, in 1960 to associate, and in 1961, to full professor. He has about 180 research papers to his credit and is author of the textbook "Chemical Applications of Group Theory" (1963). He co-authored the textbook "Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, A Comprehensive Course" (first edition, 1962, second edition in 1966), with G. Wilkinson and is editor of "Progress in Inorganic Chemistry" Volumes 1-10.

A member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Chemical Society, the Chemical Society (London), the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Crystallo-graphic Association, he has lectured at Yale University, Notre Dame, the Australian Institute of Chemistry, and the University of New South Wales.

He has been a visiting professor at the National University of Buenos Aires, Washington University, St. Louis, and Fordham University. In addition, he has lectured before such organizations as the International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, St. Moritz, and the City College Chemistry Alumni Associaiton (which gave him the Gold Medal for Scientific Achievement in 1966).

Science Congress held on campus T H E 1968 Atlanta Science Congress sponsored by the Atlanta Board of Education and the Citizens Committee for Science Education was held on the Georgia Tech campus March 8 and 9.

Students from the Atlanta Public School System grades eight through twelve brought their science projects for display and each student made seven-minute presentation concerning his project.

The sessions ran concurrently by grade levels and subject matter (whether math, biology, physics, etc.). The judges selected gold, silver, and bronze key winners, with no limit to the number of key winners.

On Saturday morning, the gold key winners from Friday's judging competed for top honors. This was the only real competition for national recognition and was open only to the gold key winners of the 10th, 11th and 12th grades.

Tech debaters win trophy T H E Georgia Tech Debate Team brought home a top trophy winning the Moses Hodas Invitational Tourna

ment sponsored by Columbia University in New York.

On February 16 and 17, Jim Koele-rnay, a sophomore in physics from Shreveport, La., and Art Nolan, a freshman in mechanical engineering from Houston, Tex., composed one of 50 teams participating in the annual tournament representing some 43 schools.

Debating subject for the tournament was: "Resolved that the Federal government should guarantee a minimum annual cash income to all citizens." In the semi-final rounds, Tech debated the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in the finals, was pitted against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York). Each team argues both positions during a tournament. In the final rounds, Tech took the negative position.

According to Koelemay, other teams began researching for the event as far back as August. The two-man Tech team, coached by William R. Spruill, assistant professor of English at Tech, began research in January. It was the second tournament for the team.

The trophy is on display in Tech's English Department. This was the first time Tech has won a major trophy for debate in eight years.

Tech receives space grants THREE recent grants totaling $69,779 are being used at Georgia Tech on various space-related research projects.

The U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research awarded Dr. W. H. Horton of Tech's School of Aerospace Engineering $14,829 to study the buckling phenomena of structures. Missiles and other cylindrical forms have been known to fold under stress, and Horton is trying to determine the characteristics of this phenomena.

Dr. A. Ben Huang, also of Aerospace Engineering, has received a $34,836 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for "Study of Non-Linear Rarefied Gas Flows by the Discrete Ordinate Method." Huang is conducting research on satellite flow and re-entry gases.

Dr. A. P. Sheppard and R. G. Shackleford of the Engineering Experiment Station have received a $20,114 NASA grant for research on "Techniques for Reducing Mixer Conversion Loss in Millimeter Wave Receivers for Communications and Radio-metry."

Their goal is to improve the performance of receivers using shorter wave lengths by increasing the conversion efficiency of millimeter receiver diodes. These shorter wave length receivers will be necessary for satellite exploration of the atmospheres of other planets. Future telemetry sys-

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terns may also need shorter wave lengths to handle the increasing number of users of the air waves.

Behavioral science expert at Tech DR. Neal E. Miller of Rockefeller University, New York, and recipient of the National Medal of Science for 1964, lectured February 29 on the Georgia Tech campus.

Dr. Miller's address on "Behavior Motivated by Chemical Stimulation of the Brain" was jointly sponsored by local chapters of Sigma Xi (a society devoted to the promotion of scientific research) at Georgia Tech, Emory University and the National Committee Disease Center.

Currently, Dr. Miller is using behavioral, psychological and biochemical techniques to analyze motivation and learning, and is conducting research into such areas as hunger, thirst and fear, the behavioral effects of direct chemical stimulation of the brain and the physical basis of memory.

Appointed in 1966 as a Professor in the new Behavioral Sciences program of Rockefeller University, Dr. Miller received his B.S. degree from the University of Washington in 1931, his M.A. from Stanford University in 1932 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1935.

President Johnson awarded him the National Medal of Science for 1964 "for sustained and imaginative research on principles of learning and motivation and illuminating behavioral analysis of the effects of direct electrical stimulation of the brain."

Just this year, he received the Kenneth Craik research award from St. John's College of Cambridge University. In 1959, the American Psychological Association awarded him the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award and in 1961, elected him as its president.

Other awards include an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Michigan in 1965 and, in 1966, he received the Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus award from the University of Washington.

He holds numerous professional memberships, including the National Academy of sciences and is currently chairman of the Section of Psychology. He has served on many government panels, including the Life Sciences panel of the President's Science Advisory Committee.

Economist lectures here WARREN L. Smith, Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan, i Ann Arbor, came to Georgia Tech as \

the first Mills B. Lane Lecturer in Finance and Banking Management February 27 and 28.

Dr. Smith conducted a seminar on "Monetary Policy in a Changing Financial Environment" February 27 for Tech students and faculty, representatives of the Atlanta banking and business community, and faculty and students from surrounding schools.

On the following day, he lectured to a class in the School of Industrial Management on "Financial Intermediaries: A Reassessment."

A University of Michigan graduate through his doctorate, Smith has been Chairman of the Department of Economics at Michigan and also has taught economics at Ohio State University. In addition, he has been a visiting lecturer at Harvard University.

The author of numerous articles and papers, Smith has served as a consultant to various governmental agencies ranging from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress, the Commission on Money and Credit to the United States Treasury Department and the Council of Economic Advisers.

His professional memberships include the American Economic Association, Econometric Society, and American Finance Association.

Seniors awarded fellowships Two Georgia Tech seniors in mathematics have been awarded Woodrow

Wilson National Fellowships to finance their first year of graduate study.

Walter G. Kelley of Shreveport, La., and Jack H. Tedards, Jr., of Greenville, S.C., were among 1,124 college seniors from the United States and Canada to receive the fellowships.

The grants were made through the Ford Foundation to those students who seem to have the best potential for college teaching.

Two art exhibits on campus Two art collections, one industrial and another a corporate collection, opened to the public February 19 on the Georgia Tech campus.

A 26-painting industrial collection entitled "An Artist Looks at Industry" was placed in the lobby of the Chemical Engineering-Ceramic Engineering Building in honor of National Engineering Week, February 19-23.

The $75,000 exhibit was commissioned by the Babcock and Wilcox Co. to depict industrial scenes and processes of heavy industry today.

The Mead Corporation's 44-piece collection was shown for the first time in its entirety in the Exhibition Hall of the School of Architecture February 19 through March 11.

The exhibit, entitled "The Mead Corporation Collects," includes pop, op, abstract and representational work by 40 artists from 16 states—including seven Georgia artists.

Both collections made their first appearance on the Tech campus.

