Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Vol. 47, No. 03 1969

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4 JAMES DICKEY: MORE THAN A POET The Franklin Foundation Poet-in-Residence for the fall quarter turned the campus upside-down with his unortho­dox approach to teaching and with his fierce pride in his own profession.

10 LARGE GRANT FOR A NEW PROGRAM The Olin Mathieson Charitable Trust makes it possible for a different kind of engineering program for the blacks.

12 THE BIGGEST SOPHOMORE OF THEM ALL The life and times of Rich Yunkus, basketball player and student, who according to most authorities is one of the future greats.

17 EEYORE'S DREAM HOUSE In a sophomore architecture course there is this red-haired type from Mississippi with that Tom Sawyer—approach.

2 0 ANOTHER ERA NEARS ITS FINAL MOMENTS In pictures and words, the Harrison Dinner of January 17 is reviewed as the search goes on for the seventh president.

2 5 THE GEORGIA TECH JOURNAL All of the news from the Institute plus a large section devoted to the alumni by classes make up this section.

THE C( ER As so often is the fortunate happenstance, a photographer and writer working somewhat independently on the same story will come up with a picture and words that just go together. The photographer is Bill Childress, Jr. and the writer is the editor and the subject is James Dickey. For more, turn to page 4.

THE S^ =F ROBERT B. WALLACE, JR., editor / BECKY DREADEN, editorial assistant and advertising manager I CHARLOTTE DARBY, class notes

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• W E GUESS that when time starts piling up on you, the years all begin to wear a much bleaker look, especially when viewed in retrospect. And we must ad­mit that the year 1968 was not one of our better ones.

In addition to the general state of the world with its undeclared wars, riots in the streets, air pollution, higher taxes, and assassinations, our personal world of Georgia Tech seemed to be undergoing more than its share of un­rest. The student radicals came out in the open, which was a harbinger of things to come to those who were really listening. Fred Ajax, our good friend and mentor, died while we were out of the city at a meeting. President Harri­son suddenly decided to retire to the business world while we were on vaca­tion. Dr. A. J. Walker announced in his own quiet way that he was giving up the confining reins of the English De­partment to return to a full-time teach­ing schedule. Dr. Paul Weber passed the word to a few friends and associates that he was picking up his retirement option in June, 1969. The football team fell apart at the seams and spent the final four Saturdays of the season in a state of humiliation. And the basketball team gave every indication of doing the same thing before the season was a month old. Our Tech seemed to be coming down around us, and we could only watch and hope that everything would turn out for the best.

Then there was our personal life, which was another series of traumas, altogether. We sold a home and went to apartment living, which took some ad­justing. Our eldest daughter married in February, a fact that we were not informed about until May and then on the long-distance telephone. And in December, the biggest shock of all— grandfatherhood.

Now, we eventually learned to love this state but for those first few days after the granddaughter arrived we were having real adjustment prob­lems. We had been noticing how all of our classmates were aging while we stayed the same. Then in one night we caught up with them all. Looking in the mirror the next morning we found an older though not necessarily wiser man. It didn't seem to affect Jane, who stayed as young-looking as ever. But it sure played havoc with the old man. Those of you who have experienced it know what we mean and the rest of you, if you are lucky enough, will find out sooner than you think.

RBW, JR.

January-February 1969

Written by Robert B. Wallace, Jr. Photographed by Bill Childress, Jr.

JAMES DICKEY:

THE BIG MAN with the face of an amateur heavyweight who climbed through the ropes just once too often stretched back

in his chair, punched the air with his left hand for emphasis, and said, "Now isn't that a helluva nice line— listen to it again." He reprised the words of Ezra Pound from the poem, Hugh Selwyn Mauberly, "What god, man, or hero/Shall I place a tin wreath upon!" Then he mused as much to himself as to his audience, "Tin wreath. I wonder what made him think of that? Tin wreath. That's good."

The seminar of some 25 Tech stu­dents plus the equivalent of three classrooms full of interested auditors and onlookers nodded heads in uni­son, mesmerized by this man who prefers to teach in four languages, all in a Georgia drawl, despite his years in such diverse climes as New York, Nashville, Houston, Washing­ton, several California locations, Eu­rope, and hundreds of one-night, poetry-reading stands he refuses to remember. Back he went to his Pound, pausing from time to time to discuss a stanza or an idea, wander off on a tangent about something a phrase reminded him of, comment on a theme change, ask a question of the class, or cite a reference, usually by saying, "You can look that up in your spare time."

James Dickey, suddenly riding the crest as one of America's most im­portant poets and well on his way to being one of the best-paid ones of all time, was back home doing the thing he does best—teaching a col­lege class. For despite the important reputation he has earned over the past decade as a major poet, a su­perior essayist, a much-published critic, and, most recently, as a new type of poetic journalist, the ex-athlete remains above all a superb and exciting teacher. And for the three months that he just spent at Tech as the first Franklin Founda­tion Poet in Residence, James Dickey stood the campus on its col­lective ear with his unorthodox teach­ing methods and his poetry readings.

MORE THAN A POET

To most of the civilized world, James Dickey is one of America's great poets, but to those who heard him at Georgia Tech, he is a teacher first, a writer second.

JAMES DICKEY —continued

During his stay at Tech, Dickey gave presentations from his own works (six complete collections in the past eight years), each attended by standing-room-only crowds in the largest auditorium on the campus. Those at the readings heard him boom out words wrung from a full life as a youth growing up in Atlanta, an athlete of some talent, an itinerate guitar picker of much talent, a fight­er pilot in a pair of wars, a bow-and-arrow hunter and lover of nature and its mysteries, a husband and father, and always as a man filled with an immense curiosity about the world and those who people it. Those at the

deed they experience anything. But that's not the same thing as your experience. Poetry, like love, has to do with intimacy and intimacy alone." Then came the query of the class, "How do you define intimacy?"

A few asides later and a long si­lence and finally the answer came back in a timid voice, "It has to do with being vulnerable."

"Perfect. You must allow yourself to be vulnerable. Why are people re­luctant to do this? The ideal until very recently was that of James Bond. What would you say is char­acteristic of James Bond?"

"Invulnerable." "Right. He uses a woman and dis­

cards her. He doesn't care anything

ffI dislike altogether this notion of poetry as a classroom subject."

sessions applauded at the right times, enjoyed the readings, and walked out talking about the man's work. But if this is all they heard from James Dickey during, three months, they came up losers. For it is in the classroom, where he teaches more philosophy than poetry, that the real James Dickey comes ex­ploding through.

Informal, imposing, and fiercely intense, he opened his first lecture at Tech with the rather startling dis­closure, "I dislike altogether this no­tion of poetry as a classroom subject —of the laying out of the poet on the seminar table for discussion and/or dissection, all done with a great steaming up of academic glasses. This is a terrible mistake and it is made possible only by academic people with very thick glasses. It's not the way the thing ought to hap­pen. Because in a classroom or in any discussion of Emily Dickinson or, for that matter, any poet, the fact that you are just sitting there listen­ing to a teacher reading and talking about the poetry precludes you from losing yourself in the poem, person­ally and individually. And that above all is what you ought to be doing just as you ought to do, say, in the act of love. Perhaps someday, if the social scientists think, it desirable, there may be courses in Losing Yourself In It: 301.

"Teachers cannot legislature ex­perience. They cannot tell you what experience to have. They can only tell you what they experience, if in- i

about the girl for to do so would mean he would have to commit him­self. Above all, in all James Bond novels, he is kind of an emotional eunuch. He won't give himself. He doesn't feel any need for it. There is an awful lot of this going on. I, myself, believe that one has to risk that vulnerability. The vulnerability makes you subject to someone else's will in some kind of way or at least makes you weaker than James Bond, and also capable of vastly more ex­perience than James Bond ever dreamed of. Again I think this is the chance you have to take and some­thing about which you must ponder before you commit yourself one way or the other. But I think that it is important, very important."

Dickey went on to talk about the importance of bringing the reader's individual experience to a poem. "The most important thing of all about poetry is the individual con­nection with the poem. That is, your own possession of the poem rather than what you are told to experience about the poem. If I mentioned a poem, 'Paradise Lost,' for example, you must have, of necessity, your own 'Paradise Lost,' not the English teacher's 'Paradise Lost,' not the scholar's 'Paradise Lost.' But your 'Paradise Lost.' "

During that first lecture and all of those that followed, Dickey contin­ued to hammer at this individual re­lationship with poetry and with words. He spoke bluntly of his own experiences, saying, "I continue to

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digress into my past with a high degree of intimacy in hopes that it will force you to go back to your own, to find what has moved you in your life."

To anybody who has ever read Dickey's poetry, this approach hard­ly came as a shock. His poems are filled with personal experience — about the war, about teen-age love (in rather strange places such as a graveyard for automobiles in North Georgia), about his parents and their problems, about his own physical problems (he is a diabetic who has kept down the disease by violent physical exercise, which he believes in as do most ex-athletes), about hunting and nature, and about his children. It is this searching into himself that has developed the jour­nalistic approach to Dickey's poetry, an approach that has brought him criticism from the purists.

In defending his journalistic ap­proach following the appearance of his poetic fantasy, "The Eye-Beat­ers," which appeared in the Novem­ber, 1968, edition of Harper's Dickey

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stated, "I don't see why there has to be a barrier between art and journal­ism. Journalism can be a great ve­hicle for a true poetic vision." The poem that brought this exchange was a report of a visit to a home for blind children who smashed their fists against their eyes in order to produce a flash of light into their dark world. Dickey handled the poem much in the manner of Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" with explanatory journalistic copy running as marginal notations.

An example of this approach is found in one section of the poem where in the to-the-point style of today's newspaper, his notation states, "A therapist explains why the children strike their eyes."

Dickey's lines then continued: They know they should see. But what, now? When their fists

smash their eyeballs, they behold no

Stranger giving light from his palms.

What they glimpse has flared In mankind from the beginning. In the asylum, children turn to

go back into the races turn their heads without comment into the black magic

Migraine of caves. Smudge-eyed, wide-eyed gouged, horned, caved-in, they are silent: it is for you to guess what they hold back inside.

Dickey's recent poems on the space shots for LIFE are an extension of this approach. He is a great admirer of the astronauts, and those who know him will tell you that he would love to have been young enough to have had a shot at this adventure, himself. In fact, Dickey's entire ap­proach to life and to writing is built around the premise that you must have the experience or at least be close to those who have had con­siderably to ever write about any­thing. Recently, when approached about writing a new promotional book (all done in poetry, yet) for the National Football League, he typical­ly asked if he could play flanker in a game, "in order to get the feeling of what the pro football player is up against," and perhaps to attempt to

catch up to his old friend, George Plimpton. When Dickey left Tech, the jury was still out on this one.

It is this quality that appeals so much to his students. Tired of being exposed to teachers who have never "really been there," today's student is immediately attentive to one who has obviously seen his share of the action. For instance, Dickey's ap­proach to a discussion of literary form, which has to be one of the duller segments of teaching writing, wasj to allude to his own first ex­periences with the subject area.

"I got my first exposure to literary form in sort of an odd way. I used to censor enlisted men's mail in the Phillipines. And I began to get a notion of literary form by noting the Dear John letters. Do you know about Dear John letters? Well, the concept of Dear John was born in those days. I've read a thousand let­ters and it was the first time that I knew things would be demanded of one form that would not be de­manded of another. For example, there was a letter than ran like this:

'Dear John: This is a terribly dif­ficult letter for me to write. I know that you are overseas fighting for your country. But I want you to know, John, that I have met the most wonderful man. He works in a de­fense factory. Now, John I want you to know how terribly proud we are of you over there in the forward defense area. And if you survive the war, and I know you will, I hope that you will come by to see Roy and me. Really, he is so much like you. But in mem­ory of what we had in the past, John, I want to ask one special favor of you. Please don't ever let Roy know what happened that last night before you left for overseas.

"This, I began to realize, was my first inkling that a literary form could run true to type. It can be the Dear John letter, it can be the son­net, it can be blank verse, it can be anything. The notion of form in lit­erature was born in me of these un­likely themes."

James Dickey is more and more becoming the subject of articles and even books. Invariably he will be referred to somewhere in each pro­file as "a most unlikely man to be a

"I began to get an idea of literary form by noting the 'Dear John' letters/'

JAMES DICKEY —continued

poet" or as "the last person you would think of as a poet." And every time he sees these or similar state­ments, he gets furious. "What in the hell do they think a poet should be like. Is it too much for them to imagine that a poet should live a full life rather than hiding in a garret somewhere." Then he will lean for­ward and ask in his sternest tone, "What would they have thought of Lord Byron, I wonder?"

In developing the thesis that good writing can be found everywhere, Dickey talked of sports writers, a group he admires very much. "Most of them are just frustrated poets," he said. "And when they are good they are better than most of us poets. Take Jim Murray of the Los Angeles Times, for example. He is one of the great ones. I remember a column of his a few years back when he was especially venomous about a defeat that the Los Angeles Rams suffered at the hands of the lowly San Fran­cisco 49ers. And he wrote, 'Now who, dear fans, were the instruments of the defeat of our glorious Los Ange­les Rams. Number one, there was John Brodie, a quarterback who is slower than fourth-class mail.' He went on to say that they tore large holes in the Rams line with two cast-off halfbacks. 'You won't find their pictures on any bubble gum wrap­pers,' he said. This is the kind of sensibility that makes the connec­tion. If Jim Murray wants to put down the Rams, he has the equip­ment to do it. He's got the meta­phors—-fourth class mail, bubble gum wrappers, whatever he needs to do the job. The whole thing has to do with poetry. I used the word connect a few minutes ago and that really is a key word. To connect, through cer­tain usage of the language. Whether it is Jim Murray or Furman Bisher or Jim Minter or Jesse Outlar, the sports columnists know how to con­nect—to make you see through words what is happening."

