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Page 1: Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine Vol. 49, No. 05 1971

Georgia Tech Alumnus May-June, 1971

HE FINEST WEEK EVER See\page 27

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VOL. 49, NO. 5 May-June 1971

Seniors Rich Yunkus (left) and Jim Thorne share a moment of mutual congratulations. These men were two of Tech's primary keys to success in the best season ever. . . 23-9. Coach Hyder was named Georgia College Coach jpf the Year after his team's sparkling regular season and second-place berth in the NIT.

Technology Week: Man in His Environment 2

The Story of Sideways 10

Are Americans Losing Faith in their Colleges? 11

Sports Scene 27

Another Goodbye 29

News of the Alumni 30

THE STAFF Ben L. Moon, editor / L. R. (Dick) Link, campus news editor / James Schultz, sports editor / Vicky L. Haynes, Class Notes / F. A. (Gus) Dozier, advertising manager/ John Stuart McKenzie, design consultant

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

Subscription price 50r per copy. Second class postage paid at Atlanta, Georgia.

GEORGIA TECH NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Officers and Trustees: James B. Ramage, president / James P. Poole, vice-president / J. Frank Stovall, Jr., vice-president / Thomas V. fat ton, treasurer / W. Roane Beard, executive secretary / Ray M. Beck, Cedartown / D. Braxton Blalock, Jr. / L. Travis Brannon, Jr. / George A. Ewing / James T. Gresham, LaGrange / Joseph A. Hall, III / Morris E. Harrison, Decatur / I. L. Kunian / Rayford P. Kytle, Jr., Richmond / A. J. Land / W. E. Marshall / John 0. McCarty / Dennis D. O'Brian, Florence / H. G. Patillo, Decatur / Frank E. Roper / Chester A. Roush, Jr., Carrollton / Dan P. Shep­herd / Willam J. VanLandingham / Norman J. Walton, Mobile. Staff: F. A. (Gus) Dozier, assistant secretary / Robert H. Rice, assistant secretary / Ben L. Moon, editor / Mary G. Peeks, director of alumni placement.

GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION, INC. Officers and Trustees: I. M. Sheffield, Jr., president Hal L. Smith, vice-president / Robert H. Ferst, treasurer / Joe W. Guthridge, executive secretary / Jack Adair / Ivan Allen, Jr. / John P. Baum, Milledgeville / Fuller E. Callaway, Jr., LaGrange / Oscar G. Davis / Dakin B. Ferris / Alvin M. Ferst / L. L. Gellerstedt, Jr. / Jack F. Glenn /Henry W. Grady / Ira H. Hardin / Julian T. Hightower, Thomaston / Wayne J. Holman, Jr., New Brunswick / Howard B. Johnson / George W. McCarty / John J. McDonough / Walter M. Mitchell / Frank H. Neely / William A. Parker / Hazard E. Reeves, New York / Glen P. Robinson, Jr. / Charles R. Simons, Flowery Branch / John C. Staton / Frederick G. Storey / Howard T. Tellepsen, Houston / William S. Terrell, Charlotte / Robert Tharpe / William C. Wardlaw / Robert H. White, Sr. / George W. Woodruff / Charles R. Yates.

GEORGIA TECH NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD, 1969-70 L. Allen Morris, chairman, Miami / N. Richard Miller, vice-chairman, Camden / G. Nolan Bearden, Los Angeles / Marion W. Boyer, New York / Dan H. Bradley, Savan­nah / Chester C. Courtney, Chicago / Paul A. Duke, Atlanta / Kenneth W. Dunwody, Macon / Joe M. Haas, Dallas / Frank W. Hulse, Birmingham / Alexander T. Hunt, Jr., Ruston / Raymond A. Jones, Jr., Charlotte / C. Gale Kiplinger, Washington / Frederick H. Martin, Huntsville / Joe K. McCutchen, Rome-Dalton / William R. McLain, Nash­ville / Buck Mickel, Greenville-Spartanburg / William E. Moore, San Francisco / A. J. Mundy, Jr., at large / Dorroh L. Nowell, Jr., Augusta / Charles T. Oxford, Albany / Ben H. Sloane, Pittsburgh / George A. Smith, Denver / Charles A. Smithgall, Gaines­ville / Buck Mickel, Greenville-Spartanburg / William E. Moore, San Francisco / A. ham, Tampa / William Ashley Verlander, Jacksonville / Frank J. Whitley, Houston / J. Frank Willett, Chattanooga.