NEWS FROM THE CLUBS

ALBANY, GEORGIA—Coach Bud Carson, and assistants, Jack Griffin and Spec Landrum, were the guest speakers at the December 4 meeting of the Albany Georgia Tech Club. The three discussed the problems that hit the Jackets last year and what to expect for the 1968 season. The club, over 100 strong, also celebrated the winning of the National Advisory Board trophy as the outstanding alumni club for the 1966-67 year.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—The Greater Chicago Georgia Tech Club held a dinner meeting on February 8 with President Marvin Mitchell presiding. Guest speaker Dr. Sherman Dallas, director of the School of Industrial Management, talked about Tech and the Industrial Management educational and

research program. Officers elected during the business session included Chester C. Courtney, president; Marvin Whitlock, vice president; Stanley N. Holditch, vice president; W. Al Walters, secretary; and Robert E. Leckrone, treasurer.

FORT WORTH, TEXAS — The North Texas Georgia Tech Club met in Fort Worth on October 27 with 48 present including Marsha Cooper, a Tech coed graduate and three Tech cooperative students. A special film on the F - l l l fighter aircraft, a review of the Club Officers' Weekend, and the "Highlights of 1966," were the main attractions of the program.

HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA—President Edwin D. Harrison was the guest speaker


at the February 12 meeting of the Huntsville Georgia Tech Club. Dr. Harrison told the 150 Tech alumni and their guests about the progress in engineering education and urged them all to work through their local JETS chapters to attempt to do something about the current and future shortage of engineering students. He also defended engineering education and said that it was about time that the liberal educators began to do something about insisting that the high schools and colleges offer some basic technological courses to the non-technical majors.

KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE—Dean Emeritus George C. Griffin was the guest speaker at the January 27 meeting of the Knoxville Georgia Tech Club. The dean, introduced by Ralph Smith, spoke about engineering education and how it had changed. He told the 60 alumni and guests present that Tech was still looking for the all-around, creative student and that the high schools in the area had upgraded their programs to meet the demands of colleges such as Tech which had toughened their requirements. Belfield Carter, assistant alumni secretary, also spoke at the meeting and reported on the Annual Roll Call and the use of the funds derived from alumni solicitations.

MACON, GEORGIA—The Macon Georgia Tech Club held its winter meeting on February 21 with Neil DeRosa, director of placement at Tech, as the guest speaker. DeRosa told the 39 alumni present of the results of recent placement seasons at Tech and of the exceptional national demand for Tech graduates by industry and other prospective employers who come to the campus year looking for new manpower.

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA—Bill Po-teet, associate secretary of the Alumni Association, spoke to the Pittsburgh Georgia Tech Club on November 17 at the annual fall meeting. Poteet briefed the 50 alumni and guests present on the Alumni Association's activities and presented the "Highlights of 1966" movie. The Club was also informed about its award for being above the national average in roll call contributions during the 1966-67 year. During a business meeting, the club scholarship program was discussed.

ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA—The Florida West Coast Chapter of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association met here on February 15 to hear football assistant, Jack Griffin, and chief athletic . recruiter, Jack Thompson, review the recruiting season to date and the personnel and prospects for 1968.

NEWS OF THE ALUMNI

' r ^ f - j James T. Anthony, TE, died 1 I £_ January 26. Mr. Anthony was

past president of sales with General Refractories Company. His widow resides at 1207 Drayton Arms Apartments, Savannah, Georgia.

' r i Q R. H. "Pud" Lowndes, ME, U v J died in Atlanta on December

11, 1967. Mr. Lowndes was a professor at Georgia Tech for many years and will be warmly remembered by older alumni.

Lowndes was credited by Tech historian Bob Wallace (see "Editor's Notes," page 3 of this issue) as being Tech's first Alumni Secretary. Wallace in his research uncovered the original petition for charter for an Alumni Association at Tech, dated June 28, 1906. He also found the first annual report on the Association's activities written by Lowndes and several sets of minutes that were signed by Lowndes as secretary. Prior to this find, the Association's founding year was generally indicated as 1920.

' f^ p~ Joseph A. Schlesinger, Sr., U CJ retired Atlanta businessman

and Miami civic leader, died January 15. Mr. Schlesinger was, until his retirement, president of Joseph A. Schlesinger, Inc., Atlanta manufacturer of confectionary products. His survivors include his wife, a son, a daughter and two sisters.

» r - i O Edward E. G. Roberts, EE, U D died January 28 in Anniston,

Alabama.

' I D Milton W. Howard, Jr., TE, | U died February 11. He was a

retired engineer with Robert and Company. His widow resides at 710 Virginia Avenue, N.E., Atlanta.

' / I / I J. Albin Johnson died February 18. His widow resides at

6940—108th Street, Forest Hills, New York, 11375.

' / i n Richard Manley Harris, EE, | C. retired vice president of the

Georgia Marble Company, died February 15. He was a member of the Nine O'Clock Club, the Piedmont Driving Club and had been affiliated with Capital Automobile Company.

William K. Jenkins, founder and president of Georgia Theatre Company, died January 21. He was an honorary director of the First Na

tional Bank, founder of the Georgia Civil Air Patrol and a former member of the State Board of Aeronautics. Mr. Jenkins was also^ well-known as a philanthropist.

»yi rHP - Alfred MacDonald died Janu-I D ary 30. Mr. MacDonald was

a retired building contractor and construction examiner with the Federal Housing Administration. His widow resides at 2305 Sutton Street, S.E., Atlanta.

A. J. Roundtree died January 18 at his home in Lake City, Florida. Mr. Roundtree had been the Ford dealer in Lake City for more than 40 years.

' / I - 7 M. Lester Schwartzman died | / January 17 at his home, 2955

South Pharr Manor, N.W., Atlanta. Mr. Schwartzman was a box broker with Mead Packaging Corporation.

' f"} A Clifford Walden Hodgson, re-^ I tired staff vice president of

the Coca-Cola Company and chairman of the executive committee of the Minute Maid Company, died February 13. His widow resides at 3838 Peachtree-Dunwoody Road, N.E., Atlanta.

' O O W. J. McMaster died Janu-CL C, ary 22. Mr. McMaster was

retired from Humble Oil Refining Company as a pipeline engineer.

' f \ O Dr. B. J. Eiseman, Jr., ChE, ^ _ v j has been promoted from tech

nical associate to research associate in recognition of his research work in the field of "Freon" fluorinated hydrocarbon compounds and their applications as refrigerants.

' f^ / \ Edward C. Hammond, Com., ^L^T formerly with Georgia Power

Company, is now secretary of Financial Service Corporation, 161 Peachtree, Suite 201, Atlanta, 30303.

J f~\ p r We recently learned of the C. O death of Edwin S. Thompson.

» (-} o We recently learned that C.\3 Frank E. Veltre, EE, died

January 6. His widow resides at 330 West Arcade Avenue, Clewiston, Florida.

I f—\ ~J We recently received notice ^ / of the death of Hyman H.

Field, Charlotte, North Carolina.

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A L I Robert W. Lawson, '33, has been named a vice president of the Chicopee Manufacturing Co., the Textile affiliate of Johnson & Johnson. He joined the Gainesville, Ga., plant in 1928 as a co-op student from Tech. He became a full-time employee in 1933.

Charles Weekley, '34, has been appointed regional director of the Southeast region of The Singer Co. He has been general agent for the Philadelphia Agency since 1965 and with the company since 1934. He started as a mail clerk in the Atlanta Agency.

Daniel B. Stevenson, Jr., '35, is president of Stevenson, Flanagan, Schilling Consulting Engineers, Des Moines, Iowa. The firm specializes in mechanical and electrical consultations for building projects.

Robert S. Holmes, '38, general manager of highway construction marketing for United States Steel, has been re-elected president of the American Road Builders' Association for 1968. In his position at U.S. Steel, he heads programs aimed at the multi-billion dollar construction industry. Morris V. Gelders, '40, member of the board of directors of Lockwood Greene, has been selected by the Spartanburg Chapter of the South Carolina Society of Professional Engineers as the outstanding engineer of the year. He joined the Spartanburg firm in 1946.