This man Dickey has come a long, tortuous path to his present state of eminence. After graduation from North Fulton High School in Atlan­ta, he accepted a football scholarship to Clemson College because as he said, "Coach Howard was the only man to offer me one and then he told me I was big and relatively fast but worth no more than five dollars a week. I took him up on it." Dickey

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played a year of freshman ball at Clemson and years later he was to dedicate a poem, "The Bee" to the coaches of Clemson College, 1942. The poem is an account of an attack on his young son by an insect and how it panicked the child into run­ning in the direction of a nearby California freeway. Dickey, chasing after his boy, talks of bringing his old wingback skill back to life:

"Long live what I badly did At Clemson and all of my clumsiest

drives For the ball all of my trying

to turn

The corner downfield and my spindling explosions

Through the five-hole over tackle. O backfield

Coach Shag Norton, Tell me as you never yet have

told me To get the lead out scream

whatever will get The slow-motion of middle age off

me I cannot Make it this way I will have to

leave My feet They are gone I

have him where He lives and down we go singing

with scream into The dirt,"

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After the rescue, he talks of the two of them sitting in the quiet woods back from the highway and tells his son:

"Dead coaches live in the air, son live

In the ear Like fathers, and urge and urge. They want you better Than you are. When needed, they

rise and curse you they scream

When something must be saved. Here, under this tree,

We can sit down. You can sleep, and I can try

To give back what I have earned by keeping us

Alive, and safe from bees: the smile of some kind

Of savior Of touchdowns, of fumbles, battles, Lives. Let me sit here with you,

son As on the bench, while the first

string takes back Over, far away and say with my

silentest tongue, with the man-creating bruises of my arms with a live leaf a quick

Dead hand on my shoulder, 'Coach Norton, I am your boy.'"

After a year, Dickey left Clemson to join the Army Air Corps and eventually found himself in the Pa­cific Theater flying Black Widow night fighters. During his 100-mis-sion tour, he began to use up his spare time attempting to write verse and became hooked on the thoughts of a literary career. After the war, he went to Vanderbilt University where he graduated magna cum laude in 1949 and earned his M.A. degree the following year. In Nashville he married and supported his new wife with GI bill and by playing what he calls "back-up guitar" with Grand Old Opry troupes. During his lec­tures, he frequently hauled out his two guitars (one 12-string and one-six-string) and played and sang folk ballads and country tunes for the class. He plays very well and could probably make a good living at "picking" if he ever had to, which is extremely doubtful at the moment. "I was somewhat of a child prodigy on guitar in my early years," he likes to say. "But when I got into athletics I lost interest in music for a long spell."

After receiving his degree, Dickey

moved to Rice to teach and then got called back in the service for a sec­ond tour as an Air Force officer during the Korean crisis. He also picked up a Sewanee Review fellow­ship during this time and spent a short time in Europe using it up. By 1955, he was ready to go after that "big American dollar" and he joined an Atlanta advertising agency. He progressed swiftly up the ladder in this field, moving through three local agencies in the process. In an inter­view with LIFE magazine in 1966, he said, "I began to feel that there was something amoral about writing what other people told me to write— I was selling my soul to the devil during the day and trying to get it back at night." Finally, Dickey quit in August, 1961 and as he said, "We went on relief."

As it turned out this was the move of his life. His first book was out and he had signed a contract for another one with Wesleyan Univer­sity Press. Within six months after he gave up the economic security of the advertising business, he received a $5,000 grant from the Guggenheim Foundation to study abroad. He sold his house and took his family off to Italy. Since he returned to this coun­try he has been poet in residence at Reed College in Portland, Oregon; held the same position at San Fer­nando Valley State College for two years after that, and spent two months on the University of Wiscon­sin campus.

Dickey, the wandering poet-teach­er has now settled down in one of the plushest chairs at any university in the South—Professor of Literature and Writer in Residence at the Uni­versity of South Carolina. He has bought the mansion he promised his wife, Maxine, back in the Nashville days and is now, as he says, "living the life I want to live. Writing what I want to write, when I want to write it and teaching." He considers him­self a fortunate man but is far from satisfied because there is a touch of the old wandering minstrel in the big man. And not one of his friends would be surprised if he suddenly went back out on the road, at least, for short sojourns.

On his final evening in Atlanta

rrThe dt unding, specialized curricula of a schoo ich as Tech needs more life."

before he returned to Columbia, he was talking about his teaching ex­perience at Tech: "I wouldn't have missed it for the world," he said. "I came back home and found Atlanta not the same place where I once lived as a boy and as a man, nothing stays the same. It was a far better place. And the fact that John Ottley McCarty and the folks at Tech pre­ferred in this case to spend their money on me rather than on a new betatron was really very nattering. The demanding specialized curricula of a school such as Tech need a little more of life in them, and I am just proud enough of my line of work to think that the poets can help.

"After all I am a specialist, also; a specialist of sensibility and of words, a specialist of incantations and spell-casting. In other words, I am a failed magician."

James Dickey would get one hell of an argument on the Tech campus about that final statement. Somehow, the word, failed, doesn't fit the man with the Wolfeian approach to life and the ability to transmit experience to others simply by doing his own thing, teaching.

January-February 1969

Tech's President Harrison looks on as Olin's President Gordon Grand makes the announcement.

LARGE GRANT GETS NEW PROGRAM WITH NEGRO COLLEGES UNDER WAY • A MAJOR GRANT from the Olin Mathieson Charitable Trus t insured the successful start of a new co­operative venture in education be­tween Georgia Tech and a cluster of Negro colleges located just a mile and a half from the campus. The $265,000 grant for scholarships and administrative costs for an engineer­ing talent search among lower socio­economic groups in the area was an­nounced by Gordon Grand, president and chief executive officer of Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation, in Atlanta on Janua ry 8, less than a month after the new dual degree pro­gram between Tech and the Atlanta University colleges was approved by the Board of Regents.

The dual program, an extension of Tech's 3-2 Plan, joins the resources of two Atlanta educational complexes —one with the world's largest private cluster-college black student enroll­ment and the other with the third largest undergraduate engineering enrollment in the country. Under the dual degree program, which began in January , s tudents will a t tend one of the undergraduate schools at the Atlanta University Center—Clark College, Morehouse College, Morris Brown College or Spelman College— for three years and then transfer to Tech for an additional two years. Upon successfully completing t he , program a t both institutions, t he stu­

dent will simultaneously receive two degrees—a Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree awarded by the Atlanta University Center-affili­ated college at tended and one of the bachelor's degrees in engineering awarded by Georgia Tech.

In announcing the $265,000 grant, Grand said: "We view this program as a particularly appropriate way to achieve three major objectives: I t will enable Negro students to receive their technical training a t one of the nation's finest engineering schools without severing their relationships with their undergraduate colleges; it will bring white and Negro institu­tions of higher learning into much closer collaboration, to the advantage of both; and it will significantly in­crease the number of highly qualified Negro engineers available to indus­try."

Tech has had a similar arrange­ment with other liberal arts institu­tions in the South since 1954. The institutions presently associated with Georgia Tech in the so-called 3-2 program are the University of the South, Davidson College, the Uni­versity of Chattanooga, Southwestern at Memphis and the University of Georgia.

T h e primary difference between Tech's previously established 3-2 programs and the new one with At­lanta University Center is the fact

that it is the first one to pu t empha­sis on placing the Negro in an engi­neering environment. Another im­portant difference is that the insti­tutions involved in the program are located in the same city and the dual degree program students a t the first three grade levels may be jointly enrolled a t Georgia Tech as special students t a k i n g pre-engineering courses not offered by the University Center colleges.

The Olin Mathieson Trus t grant will be used in two ways. First it will support an adequate administrative staff at both Atlanta University Cen­ter and a t Tech to the end that every high school student from the low socio-economic areas of the region will learn of the opportunities of engineering, and that those students with basic abilities for engineering will be sought out and encouraged to plan for engineering careers. Ade­quate t ime for undergraduate student guidance toward engineering on the part of the Atlanta University Cen­ter coordinator will be essential to sustaining the students ' interest de­veloped at the high school level.

The second area of use for the Trust funds will be to provide schol­arships to some 85 qualified students. The scholarships will be par t of a financial aid package which will al­low students who can qualify for state and federal aid programs to do so. Then the funds from Olin Mathie­son Trus t can be used to supple­ment governmental aid, or replace it when the students who do need aid cannot qualify under governmental programs.

During the final seven months of 1968, two of the Atlanta University Center institutions conceived of the need for an engineering dimension for their students. First, a member of the faculty a t Morehouse College approached the Tech administration to learn of the possibility of estab­lishing a dual degree plan of study in the various areas of engineering. Finding a mutual interest, the two institutions then established a joint committee to work out the program. Meeting first on J u n e 7, 1968, this committee instructed a subcommittee to draw u p an agreement which would describe the requirements of the proposed dual degree plan. The agreement was drafted within six days and then reviewed by admin­istrators at the two institutions. On August 14, the Curriculum Commit­tee a t Georgia Tech approved the

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agreement. Very shortly thereafter the appropriate departmental chair­men, faculty, and board of trustees of Morehouse approved.

In the meantime, a parallel inter­est was developing at Morris Brown College. Conversations were being held involving the president of this institution, the executive secretary of the Atlanta University Center Cor­poration, and the college relations officer of Olin Mathieson Charitable Trust . When it was discovered that Morehouse College was developing a similar interest, Tech's academic deans and those of the undergradu­ate institutions of the University Center got together for expanded dis­cussions. These led to an all inclu­sive agreement for the dual degree program. The Atlanta University Center Senate gave its approval on November 7, and the Council of Presidents of the Center on Novem­ber 19.

Tech sought and obtained approval of the agreement by all its required committees and officials. "The agree­ment was reviewed and approved by the Board of Regents of the Univer­sity System of Georgia on December 11, 1968. The approval allows im­mediate involvement in the plan on the par t of the Georgia Inst i tute of Technology."

The dual degree program has the advantage that students who might have neither knowledge of nor in­centive toward engineer ing , nor sufficient education in the related mathematics and sciences will have the opportunity to remedy this during the early years of their ex­perience in the Atlanta University Center colleges. They will be able to take three years of liberal arts educa­tion and two years of technological training and end up with two bacca­laureate degrees—a Bachelor's de­gree in Arts or Sciences from a Uni­versity Center college and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Tech. The third year may serve as a transi­tion year in which a student may be jointly enrolled in a college and at the Institute, enabling him to have a chance to determine the true extent of his or her interest in engineering before leaving his undergraduate lib­eral ar ts college. Arrangements may also be made for Tech students to take courses at the University Cen­ter which are not offered at Tech.

According to the agreement, the total s tudy program at the Atlanta University Center college will have a

minimum number of hours equal to 75 per cent of the total hours re­quired by the college for the award of the bachelor's degree. The student will not be admitted to Tech with full Junior standing until this re­quirement is met. T h e student pur­suing the dual degree may be jointly enrolled at both institutions. H e will remain on special s tudent standing a t Tech until he meets the 75 per cent requirement a t an Atlanta University Center college. Special s tudent stand­ing will not prevent him from en­rolling in any course at Georgia Tech for which he has the prerequisites.

To obtain full Junior standing at Tech, the dual degree program stu­dent also must have written recom­mendation from the appropriate offi­cial at his college at the Atlanta University Center.

Courses which must be included in the three-year study program at the Center colleges are 12 semester hours of English; six of economics; six of history, social science or a modern language; eight of chemistry, 12 of physics; and 16 of mathematics. The Tech curriculum committee further insisted that chemistry, mathematics, and physics courses must be taught at Morehouse College in the initial stages of the program. Upon approval of the Jo in t Atlanta University Cen­ter-Georgia Tech dual degree com­mittee, future offerings in these areas at other Center colleges may become part of the pre-engineering study programs. I t will be the responsibility of this joint committee to periodical­ly review the offerings in chemistry, mathematics and physics to insure that the Center students are properly prepared to undertake the advanced course in engineering on the Tech campus.

In addition to this stipulation, students planning to transfer into engineering programs requiring engi­neering graphics and /o r engineering mechanics courses in the first two years must take these courses on the Tech campus prior to transferring.

The dual degree program students from the Center will be required to complete a Tech study program of not less than 110 quarter hours and not more than 116 quarter hours. As the number of hours of credit re­quired for a degree in engineering changes in the future, the hours re­quired of the dual degree student shall be varied accordingly.

The details of this program are to be subjected to review at least once

each year by the joint committee. The plan will be amended from time

' to time to reflect changes in the pro­grams offered by the colleges and the Insti tute.