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TECHNOLOGY WEEK

Man in His

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Environment By Karen Teske

T ECH STUDENTS have traditionally been known for their ingenuity and perseverance when the going gets rough. They still deviously

register the legendary George P. Burdell for classes and steal the "T" from the Tech tower, but today's enterprising students often put their skills to work in more constructive endeavors.

Start with one of the biggest national headaches today—environmental problems. Add the difficul­ties encountered in gathering representatives from the diverse fields of education, industry and govern­ment to work together for solutions. Take the chance of a completely student-run national con­ference, and throw in a five percent institutional budget cut after most plans are complete. For a finishing touch, discover that a major speaker in the conference has just been fired from his cabinet post by the President of the United States.

This combination of events should be enough to beat the average man. But not Brent Jorgeson, a junior industrial management major from Thomas-ton, Georgia, who typifies the Tech "student ac­tivist."

Brent presented the original idea for Technology Week, a three-day national symposium on environ­mental problems, and served as coordinator of the conference held on the Tech campus in late Feb­ruary. Brent was appointed chairman of the Stu­dent Center's Special Events Committee during spring quarter 1970. In planning events for the coming year, he realized that Georgia Tech had

never put on a large-scale program during National Engineers Week.

After discussions with friends and Student Center officials, Brent presented a proposal to the Center's Governing Board in May 1970. The Board estab­lished the Technology Week Committee and named Brent coordinator.

"Since Tech has a national reputation in athletics and academics, we felt that our program should be carried out on a national scale," said Brent. "We wanted to emphasize the positive aspects of tech­nology. We believe that people should not look at technology as the cause of our environmental prob­lems, but rather as the means by which we will solve these problems.

"It seemed that government was blaming indus­try, industry was blaming government, and the public was shaking its fist at both industry and government. As a result, nothing was being done by anyone. We decided to bring together leaders from education, industry and government, along with the general public, to find positive solutions to the problem."

In June 1970 Brent, Student Government Presi­dent Dan Pittard, Student Center President Ros Bowers and Student Center Director Tim Mitchell travelled to Washington, D. C. to enlist speakers and support for their idea. Their presenta­tion resulted in tentative speaking commitments from Walter J. Hickel, former Secretary of the Interior; Charles Percy, Republican senator from

Ed Cole, President of General Motors (left), and Walter Hickel, former Secretary of the Interior, exchange views informally during a question-and-answer session.

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Illinois; John J . Flynt, Georgia's Sixth District Congressman; and Harold Finger, Assistant Sec­retary for Research and Technology, Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Senators Percy, Herman Talmadge, Edmund Muskie, Edward Kennedy, Richard Russell, Barry Gold water and J . W. Fulbright sent letters of sup­port to the Technology Week Committee.

Working closely with the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers, the Committee decided to shorten the conference to three days so that out-of-town participants could stay for the entire pro­gram.

BRENT recalls tha t plans proceeded smoothly until late November. While visiting his brother in Detroit for Thanksgiving holidays,

Brent spent one afternoon telling plans for Tech­nology Week. Tha t evening, his brother picked up the daily newspaper and threw it in Brent 's lap. The headline read "Hickel Fired From Cabinet Post."

After recovering from the initial shock, Brent decided to take this apparent setback as a challenge and make sure that Hickel would still come to At­lanta.

"We decided that we wanted Hickel even more after he had been fired," Brent said. "Now he could speak more freely."

President Hansen tried to call Hickel in Washing­ton in early December. He was told that Hickel no longer worked there and that there was no forward­ing address.

People began to suggest that Hickel's alternate be asked to come to Technology Week. But Brent said no. He tried to reach Mike Levitt, one of Hickel's aides who had shown great enthusiasm for the program. But he discovered that Levitt had been fired two weeks before the Secretary of the Interior himself.

Two weeks went by. The next source was Brent 's Congressman John J . Flynt of Georgia's Sixth Dis­trict. He secured Hickel's phone number in An­chorage. Again, President Hansen tried to reach Hickel by phone, but was unsuccessful because of the shortage of telephone cables to Alaska.