James P. Poole, '42, has been appointed as senior sales consultant to The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. He is an associate of the E. H. Mattingly Agency in New York. He has been a member of the Million Dollar Round Table for 18 consecutive years.

Kurt E. Schuler, '42, Senior Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C., has been named professor of chemistcjfand chairman of the department at the University of California, San Diego.

Theodore J. Innes, Jr., '43, has been elected a director and senior vice president of Esso Chemical S.A., Brussels, the European regional affiliate of Esso Chemical Company Inc. He joined Esso in 1946 as an engineer at the Baton Rouge, La., refinery.

U M N I - CONTINUE

Raymond L. (Buck) Gamble, South Carolina State Senator, died December 13, 1967. Mr. Gamble had held high governmental offices in South Carolina since the early 1940's. He was a farmer and real estate dealer. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Evelyn Yeargin Gamble, two daughters and a son.

We recently learned of the death of Oliver E. Grist.

We recently received notice of the death of William Archibald Morrow.

John B. Peebles, CE, of Jacksonville, Florida, died April 9, 1966.

' n Q W. B. Coffee, GE, has retired C. CD from Atlanta Gas Light Com

pany after almost 44 years service. We recently learned that Malcolm

H. Freeman, CE, died December 29, 1964.

'29 Lucius J. (Buster) Harris, TE, has retired after more

than 38 years of service with DuPont Company. Mr. Harris resides at Brackenville Road, Hockessin, Delaware 19707.

We recently received notice of the death of Mark B. Little, Ashtabula, Ohio 44004.

' Q / l Frank N. Magill, CE, author l 3 I and owner of Salem Press,

New York, has been elected president of Libraria Sodalitas, support group for the University of Southern California School of Library Science.

We recently learned that Philip C. Stroll, of Kingstree, South Carolina, died.

'32 Robert L. Bostick, ME, retired February 14 as vice

president of the National Theatre Company after 35 years of service. Mr. Bostick will continue to be active in other businesses in which he has an interest. He and Mrs. Bostick live at 190 Perkins Court, Memphis, Tennessee.

Charles H. Krueger died May 2, 1966.

We recently learned of the death of Robert Kenneth McPherson.

' O Q John G. Nordin, EE, died \3\3 July, 1967. This note was

erroneously listed in the class of '07 of the November-December, 1967,

'34 William H. Chambers, Com., manager of the Howard John

son Motor Lodge in Boca Raton, Florida, has won a trip to see the Olympic Games at Mexico City.

Eugene M. Johnson, CE, chief engineer for the Mississippi State Highway Department, was elected "Engineer of the Year" by the Mississippi Society of Professional Engineers. The award was presented February 23 at their annual winter meeting.

Colonel Samuel B. Ledbetter, ME, has received the Legion of Merit for his exceptionally meritorious service while commanding the 474th Quartermaster Group, Atlanta. The colonel was commended for his development of an outstanding basic combat training program for REP personnel in the state of Georgia.

' O p~ Edgar G. Morrison, ME, has l 3 « J been appointed president and

chief executive of Miehle-Goss-Dexter, Incorporated.

C. H. (Shorty) Roberts has been appointed manager — Southeastern Sales Zone, for the Hot point distribution sales operation of the General Electric Appliance and Television Group in Atlanta.

Joe Thrash, Jr., Arch., was presented the annual Billie Willingham Award for the outstanding Kiwanian of the year at Douglas, Georgia.

' Q ~ 7 Col. Samuel R. Young, CE, v 3 / has been selected as one of

160 business executives and government officials to participate in the 53rd session of the advanced management program conducted by the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.

' O Q Lamar E. Binion, AE, died O O February 7. Mr. Binion was

manager of Lockheed-Georgia's engineering flight test division. His widow resides at 352 Chelsea Circle, N.E., Atlanta.

Thomas Elliott, ME, engineer with the Georgia Tech Engineering Experiment Station has been named new manager of Stone Mountain State Park, Stone Mountain, Georgia.

James H. Walker, CE, has retired from United States Steel Corporation where he was manager of Southern Lands and Timber.

"J Alfred S. Hume, EE, is a Hume, recent graduate of the Moto

rola Executive Institute in Vail, Arizona.

Ralph W. Pries, ME, has been appointed senior vice president of Ogden Foods, general manager of the Middle Atlanta States region and president of the ABC—Berlo Vending Company.

' / l O Lloyd Harris of Atlanta, dis-T l J trict manager in Lockheed-

Georgia JetStar program has become president of Hawker Siddeley International Corporation. Mr. Harris will operate from US headquarters at La-


Guardia Airport in New York. Lewis C. Radford, Jr., ME, has

been promoted to national sales manager for the Visual Electronics Corporation, New York.

Peter J. Van Norde, AE, has announced the formation of a partnership for the general practice of law under the firm name of Stasse, Van Norde and Boyle in New Jersey.

' SI SI Harold Norman Silvers, AE, ^ + ^ + died July 28, 1967. He was a

senior aerodynamicist at the NASA Langley Research Center specializing in supersonic aircraft and missile design. At the time of his death he was on assignment to the Lunar Orbiter Project Office as assistant chief, data handling.

'45 John J. Mathison, Jr., chief engineer for the past three

years, will assume the additional responsibilities of director of construction of the Stadium Authority of the City of Pittsburgh. He will be responsible for those activities related to the physical construction of the stadium and other site improvements.

» SI —i J. B. Abbott, CE, is project ^ T / manager for the lock and

dam construction on the Arkansas River near Conway, Arkansas.

Frank Gribble, GE, has been elected assistant vice president of the clay division of J. M. Huber Corporation in Huber, Georgia.

Art E. Joens. CE, has been named manager of environmental conservation in the western production division of Humble Oil and Refining Company, Los Angeles.

» SI Q Charles C. Collins, EE, has H O been named chairman of the

process systems and control committee of the technical association of the Pulp & Paper Industry in New York.

Bryon H. Pollitt, IM, has been named assistant vice president, agency sales and service, at Pacific Mutual Life in Los Angeles. He and his family reside at 861 San Simeon Road, Arcadia, California.

Mark E. Russell, IM, has been awarded the professional designation of chartered financial analyst by the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts. Mr. Russell is manager-company trusts portfolios for the General Electric Company in New York City.

Lt. Col. Louis C. Setter, AE, has received his second award of the US Air Force commendation medal at Vung Tau AB, Vietnam.

Bernard E. Stelzenmuller, ME, has been appointed manager of component sales in the switch-gear department of General Electric Company in Philadelphia.

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TODAY'S TECH

STUDENTS

STILL NEED

YOUR HELP T H E m e t h o d s m o s t often used t o m a k e a char i t ab le gift a re o u t r i g h t gifts of cash or securi t ies . M a n y a l u m n i who have m a d e provisions for Georgia T e c h in the i r wills h a v e also come to realize t h a t l ifetime gifts h a v e ce r ta in a d v a n t a g e s which m a y increase the i r spendab le income now. T h e s e m e n feel t h a t t h e saving of t a x dollars is i m p o r t a n t . A n d , t h e y also h a v e t h e sa t is fact ion of knowing the i r gift is immedi a t e ly going t o work for Georgia T e c h .

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Securities in Trust

Example: Mr . George Burdell owns "growth" securities acquired many years ago. H e created an irrevocable living trust and deposited these securities in it. T h e trustee is, let 's say, a bank, with full control over the investment of the funds of the trust.