In responding to Grand's Atlanta announcement, Dr . Albert E. Man-ley, president of Spelman College and chairman of the Council of Presidents of the University Center, said, "First , the program represents a major step in expanding career op­portunities for Negro college gradu­ates, i n an era when technology is a central factor in society, it is signifi­cant that a serious a t tempt is being made by these two universities to prepare Negroes for leadership in engineering. T h e dual degree charac­teristic insures the student a sound liberal arts background before con­centrating on technical studies, and effective leadership requires such a broad-based program. I want to add that this cooperative venture is an­other sign of the increasing trend to interinstitutional cooperation in higher education. And finally, of course, particular thanks need be given to the Olin Mathieson Charita­ble Trus t whose vision in providing supporting funds has translated this creative idea into a practical reality."

Dr. Edwin D. Harrison, president of Tech, added that the program should significantly increase the number of s tudents interested in en­gineering, "a fact that is of utmost importance to all engineering educa­tors as well as to America's industrial leaders. I t will also increase the in­terest in our other 3-2 programs, the best combination of the technological and liberal arts educational plans available today. And, it will also en­able many students who might not have considered engineering as a career to enter the field."

Dr. Louis Padulo, a Tech alumnus and a mathematics professor a t Morehouse College, will be the co­ordinator for the program at Atlanta University Center. He will be aided by an advisory committee with repre­sentation from each of the Center undergraduate colleges.

Dr. F . W. Schutz, Jr., assistant to the Dean of Engineering for Guidance a t Tech, will serve as the coordinator a t Tech. H e is a pro­fessor of Civil Engineering and is the state coordinator for the Junior En­gineering Technical Society in Geor­gia and for the Engineers Council for Professional Development Guidance Committee.

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THE BIGGEST SOPH flORE OF THI I ALL

Written by Jim Schultz • Photographed by Bill Childress, Jr.

• I F YOU LOOKED closely, you could spot the tall, lanky youth wherever he walked. His camouflage-speckled Tyrolean cap did little to conceal him. This, despite the fact he claimed he almost was hit by a car the other day because the driver didn't notice him in his new headgear. A friend suggested he wear the cap on the basketball court and then no one would see him there either.

For there, on the Alexander Me­morial Coliseum floor and the play­ing surfaces of opponents' field-houses, is where Georgia Tech sopho­more Rich Yunkus is making his mark. The 6-9y2 pride of Benton, 111., can't hide when he doffs the new gold and white uniform with number 40 on front and back. Rich Yunkus is the Yellow Jackets' mature, young master of the art, and sometime, science that is basketball.

For the first part of the season he has averaged 24 points and a dozen rebounds a game, not bad for a guy who turned 19 last November. The superlatives have grown repetitious as his coaches, opposing coaches, fans and visiting reporters have marveled at Yunkus' talent and effort night after night.

"He's one of the best we've ever signed at Tech," head coach Whack Hyder, now in his 18th season, said when Yunkus signed his grant-in-aid two years ago. Nothing has happened to change Hyder's mind. "There's no question as to his ability," Hyder says. "He should develop into a real super-star, and I mean that in the true sense of the phrase."

"Yunkus is the best big man I've been associated with," Jacket assist­ant coach Dwane Morrison says. "He hasn't come close to reaching his potential." Fellow assistant Byron Gilbreath puts it this way—"Yunkus has fantastic talent and a great tem­perament. He's the best big man we've had at Tech since I've been here (12 years)." That would include

Josh Powell, Jim Caldwell, Jim Riley, Alan Nass, Lenny Cohen, standout players in their own right.

Ultra-successful Tennessee coach Ray Mears adds, "Yunkus is as good as any sophomore who has come into this league. When he was in high school he was on about the same plane as Spencer Haywood (United States Olympic hero and an All-America candidate for the University of Detroit). In other words, he was one of the two or three best high school players in the country."

Yunkus followed his All-America career at Benton Consolidated High School with a record-snapping Tech freshman year. He averaged 25.4 points and 16.5 rebounds, both new freshman standards, and peaked with 41 points against Clemson. Last fall the pre-season buildup, not to men­tion opponents' defenses once the campaign got underway, could have forced Yunkus to crack under the strain. Instead he reacted like a man of more than his years. "The pressure has never really bothered me, I guess. When you go out on the floor it's all basketball. You don't think of any­thing else," Yunkus says.

"No sophomore in Tech history has distinguished himself to the ex­tent the rangy southpaw forward has in the Engineer's three games to date," said knowledgeable Knoxville Journal sports writer Ben Byrd be­fore the Jackets tangled with Tennes­see in December. Yunkus began slowly in the season lid-lifter at Clemson's new gym. A hot second half in the 76-72 loss carried him to a 16-point total, nothing special and no indication of things to come. Three nights later his 26 points sparked Tech to an 87-59 rout of Southern Methodist.

Then, in a losing effort at Georgia, Yunkus achieved another in a series of personal basketball zeniths. Work­ing against 6-10 Bulldog pivot Bob Lienhard and one or two other de-

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In a year when the Jackets are fighting to keep their collective heads above water, the greatest big man in Tech history suddenly ap­pears on a scene that needs him.

fenders most of the evening, Yunkus faked, faked and faked some more to escape Bulldog clutches for 32 points. The performance including 14 of 22 from the field and 15 rebounds, stunned Lienhard and the usually partisan Georgian fans into buzzing admiration. Next, gaining more poise as he gained more varsity ex­perience, Yunkus deftly sank 22 points against the Volunteers. After four games he had connected on 62.9 per cent of his field goal at­tempts from his low post position.

The Jackets, 1-3 mainly because of youthful errors and inconsistency, traveled to El Paso for the Sun Carnival Tournament just prior to Christmas. Yunkus' tourney record-breaking 37-point production wasn't enough to stop the speedy University of Texas at El Paso Miners, but did offset his first "off" night of the year the next evening against Oklahoma City (13 points) and earn him unani­mous selection to the All-Tourna­ment team. Since the New Year he has scored 23 at Tampa in a win, 32 against Jacksonville in a loss, 21 against Clemson in a win, 28 against North Carolina in a loss, then dropped to 13 against Mercer in a win and 14 against Ohio State in a heartbreaking loss. Three nights later he was back to 25 in an easy win over Rice.

Yunkus' specialty, a soft, left-handed jump shot, excites fans who appreciate beauty and grace as well as it demoralizes the opposition. "He has the best touch for a man his size I've ever seen. I don't think he can take a bad shot," Morrison says. "I've always shot with a flick of the wrist," Yunkus says. "The touch has always been there. It's natural. I didn't have to work on it other than to do wrist-strengthening exercises."

But scoring, as it shouldn't be, isn't primary in Yunkus' mind. "Of course, I'd much rather score fewer points and win. I don't care how."

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SOPHOMORE — continued

Other phases of the game also please Yunkus. "I get a thrill out of assists. I love to hit the open man with a pass. And when I play, what I really go after are rebounds. I desperately want to become a better rebounder. I get a greater kick out of 20 re­bounds than 40 points. I really like to block shots, not knocking the ball back to the floor, but just touching the ball, deflecting it and catching the rebound."

Yunkus did all these things and more for Benton High Coach Rich Herrin. "Rich was an extremely hard worker," Herrin says. "He was not a great player as a boy, but worked hard to improve himself. I liked him because he played at both ends of the court. He played defense and re­bounded." In Yunkus' two varsity seasons Benton finished 31-1 and 30-1 as he scored 1,443 points for a 22.9 average, made 60 per cent of his floor shots, and cornered about 14 rebounds a game. The highlights of his prep career were many. Benton, unrated in state polls at the* begin­ning of the year, nabbed the top spot with a memorable Centralia Holiday Tournament. Benton clobbered the state's fifth-ranked team, New Trier, by 19 points one afternoon and a few hours later toppled Harvey of Thorn­ton, Illinois' best quintet, for the tourney championship.

Benton, the conference's smallest school with a 750 enrollment, won its first South Seven title in the 27 years it had been a league member. Yunkus and the rest of the Rangers coasted to a 31-0 record before losing to Gales-burg, 73-71, on a shot in the last eight seconds in the state tournament quarter-finals. Yunkus, rarely play­ing more than three periods of any game, made the Chicago Daily News All-State team, honorable mention on other All-Illinois squads, and All-Conference.

By the time he was a senior Yun­kus had grown another inch to 6-8 and again sparked Benton to an un­defeated record going into the state tourney. This time Benton was 30-0 when Carbondale, twice victims during the regular season, eliminated the Rangers, 59-53. Despite contract­ing mononucleosis in January, Yun­kus earned about every possible high school honor, including selection to five All-America teams and twice as many All-State squads. He scored 10 points to help the Nation's All-Stars '

"I have always shot with a flick of th touch has always been there. I guess

vrist. The natural."

beat Pennsylvania's finest, 97-88, in the annual Dapper Dan game in Pittsburgh. Only one athlete from each state is picked to play and among Yunkus' teammates were Georgia's Lanny Taylor, Villanova's Howard Porter and Western Ken­tucky's Jim McDaniels.

More than a few colleges sought Rich Yunkus, basketball player ex­traordinaire, for their very own. Yunkus, who was graduated 12th in his class of 170 and is a Dean's List Industrial Management student here, decided on Georgia Tech because it had more to offer than a solid bas­ketball program. "I chose Tech basi­cally because of the education avail­able here. First and foremost my idea was to get a good education. I also liked all of the coaches and the city of Atlanta."

He was so important to the top basketball schools that he got per­sonal letters from Boston College coach, Bob Cousy of Celtics fame and from Princeton great Bill Brad­ley, who was at Oxford studying un­der a Rhodes Scholarship when he wrote three pages to Rich. To top that off, he received a phone call from

John Havlicek, just before the Cel-tics-76ers playoff two years ago. The great pro was urging Rich to cast his lot with Ohio State.

By actual count of his mother, who acted as mail sorter, 220 schools con­tacted Yunkus. After his senior sea­son he cut the list to 20, then eight, then three—Georgia Tech, Vander-bilt and Florida. His parents and Herrin left the decision to him. "Re­cruiting was a great experience, but it did get old," Yunkus says. "Ninety per cent of the recruiters were fine people. They realized my situation. It was hard to say no to some of those coaches." Morrison, Vandy's Roy Skinner and Florida's Tom Bartlett were in Benton May 26, 1967, when Yunkus announced his decision and told two of them no.

Yunkus recalls two recruiting inci­dents more than others. "Once Coach Morrison borrowed some of our old clothes to go fishing. He came back late and Coach Bartlett arrived early that same evening. Coach Morrison had to run downstairs, change clothes and sneak out the back." Then there was the time Yunkus and several other recruits were watching the

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NCAA Tournament in Louisville. Most of the country's coaches were there and they took advantage of the opportunity to talk with the high school stars. Louisville coach John Dromo called in a couple of police­men to "protect" his recruits.

Yunkus showed barely any early symptoms of his future basketball skill. Baseball was everything to the only child of Mr. Tony and Mrs. Donna Yunkus. Rich played first base and pitched in an organized league at the age of five and con­tinued that activity for ten years. "As a little kid that's all I wanted to be—a baseball player. I had been a St. Louis Cardinal fan as long as I can remember and Stan Musial was my idol. I admired him because for the more than 20 years he played I don't think he ever talked back to an umpire or lost his temper."

Yunkus started shooting baskets in the fifth grade and became genu­inely interested in the sport two years later. He was sixth man on his eighth grade team and, at 5-11, 121 pounds, moved into the starting freshman team lineup. He grew two inches during the year and then

"What I really go after are rebounds. I get a bigger kick out of 20 rebounds than 40 points a game."

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SOPHOMORE — continued

"I'm a poor loser. That sounds bad, but that's the way it is. But I haven't given up yet this year."

sprouted four more in the summer so that he was 6-5 by the time he was a sophomore. The rest is history.

Not quite, because Rich, now be­tween 200 and 205 pounds, could still stand some more weight. He shoveled rock 12 hours a day for an asphalt company last summer and gained 15 pounds. He plans to work on a spring weight program with Tech tight end Joel Stevenson.

The delicate touch Yunkus dis­plays on the basketball court spills over into other areas. "I've always liked to work with my hands. I started out with model cars and worked my way up." That up has reached the point where Yunkus now is in the process of building, from scratch, a "T" bucket, a 1932 "T" roadster pick­up. He's spent the past two summers on the task and aims to complete the car in time for the St. Louis auto show this August. Another current project is a scale model of his home, built from balsa wood and pins, about 2,500 of them.

Although he ran cross country and high jumped and participated in foot­ball ("In my freshman and sopho­more years another guy and I alter­nated at split end, bringing in the plays. But I didn't have a future in football. I caught maybe four or five passes in my career.") as condition­ing for basketball, Yunkus' other sports are now limited to bowling, where he averages 190 and has a high single of 257, and pool.

Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Yunkus moved with his parents to Benton, a farming community of 8,000 in the southern Illinois coal-mining area, when he was a year old. His father, of Lithuanian descent and a former boxer and semi-pro football player, is regional manager for the Terminix Pest Control Company. A diligent worker at his sports and studies, Yunkus finds time for relaxation, too. He's a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and has had a steady girl friend for the past couple of years.

What about basketball at Georgia Tech? "Sure, it's been a disappoint­ing season so far, but I haven't given up yet and I don't intend to, even in the last game of the year. We have to fit a few things together yet. We have some tremendous players. If all of us stick together it can be done.

"I'm a poor loser. That sounds bad, but that's the way it is."

That doesn't sound too bad at all, Rich.