On January 15, there was still no word tha t Hickel would come to Tech the following month. Then Dave Ness, Student Center Program Director,

• Ye all live in environmental

glass houses, and will achieve

nothing if we continue to

throw stones at each other."

read tha t Hickel had scheduled a press conference in Washington that weekend.

Brent reasoned that if Hickel were somewhere in Washington, his former aide Levitt might be there too. He found Levitt a t home and told the former aide about the progress made on Technology Week. Levitt said he would see Hickel that week and would remind him of his tentative commitment.

Tech students finally got a call through to An­chorage the following week. Hickel's aide Malcolm Roberts said that Hickel was in New York and had made no public speaking engagements to date. He said that Hickel would decide on future activities sometime that week and promised to call Tech with a definite answer about Technology Week. Stu­dents set up a 24-hour answering service in the Student Center.

On January 26, Roberts returned Brent 's call and casually asked, "How's everything in Atlanta?" Brent replied, "You tell me if Hickel is coming, and I'll tell you how everything is in Atlanta." Roberts confirmed Hickel's speaking commitment and Brent answered, "Everything's just fine in Atlanta!"

SENATOR CHARLES PERCY of Illinois opened the

Technology Week conference on Sunday evening, February 21, in the Alexander Me­

morial Coliseum. "As human beings, as consumers, we all live in environmental glass houses, and we will achieve nothing if we continue to throw stones a t each other," he said.

"In my judgement, we can most effectively enlist business in the environmental crusade by appealing to its economic self-interest," Percy said. "This appeal takes its shape in the form of enlightened policies and pressures exerted by the consuming public."

Percy said that government can make it more

Clockwise, starting upper left: Brent Jorgeson, student chairman of the Technology Week Committee; Charles Percy, Republi­can Senator from Illinois; Dr. David Rose of M.I.T. and Oak Ridge; and Harold Finger of Housing and Urban Development.

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expensive to pollute than not to pollute. "Education can help society as a whole realize the priority of the environmental issue. Technological forces may be fatal to our environmental system if we do not abandon the reckless procedure of polluting first and investigating and correcting mistakes later," the senator added.

Harold Finger, assistant secretary of HUD, spoke on "Technology's Role in Environmental Manage­ment." He called for technology assessment to evaluate problems—both "hardware" and societal— created by technology. He said officials must aban­don the practice of acting first and studying con­sequences later.

Finger said that federal and international regula­tions would be required to see a marked improve­ment in environmental conditions.

General Motors Corporation President Edward N. Cole presented an industrial viewpoint at the conference. Cole defended the work the automotive industry had undertaken in both automotive emis­sion control and factory waste treatment. He reaf­firmed the internal combustion engine as the only compact, inexpensive, and therefore logical unit to power an automobile. He dispelled steam, elec­tricity and other methods as inadequate or unde­sirable.

Cole said that the rescheduling of the requirement for zero level emission from 1980 to 1975 "asks too much too soon." He continued, "Based on current technology, we do not know how to achieve the near zero levels which could be required by the new legislation in the time frame prescribed. But it is the law and we intend to do everything possible to comply."

Cole also discussed rapid transit. "The survival of our cities will depend to a large degree on the foresight and management skill with which we plan today to meet the urban transportation require­ments for the rest of this century."

In his first public speaking engagement since he was fired, Walter Hickel named mass rapid transit as the top priority in government's role in environ­mental management. "We must reclaim our cities from the automobile and give them back to the people," he said. "It is time that a great portion of the money which now goes into the highway trust fund be turned over to mass rapid transit."

"In those areas where people refuse to listen, or

T T e must reclaim our cities

from the automobile and give

them back to the people."

where the dimensions of the problems go beyond individual control, government has got to take a strong stand," Hickel said. "One of the hard realities of a free society is that freedom ends when it in­fringes on the rights of others."

Hickel said that industry will accept strict pollu­tion control if it is administered equally to all. "If all competitors must include environmental protec­tion as the cost of doing business, there is no com­plaint."

Dr. David Rose, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of Long Range Planning at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, spoke on "Education's Role in Environmental Manage­ment."

He suggested that engineering students should be exposed to an interdisciplinary curriculum, with strength in the social sciences as well as natural sciences. Beyond the university level, Dr. Rose proposed a closer relationship between state govern­ment and the university, similar to that of the federal government. "There could be a State Board of Science and Technology, State Science Founda­tions, and other organizations to integrate state and university problem solving."