Mr . Burdell receives all of the income of the trust for life, then Mrs . Burdell receives the income during her life. When the survivor dies, the trust ends and the principal goes to the Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc.

The tax results: Mr. Burdell is entitled to claim an income tax deduction for a contribution in the year he deposited securities in the trust. The amount of deduction can be computed from Government issued special tables which reflect the involvement of two lives. (The donor, although limited to claiming only a 3 0 % deduction during the year of deposit, can carry the deduction forward for the next five years.)

An interesting feature of Mr . BurdeH's plan is the possible freedom from a capital gains tax on the transfer of appreciated property (if the trustee should decide to sell any of the securities to obtain diversification, for example, or a higher current yield, if this was in keeping with the objectives of the t ru s t ) . I t would appear to be the trustee, not Mr . Burdell, who is the real seller. And, since gains on

sales made by the trustee are par t of the principal, and thus are held for the eventual benefit of the Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc., the trustee would pay no tax.

As for estate tax, the t rust would be wholly or largely free of tax a t Mr . Burdell 's death. And, there would be no tax at Mrs . Burdell 's death.

Mr . Burdell, in creating the trust, makes a gift in some amount to Mrs . Burdel l : he gives her the right to receive income, if she survives him. T h e value of the right, however, might well be less than Mr. Burdell 's "lifetime" exemption from the Federal gift tax, so it is quite possible that he pays no Federal gift tax whatever.

Through this "Life Income Trus t Plan," Mr . Burdell has also avoided having to constantly supervise the investing and reinvesting of the selected securities. H e has acquired financial investment advice from competent counselors and has removed property from his estate, which reduces or eliminates probate and administrative expenses.

Mr . Burdell also feels that this charitable contribution has furnished him with a high return.

If you would like additional information on considerations concerning your financial planning, call or write Thomas H. Hall , III^ Director of Resources Development, Georgia Inst i tute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332. Telephone: 404-873-3211.

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Ernest B. Koelliker, '46, has been appointed vice president of marketing for util ity and industrial sales for Fairbanks Morse Power Systems Division of Colt Industries. He will be responsible for the sale of diesel and gas engine power generation systems in utility and industrial markets.

John V. Miner, Jr., '46, has been named vice president and sales manager of the Taulman Co., manufacturers and manufacturers agents in the water, wastewater and power plant equipment field. He joined the Atlanta-based firm in 1954.

L. W. Henslee, Jr., '47, has been promoted to supervisor, engineering economics, of PPG Industries, chemical division in Lake Charles, La. He joined the firm as a chemical engineer in 1948. Previously, he served as group leader, process engineering.

Melvin W. Carter, '48, has been named director of the southwestern radiological health laboratory of the U.S. Public Health Service in Las Vegas. He previously was officer in charge of the southeastern lab in Montgomery, Ala.

Charles M. Anderson, Jr., '49, has been named controller of Johnson & Johnson's baby and proprietary Divis.on. He joined the firm just last year. He is a member of the National Association of Accountants and the Data Processing Management Association.

John M. Taulman, '49, has been elected president of The Taulman Co., manufacturers and agents in the water, wastewater, and power plant equipment field. He joined his father's firm in 1947. In 1964, when the firm was incorporated, he was named vice president.

Chester C. Tomlin, Jr., '49, executive vice president of the H & M Construction Co., Inc., has been elected president of the Mid-Florida Horne Builders AssociatiorT. He joined H & M as a sales manager in 1961. He is past president of the Orlando Tech Club.

Lewis W. Williams, Jr., '50, has been appointed nuclear projects manager of Southern Services, Inc., service organization of the Southern Co. system. He joined the company in 1950, serving in various engineering capacities.

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' / l Q Charles H. Girardeau, III, ^ • + 0 BS, died January 13. For 12

years, he was the vice president of the McDonough Construction Company and was a member of the Associated General Contractors. His widow resides at 835 Starlight Circle, N.E., Atlanta.

Edward M. Peck, IM, sheet and plate sales manager at the Aluminum Company of America, has been elected chairman of The Aluminum Association's sheet division in New York.

D. E. Voyles, ChE, has been promoted to manager of chemical and environmental service of Duke Power Company in Charlotte, North Carolina.

' C ("") W.H. Hillyear, IM, has been u J \—i appointed assistant manager

of construction services for the Catalytic-Dow Company in Titusville, Florida.

Maj. Terrell E. Horne, IM, has received the US Air Force commendation medal at Bien Hoa AB, Vietnam. He is a flight commander at Bien Hoa, as a member of the Pacific Air Forces.

Robert E. Lee, AE, has been appointed chief contracting engineer in the contracting department of Tennessee Eastman Company in Kings-port, Tennessee.

Henry F. McCamish, Jr., IM, an associate of the Atlanta agency of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, has been named "Company Man of the Year—1967." This is the second time he has won this award.

Thomas W. Tucker, BS, of Lindsey, Tucker and Ritter, Inc., has relocated to 423 Pine Avenue, North Entrance, P. O. Box 803, Albany, Georgia 31702.

'51 Joe E. Cobb, IM, has been named manager of the Port

land, Oregon, branch plant of the Coca-Cola Company.

Dudolf S. Engelbrecht, EE, has a featured article in the February issue of the Microwave Journal.

James L. Lindsey, CE, of Lindsey, Tucker and Ritter, Inc., has relocated to 423 Pine Avenue, North Entrance, P. O. Box 803, Albany, Georgia 31702.

Claude A. McGinnis, ChE, has received the Sharp-Boylston Company's "Outstanding Production" award. Mr. McGinnis has also been elected to membership in the elite Million Dollar Club of the Atlanta Real Estate Board.

J. Brady Stoughton, Jr., EE, is now area vice president with McGraw Edison, Bower Systems Division, P. O. Box 4007, Falls Church, Virginia 22044.

J. P. Watson, III, EE, has been ap

pointed district engineer of Southern Bell in Savannah, Georgia.

' C O John A. Caddell, BS, has «—J L_ been selected as one of 160

business executives and government officials to participate in the 53rd session of the advanced management program conducted by the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.

Carlos H. Chafin, BS, has been named director of highway products and engineering of Reynolds Metal Company.

R. A. Clack, CE, has been named sales manager for Thew-Lorain division of Koehring Company in Lorain, Ohio.

W. David Daniel. CE, has recently joined Cities Service Oil Company as a project engineer in the engineering section, natural gas liquids division. He resides at 6560 East 60th Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74145.

' C O Born to Mr. and Mrs. Eric » J O E. Crake, IE, a son, Lance

Edred, January 11. Donald M. Hartman, ChE, has

been transferred to Bogota, Colombia, where he will be manager of general chemicals in the Andean Area for Products Quimecios Esso.

Jerome A. Holiber, IE, has accepted a position with the National Highway Safety Bureau of the newly organized Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C. He and his family reside at 6414 Kenhowe Drive, Beth-esda, Maryland 20034.

' C r / | J. C. Morcock, III, ChE, has «_J P been promoted to head of sys

tem chemical engineering for Duke Power Company in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mr. Morcock will be responsible for power station chemistry.

Joseph M. Garber. IM, has been appointed supervisor in the stores department of Tennessee Eastman Company in Kingsport, Tennessee.

'55 Robert D. Brewer, IE, has been appointed general fore

man of the operations of the bloom and structural division of US Steel's Homestead Works in Pennsylvania.