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Tech's course in Architecture 251 gives a sophomore a free rein with his imagination and a Tom Sawyer-type from Mississippi takes full advantage of it all by producing this special satire

EEYORE'S DREAM HOUSE in

• TECH SOPHOMORE GUY TAFF of Louisville, Mississippi came to the campus to study architecture because there is no such educational program in his home state and because his father had heard of those "Ramblin ' Recks" from Atlanta. Guy's hair is red and with his general appearance and personality he quickly leaves you with the feeling tha t you are talking with a 1969 version of Tom Sawyer. H e will tell you that he once wanted to be a doctor, but he is convinced now that architecture also helps people and that he is hung up on the idea that the world badly needs good architects.

His goal—and he 's the kind you would expect to have a definite one— is to go into urban planning. "Good architects are the only people who should be city planners," he says.

Last quarter, Guy was enrolled in Professor Rufus R. Greene's class in Architecture 251. With two days re­maining in the quarter, Professor Greene gave his students a sketch problem to complete. The choices he offered were: a diving platform for a resort swimming pool; a crooked little house for a crooked little man; a band shell that would be located in a park; or Eeyore 's house from Winnie-the-Pooh.

The students were told to consider in their sketches improved siting, ex­panded building programs, use of local traditions regarding manpower and materials, adaptation of more advanced technology, and even a touch of sentimentality.

"The idea of sketching Eeyore's house was a little bit of insanity and childishness that we all have," says Guy. " I go crazy over Alice in Wonderland.

" I designed my house for Eeyore out of sticks—not reinforced con­crete. I had to limit myself because here are three stuffed animals and they're dumb. I had to think of the limitations.

"Back home, I'll be working under

limitations. There will be very little money. I think it 's a talent to be able to do something under limitations. Here were these animals with no money. I t brings out the best quali­ties of the architect to do something under these circumstances.

"Professor Greene's imagination made my sketch possible. H e should get the credit for seeing the genius in the idea. You might say, that I found the right professor and he found the right person."

On the pages following is a repro­duction of Guy Taff's House a t Pooh Corner, which the student described in the following satirical paper sub­mit ted along with the rendering.

The original structure of the resi­dence of Eeyore was built by the owner himself of natural material. Although the building had no ex­terior aesthetic appeal, even being described by the owner as "just a house," it still served its purpose admirably. It was architecturally functional if not totally pleasing to the public.

It was so unpleasing to the public, though, that the house was razed and a second one of the same materials was constructed. This construction was contracted (although the ar­rangements are quite uncertain even today) and carried out by Pooh and Piglet. After a careful observation by Winnie-the-Pooh, the building site was changed to the Warm Side of the Wood. Not only was the new site better, but so was the building.

This house should be remembered in architectural history as one of the earliest A-frame buildings in Eng­land. The large open end — open to the woods and fields — and the rough timbers on both the interior and ex­terior (the bark may be found intact on many of the beams) give the house a definite relation to its en­vironment. Frank Lloyd Wright would have been proud of this fine example of organic architecture.

Thus far, we see how the addition

of a-contractor and a builder, work­ing free of the owner, can make a structure better. Pooh and Piglet maintain that its much better. "It just shows what can be done by taking a little trouble," commented Eeyore. Bearing their opinions in mind, it can be assumed that the addition of an architect and his co­ordinating talents would produce an even better structure.

This is the problem: Build a bet­ter house at Pooh Corner and, as an architect consider the available ma­terials, skill of local laborers, climate, the environment and the personality of the owner.

The timbers of the A-frame will be extended to create a second story "V-frame" which, when filled with straw to be imported from across the stream at the Six Pines, will make a "comfy" sleeping loft. This room will be covered by light weight sticks and will be accessible by a ramp extend­ing from the back of the "V." This ramp-stairway is to be protected by a three-side lean-to-roof which cre­ates a third room. This room can probably be put to use by Eeyore as a "thinking room." He has noted on previous occasions that "none of the others have brains." It can double as a kitchen.

The original room may be used as the sitting parlor, tea room, entrance hall, entertaining room and as "a place to keep Pooh's sweater when he comes to visit."

The materials and labor are avail­able immediately. The special skill of lashing timbers can be provided by Christopher Robin. The site and en­vironmental relationship are the same as before, but the new building, bearing the definite touches of an arctitect, strengthens both its aes­thetic appeal and functional ability.

* * * Note to the elder Mr . Taff in Louis­ville, Mississippi: We're glad you had heard of those Ramblin ' Recks!

SUSAN CRANGLE.

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The Alumni Association held a typically successful Tech dinner for the soon-to-depart • President and his wife as

ANOTHER ERA NEARS ITS FINAL MOMENTS

On its feet, applauding, the crowd at the right is part of the more than 650 alumni, faculty, students, and friends paying a measure of their respect for the man, shown

above, who has led Georgia Tech for over HV2 years, the greatest growth period in the Institute's history. The date is January 17,1969, the scene is the grand ballroom of the Atlanta Marriott Hotel, the event is the Harrison Dinner, and the decor, oddly enough, is red and black. During a fast-moving program presided over in impressive style by Alumni Association Presi­dent Larry Gellerstedt, shown above with President Harrison, the outgoing head of the Fnstitute and his wife, Dorothy, were honored by Tech people from throughout the nation. During the evening of the 24 hours designated as Edwin D. Harrison Day in Georgia by a proclamation of Governor Lester Maddox in Atlanta by a similar document signed by Mayor Ivan Allen, the president and his wife received a series of tributes from all of the groups who benefited by his leadership and you may read about them by turning tfve page.

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ANOTHER ERA — continued Dean Emeritus George C. Griffin presents the bag that makes President Harrison permanent chairman of the "Sackbrains."

No sticky sentimentality

allowed during the evening

T he program had that absolutely correct balance that set apart special Tech dinners for George Griffin and Bobby Dodd in previous years. The

humor of Griffin presenting the president wi th the "sack to carry his brains around i n , " or Student Body President Carey Brown giving his "box of goodies" from the students, and Dean Vernon Crawford, "You wi l l leave the job the same downy-faced youth that you were when you came to us," was wel l balanced by serious, yet unsentimental talks by Howard Tellep-sen (on the right giving the keynote address), Allen Morris, Jack McDonough, and Dean Crawford. Dr. Crawford, perhaps, best summed it up when he spoke for the faculty in praising the president for his superb leadership in bringing about the peaceful integration of Tech: "Looking back on it that might not seem like much of an accomplishment, but we who were here know the temper of that t ime."

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Allen Morris of Miami, chairman of the Alumni Association's National Advisory Board, brings the greetings of that group.

Dr. Vernon Crawford, dean of the General College, talks about President Harrison's contributions to the faculty and to Tech.

J. J. McDonough, president of the Georgia Tech Foundation, discusses the presidency and brings greetings.

Carey Brown, president of the Tech Student Government, brings the point of view of the students, lightly.

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A short farewell from a pair of grateful people

W hen all of the speakers had added their words of wisdom for the evening, the president spoke for the Harrisons. " I t is t ime for us to slip our

shoes back on, the party is almost over," he said. Then he thanked everybody there for coming and saying something nice to them, "but , the important thing isn't this dinner, it's all of the assistance we have received from the people you represent." Larry Geller-stedt then presented the Harrisons wi th an inscribed silver service and a mil l ion dollar check from George P. Burdell (that he exchanged a few days later for a $5,500 one from members of the Tech family) and the evening was over.

President Harrison makes his short talk of appreciation to all of the alumni, students, faculty, and others who helped him during his time at Tech (above), while his wife, Dorothy, busies herself opening the presents, and finally (at left), the well-wishers line up to thank them.

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NEWS FROM THE CAMPUS

Roll Call off to flying start T H E 1968-69 Annual Roll Call of the Georgia Tech National Alumni As­sociation moved ahead of last year's record-breaking effort in both contrib­utors and total dollars by December. On December 31, the 22nd version of Tech's nationally-known alumni fund drive showed 10,934 alumni contribut­ing $329,938 compared to last year's figures on the same date of 10,629 donors and $296,322.

The 21st Roll Call had a final count of 17,483 alumni and $511,250. This year's first-half dollar amount is more than Tech alumni gave in an entire year in all Roll Calls excepting the past three and it is within $7,000 of one of them. The Roll Call ends on June 30 and Association President Larry Gellerstedt and his fund chair­man James P. "Polly" Poole are con­fident that a new record will be set by that time.

Funds coming in through the Roll Call, along with Tech-Georgia Devel­opment funds are used for faculty salary and faculty development pro­grams and for student financial aid programs. These funds are adminis­tered by the Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc. In December, the Foundation Board voted to establish a total of 16 Georgia Tech National Merit Schol­arships a year to be funded through alumni contributions to the Roll Call. These scholarships will begin with the coming school year and are ex­pected to up Tech's number of national merit scholars which last year fell be­hind three other schools in the South including the University of Georgia for the first time.

Textile's C. A. Jones Dead at 86 PROFESSOR EMERITUS Charles Alfred

Jones, who headed the Textile Engi­neering Department at Tech from 1933 until 1945, died in Atlanta on January 8. Professor Jones worked at Tech for 47 years until his retirement in 1955 and was one of the best-known of all of the teachers in the history of the Textile Engineering School.

A portrait of Professor Jones was unveiled and presented to the textile school last year at the 24th annual meeting of the Textile Education Foundation.

Involved in many research programs in textile engineering and director of the first sponsored research project at the Engineering Experiment Station at Tech, he served as chairman of the National Association of Textile Chem­ists, Southeastern Section, 1934-35. He was widely recognized in the field of processing domestic flax and in dyeing and finishing.

A 1904 graduate of Tech, he was an honorary member of Phi Psi, hon­orary textile fraternity, and ANAK, honorary society at Tech.

A lifelong resident of Vinings in Cobb County, he also attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was church school superintendent and steward in the Vinings Methodist Church for many years.

Survivors include his wife, the former Lucille McLain; a son, Charles A. Jones, Jr., Nashville, Ga., and four daughters, Mrs. James H. Cox, Columbia, Mrs. C. C. Crabille, Atlanta, Mrs. H. G. Snipes, Smyrna, and Miss Lucy Ellen Jones, Vinings.

Students set up high school program for Atlantans A GROUP of Tech students tackled the problem of adult functional illiteracy in the Atlanta area in January when

THE SECOND COVER

This photograph by Bill Childress, Jr., a senior at Tech, portrays stronger than words the final moments of the Harrison Dinner. During the evening, it was announced that the presi­dent would join J. P. Stevens as executive vice president as soon as his Tech tour of duty was completed. His major work area will be tech­nology as it has been for all of his adult life and industry will benefit greatly from his work. But he has left a legacy at Tech as Jack McDoripugh said during the evening.

a high school equivalency program aimed at young male adults was in­itiated on the campus.

The program is open to anyone who lacks a high school diploma and has sufficient background to be able to work on a high school level, preferably someone who has completed the tenth grade or is capable of working near that level.

Classes are held each Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7 to 9:30 p.m. There are no tuition charges or other expenses.

Tech students enrolled in a social science course are offering the course under faculty supervision as an ex­perimental effort to make a project of this type more appealing to young male high school drop-outs. Tech stu­dents have been operating a similar program for the past three months at C. W. Hill elementary school in the Bedford-Pines district of Atlanta. This program has appealed primarily to female participants and the estab­lishment of the program on-campus is designed to attract male high school drop-outs.

There are today an estimated 10 million adults and older youths in the United States who are functional illiterates. They are unemployed, on welfare. They cannot read the help-wanted ads to locate a possible job; they cannot read street signs or bus signs to find their way to an inter­view; they cannot read or fill out a job application.

While Atlanta has an adequate Adult Basic Education program, the Tech students have determined that it lacks facilities for intensive work on the secondary level.

Record number take engineering test in Georgia MORE THAN 2,000 high school students considering technical careers took a series of tests on January 18, to see if they have what it takes to become an engineer.

The students—850 from metropoli­tan Atlanta alone—took the three-hour National Engineering Aptitude Search Test, sponsored jointly by the Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS) and Georgia Tech. This is the second year that the test has been given on a statewide basis in Georgia.

Simultaneously, the three-hour test was given at 44 test centers through­out the state. According to Dr. F. W. Schutz, Jr., Tech Civil Engineering Professor and JETS state coordinator, the test was administered last year to over 650 students throughout the state at ten test centers. This year's group is the highest to ever take the test.

Beginning at 1:30 p.m., in the Class­room Building at Tech, career coun­seling conferences were set up with

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Spot News

BEA CRAWFORD NAMED ACTING PRESIDENT

• T H E MAN selected to speak for the faculty at the Harrison Dinner (see page 20) was named acting president of the Institute by the Board of Re­gents at the February 12 meeting. Dr. Vernon Crawford, for 20 years a mem­ber of the Tech faculty, will take over on March 1 from President Edwin D. Harrison, who was granted a four-month leave of absence by the Re­gents at the same meeting.

Crawford, dean of the General Col­lege since July 1, 1968, will serve until a new president is named for Georgia Tech. He is the fourth acting presi­dent in the Institute's history. Others included Dr. K. G. Matheson (who served a year before being named president), Dean W. H. Emerson and Governor Nat E. Harrison (who split the duties during a period when Ma­theson was on leave of absence), and Dr. Paul Weber (who held the posi­tion for 17 months prior to the ap­pointment of President Harrison in 1957). Oddly enough Crawford served the same number of months, seven, in the deanship as Weber served as dean of Faculties prior to his appointment as acting president in February, 1956, following the sudden death of Presi­dent Blake Van Leer. Both had been elevated to top administrative posi­tions following superior performance as heads of degree-granting schools.