In addition to the major speakers, the week featured technological exhibits erected by govern­ment, industry and various departments at Georgia Tech.

A number of panel discussions complemented the key speeches. Harold Finger; Dr. David Rose; Dr. Lyle Roberts, director of Tech's Department of Nuclear Engineering; and two Georgia Tech stu­dents participated in a panel on "How Will We Meet Our Energy Requirements?"

Edward Cole; Reg Murphy, editor of the Atlanta Constitution; Charles Younger, city attorney, Huntsville, Alabama; Craig Lentz, national co-chairman of the Clean Air Car Race; and Kip Hewitt, editor-in-chief of Business Today magazine,

Throughout the week the speakers mingled with the students, listening and exchanging ideas.

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discussed "Problems of Developing and Enforcing Air Quality Regulations."

The final panel discussion asked "What Does the College Graduate Need to Know about Environmental Management?" Panelists were Dr. Rose; Robert Chambers, chairman of the Envirotech Corporation; Mike Levitt, Harvard faculty member and former aide to Hickel; Congressman John J. Flynt of Georgia and Jim Williams, vice president of Coca-Cola, U.S.A.

The conference was not limited to scheduled speeches and panels. Key speakers spent time talking personally with students and other partici­pants. Edward Cole surprised many people when he stood up from the audience during a forum follow­ing Hickel's speech and spontaneously exchanged ideas with Hickel in front of 2,500 people. Hickel conversed with students in his hotel room, and Cole talked with students for almost two hours in a hospitality suite. Rose and Finger talked personally with students throughout the week.

Georgia Tech paid expenses for student leaders from the top 40 colleges to attend the conference. In evaluating Technology Week, these students agreed that it was worthwhile and hoped that similar conferences would take place on other campuses.

WALTER HICKEL told students that "Mon­day (February 22) was the most satisfy­ing day I've spent in public service."

Edward Cole later commented that "Technology Week was an excellent example of constructive inquiry which made a significant contribution to understanding the relationship between technology and the environment. It also provided a chance to explore the roles of business, education, government and individual citizens in directing their separate and collective efforts toward common national goals in environmental areas."

Technology Week did produce some concrete results. National student leaders returned to their own campuses with information and resources to initiate environmental programs in their schools. Comments and proposals made during and after Technology Week are being incorporated into a letter containing specific recommendations. This

echnology Week was an

excellent example of

constructive inquiry."

letter will be sent to President Richard Nixon; Rodgers Morton, Secretary of the Interior; Russell Train, Chairman of the President's Council on En­vironmental Quality; and William Rucklehaus, Di­rector of the Environmental Protection Agency.

The recommendations propose pollution control with strict and uniform guidelines; mass education as to what the problem is and how individuals can help solve it; student awareness of socioeconomic factors in environmental management; more re­search, especially to determine whether new chem­icals or industrial processes are harmful to the en­vironment; and programs for population control.

At Georgia Tech, a new organization called "Tech Environmental Action Committee" has been formed as a result of Technology Week. Its goals are to clean up public areas and help recycle solid waste. In addition, TEAC will provide jobs for high school and college students. On a Saturday, groups con­taining one college student and six high school stu­dents meet at Tech and go out to clean various areas of the city. Students are paid for their work, and in turn perform a service for the city.

"I feel that the positive results of Technology Week will continue to grow as time goes on," Brent said. "This was a unique opportunity for Georgia Tech students to talk first hand with prominent leaders from industry, education and government."

Brent thought that a positive result of the week, as far as Georgia Tech is concerned, was the co-hesiveness and spirit shown by all factions of the Tech community. "In a time when so many other schools are plagued with problems of poor working relationships among the student body, faculty, administration and alumni, it was encouraging to see that at Georgia Tech, for Technology Week, as well as on other programs, these elements of the college community have worked together so well."

After major addresses, panels composed of diverse personalities (top) thrashed the topics out at greater length. Dr. Hansen (bottom left) and Governor Carter (bottom right) welcomed the speakers and the visitors from major universities.