Maj. Roger A. Frey, Text., is attending the US Air Force professional personnel management course at Maxwell AFB, Alabama. Maj. Frey is permanently assigned at Aerospace Defense Command Headquarters, Ent AFB, Colorado, where he is chief of the officer management branch.

Capt. Glenn T. Little. IM, has completed the US Air Force advanced training course for F-102 Delta Dagger pilots at Perrin AFB, Texas.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur L. Patterson, CE, a son, Patrick Wade, January 7. Mr. Patterson is project


manager for Thompson-Street Company, General Contractors, Atlanta.

Guy F. Ritter, BS, of Lindsey, Tucker and Ritter, Inc., has relocated to 423 Pine Avenue, North Entrance, P. O. Box 803, Albany, Georgia 31702.

Guerry Boone Stribling, IM, has been named general manager of Martin's Landing Inc., land development enterprise of Spratlin Associates in Atlanta.

Maj. Dee G. Sullins, Jr., IE, has arrived for duty at the Office of Aerospace Research, Arlington, Virginia.

1 r ~ O J- M- Ennis, Jr., ME, has i l y\ assumed responsibility for

plant engineering in addition to his regular duties as manager of maintenance in Bowaters' paper mill at Catawba, South Carolina.

Capt. Herbert D. Paul, ME, has arrived for duty at the US Air Force Academy, Colorado. Capt. Paul is assigned as a maintenance engineer.

Thomas Hickman Umstead, IM, has been chosen as the "Outstanding Young Man of the Year in Business." Mr. Umstead is currently branch sales manager at Diebold, Inc., Atlanta.

'57 Jack E. Cavender, BS, Archi-

East fices to 1677 Dorsey Avenue, Point, Georgia.

Capt. James C. Iuey, Jr., IM, has been recognized for helping his unit

earn the US Air Force Outstanding Unit Award.

Capt. Edward D. McDowell, Jr., IE, has been graduated from one of the most exclusive flying schools in the world—the US Air Force Aerospace Research Pilot School at Edwards AFB, California.

Dr. Otis D. Rackley, Jr., has just reported to the Icelandic Defense Forces, US Naval Station, Keflavik, Iceland, for duty as a Navy dental officer.

W. Lucas Simons, Jr., IM, has been admitted as a general partner in the firm J. C. Bradford & Company with offices located in New York and Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. Simons' father, W. Lucas Simons, graduated from Tech in '09.

' p ~ Q William W. Adams, HI has «_) O completed his initial training

at Delta Air Lines' training school at the Atlanta airport and is now assigned to the airline's Miami pilot base as a second officer.

Willis Carmichael has been promoted to district sales manager of United States Gypsum Company's southeastern construction products division.

Aaron Cohen, BS, has been named campus architect for Bronx Community College. The college opened with 120 students in 1958 and now has almost 7,800 students. Two of Mr.

Cohen's house designs were featured in the New York Times in the fall of '57. \ Jack D. Edwards, IM, has been elected to the Board of Directors at The Peoples Bank, Portland, Arkansas.

Marshall Fausold, CE, after four years with the Far East District of the Army Corps of Engineers in Tokyo, Japan, has transferred to the Huntington, West Virginia District of the Corps. He resides, at P. O. Box 664, Huntington, West'Virginia 25711.

Capt Kenneth L. Furbush, BS, has arrived* for duty at Dover AFB, Delaware. Capt. Furbush, a C-133 Cargo master pilot, is assigned to a unit of the Military Airlift Command.

J. H. Hammons, ChE, has been promoted to department head and assigned to the Butanol Unit of Union Carbide Corporation.

R. George Rollins, IM, has accepted the position of plant production engineer for E-Z-Go Division of Textron Corporation in Augusta, Georgia.

' pT Q Johnson G. Gorman, ME, has UJ \3 helped organize a company,

Miller-Gorman and Associates, located at 5105 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, Chamblee, Georgia. The office specializes in planning of store and office interiors.

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J. I. CASE COMPANY is proud to announce... ... the opening of its new construction equipment dealership in Atlanta.

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William C. Jones, '51, has been named manager of the Macon Office of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. He joined the company in 1961. With the promotion, he was also made a stockholder in the company.

H. William Kruse, '51, has been named to the operations analysis staff of the tactical airlift center, Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina. He is immediate past president of the Georgia Tech Club of Metropolitan Washington.

Howard L. Linton, '51, has formed a new general contracting firm, H. L. Linton Construction Co., Inc., in Washington, D.C. and will specialize in design-build construction of commercial projects.

Charles H. Chafin, '52, has been named director, highway products and engineering of the Reynolds Metals Co. He joined the company in 1952 and in 1964 was appointed highway products manager.

Allen S. Hardin, '53, has been elected a director of the Fulton Federal Savings and Loan Association. He is presently executive vice president of Ira H. Hardin Co., contractors and engineers, founded by his father in 1937.

Thomas L. Gossage, '56, has joined the new enterprise division of Monsanto Co., St. Louis, as group marketing director for the advanced materials and components group. He was previously director of R & D marketing for Monsanto Research in Dayton.

Leslie M. Rogers, '59, has been named manager of the mortgage loan department at The Travelers Insurance Companies, Detroit office. He joined the company in 1959 as a mortgage loan representative in 'A<ttanta. In 1964, he was assigned to Philadelphia as assistant manager.

E. G. Rogers, '60, has been elected chairman of the southeast region of the Institute of Management Sciences. He wil l preside over the annual regional meeting to be held next October in Knoxville. He is presently chairman | of the Atlanta-Athens section of TIMS. \.

Howard L. Hall, Jr., IE, has been named systems supervisor in the systems and planning department of A. H. Robbins Company.

Lew Lassetter, IM, is attending The McGeorge School of Law in preparation for taking the California bar examination. The family resides at 3016 Norris Avenue, Sacramento, California 95821.

Chris L. Liakos, IM, has been promoted to assistant branch manager of the Portland, Oregon, sales office of The Foxboro Company.

G. Rex Moon, IM, has been elected assistant vice president of The First National Bank of Atlanta.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Riviere, EE, a daughter, Pamela Sue, December 19, 1967. The family resides at 13532 Alpine Avenue, Largo, Florida 33540.

Charles M. Stone, EE, has recently accepted the position of manager of production with the Taulman Company of Atlanta.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Bob E. White, BC, a son, Christopher Paul, November 29, 1967. Mr. White is employed by Bothwell and Associates in Decatur. The family resides at 1704 Gloucester Way, Tucker, Georgia.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. W. Douglas Williams, Jr., CE, a daughter, Sarah Catherine, December 29, 1967. The family resides at 115 Colonial Drive, Route 6, Greenwood, South Carolina 29646.

' O f*\ Engaged: James Curry Har-D U den, BC, to Miss Margaret

James. Mr. Harden has served as a captain in the US Marine Corps and is employed by Aeck Associates, Architects, in Atlanta.

Capt. Robert R. Jackson, ME, has received the Bronze Star medal during ceremonies near Long Binh, Vietnam. Captain Jackson received the award for outstanding meritorious service in combat operations against hostile forces in Vietnam.

Gene Heath McCall, EE, has received his doctorate degree in Physics from Princeton University.

Jack C. Miller, Jr., ID, has helped organize a new firm, Miller-Gorman and Associates, located at 5105 Peach-tree Industrial Boulevard, Chamblee, Georgia. The firm specializes in planning for store and office interiors.

Timothy Moore Singleton, IM, has been chosen as the "Outstanding Man of the Year in Education" by the Atlanta and Northside Atlanta Junior Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Singleton is currently dean of men and coach of the cross country team at Georgia State College.