A native of Amherst, Nova Scotia, Crawford holds a B.S. degree from Mount Allison, an M.S. from Dal-housie University, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. All are in the field of physics.

Before coming to Tech, he taught at Mount Allison, Dalhousie and the University of Virginia, and partici­pated in research programs at the Naval Research Establishment in Canada.

Crawford joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1949 as associate professor of physics and was soon promoted to full professor. In addition to his teach­ing duties, he was actively engaged in research work at the Georgia Tech Engineering Experiment Station for a number of years where he was head of the Physics Branch. In 1961 he was appointed Associate Director of the School of Physics and in 1964 became Director.

He is the author of a number of technical papers, and is a member of the honorary societies of Sigma Xi,

Sigma Pi Sigma, and Phi Kappa Phi. He also holds membership in the American Physical Society. At Geor­gia Tech, he has served on numerous committees including the Administra­tive Council, the Committee for Ten­ure and Advancement, the Executive Committee and the Athletic Board.

Dr. Crawford is an Elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta and is very active in the work of the Sunday School. He is well known on the Tech campus as a friendly adviser to the students, and is among the best and most sought after speakers on the faculty. His writing has appeared of­ten in the Alumnus and in 1961 a di­rect mail letter written by him was awarded first place in the American Alumni Council's national competition.

In a letter to the faculty and staff, President Harrison outlined his rea­sons for requesting the leave of ab­sence. In part, he said:

"During this four month period that I need to concentrate on clearing up my affairs as President so that an

orderly transition can be made to my successor, I will be available on an on-call basis for ceremonies and other official duties.

"I intend to write my final annual report and answer a great deal of cor­respondence that has piled up since I announced that I would be leaving this position. And I shall be spending a great deal of time winding up my membership on several national and regional committees that I have been serving on by virtue of the office of President. These include among others the Science Information Council of the National Science Foundation, the Council for Financial Aid to Educa­tion, the Board of Visitors of the U. S. Naval Academy, the Joint Tech-Geor­gia Development Fund, and the Geor­gia Science and Technology Commis­sion.

"I also intend to take my vacation during this leave of absence and will join J. P. Stevens and Company as executive vice president for technical services on July 1."

Dean Crawford (right) with Cal Tech's Dr. William Pickering during the noted scientist's visit to Tech.

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students and parents. A series of general lectures about Georgia Tech and engineering careers started the afternoon session. Speakers were top administrators at the Institute.

Several thousand visitors, including the high school students and their parents, were on hand for the after­noon activities. All students who took the test in the Atlanta area at centers other than Tech were invited to at­tend the afternoon program and bring along parents.

Topics ranging from "Engineering, a Creative and Essential Profession," by Dean of the Engineering School, Dr. Arthur G. Hansen, to "Problems Adjusting to Georgia Tech," by Dr. James A. Strickland, Director, Coun­seling and Guidance, were discussed during the afternoon.

"This visit to Tech was a unique opportunity for these students and their families to have a chance to meet and talk with top administrative peo­ple in the technical field all in one place," said Dr. Schutz.

Test scores will be provided the stu­dents and his high school counselor. The results are intended only to help the student decide whether engineer­ing is a field of study that he or she might consider following high school graduation, Schutz explained. "The tests do not predict whether the stu­dent will be successful practicing en­gineering," he emphasized.

Tech holds Merit Scholars' Day GEORGIA TECH hosted over 130 Nation­al Merit Scholarship semi-finalists and their parents from throughout the nation on November 23, during its third annual National Merit Scholars' Day.

The students came from as far away as Texas. They have been adminis­tered the National Merit Scholarship examination and have placed in the semi-finals of this competition. Ac­cording to Jerry Hitt, Tech's director of admissions, "These students repre­sented less than the top one per cent of all senior high school students in the nation on an academic basis."

Fifty members of the Tech faculty and student body were involved in presenting the day-long program for the guests. President Edwin D. Har­rison delivered the morning address on "The Uniqueness of Georgia Tech."

Carey Brown, president of the Tech student body, welcomed the students. Dr. Arthur G. Hansen, Tech's dean of engineering, discussed the programs in the engineering college and Dr. Vernon Crawford, dean of the General College, did the same for the General College. 1

Tech's vice president for develop­

ment, Joe W. Guthridge, discussed the expanding campus of the Institute. A. P. DeRosa, director of placement, gave the scholars an idea of career opportunities in engineering.

The guests lunched with the vice presidents, deans, department heads, faculty and students. Following lunch, Frank Roper, Tech's registrar, pre­sented a discussion of Tech's admission policies, and James E. Dull, dean of students, spoke on extracurricular ac­tivities for the Tech student.

A presentation designed for the parents of the scholars was presented on admissions, financial aid and gui­dance available at Tech. Participating were Jerry Hitt, James L. Garner, financial aid officer, and Dr. James A. Strickland, director of guidance.

Library offers new services WITH ITS $3.5 million addition just completed, Tech's Price Gilbert Mem­orial Library has established a new section that will provide library serv­ices to off-campus commercial users.

Director of Libraries Mrs. J. Henley Crosland has announced that the Technical Information Service at the library will be headed by James B. Dodd, former graduate librarian at Tech.

The service will be available to industrial, research and commercial off-campus users of the library facili­ties. The service will supplement industries and businesses with existing library facilities and will serve as the total library for smaller businesses and industries that have no facilities.

Retrospective literature searches a n d current awareness literature searching and notification are services that will be available for the first time to off-campus users. Photocopying of journal articles, books, theses, and other materials in the library's col­lection will continue to be available. An off-campus user may request that photocopies be made of materials that are not in the Tech collection.

The director of the new service came to Tech in 1967 from Northern Illinois University. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and received a Master of Science degree in Library Science from the University of Illinois.

Dodd is a member of Phi Delta Kappa, Georgia Library Association, and the Southeastern Library Associa­tion. He is serving currently as the public relations chairman for the South Atlantic chapter of the Special Libraries Association.

Price Gilbert Memorial Library is considered one of the outstanding technical libraries in the nation. It was chosen by the Library of Con­gress as one of 16 libraries in the United States and Canada to take part in a pilot program to develop pro­cedures for using computers to speed

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Station's Long is honored T H E DIRECTOR of Tech's Engineering Experiment Station has been elected a Fellow by the Board of Directors of the Institute of Electrical and Elec­tronics Engineers.

Dr. Maurice W. Long's election was announced by the Institute president Seymour W. Herwald of New York. "Dr. Long has achieved this distinc­tion for sustained contributions to and leadership in advancing the technology of radar systems and the understand­ing of electromagnetic scattering," Herwald said.

A Tech alumnus, Dr. Long was named director of the Engineering Ex­periment Station in July 1968. He is also Associate Dean for the Division of Graduate Studies and Research.

Dr. Long received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1959. He has been engaged actively in research and development at Tech since 1946. In 1955, he organized the Radar Branch at Tech and served as its first Head until 1960. He organized the Elec­tronics Division, now the largest of Tech's research divisions, in 1959 and continues to serve as its chief.

Social Sciences Bartley Gets Top Fellowship A TECH faculty member has received a $7,500 post-doctoral fellowship from Johns Hopkins University's Institute of Southern History for a year's re­search on regional Alabama politics.

Dr. Numan V. Bartley, assistant professor of Social Sciences at Tech, was granted the fellowship by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sc­iences at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Allyn W. Kimball. A small number of the post-doctoral fellowships are granted on a select basis each year.

Dr. Bartley joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1963. He received a Master's degree from North Texas State Uni­versity and was granted the Doctor

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of Philosophy degree in History by Vanderbilt University. He is the au­thor of a forthcoming book entitled, Race and Politics in the South during the 1950's. The book will be released this summer by the Louisiana State University Press.

Architecture's Bredendiek Elected A TECH PROFESSOR has been elected regional vice president of the In­dustrial Designers Society of America.

Professor Hin Bredendiek, Head of the Industrial Design Department at the School of Architecture at Tech, was named vice president of the South­ern region of the society.

The Industrial Designers Society of America is a non-profit national organization with a membership of 600 professionals whose record of accom­plishment indicates competence in the field. The Society's objectives include the maintenance of high standards of design and professional integrity, the encouragement of sound design edu­cation, research, creative experiment and cooperation with industry and government.

Grants Announced T H E NATIONAL Aeronautics and Space Administration has awarded more than $130,000 to Georgia Tech for

continuation of research projects. Dr. J. D. Clement, professor of

Nuclear Engineering, has received $57,000 for his study of a gaseous core nuclear rocket. Presently, chemical rockets are used, but Clement hopes to find a rocket that will be economi­cal, give higher performance and still maintain a reasonable size.

A grant of $38,000 has been made to the School of Mechanical Engineer­ing for support of an engineering sys­tems design program. The grant is under the direction of Dr. Arthur G. Hansen, Tech's dean of engineering.

Dr. A. B. Huang, professor of Aerospace Engineering, received a grant of $35,000 to be used in his re­search on satellite flow and re-entry gases.

Georgia Tech also received $70,891 from the U.S. Army Research Office for support of a three-year research project on how gases behave when they are near salt-like substances.

Co-investigators on the project, of­ficially entitled "The Interaction of Gases with Ionic Substrates," are Robert Pierotti, Professor of Chemis­try, and Dr. Bruce W. Davis, Assistant Professor of Chemistry.

One of the main aims of the pro­ject, according to Dr. Pierotti, is "primarily to understand the nature of the forces between molecules and solids, and to determine what makes them stick together or repel one an­other."

NEV 3 OF THE ALUMNI

I f ^ / I J. Hardin Jones, ME, died November 17. Mr. Jones was

a well known engineer and business­man in Chattanooga. He was asso­ciated with Tennessee Products at the time of his retirement. His widow re­sides at 351 Glenwood Drive, Chatta­nooga, Tennessee.

»t—\ y i Charles H. Strong, ME, died 1 J ̂ + December 27. Mr. Strong was

retired from Robert Company as an engineer and previously was with Georgia Power Company for about 30 years.

i/\—j Sam E. Levy, ME, Atlanta | / realtor and Jewish leader,

died December 27. Mr. Levy was for­mer owner of the Levy Tire Company and one of Tech's original co-op stu­dents. Survivors include the widow, two daughters and a sister.

Sarasota, Florida.

»f-j r" j Charles H. Butt died No-CZ. CZ. vember 17. His widow resides

at 3225 Bryn Mawr, Dallas, Texas 75225.

J C^ r-\ We recently learned of the CZ. O death of William L. Parker,

Com. John Troup Shewmake died No­

vember 20. He was chairman of the board of Southwestern Electric Ser­vice Company. His widow resides at 3924 Centenary Drive, Dallas, Texas.

'24 James W. Weems, Sr., GE, died June 8.

'?1 widow

Hooper Watkins Russell, ME, died November, 1968. His

resides at 1227 First Street,

> f \ r- C. C. Breithaupt, EE, has re­tired from Georgia Power

Company as an engineer after 41 years of service.

We recently learned of the death of Charles R. Frazier.

Gordon F. Price, EE, chief engineer of the Southeastern Underwriters As-

1 Dr. Leonard M. Blumenthal, '23, has been appointed as the first Luther Marion Defoe distinguished professor of mathematics at the University of Missouri at Columbia. He has been a member of the Missouri faculty since 1936.

Charles Fleetwood, '23, of Houston, has been / i elected treasurer of ULI —the Urban Land Institute.' He is formerly senior vice president of the Prudential Insurance Co. of America and is chairman of the Houston City Planning Commission.

Henry D. Anastasas, '29, has been reelected presi­dent of the Far East Society of Architects and Engineers. He is Chief Architect, Design Div., at the Headquarters Fifth Air Force, Fuchu Air Station, Japan. He is the third society President.

J. Glenn Dyer, '33, has received the Dept. of Commerce Silver Medal for over 20 years service in Weather Bureau Operations in polar regions. He is Deputy Chief of the Wea­ther Bureau's Overseas Operations Division.

Ralph E. Slay, '37, has been elected governor of Georgia district of Kiwanis International. An architect in Decatur with Bothwell, Jenkins, Slay & Associates, he is past president of the Sandy Springs Kiwanis Club and has 16 years perfect attendance at meetings.

Eugene Gwaltney, Jr., '40, has been named president of Russell Mills, Alexander City, Ala. He joined the company in 1952, after being associated with Roberts & Co. A Rock Hill, S.C., native, he is a director of the Birmingham branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

Jackson S. Smith, Jr., '42, has been named vice presi­dent and general manager of stamp operations for Sperry & Hutchinson Co. He will be responsible for all functions of the company's trading stamp business. He has been a vice president of the company since 1965.

W. F. Norman, '46, has been promoted to assistant division manager of the Atlanta division of Atlanta Gas Light Co. Formerly, he was division engineer in Atlanta. He joined the company in 1946 and is past treasurer of the Georgia Architectural Engineering Society.

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Richard D. Dombach, '47, has been named plant manager of Armstrong Cork Co.'s Lancaster, Pa., Closure Plant. He joined Armstrong in 1960. He was formerly manager of plant engineering and tool design at the Closure Plant.