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A biography onGeorgia Tech and of the menV who led her

Dress Mer in WfflTE

a j i d •

GOLD

Revised Edition

On March 1, 1945, there arrived on the Tech campus, a dog of dubious ancestry who was to become in just over two years, one of the most beloved traditions in the post-war history of the school. The black and white, long-haired mongrel was immediately dubbed "Sideways" by the students because of her angular acceleration caused from an injury received when she was thrown from a car in front of the Varsity. Her gait was in itself something that set Sideways apart from all of the other animals who had made the Tech campus their home. She walked with her head and shoulders about 15 degrees out of phase with her hindquarters. She lived in the dormitories, selecting a different room each night. During the day she would trail the students to classes, take her place halfway back in the room and either look at the professor with an interested gaze (if he impressed her with his delivery) or go to sleep (if he was one of the dull speakers). Her favorites were D. M. Smith of Mathematics and E. E. Bortell of Physics. She never tired of D. M.'s humorous approach to teaching or Bortell's trick of erasing the blackboard with one hand while he was writing with the other. She checked the kitchen at Brittain Dining Hall each day, frustrating the employees as she sampled the food.

Sideways' life at Tech was full of excitement. She was constantly being picked up by dogcatchers or by Georgia students, and the Atlanta newspapers never grew tired of writing articles about her. And the Tech students never grew tired of her. They would gather up money to bail her out of trouble or fight to get her back from the dognappers from Athens. Her career as a morale builder on campus came to a sudden end when she ate some poison put out for rats and died on August 14, 1947, by the side of the Old Infirmary.

After her death, a group of students led by Roy Barnes, now head of an insurance company, decided to place a permanent plaque on the campus in the memory of the dog that became a legend in her lifetime. Aided by Dean George Griffin, Barnes and his cohorts secured a monument as a gift from the McNeel Marble Company of Marietta. When Morgan McNeel, the alumnus who headed that company then, asked what he thought should be inscribed on the monument, Barnes answered in jest "How about, here lies Sideways, sideways."

However saner heads prevailed (although the author is positive that with her sense of humor, Sideways would have liked Barnes' approach) and the monument was placed on the dog's grave in the small plot, northwest of the Administration Building on March 11, 1948. Barnes speaking at the ceremony said, "Although her conduct and relations with gentlemen dogs were not always quite so virtuous as could be desired, she was intensely loyal and won a fond place in the hearts of the student body." And she did, for at every reunion of the classes of that era, the call goes up for Barnes to recite his legend of Sideways.

This tale and others are carried in Dress Her in White and Gold, the latest revision of which was com­pleted by the late Robert B. Wallace, Jr. just prior to his death. Fill out and return the form below to obtain your copy of the story of Georgia Tech, through the inauguration of President Arthur G. Hansen in the fall of 1969.

Mail to: The Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia 30332

Name Class & Course

Address City & State, Zit

Number of copies of Hardback at $6.95_ You will be billed upon shipment.

.Paperback at $3.95.

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Five years ago the idea would have been absurd. Today it is an urgently relevant question . . . one that is uppermost in the minds of campus offi­cials. For institutions that depend upon public confidence and support for their financial wel­fare, their freedom, and their continued exist-, ence, it is perhaps the ultimate question:

Are Americans

Losing Faith in their

Colleges? A SPECIAL REPORT

,H

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Dear President

X:

Dear Alumnus

Y:

I AM WRITING TO EXPLAIN my resignation from the Alumni Schools Com­mittee and the regional committee of the Capital Campaign.

I can no longer make a meaningful contribution to these programs. To be effective, I must be totally committed. Unfor­tunately, as a result of changes at Z University over the past few years, I can no longer conscientiously recommend the university

to students and parents. And I cannot with enthusiasm ask my fellow alumni to make financial contributions when I personally have decided to withhold my support.

Like many alumni and alumnae, I have been increasingly concerned over the manner in which the university has permitted the student body to take over the "running of the store." Even worse, our colleges and universities seem willing to have them take over the country. I am not anti-youth, but I do not believe that there is something magical about being 18 or 20 years old that gives students all the correct answers and an inherent right to impose their views about everything on the rest of us. The faculty has clearly demon­strated that it is unwilling or unable to exercise moral leadership and, indeed, has often guided the students into actions that are irresponsible at best and dangerous at worst.

The university, it seems, is easily intimidated by the students into support­ing strikes, canceling classes, disregarding academic standards, and repressing individuals and groups who speak for the so-called "establishment." By fail­ing to take a stand and to discipline those who violate campus rules, you have encouraged an atmosphere in which laws, traditions, and basic moral values are held in contempt by growing numbers of our young people.