Lt. Col. A. E. Toepel, Jr., AE, has received the air medal in Vietnam. Col. Toepel earned the award for combat aerial support of ground operations in Vietnam.

Adopted by: Mr. and Mrs. Philip E. Whelchel, IM, a daughter, Regina Leigh, November 8, 1967. Mr. Whelchel is a sales representative for John Manville Sales Corporation. They reside at 1410 Wilks Avenue, Orlando, Florida.

' CIA Married: Duncan Robert Au-trey, Jr., to Miss Jane Pitts.

Mr. Autrey attends Woodrow Wilson College of Law and is president of Associates Accounting and Tax Service in Marietta, Georgia.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. George T. Gannaway, CE, a son, Bryan Winston, December 7, 1967. Mr. Gannaway is an engineer with Southern Bell in Memphis. The family resides at 4798 Jasper Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee.

Capt. Peter W. Gissing, IE, is on duty at Cam Ranh Bay AB, Vietnam. Capt. Gissing is a member of the Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service in support of the Pacific Air Forces.

Kenneth R. Hill, TE, has been appointed superintendent of cloth manufacturing, J. P. Stevens Mill, Mill-edgeville, Georgia.

George W. Hornaday, IM, has been named senior underwriter in the commercial lines marketing division of the casualty-property department at The Travelers Insurance Companies, Hartford, Connecticut. The family resides at 515 Huckleberry Hill Road, Avon, Connecticut.

Engaged: William T. Poteet, Jr., IE, to Miss Marilyn Kay Adams of Atlanta. Mr. Poteet is employed as an associate secretary with the Georgia Tech Alumni Association. The wedding will be May 4.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. James R. Riley, a daughter, Sarah Lynn, December, 1967. The family's mailing address is Box 189, Russellville, Kentucky.

Capt. Joe S. Smith, CE, is a member of the 627th Military Airlift Support Squadron at Mildenhall RAF Station, England, which has been named the outstanding unit of its kind in the Military Airlift Command.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Wade, AE, a son, Robert Heyward, January 7.

John C. Walker, IE, has been employed as an operations manager with Boise Cascade Corporation in Richmond, Virginia. He resides at 7009 Coachman Lane, Apartment 101, Richmond, Virginia 23228.

Capt. Larry T. Walker, IM, was assigned as an autodin project manager with the US Army Strategic Communication Command — Pacific at


Anaconda is moving So are the people who are making it happen.

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David A. Heatwole (MS Geol., U. of Arizona '66) is a geologist doing geological and geochemical work with an Anaconda exploration team in the southwest US and Mexico.

James F. Lynch (BS Mining E., U. of Missouri, '61) is a general foreman at Anaconda Wire and Cable Company's plant in Marion, Indiana.

Marie C. Vecchione (MS Phys. Chem., Yale '62) is an analytical chemist in Anaconda American Brass Company's research and technical center, Waterbury, Connecticut.

Marian T. Boultinghouse (BS Geo!., Indiana U. '59) is sheet mill superintendent at Anaconda Aluminum Company's plant in Terre Haute, Indiana.

A few years ago these young people were still in school. Today they are specialists in their fields. Growing with Anaconda. To find out about available opportunities in your field, write: Director of Personnel. The Anaconda Company, 25 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10004.

Equal opportunity employer. Anaconda American Brass Co., Anaconda Wire and Cable Co., Anaconda Aluminum Co.

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Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. Ronald M. Wilson, ME, has joined

the Walston and Company, Inc., San Francisco, as an account executive.

' O f ) G. G. Barnwell, Jr., Chem., D ^L. received his Doctor of Medi

cine degree in May, 1967, from the Medical College of Georgia and is now an intern at City of Memphis Hospital, Memphis.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Clellan Coleman, IE, a son, Andrew Vance, January 18.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Richard Terrell Drummond, IM, a son, Bradley Pierce, December 2, 1967. Mr. Drummond is a first officer with Trans World Airlines, Chicago.

Lt. Raymond D. Gent, IM, has reported to the Defense General Supply Center, Richmond, Virginia, for duty. Lt. Gent has just completed his present assignment on Guam where he had been stationed since March, 1966.

Daniel D. Hull, CE, has been released from active duty by the Air Force and is now employed as a flight crew second officer with Delta Air Lines, based in New Orleans," Louisiana. Mr. Hull resides at 109 Country Club Drive, Covington, Louisiana 70433.

Paul Kniepkamp, Jr., IM, has resigned from West Point Pepperell to devote full time to Atlanta Yacht Brokerage specializing in ocean-going sailboats.

Maj. Russell W. Parker, EE, received the Bronze Star medal at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. Maj. Parker is presently a student at the US Army Command and General Staff College at the fort.

Charles R. Snow, IM, recently accepted a position as associate professor of business and economics at East Tennessee State University after serving for 15 months as an economist for the Federal Reserve System. Mr. Snow is also entirely completing a doctoral dissertation for Indiana University. The family resides at 1702 Tee Court, Johnson City, Tennessee.

Capt. Thomas L. Vines, EE, recently helped maintain the life line to US ground forces near An Hoa, Vietnam, and established a recordih his US Air Force unit for combat airlift.

» O O Charles M. Abate, IE, has D VJ been named chief engineer at

Wheeling Stamping Company, West Virginia. He will be responsible for the company's engineering, development and quality control.

Tom Craig, IM, has completed a two-year tour as captain-management , analyst, in the US Army at the Head- ,

quarters of the Army Material Command in Washington, D.C. where he was awarded the Army commendation medal. He has returned in the marketing area, to the development department of the E. I. duPont de Nemours and Company of Wilmington, Delaware.

Walter E. Dahlgren, IE, has been elected president of DNW Associates, Inc.

Robert A. Neff, Jr., CE, has been elected secretary of the Shreveport Chapter, Associated General Contractors, for 1968. Mr. Neff has his own contracting firm in Shreveport.

James R. Wells, IE, has been elected secretary-treasurer of DNW Associates, Inc.

' O / l Married: Philip Alton Kirk-D ^ - land, IE, to Miss Marianna

Pace. Mr. Kirkland is employed by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in Dallas.

Tracy W. Latham, EE, has recently been promoted to traffic manager of Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph, Columbus, Georgia.

First Lieutenant Charles E. Lee, IM, is attending the Air University academic instructor course at Maxwell AFB, Alabama. Lieutenant Lee is a weapons controller for the Tactical Air Command at Eglin AFB, Florida.

Engaged: William Thomas McMul-lan, IM, to Miss Jimmie Katherine Smith. Mr. McMullan is employed by the Georgia State College Computer Center. The wedding will be April 20.

Eric A. Peterson, CE, has been chosen "Soldier of the Month" in the 3rd Battalion at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Roy V. Potts, AE, has been awarded his silver wings upon graduation from US Air Force navigator training at Mather AFB, California. Following training at other bases, he will be assigned to McCoy AFB, Florida, for duty with the Strategic Air Command.

Married: David L. Runton, CE, to Miss Patricia Feyas in Lantana, Florida. Mr. Runton completed his military obligation on June 12, 1967, by serving two years with Commissioned Corps, US Public Health Service. Mr. Runton then began employment with Corps of Engineers and will spend the first year on training program.

Rolin W. Stevens, ChE, has been appointed to the position of operations supervisor within the Acrilan manufacturing department of Monsanto's Decatur Plant.

First Lieutenant Warren S. Stovall, IE, has completed the specialized pilot training at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, in the US Air Force's newest jet transport, the C-141 Starlifter. Lieutenant Stovall is returning to McGuire AFB, New Jersey, for duty with the Military Airlift Command.