Robert H. Barge, Jr., '49, has been appointed region­al manager of Allstate Insurance Co.'s Charlotte, N. C, office. The office serves both Carolinas. He joined Allstate in 1953 and is the former Pacific Coast Zone Services Mgr.

Russell M. Quarles, '49, has been named division safety director in Ford Motor Company's Research and Engineering Center, Dearborn, Mich. He was previously in various safety engineering capa­cities at Ford and Amer­ican Cynamid Co.

William F. Stevens, '49, has been named director of manufacturing for Data Packaging Corp., Cam­bridge, Mass. He joins DPC from the Gillette Company. He is a founder of the American Society of Quality Control of Mexico.

B. J. Anderson, '50, is the new general sales manager of Puritan Chemical Co., Atlanta manufacturer of chemical specialties. He joined the organization in 1963 and, will direct the company's sales organiza­tion, working with 30 sales managers.

Floyd E. Williams, Jr., '50, is the new corporate chief engineer for Springs Mills, Fort Mill, S. C. Springs operates 19 textile plants in the two Carolinas. Since 1965, he has been super­intendent of engineering design and construction in Monsanto's corporate engineering dept.

James D. Reeves, Jr., '52, has been promoted to man­ager in Sun Oil Company's technical economics dept. As manager of venture analysis, he will be re­sponsible for providing economic analyses in the area of corporate business ventures and subsidiary company affairs.

I / John H. Fyfe, '55, is one of three executives ap­pointed to head up the new Corporate Planning & Improvement department at Signode Corp., Chicago. He joined Signode in 1959 as a field engineer. The company produces steel and non-metallic strapping and machinery for its application.

sociation, Atlanta, has been honored for 23 years of service on the Nation­al Fire Protection Association's com­mittee on automatic sprinklers at a dinner in New York City.

Thomas Q. Winkler has returned to New Orleans after a mission in the Far East to establish new contracts for trade. He is first vice president and president-elect of International House.

' r ^ O Arthur J. Copeland died June C. D 19. He was president of Cope-

land Co., Inc.

» r ^ ~~1 We recently learned of the f_ / death of Walter M. Acree,

Jr., DeLand, Florida. We recently learned of the death of

H. G. Wheeler, November 23.

' r~J Q We recently learned of the C. O death of Alexander A.

Berger. Charles Broad, vice president of

Mississippi Valley Gas Company, died December 24. His widow resides at 735 Fairview Street, Jackson, Mis­sissippi.

R. Banks DuPre, TE, died Novem­ber 21. Mr. DuPre was a Marietta, Georgia, real estate developer and former city engineer for several years. His widow resides at 275 South Wood­land Drive, S.W., Marietta.

George B. Fowler, Com, of Valdosta, Georgia, died October 30. He was em­ployed by L. G. Balfour Company as a special southeast representative.

' O / l Frank Magill is teaching this year on the faculty of the

University of Southern California's School of Library Science.

» O O James T. Hanie of Decatur, \ J C. Georgia, died August 16.

' O O John J. McGwire died De-O VJ cember 8. He was general

manager of Atlanta News Agency. His widow resides at 621 Starlight Drive, N.E., Atlanta.

We recently learned that J. F. Wal-den of Wrens, Georgia, died.

We recently learned that James J. Waldrip, CE, died. His widow resides at Box 310, Eureka, Kansas.

' O / \ L. M. Edwards, EE, has been lJ^"T promoted to vice president-

engineering with The Savannah Elec­tric and Power Company.

' O C Kenneth H. Hanner, EE, died l j «_J November 17. His widow re­

sides at 1067 Reeder Circle, N.E., At­lanta.

' O " 7 We recently learned that O / Charles D. Burden of At­

lanta, died September 7. W. Hal Roberts, former vice presi­

dent and area manager of the North Pacific area of The Coca-Cola Export Corporation, has been elected a senior vice president.

'41 Dr. John D. Bird, ME, has received a Special Service

Award for Exceptional Service. Dr. Bird was cited "for continuing leader­ship and outstanding technical con­tributions in the fields of aircraft sta­bility and control flight dynamics, control theory, guidance and naviga­tion requirements of space mission and simulation." Dr. Bird is em­ployed by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, astromechanics branch, aeronautical and space me­chanics division.

We recently learned that Robert E. Pernell died June 30. His widow re­sides at 1601 Laurel Lane, High Point, North Carolina 27262.

» A Q Marion O. McKinney, GE, T L has been presented with a

Special Service Award for Exceptional Service by National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Mr. McKinney, dynamic stability branch, flight me­chanics and technology division, was cited "for formulation and direction of outstanding research programs in low-speed aerodynamics, including pi­oneering research of V/STOL air­craft, which has contributed signifi­cantly to the Center's recognized lead­ership in this rapidly developing field."

' / I R Henry C. Steed, PhE, has T " l J been named grants policy of­

ficer of the Public Health Service, Rockville, Maryland.

'45 Larry L. Gellerstedt, ChE, has been sworn in as a mem­

ber of the Community Relations Com­mission by Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr., '33, of the City of Atlanta.

G. Warren Gregory. BE, was made president of the mantex division of Genesco Inc., Nashville, Tennessee, in August, 1968. In October he was elect­ed to the board of governors.

' / I R Capt Robert C. Engram, CE, ^ • L J has recently had a street in

Gulfport, Mississippi, named Engram Drive in his honor. Capt. Engram was praised for "numerous contributions made by him and the service men un­der his command to the civic and cul­tural life of the community." In early December Capt. Engram left for an assignment in Vietnam.

A. James Hackl, ME, has been se­lected as a director, president and chief executive of the Herff Jones

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Company, manufacturers of rings, medals, awards and yearbooks. Mr. Hackl was formerly with the Worth-ington Corp. He will be located in Indianapolis, Indiana.

» y i —-j Robert H. Maurer, ChE, has ^ T / been appointed environmen­

tal maintenance coordinator of Cela-nese Chemical Company, Bishop, Texas. Mr. Maurer and his family re­side at 607 Shelton, Kingsville, Texas.

1 S\Q R- C Baker, ME, addressed ^ T O the Chattanooga section of

the American Society of Mechanical Engineers November 19. Mr. Baker is a senior engineer of instrument de­velopment at the DuPont Chattanooga nylon plant.

G. Julian Brown, ME, manager of of the Birmingham office of Carrier Air Conditioning Company, was named one of the company's five lead­ing big-equipment sales engineers at a national sales meeting at Hollywood Beach, Florida.

James A. Gantt, Jr., EE, has been named assistant vice president of Georgia Power Company at Rome, Georgia. He formerly was division manager at Columbus, Georgia.

Gene G. Guenther, IM, sent an in­teresting newsletter about his trials and tribulations and pleasures while working for the USAF in Alaska. In addition to his regular work as a mechanical engineer, he put to work his recently acquired knowledge of corrosion prevention. He lives at 3016 East 41st Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99504.

H. H. Hudlow. EE, former division construction supervisor, Atlanta divi­sion, has been appointed general equipment and building engineer, Southern Bell Telephone Company.

Stephen L. Johnston, EE, spoke at the Tenth Annual North American Air Defense Command, Electromag­netic Warfare Conference November 13-15.

' y l Q George T. Costello, Text., ^ T £ D died December 15 following

a long illness. C. G. Griffin. EE, has transferred

to Canada from Corpus Christi, Texas. Mr. Griffin received a promotion to division manager for the southern di­vision of Schlumberger of Canada. He resides at 303 Willow Ridge Place, S.E., Calgary 30, Alberta, Canada.

Edward M. Peck, IM, has been re­elected chairman of The Aluminum Association's sheet division.

'J— /—| Max B. Jolley, EE, died No-CJ U vember 2. Mr. Jolley was de­

partment manager for electrical engi­neering at Lockheed-Georgia Com­pany. His widow resides at 218 East Lake Drive, Marietta, Georgia.

J. Frederick Medford, IE, has re­cently become assistant general man­ager of the corporate office of Walter V. Sterling, Inc., Consulting Engi­neers.

Charles P. Moreton, CE, has been elected president of the Natural Gas Men of Houston. Mr. Moreton is vice president of Texas Gas Transmission Corporation.

,UZ/\ Richard T. Beckham, ME, has been elected to member­

ship in the American Institute of Plant Engineers. Mr. Beckham is presently plant engineer with the B. F. Goodrich Company in the tex­tile products division.

John M. Gorham, II, IM, is man­ager of industrial engineering for the components division, J. L. Case Com­pany, Racine, Wisconsin.

Lt. Col. William C. Stephens, EE, is attending the U. S. Army War Col­lege where he will complete the senior Army school's ten-month curriculum in June.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. W. R. War­wick, ME, a son, Kenneth Robert, July 5. Mr. Warwick is an engineer for ARO in Tullahoma, Tennessee.

' £T O We recently learned of the v J v 3 death of William S. Freeman.

EE. Dr. W. Rex Hawkins, ChE, com­

pleted a two-week personal foreign aid

visit to Karachi, Pakistan, where he demonstrated surgical methods of ret­inal detachment repair. He was in­vited to make the trip by Karachi eye doctors who had read his writing on surgical techniques in American professional medical journals.

Marvin Perlman, Text., has been appointed vice president of purchasing for American Uniform Company, Cleveland, Tennessee. >

Norman F. Smith, BS, has been named project manager in the naval nuclear components department at The Babcock and Wilcox Company's power generation division. Mr. Smith and his family reside at 180 Maple Street, Doylestown, Ohio.

' p r y l William J. Goldin, IM, has r been named marketing man­

ager with the Atlanta Gas Light Com­pany.

Sidney E. Hawkins, CE, has been promoted to superintendent, Georgia division, Southern Railway System. He is located in Atlanta, moving here from North Carolina.

Ma}. John W. Langford, IE, has received the U. S. Air Force Com­mendation Medal. He was decorated for meritorious service while assigned to the directorate of force structure and war plans at the Air Force Logis­tics Command headquarters, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio.

Maj. Thurman N. Palmer, IM, is

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Systems Manager Probably the fastest growing listed company in their industry seeks BSEE capable of assuming total systems project responsibility in the marketing research, development and implementation of computer control/data acquisition systems. Require hardware experience in such areas as digital logic/circuit design, A/D and D/A converters, DDC or Supervisory control systems, etc. and prefer some software interfacing experience. Ground floor opportunity with company moving into new growing market practically untouched by major CPU manufacturers. Starting salary to $17,000 range—Southwest.

Systems Industrial Engineer New company just recently established to extend computer and IE technologies into con­sumer-oriented applications seeks two key systems engineers to assume cross section of responsibilities within engineering and marketing departments. Prefer experience in areas of computer/instrumentation hardware and software, material handling, high speed conveyor systems, etc. Ground floor opportunity with new company whose parent corpora­tion is glamour stock. Starting salaries to $16,000—Southwest.

NO FEE We are a professional recruiting and consulting firm managed by a TECH engineer. The above positions are only a small sampling of the exceptional hardware and software op­portunities within the activities of systems management, systems design/programming, process control, scientific/commercial applications, etc. as well as marketing, Operations Research, and other associated activities of our client companies in various domestic and international locations—both jr. and sr. positions available. Your current employer will not be contacted without your permission. Send resume in confidence or request our resume form. A call to our Houston Director—J. L. Gresham, BChE, MBA—for further information is also invited.

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on duty at Udorn Royal Thai AFB, Thailand. Maj. Palmer, a helicopter pilot, was assigned at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, before his assignment in Thailand.

Chappell V. Rhino, IM, a sales rep­resentative in Charlotte, North Caro­lina, for Johnson & Johnson's baby and proprietary division, has received a membership in the company's Ring Club.

Harold M. Siegel has been appoint­ed manager of special advanced prod­ucts in the product planning depart­ment of American Motors Corpora­tion.

' P ~ p ~ W. L. Greene, Jr., Chem., has v J U recently been promoted to di­

rector of research of Selig Chemical Industries.

Harry E. Phipps, ChE, has been promoted to vice president of manu­facturing, Crown Aluminum Indus­tries Corporation, Roxboro, North Carolina.

Force Commendation Medal at Offutt AFB, Nebraska. He is now assigned at Offutt as a member of the Strategic Air Command.

' f— —p Grady L. Gothard, IE, has CJ / become plant industrial engi­

neer of Reynolds Metals Company. He and his family reside at 1921 Greenbriar Road, Florence, Alabama.

Anthony Rudolph Klaas, III, IE, has been named an assistant coordi­nator with the International Paper Company, Southern Kraft Division, Mobile, Alabama.

Charles H. O'Neal, Chem., is now associate professor in the department of biophysics, Medical College of Vir­ginia. He and his family reside at 9307 Lester Lane, Richmond, Virginia 23229.

LeRoy B. C. Yuen, IE, has recently been promoted to utilities administra­tor within the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission. He is responsible for all matters pertaining to public utilities regulation within the State of Hawaii.

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'56 Maj. James L. Morris, IM, has received the U. S. Air

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Berry, IE, a daugh­

ter, Robin Heath, November 13. Dr. James L. DuBard, EE, is now

assistant professor on the faculty of the physics department at the Univer­

sity of Louisville, Kentucky. Jerome H. Horwitz, EE, is a mem­

ber of the technical staff, The Bunker-Ramo Corporation, Eastern Technical Center in Silver Springs. The family resides at 14413 Ansted Road, Silver Springs, Maryland.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Bayley R. Walker, IM, a daughter, Sarah Emily, October 27. The family resides at 2570 Ridgewood Terrace, N.W., Atlanta.