I fear for the existence of Z University as a forum for the free discussion of ideas. A great chorus of anti-establishment rhetoric has issued from a vocal left-wing group on the campus, supported by ultra-liberals on the faculty. I am afraid the university has abandoned its role of educator, to be­come a champion of partisan politics. And this bodes ill for our democratic society.

All of this may sound like the rantings of a hard-hat conservative. But it is the measure of the situation on the campus that one who has always been rather liberal politically can sqund like a reactionary when he takes issue with the radical students of today. Sincerely,

Alumnus Y

I AM VERY SORRY to lose the services and support of an alumnus who has worked so hard and so successfully for Z University. I am equally sorry that

you seem to have lost confidence in the university. An institution of higher education depends on its alumni and alumnae for understanding and support even in the quiet times. In troubled days like these, there is nowhere else to turn.

I won't try to persuade you to accept any assignment or even to continue your financial support. But I do feel compelled to comment on your loss of faith in the university.

Your concern obviously centers on such perplexing and basic questions as the rights and responsibilities of students and faculty, the problems of campus governance, and the danger of politicizing the university. We certainly share your concerns. It is tempting to long for the good old days when problems

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were not s< complex. Bat in fact these are serious problems to which there are no easy mswers. We wrestle with them every day.

You are certainly right to be worried about the existence of this university (and all cai puses) as a forum for the free discussion of ideas. There are many who would use the American college or university in a political struggle to advance their own political ideas. Even well-meaning students would do so, because they do not understand the dangers of such action, Those of us charged wi h the responsibility must fight with all our wit and strength to prevent thai from happening.

I do not think we can win by using force or repression. Rather, we must continue to work with students to convince them that their efforts to politicize the universty can destroy it, and this would be terribly costly to society as a whole. When and if the line must be drawn, then we will draw it and deal with the consequences. But we will do everything we can to avoid actions that will limit our options and bring about the violence and polarization that have crippled some great institutions.

It is clear to me that the colleges and universities in America are, to a very considerable degree, reflecting the problems and divisions of the larger society. That can he unpleasant and painful, but it is in some ways a proper and very useful role for a college or university to play.

Consider, if you will, society's other institutions. Can you think of any that are not in similar turmoil? The church, the public schools, the courts, the city halls, the political parties, the family—all of these institutions are also feeling the profound pressures of change, and all are struggling to adapt to problems and needs that no society has ever faced before. If we as citizens and mem­bers of these institutions respond simply by withdrawing from them or repu­diating them, then I fear not only for the future of our institutions but for the future of our nation. Disraeli once said, "Individuals may form communities, but only institutions can make a nation."

T J L H I

.HIS UNIVERSITY is INDEED INVOLVED in the controversy which en­gulfs America and from which progress and constructive change "will one day come. Our students and faculty are indeed concerned and vocal about the rights of their fellow citizens, about the war, about the environment, about the values of our society. If it were otherwise, our alumni and alumnae would certainly be justified in refusing to support us.

Very simply, Mr. Y, the current generation of young people will one day run this nation. They are here and cannot be traded in for a quieter, more polite, more docile group. Nor should anyone want to trade them in. This university cannot abandon them, or isolate them, or reject them. Our mission is to work with these young people, to sensitize them, humanize them, edu­cate them, liberate them from their ignorances and prejudices. We owe that to the students but even more to the country and to our alumni and alumnae. The course is uncharted, to be sure; it will be uncomfortable at times and somewhat hazardous in spots; but it is the only course a great university can follow.

I'm sorry you won't be on board. Sincerely, President X

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T I HE LETTERS on the preceding two pages typify a problem of growing seriousness for U.S. col­leges and universities: More and more Ameri­

cans—alumni, parents, politicians, and the general public—are dissatisfied with the way things have been going on the nation's campuses.

"For the first time in history," says Roger A. Free­man, former special assistant to President Nixon, "it appears that the profound faith of the American people in their educational institutions has been shaken, and their belief in the wisdom of our educational leaders and in the soundness of their goals or practices has turned to doubt and even to outright disapproval."