Married: William Edward Street-man, Chem., to Miss Carol Jean Wine-inger. Mr. Streetman is completing work on his PhD degree in chemistry at Georgia Tech.

Engaged: Clarence Eugene Williams, Jr., IM, to Miss Gloria Syble Smith. Mr. Williams is employed by Crompton-Highland Mills, Inc. in Griffin, Georgia. A June wedding is planned.

' r ^ [ T First Lieutenant Henry W-D «-J Byars, AE, is attending the

Air University's Squadron Officer School at Maxwell AFB, Alabama.

Married: William Russell Carter, Jr., Text., to Miss Emmy Asmuss of Glendale, New York. Mr. Carter is employed with Physimetries, Inc., as an instrumentation engineer. They reside at 1331 Briar ('reek Road, Apartment 4, Charlotte. North Carolina 28205.

Capt. Stanford S. Clark, IE, has been recognized for helping his unit earn the US Air Force Outstanding Unit award.

Married: James l.eland Conn, EE, to Miss Reba Marie Merritt. Mr. Conn is employed by the Georgia Power Company.

Frank H. Courtney. IM, has accepted a position with Orlando Paving Company. He resides at 1800 Lee Road, Unit 1, Winter Park, Florida 32789.

First Lieutenant William R. Goodrich, IM, flew his 200th combat mission over Vietnam in his F-4 Phantom.

First Lieutenant Steven S. Innes, ME, has been recognized for helping his unit earn the US Air Force Outstanding Unit award.

First Lieutenant Julius H. Massey, HI, is on duty at Tuy Hoa AB, Vietnam. Lieutenant Massey, an F-100 Super Sabre pilot, is assigned to a unit of the Pacific Air Forces.

Daniel B. Mowrey. ChE, has joined the technical division of Humble Oil and Refining Company's Baytown (Texas) Refinery. He is an engineer assigned to the digital methods section.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. George H. Phillips, IM, a daughter, Stephanie Susan, December 27, 1967. Mr. Phillips is employed by Pittsburg Plate Glass Company. The family resides at 418 Stevens Drive, Addison, Illinois.

Married: Marion J. Torre, ME, to Miss Kathleen Dale Mason. Mr. Torre received his MS degree from Georgia Tech in industrial engineering and is now employed by Cafreca C. A. of Caracas.

Charles Richard Walters, AE, to Miss Ruth Wright Van Deman. Mr. Walters is employed by the Boeing Company in New Orleans.


John C. Heiman, a typical Kodak W

industrial engineer

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Elwood R. Noxon, a typical Kodak industrial engineer

What was crucial six months ago?

Hard to remember. Six months is a long time to a Kodak industrial engineer. Much happens. Men like these carry on as if the whole company—top to bottom and stem to stern, cameras to industrial adhesives, food emulsifiers to check microfilmers—were a big laboratory for the practice of industrial engineering under the best of conditions. Management finds it pays to let them think so. Happy, they make their advance as strictly professional industrial engineers or hide their industrial engineer's insignia and use their skills to take over other functions in the organization.

Apart from the common denominator of an employer that appreciates industrial engineers and can always use more of them than we get, Heiman and Noxon lead very different working lives. Without assuring these gentlemen against the possibility that six months hence they will have traded specialties, here's the contrast:

Heiman is an accomplished simulation man, a thinker in Fortran, a builder of models for the big computer to manipulate.

He made a good score lately when given six weeks to overhaul the reasoning behind the design of a chemical manufacturing system that had evolved over the last five years as a multi-channel processing plant with problems in line interference and flexibility. He and a colleague, checking each other, spent three weeks writing a program that covered building size, reactor size, product flow, and auxiliary equipment. Debugging took another three weeks. All the while a third man was collecting experience data from the old production area.

The experience data were converted into Monte Carlo input distributions. Various configurations of the proposed production equipment were studied in thirty computer experiments, each simulating twelve weeks of operation.

Result: a system costing 3% more than the original but with 25% more capacity, plus proof that certain manifold connections between reactors wouldn't work.

Noxon works on mechanical goods. He pities industrial engineers who don't get to collaborate with their mechanical engineer partners right from when a project still consists of only rough sketches. He does get called into his projects that early.

His place is in the middle. At his extreme left is the design engineer who created the product idea. Next sits the manufacturing engineer, devising ways for the production boss to transform the idea into reality at the required volume. To the quality-control engineer at the other end of the table is entrusted the whole reputation of the company as it rides on the proposed new product. Between him and Noxon, the production boss awaits instructions. Noxon's job is to sell cost awareness right and left. Unless each of the five gets in his licks, there will be trouble.

Noxon can't stay in the conference room all day. The action is on the factory floor. In putting together job designs, learning curves, and space requirements for the 1970 line, he cannot ignore the ongoing commitment to 1969 product and the lively remnant of '68 production. And cost reductions had better continue when Noxon and his teammates study the "audit assembly" movies from initial production.

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Born to: Mr. and Airs. James T. Bagley, EE, a son, Matthew, November 13, 1967. The family resides at 810 Oswald Street, New Iberia, Louisiana 10560.

Married: Lieutenant (j.g.) Barry Benator, EE, to Miss Eileen Ellen Blechner. Lieutenant Benator is serving in the nuclear power program of the US Navy submarine service in Bainbridge, Maryland.

Second Lieutenant Lawrence R. Berry, ME, has received the silver wings of an Army aviator upon completion of a helicopter pilot course at Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia.

Lieutenant Larry F. Boyd, TE, has completed airborne training at Ft. Benning and is now assigned to an airdrop company in Germany. He will report in March after a course in parachute maintenance and airdrop operations.

John M. Downing, Phys., has departed Patrick AFB, Florida, on an around-the-world flight in support of the coming unmanned Apollo 5 space shot. Lieuetnant Downing is serving as a mission coordinator with the crews.

Married: Frank C. Dysart, Jr., IM, to Miss Judith Anne King. Mr. Dysart is associated with Eastern Airlines, Inc. in Atlanta.

John R. Lee, IM, fired expert with the M-14 rifle near the completion of his basic combat training at Ft. Benning, Georgia.

Second Lieutenant Robert N. Lo-saw, IE, has completed the air defense officer basic course at the Army Air Defense School, Ft. Bliss, Texas.

Jay M. Meiselman, AE, has been promoted to first lieutenant in the US Air Force. Lieutenant Meiselman is an aerospace structural engineer at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.

Jesse F. Miller, IM, has been commissioned an Army second lieutenant upon graduation from Transportation Officer Candidate School at Ft. Eustis, Virginia.

Engaged: Cecil Lurle Powell, Jr., IE, to Miss Sara Duval Floyd. Mr. Powell is professor of industrial engineering technology at the Spartanburg Technical Education Center. The wedding will be June 7.

Lieutenant Barry Anderson Smith, IM, has returned from Vietnam and is stationed at Ft. Lewis, Washington.

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Force Outstanding Unit award. Lieutenant Sutton is an aircraft maintenance officer in the 306th Bomb Wing at McCoy AFB, Florida.

Engaged: Stephen Thomas Swift, CE, to Miss Brenda Louise Joyce. Mr. Swift is employed by the Lockheed-Georgia Company in Marietta, Georgia. The wedding will be April 20.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Howard T. Tellepsen, Jr., CE, a son, Tadd, on February 26. Mr. Tellepsen is a sales representative for Monsanto Company, covering the State of Michigan, and resides in Mason, Michigan.