James M. Whitney, TE, received his PhD in engineering mechanics from Ohio State University in Au­gust, 1968.

'60 Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Rob­ert Calvert, CE, a daughter,

Ashley Lynn, July 17. Mr. Calvert is employed in export sales with The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. The family resides at 19 Moylinn, Legaghory, Craigavon, Co. Armagh, North Ireland.

Lynn D. Colquitt, ME, is now em­ployed as a senior project engineer-environmental systems with Avco Ec­onomic Systems Corporation, Wash­ington, D. C. He resides at 9808 Mar­quette Drive, Bethesda, Maryland 20034.

Capt. Robert R. Jackson, ME, com­pleted an ordnance officers advanced course at the U. S. Army Ordnance

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Samuel H. Reams, Jr. has been named supervisor, engineering depart­ment, at the Spartanburg, South Car­olina, casualty and surety division of­fice of Aetna Life & Casualty.

James B. Tune. Arch, was recently presented a Kentucky Society of Ar­chitects Honor Award for the design of three branch banks for Central Bank and Trust Company, Lexington, Kentucky.

' r ^ / I Ma]. Arnold Amoroso, IM, was recently presented two

awards of the Distinguished Flying Cross "for heroism while participating in aerial flight evidenced by voluntary action above and beyond the call of duty" in the Republic of Vietnam at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. G. Bingham Bache, a son, Glenn Coleman, No­vember 13.

Lt. Col. William Burdeshaw, EE, is attending the U. S. Army War Col­lege, where he will complete the sen­ior Army school's ten-month curricu­lum in June.

Lt. Col. Lloyd E. Mielenz, EE, has been decorated with the U. S. Joint Service Commendation Metal at Ent AFB, Colorado.

Alan J. Parrish. EE, had a key role in the launch of Apollo 8. During the terminal phase of the launch of Apollo/Saturn V space vehicles, Mr. Parrish acted as chief communica­tions controller, supervising the ac­tivities of over 300 contractor and government personnel support. Mr. and Mrs. Parrish and their four chil­dren reside at 1755 Yates Drive, Mer-ritt Island, Florida.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Roger C. Smith, CerE, Randall Charles, Octo­ber 14. Mr. Smith is self-employed as an artist and illustrator. The family resides at Benner Brook, Coopers-town, New York.

' O f-*j John W. Bates, CE, has been D f_ appointed chief of planning

and operations research section, re­search and development branch, divi­sion of highway planning, State High­way Department of Georgia. He was also elected to the board of directors, Georgia section, American Society of Civil Engineers for 1969.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Joe W. Doris, IM, a son, James Parker, De­cember 5. Mr. Doris is employed at Lockheed Georgia Company as a la­bor analyst in the industrial engineer­ing division, Marietta. Mr. and Mrs. Davis and their two children, Jeff and Jim, reside at 2157 Chinaberry Way, S.W., Atlanta.

Capt. Monte W. Hartsell, IM, is now an instructor in the F - l l l Pro­gram at Nellis AFB. He lives in Las

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David C. Garrett, Jr., '55, senior vice president for operations, Delta Air Lines, has been elected a director of the company. He joined Delta in 1946 and became superintendent of Methods and Training in 1955. In 1963, he was elected a company officer.

Barrett L. Booth, '57, has been appointed manager of the Tropic Moon program of Fairchild Hiller Corp.'s Space & Electronic Sys­tems Div. Tropic Moon is the code name for a weapons inventory panel for aircraft. He joined Fairchild in 1965 from Keltec Industries.

Roy V. Harris, Jr., '58, an aerospace engineer in the Supersonic Analysis Sec­tion, Langley Research Center, NASA, has received the Lawrence Sperry Award of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astro­nautics. He joined the research center in 1958.

William F. Law, '59, has been named a vice presi­dent in the Commercial Property Department of Adair Realty & Loan Co., one of Atlanta's oldest real estate firms. Active in in­dustrial sales and leases, he wil l head a special in­dustrial real estate program.

Boiling C. Stanley, Jr., '60, has completed his initial training at Delta Air Lines' training school at the At­lanta airport and is now assigned to the airline's New Orleans pilot base as a second officer. Prior to joining Delta, he served 9 years in the U. S. Navy.

B. R. Grimes, '61, has assumed responsibility for sales and marketing efforts at Dixisteel Galvanizing & Coating, Inc., of Atlanta. He joined the company in 1966 as a sales repre­sentative. He is a native of New Hope, Ala.

William T. Poteet, Jr., ' 61 , has completed initial train­ing at Delta Air Lines' training school at the Atlanta airport and is now assigned to the airliners Houston base as a second officer. He is the former associate secretary of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Assn.

R. Dan Davis, '64, has been named assistant director of the Office of Resources Development at Georgia Tech. He will work directly with the office programs to add private support to the campus.

Vegas with his wife and two daugh­ters, Traci and Kimberly.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Jerrol Wayne Littles, ME, a son, Jerrol, Jr., October 14.

Joe K. McCutcheon, Jr., IM, has been elected president of Universal Carpets, Inc., Ellijay, Georgia.

Robert A. Morrissey, IE, has been named plant comptroller of Owens-Illinois' Brockport glass container plant. He and his family reside at 2 Valley View Drive, Brockport, New York.

Billy B. Rykard, IE, has completed the New York Stock Exchange regis­tration requirements. He is now an account executive with Merrill Lynch, Fenner & Smith, Inc., in Macon, Geor­gia. The Rykards reside at 212 Ridge-wood Avenue, Macon, Georgia 31204.

Capt. George P. Swanson, ME, has been decorated with the Air Medal at Phan Rang AB, Vietnam, for air ac­tion in Southeast Asia.

Married: William Lee Thompson, IM, to Miss Lydia Marie Warnmock, December 14. Mr. Thompson is vice president of Thompson Automotive Company, Inc., in Savannah, Georgia.

Ronald H. Toland, IM, has com­pleted The Life Underwriter Training Council's two-year course of study.

' O O Capt. Walter L. Busbee, D O ChE, received the Bronze

Star Medal in Vietnam. He was pre­sented the award for meritorious ser­vice in ground operations against hos­tile forces in Vietnam.

James K. Humphries, IM, has as­sumed duties as manager of the south office of Wachovia Bank and Trust Company in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Married: David Phillip Johnson, IE, to Miss Karen Frances Hinds, December 28. Mr. Johnson is em­ployed as a real estate broker and a partner of Bob Johnson Homes, Inc., in Atlanta.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Larry Eu­gene Smith, CE, a daughter, Kim­berly Renee, November 22. Mr. Smith is a senior aircraft engineer with Lockheed-Georgia Company. The fam­ily resides at 571 Favorwood Drive, Marietta, Georgia 30060.

Horace A. Thompson, III, has be­come associated with the firm of Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Lt. Col. John P. Vollmer, EE, is at­tending the U. S. Army War College, where he will complete the senior Army school's ten-month curriculum in June.

I r ^ / \ Born to: Mr. and Mrs. O H " James W. Bowyer, CE, a

daughter, Katheryn Audrey, Novem­ber 22. They reside at 11516 Lake Ridge Road, Tampa. Florida 33618.

L. J. Butler, IM, has been appoint­ed branch manager for the Toledo, Ohio, office of IBM's field engineer­ing division.

Raymond P. Collins. EE, after sep­aration from active duty with the Air Force in September, accepted a posi­tion as electronics engineer with Melgo Electronics Corporation in the plotting equipment division. He and his family reside at 1425 N.W. 120 Street, Miami, Florida 33167.

Robert T. Drew, IM, has been pro­moted to manager of toxicology-path­ology research administration with Merck, Sharp and Dohme Research Laboratories in West Point, Pennsyl­vania. He is also working on a mas­ter's degree in apjilied statistics at Villanova University. Mr. Drew and his family reside at Newport House No. 40, Sherry Lake Apartments, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Philip N. Leory, a daughter, Heather Christine, November 15.

Dr. R. M. Nicklow. PhD, has re­ceived the Sidhu Award for outstand­ing contributions in the field of dif­fraction by a young man (under 33). The award was made at the Pitts­burgh Diffraction Conference on No­vember 7.

Born to: Dr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Passman, a son, Michael David, De­cember 15. Mr. Passman is serving a tour of active duty with the U. S. Army and is assigned as an instructor at the U. S. Naval Academy, Annapo­lis, Maryland.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Pignataro, ME, a son, Robert Craig, September 1.

' O CT John D. Allen has joined the l j » J management information ser­

vices department of Bowaters United States Corporation as a system an­alyst.

Eric S. Bossak, IE, is employed as a project manager at Management Science Health, Inc., a consulting firm located in Atlanta and specializing in hospital systems.

Joseph C. Floyd. ChE, has joined Bay town Research and Development Division and has been assigned to the Baytown chemicals research labora­tory, stabilization and catalysis sec­tion. He and his wife reside at 3800 Baker Road, No. 149, Baytown, Texas.

First Lt. Steven S. Innes, ME, is on duty at Phan Rang AB, Vietnam. Lt. Innes, a bio-environmental engi­neer, is a member of the Pacific Air Forces.

Married: Nevin Jesse Miller, Jr., Text., to Miss Anne Barksdale Wa-

34 The Georgia Tech Alumnus

Of all the natural resources Anaconda works with, the one that counts most is you.

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By the year 2000 A.D. the world's popula­t ion will have doubled. For every two Americans now, there will be one more. A growth of 50%.

And that's just a l itt le over 30 years away. This is the problem we're facing at Anaconda.

How to provide the millions more tons of copper, a luminum, and other non-ferrous metals that will be needed to provide essential needs.

Metals for building, electrical power sys­tems, and agricultural systems. Metals for new and better transportation, new and better roads, and communication. Metals necessary to change sea water to fresh. To help underdeveloped nations develop. Plus, a whole myriad of possibilities we haven't even dreamed of yet.

The needs are obviously immediate and urgent. And Anaconda is growing and diversifying here at home, in Latin America and Canada. In as many ways as we know how to provide these basic building blocks on which our economy grows. In ways we like to th ink make us one of the great natural resources of the Americas.

But metals alone don't make the com­pany that mines and fabricates them a great nat­ural resource.

What does it is people. And the skill , imagination, and determination they bring to their work.

Without these qualities, metal lies hid­den, useless. And can never reach the potential necessary if we are to answer these problems at al l .

That is why Anaconda has a commit­ment . To back the creative energies of our human resources wi th our faith in the future, and our money, to meet the growing needs for metals.

In the last 10 years we invested $750,000,-000 for new plants and equipment. There will be another $650,000,000 in 1968-1972. Plus, we have research on a global scale. A whole new western exploration headquarters in Salt Lake City, and an extractive metallurgical research laboratory in Tucson. Staffed wi th specialized scientists, geo-physicists, metallurgists, mining engineers and other highly trained individuals. This is the kind of backing we give to our people.

And the people we need are numerous. Teams of earth scientists, metallurgists, mining engineers. Fabricating, marketing and financial specialists. All the sort of dedicated people that know their work is vital and important.

Anaconda. Come make a future wi th us.

For more information about your opportunity at Anaconda, wr i te: Director of Personnel, The Ana­conda Company, 25 Broadway, N.Y., N.Y. 10004.

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ters, January 25. Mr. Miller is asso­ciated with W. Sessel Waters and Associates manufacturers representa­tives.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Earl P. Morrow, CE, a daughter, Nancy Lou­ise, November 11. Mr. Morrow was recently promoted to assistant to the general maintenance foreman of the service division of Jones and Laugh-lin Steel Corp. The family resides at 171 Cochran Drive, Monaco, Pennsyl­vania 15061.

Married: Henry N. Oldham, AE, to Miss Nancy King. He has been pro­moted to first lieutenant in the U. S. Army and is currently assigned to the Army Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. Lt. Oldham has received his master's degree in aero­space engineering from the Univer­sity of Virginia.

Married: William Hudmon Reed, Phys., to Miss Sheila Marlene Dickie. Mr. Reed is a candidate for his doctor of science degree in the department of nuclear engineering at Massachu­setts Institute of Technology.

First Lt. Joseph E. Schaefer, CE, has been recognized for helping his unit earn the Far East Communica­tions Region's "Golden Mike" award for the second consecutive time.

Ronald D. Stallings, IE, graduated from The University of Virginia Law School in June, 1968. He is now asso­ciated with an Atlanta law firm, Pow­ell, Goldstein, Frazer and Murphy. Ron, his wife and three-month-old daughter reside at 2113 DeFoors Fer­ry Road, N.W., Apartment A-5, At­lanta.

Married: Bob Trebits, Phys., to Miss Patsy Joe Brooks, July 13. The newly weds reside at 1185 Collier Road, N.W., Apartment 20-A, At­lanta 30318. Mr. Trebits is presently working on his PhD degree at Geor­gia Tech.

' C O Married: Ray Day, EE, to D D Miss Donna Larson. Mr. Day

is working as a senior electronic engi­neer for Pan American World Air­ways, Miami, Florida.

Second Lt. Hugh J. Lewis, IM, has been graduated with honors at Kees-ler AFB, Mississippi, from the^train-ing course for U.S. Air Force in­structors. f'i

Michael H. Lott, IM, has been promoted to Army captain. He was last stationed with the 596th Signal Company in Vietnam.

Lt. G. Robert Middleton, IM, has returned from Honolulu, Hawaii, where he was stationed for two years with the U. S. Navy. Lt. Middleton is now stationed at the Naval Air Sta­

tion in Meridian, Mississippi. Thomas R. Pisano, IM, has joined

Marcom Inc., a leading management consulting firm, as a consultant.

Creston Clark Riffe, Jr., IM, will head up Central State Hospital's new data processing system which will in­clude one of the most modern and sophisticated computer systems avail­able.

First Lt. Cecil L. Snell, Text., was recently decorated with the Air Medal at Takhli Royal Thai AFB, Thailand. He was cited "for outstanding air­manship and courage on successful and important missions under haz­ardous conditions."

First Lt. Kirby J. White, IM, has arrived for duty at Clark AB, Philip­pines. Lt. White, an aircraft main­tenance officer, is a member of the Pacific Air Forces.

Second Lt. Robert E. Williams, Jr., IM, has been awarded U. S. Air Force pilot silver wings upon gradua­tion at Sheppard AFB, Texas.

' O " 7 Kenneth E. Adams, IM, has t-J / been commissioned an Army

second lieutenant at Ft. Benning, Georgia.

Married: Charles Gayden Beadles, CE, to Miss Dianne Olivia Dees, De­cember 7.

Roy B. Burnette, ME, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U. S. Air Force. Lt. Burnette is being assigned to Webb, AFB, Texas, for pilot training.

Second Lt. Robert M. Bush, Arch., has been recognized for helping his unit earn the U. S. Air Force Out­standing Unit Award.

Married: Charles Arnold Carter, BC, to Miss Laura Elizabeth Hope. Mr. Carter is now serving with the U. S. Army at Ft. Lewis, Washington.

Airman Charles R. Coward, IM, has completed basic training at Lack­land AFB, Texas. He has been as­signed to Lowry AFB, Colorado, for training in the supply field.

First Lt. Michael Field, IM, was recently named distinguished gradu­ate in his class in advanced system analysis and design conducted at Sheppard AFB, Wichita Falls, Texas. He was recognized for attaining the top scholastic average in his class in the course.

Engaged: Willie Joseph Goldwasser, EE, to Miss Vivian Beth Jacobs. Mr. Goldwasser is now working on his master's degree from Southern Meth­odist University and Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. The wedding will be June 22.

Spurgeon G. Hogan, EE, has re­cently been promoted to associate en­gineer for IBM Corp.

Married: Richard Hobson McGar-rity, IE, to Miss Cecilia Linda Burrus. Mr. McGarrity is employed as an en­

gineer by Western Electric in Greens­boro, North Carolina. He is working on his master's degree at the Univer­sity of North Carolina.

Elliott J. Rothschild, Arch., has been promoted to the rank of cap­tain. Capt. Rothschild received the Army Commendation Medal for mer­itorious service while assigned to the Philadelphia District. He is being sent to Vietnam on a new assignment.

Ensign David Simpson is serving with the CB's in Vietnam.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Samuel John Steger, CE, a daughter, Laura Catherine, September 30.

Joe W. Sullivan, Jr., Math, has graduated from a U. S. Air Force technical school at Lowry AFB, Colo­rado. Mr. Sullivan has been assigned to an Alabama ANG unit at Dannelly Air Base.

Engaged: Thomas Phillips Swift, Text., to Miss Barbara Gayle Hamby. Mr. Swift is associated with the Swift Spinning Mills.

Married: Victor Charles Theiling, Jr., CerE, to Miss Susan Felices Up-shaw, December 21. Mr. Theiling at­tends graduate school at Georgia Tech, where he is on the research faculty.

Capt. Edward A. Weathers, Jr., IS, is chief of the data automation divi­sion of the 37th Combat Support Group at Phu Cat AB, Vietnam.

Married: Richard Stanford Willis, CE, to Miss Mary Margaret Mur-phree, January 11. Mr. Willis is em­ployed by Schlumberger in Morgan City, Louisiana.

'68 Second Lt. M. Jarvis Al-dridge, Jr., Phys., has com­

pleted the air defense artillery officer basic course at the Army Air Defense School, Ft. Bliss, Texas.

Robert A. Benns, Phys., has begun graduate study this past fall at Geor­gia Tech as an Atomic Energy Com­mission Special Fellow in nuclear sci­ence and engineering.

John H. Branson, CerE, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U. S. Air Force at Lakeland AFB, Texas. Lt. Brunson is being as­signed to Moody AFB, Georgia, for pilot training.

Married: James L. Clark, ME, to Miss Patricia Ann Scroggs.

Robert D. Cohen, EE, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U. S. Air Force at Lackland AFB, Texas. Lt. Cohen his being assigned to Vandenberg AFB, California, for duty as an electrical engineer.

Married: Derek Lee Duke, IM, to Miss Patricia Ann Harvey, January 18. Mr. Duke is stationed at Moody AFB, Valdosta, Georgia.

Second Lt. Joseph P. Englehardt, ChE, has completed the chemical of­ficer basic course at the U. S. Army Chemical Center, Ft. McClellan, Ala.

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What MECHANICAL ENGINEERS do at Kodak

They design new products and better performance into existing ones, figure out the best possible ways to manufac­ture the products; apply pure reason through mathematical tools to make physics serve—not oppose—human needs; create the right physical tools, the plants to house them, and the ser­vices to keep them functioning; get out into the field, showing customers how to get their money's worth, and bring back word on how to do better in the

future. Some typical assignments are in development of automatic and semi­automatic manufacturing equipment; production-line layout, precision tool­ing, and materials handling; design and development of control units and in­strumentation devices; creative design of scientific, industrial, business, pro­fessional, and amateur photographic apparatus; economic engineering, cost analysis, and methods engineering; utilities and facilities engineering.

—and chemical, industrial, and electrical engineering assignments can sound equally impersonal

Yes, it is possible to draw a lifetime's pay without much excitement or satisfaction. If you don't mind it that way you'll be easier for the boss to handle. Just await instructions and carry them out to

the letter, docilely.

This docile-looking Kodak engineer did not operate that way. That's why we brag about him below. There are others who would have made equally good examples.

Tell us about yourself with a note to

EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY Business and Technical Personnel Department Rochester, N.Y. 14650

An equal-opportunity employer

Van Putte is the name—Douglas—and plastics* is the game. While other Kodak engineers find strong interest in parts of the plastics market where a one-cent change in price can turn failure into suc­cess, or vice versa, Van Putte's work is having the effect of upgrading acrylic polymers into better optical materials than the great European lens makers of yore had for fabricating their precious jewels— and a good risk for upholding the public's confidence of reasonable success in pic­ture-taking. Our engineers in the South, who work with plastics we make, spread themselves very widely into marketing activities; Van Putte, working with plas­tics we buy, has done himself equal credit by digging deeper into one circumscribed but important engineering topic than we think has ever been dug before. Van Putte, born (31 years ago), brought up,

*This word has taken on a broader, more diffuse meaning in certain non-technical circles of con­temporary society. Actually, we do have other concerns than plastics, whether broadly or nar­rowly defined.

and educated in the North, likes working in Rochester just as much as the South­erners prefer their part of the country. How it went: Always enjoyed math, of course. Master's in heat transfer and fluid flow. First Kodak assignment doing, logi­cally enough, heat-transfer calculations. Bountiful supply of scratch pads, easy access to pencil sharpener and computer, no extra information on big picture into which calculations fit. Proves patience for eight months. Then manufacturing tech­nology department on consumer-goods side of house decides it too could profit from a little campus-fresh sophistication in heat-transfer analysis. Van Putte over­joyed to accept challenge. New single-minded assignment to learn all he can about injection-molding proc­ess. At least that's how the boss's boss now remembers the assignment. Van Putte remembers it a little differently. More like "Is it the temperature that's wrong in those lens-molding machines? The pressure? Or is it the flow rate?" On a certain lucky day,

after a year or so of continuing to scratch away for data on first one of these param­eters and then another, Van Putte sells a program of fundamental studies with sen­sors for all the injection-molding param­eters and on their relation to the param­eters of optical performance in the photographic lenses produced. Thixotrop-ic nature of polymer melt properly al­lowed for. Feels now in retrospect it took him too long to make his program pay off. Others take kinder view, drink toasts to Van Putte's health, look forward to next phase of his work wherein he edu­cates injection-molding machines to know about the optical performance of the lenses they turn out.

Well known fact in industry that when a program turns out well, it was the big boss's idea. Van Putte crafty enough to understand that fact. Boss also crafty. Knows better than to call in a green young engineer and tell him to make a quantum jump in technology. Even if that's what he wants done.

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Airman First Class James C. Fowl­er, IM, has been graduated from a U. S. Air Force technical school at Keesler AFB, Mississippi. He was trained as a radio repairman and has been assigned to a unit of the Tactical Air Command at Eglin AFB, Florida.

James M. Gilbert, III, EE, has been commissioned a second lieuten­ant in the U. S. Air Force at Lack­land AFB, Texas. Lt. Gilbert has been assigned to Los Angeles Air Force Station, California, for duty.

Henry R. Horst, ChE, is stationed at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, as an engineering test officer in the Test Control branch.

William R. Jacobs, ME, has begun graduate study this fall at Georgia Tech as an Atomic Energy Commis­sion Special Fellow in nuclear science and engineering.

Engaged: Donald Kimbrough King, IM, to Miss Gail Clark McLennan. Mr. King is employed by Adams-Cates Company and attends the Woodrow Wilson Law School. The wedding will be in the early spring.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Johnny E. Lunsford, Jr., IE, a son, James Eric, September 28. Mr. Lunsford is an in­dustrial salesman with Shell Oil Com­pany, Atlanta.

First Lt. Richard 0. Neel, EE, has been awarded U. S. Air Force silver pilot wings upon graduation at La­redo AFB, Texas.

Married: Richard Ward Rosebush, IM, to Miss Elizabeth Howard Cam-nitz, December 28. Mr. Rosebush now attends U. S. Air Force Officer Train­ing School at Lackland AFB, Texas.

Robert G. Roy, IM, has joined the management group at PPG Industries'

Crystal City, Missouri, plant. Second Lt. Daniel H. Tarkington,

ME, is attending the Air University academic instructor course at Max­well AFB, Alabama. Upon graduation, Lt. Tarkington is scheduled for re­assignment at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.

Married: Mark Holmes Toney, EE, to Miss Sylvia Celeste Peak, Decem­ber 29. Mr. Toney is employed in the transmission department of the South­ern Bell Telephone Company in At­lanta.

Second Lt. Ronald L. Turner, ChE, has completed the chemical officer basic course at the U.S. Army Chem­ical Center, Ft. McClellan, Alabama.

Second Lt. Robert E. Treadwell, ME, has completed the chemical offi­cer basic course at the U. S. Army Chemical Center, Ft. McClellan, Ala­bama.

William M. Whittenburg, EE, has been commissioned a second lieuten­ant in the U. S. Air Force at Lack­land AFB. Lt. Whittenburg is being assigned to Scott AFB, Illinois.

' r ^ Q Engaged: Robert Michael D w Barry, IM, to Miss Janice

Frederica Smith. Married: Alan Scott Grayson, Biol.,

to Miss Gayle Annette Lewis, Decem­ber 1. Mr. Grayson is employed by Georgia Tech in the biology depart­ment.

Married: Thomas Marion Ruff in, IE, to Miss Patricia Ann Waters, January 5. Mr. Ruffin is a commis­sioned second lieutenant in the U. S. Air Force.

FRIENDS

We recently learned of the death of George A. Kling of Menlo, Georgia.

THE GEORGIA TECH NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Officers and Trustees / L. L. Gellerstedt, president / D. B. Blalock, Jr., vice president / James B. Ramage, vice president/ George W. Felker, III, Monroe, treasurer/ W. Roane Beard, executive secretary / L. Travis Brannon, Jr. / Charles K. Cross / Arnold L. Ducoffe / Howard Ector / Hix H. Green, Jr. / Joseph A. Hall, III / Allen S. Hardin / Raymond A. Jones, Charlotte / Rayford P. Kytle, Jr. / Philip J. Malonson, Marietta / W. E. Marshall / Willard B. McBurney / Thomas V. Patton, Doraville / Charles H. Peterson, Metter / James P. Poole / Chester A. Roush, Jr., Carrollton / Dan P. Shep­herd / J. Frank Stovall, Jr., Griffin / Marvin Whitlock, Chicago.

THE GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION, INC. Officers and Trustees / J. J. McDonough, president / I. M. Sheffield, vice president / Henry W. Grady, treasurer / Joe W. Guthridge, executive secretary / Jack Adair / Ivan Allen, Jr. / John P. Baum, Milledgeville / Fuller E. Callaway, Jr., LaGrange / Oscar G. Davis / Robert H. Ferst / Y. Frank Freeman, Hollywood, California / Jack F. Glenn / Ira H. Hardin / Julian T. Hightower, Thomaston / Wayne J. Holman, Jr., New Bruns­wick / Howard B. Johnson / George T. Marchmont, Dallas / George W. McCarty / Walter M. Mitchell / Frank H. Neely / William A. Parker / Hazard E. Reeves, New York / Glenn P. Robinson, Jr. / Hal L. Smith / John C. Staton / Howard T. Tellepsen, Houston / Robert Tharpe / William C. Wardlaw, Jr. / Robert H. White / George W. Woodruff / Charles R. Yates.

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