Married: William II. Vernon, IM, to Miss Sharon Soden. Ens. Vernon has been assigned to the US Coast Guard Cutter "Cherokee" in Norfolk, Virginia. The newlyweds reside at 1820 Colonial Arms Circle, A-2, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Second Lieutenant Russell L. Ware, CE, has been awarded silver wings upon graduation from the US Air Force navigator school at Mather AFB, California. Lieutenant Ware will remain at Mather for specalized aircrew training before reporting to his permanent unit for flying duty.

Engaged: Richard Henry Withers, ME, to Miss Sandra Kay Gauntz. Mr. Withers is vice-president of Withers Tool Die and Manufacturing Company in Mableton, Georgia. The wedding will be June 15.

'67 Married: Royce Newton Bramlett, Chem., to Miss

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Married: Joseph Duford Dewberry, Jr., IM, to Miss Betty Carolyn Guthrie. Mr. Dewberry is employed by Imperial Management Corporation.

Richard L. Czerner, ChE, has recently joined the DuPont Company's plastics department, commercial resins division at the Experimental Station Laboratory near Wilmington, Delaware.

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Robert L. Finlay. IM, has been appointed system manager of United Transmission, Inc.'s CATV system in Kingsport, Tennessee.

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Engaged: Carver Anthony Hunt, Biol., to Miss Johanna Margaret Scherer. Mr. Hunt is working on his PhD degree in pharmacokinetics at the University of Florida, where he is on a research assistantship.

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Engaged: Bruce Jones McDonald, IM, to Miss Sara Kathryn Reeves. Mr. McDonald attends graduate school at Georgia State College and is employed by Longino and Porter, Printers. The wedding will be June 8.

Second Lieutenant Frank R. Reich-ard, IM, has been graduated from a US Air Force technical school at Keesler AFB, Mississippi. He was trained as a communications officer and has been assigned to a unit of the Air Defense Command at Ft. Lee Air Force Station, Virginia.

Terry J. Richardson, ChE, has been named a service engineer at The Bab-cock and Wilcox Company's Atlanta district office.

Second Lieutenant Clifford J. Schex-nayder, Jr., CE, has graduated from the United States Army Engineer Officer Candidate School at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, and has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers.

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neider, IE, has completed a course for civil engineers at the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.

Warren G. Simonds, IM, fired expert with the M-14 rifle near the completion of basic combat training.

Steve Voytek, Jr., IE, has joined the management services section of Enjay Chemical Company's Baytown (Texas) Plant. He has been assigned to the economics and planning department.

Second Lieutenant Nelson W. Wallace, Phys., has completed an ordnance officer course at the Army Ordnance School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

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Married: William Warren Rogers to Miss Mary Elizabeth Stavros. Mr. Rogers is presently serving with the US Navy.

THE GEORGIA TECH NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Officers and Trustees / Howard Ector, Marietta, president / L. L. Gellerstedt, vice president / D. B. Blalock, vice president / Dakin B. Ferris, treasurer / W. Roane Beard, executive secretary / L. Travis Brannon / Arthur B. Edge, III, LaGrange / George W. Felker, III, Monroe / Alvin M. Ferst / Allen S. Hardin / Raymond A. Jones, Jr., Charlotte / Rayford P. Kytle / Philip J. Malonson, Marietta / W. E. Marshall / Willard B. McBurney / George A. Morris, Jr. / Thomas V. Patton, Doraville / Charles H. Peterson, Metter / James P. Poole / James B. Ramage / Chester A. Roush, Jr., Carrollton / Talbert E. Smith, Jr. / J. Frank Stovall, Jr., Griffin / Marvin Whitlock, Chicago /

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VOTE NOW FOR YOUR 1968-69 NATIONAL OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES \

L. L. Gellerstedt, '45 D. B. Blalock, '34

J. B. Ramage, '37 G. W. Felker, III, '36

HEADING the slate of candidates nominated to lead the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association for the 1968-69 year is Lawrence L. Gellerstedt, Jr. , '45, of Atlanta. The nominating committee (Madison F . Cole, '41, chairman; William S. Terrell , ' 31 ; and Daniel A. McKeever, '32) also named the following Tech alumni to run on the slate with presidential-nominee Gellerstedt: D . Braxton Blalock, Jr. , '34, vice president; James B. Ramage, '37, vice president; and George W. Felker, I I I , '36, treasurer.

The committee also selected the following Tech men for three-year elected terms as trustees of the National Alumni Association: L. Travis Brannon, Jr . , '49; Rayford P . Kytle , '36; W. E. Marshall , '41 ; and Thomas V. Patton, '43.

The Board El n

Under Article V I I I of the amended By-laws of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association four trustees shall be elected by the members each year for three-year terms. In addition, the immediate past president (Howard Ector, '40, in this case) and six alumni named by the incumbent president also will be members of the new Board. The other 12 members of the Board include the Association officers and carry-over trustees with one or two years remaining on their elected terms. In a later issue of the Alum

nus, a change in this election procedure will be outlined for the membership.

The Nominees

For President—Lawrence L. Gellerstedt, Jr. , is president of the Beers Construction Company of Atlanta. Gellerstedt, a top s tudent and student leader a t Tech, has been a member of the Board of Trustees for three years, treasurer for two years, and vice president for the past two years. H e is president of the Georgia Branch of the Associated General Contractors of America.

For Vice President—D. Braxton Blalock, Jr .—president of Blalock Machinery and Equipment Company, Inc.—is currently vice president of the Association, and has served as a member of the scholarship, finance, and fund-raising committees. H e is past president of the Associated Equipment Distr ibutors and of the Kiwanis Club of Sandy Springs.

For Vice President—James B. Ramage is general agent for the Equitable Life Assurance Society in Atlanta. H e is currently a member of the Board of Trustees and has served on many of its most important committees. Ramage is a past president of the Buckhead Civitan Club.

For Treasurer—George W. Felker, I I I , is president and treasurer of the Walton Cotton Mill Company of Monroe, Georgia. A former vice president of Riegel Texti le Corporation of New York City, Felker returned to Monroe in 1963 after 27 years of experience with some of the coun

try 's leading textile firms. H e has been a trustee for three years.

For Trustee—L. Travis Brannon, Jr . , is an attorney-at-law with the Han-sell, Post, Brandon and Dorsey firm in Atlanta. Brannon, an outstanding scholar and student leader a t Tech, has served on the Board of Trustees of the Association for the past year. For Trustee—Rayford P. Kyt le is a vice president of the Reynolds Aluminum Sales Co. and general manager of the Atlanta regional sales office. Kyt le is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Association. For Trustee—W. Edwin Marshal l is president of the W. E. Marshall Co. of Atlanta. Marshall is currently the chairman of the Personnel and Operations Committee of the Association and has served one year on the Board of Trustees. He is a former president of the National Association of Oil Equipment Jobbers. For Trustee—Thomas V. Pa t ton is president of Triton, Inc. in Doraville, Ga. Pat ton is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Association and chairman of the alumni forum committee.

How to Vote

All active members of the Association who desire to confirm the above nominations for officers and elected trustees or who wish to present write-in candidates may do so by filling out the official ballot on this page and mailing it to the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association, Atlanta, Georgia 30332. This vote is for election. Be sure to sign your ballot.

BALLOT FOR NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES, 1967-68 • My check in box indicates approval of nominees or I vote for the following

write in candidates: FOR PRESIDENT: FOR VICE PRESIDENT: FOR VICE PRESIDENT (at large): FOR TREASURER: FOR TRUSTEES (vote for four):

Signed: Class: Mail before June 20 to Georgia Tech Alumni Association, Atlanta, Ga. 30332

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