The people's faith has been shaken by many things: campus violence, student protest, permissiveness, a lack of strict discipline, politicization of the campus, the rejection of values and mores long-cherished by the larger society. Complicating the problem is a clash of life-styles between the generations which has raised a deafening static and made communication extremely difficult between students and their off-campus elders. (At one meeting not long ago, an angry alumnus turned on a student and shouted, "I just can't hear you. Your hair is in my ears.")

How many people are disenchanted, how strongly they feel, and how they will act to express their dis­content is not yet clear. But there is little doubt about the feelings and actions of many political leaders at all levels of government. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew spoke for many of them:

"When one looks back across the history of the last decade—at the smoking ruins of a score of college buildings, at the outbreaks of illegal and violent protests and disorders on hundreds of college campuses, at the regular harassment and interruption and shouting down of speakers, at the totalitarian spirit evident among thousands of students and hundreds of faculty members, at the decline of genuine academic freedom to speak and teach and learn—that record hardly warrants a roaring vote of confidence in the academic community that presided over the disaster."

Many state legislators are indicating by their actions that they share the Vice President's views. Thirty-two states have passed laws to establish or tighten campus regulations against disruption and to punish student and faculty offenders and, in some cases, the institutions themselves. A number of states have added restrictive amendments to appropriations bills, thus using budget allocations as leverage to bring colleges and universities into line.

JLhe public has clearly

indicated displeasure

with higher education'

The chancellor of California's state college system described the trend last fall:

"When I recently asked a legislator, '. . . Why did the legislature take what appears to me, and to most faculty and administrators in the state college system, to be punitive action in denying [a] cost-of-living in­crease to professors?'—he replied, 'Because it was the public's will.'

"We find ourselves confronted with a situation unlike that of any previous year. The 'public,' through the legislature, has clearly indicated displeasure with higher education . . . We must face the fact that the public mood, as reflected in the legislature, has taken a sub­stantial turn against higher education overall."

A similar mood prevails in Washington. Federal sup­port of higher education has slowed. Congressmen who have been friendly to higher education in the past openly admit that they face growing resistance to their efforts to provide funds for new and existing programs. Rep. Edith Green, chairman of .the House of Representatives subcommittee that has jurisdiction over bills affecting colleges and universities, observed during the last ses­sion, "It would be most unwise to try to bring to the floor this year a bill on higher education, because the climate is so unfavorable."

IF THIS APPARENT LOSS OF FAITH PERSISTS, Amer­ica's institutions of higher education will be in deep trouble. Even with the full confidence of the

American people, most of the nation's colleges and universities would be experiencing financial difficulties. Without the public's confidence, it is now evident that large numbers of those institutions simply cannot sur­vive.

Three years ago, the editors of this report published a special article on the financial outlook of American higher education at that time. The article began: "We are facing what might easily become a crisis in the fi­nancing of American higher education." And it con­cluded: "Unless the American people—especially the college and university alumni—can come alive to the

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reality of higher education's impending crisis, then the problems of today will become the disasters of to­morrow."

Tomorrow has arrived. And the situation is darker than we, or anyone else, anticipated—darkened by the loss of public confidence at the very time when, given the best of conditions, higher education would have needed the support of the American people as never before in its history.

If the financial situation was gloomy in 1968, it is desperate on most campuses today. The costs of higher education, already on the rise, have risen even faster with the surging inflation of the past several years. As a result of economic conditions and the growing reluc­tance of individual and organizational contributors, income is lagging even farther behind costs than before, and the budgetary deficits of three years ago are even larger and more widespread.

This situation has led to an unprecedented flood of appeals and alarms from the academic community.

• James M. Hester, president of New York Uni­versity and head of a White House task force on higher education, states that "virtually every public and private institution in the country is facing severe financial pressures."

• A. R. Chamberlain, president of Colorado State ' University, sees financing as "the most serious prob­

lem—even more serious than student dissent—that higher education will face in the 1970's." Many state legislators are angry, and the budgets of dozens of publicly supported colleges and universities are feeling the effects of their wrath.

• The smaller and less affluent colleges—with few financial reserves to tide them over a period of public disaffection—may be in the direst straits. "We are dying unless we can get some help," the president of Lake­land College, appearing in behalf of small liberal arts insdtutions, told a congressional committee. He added: "A slow death as we are experiencing goes practically unnoticed. This is part of our problem; nobody will even notice until after it happens."

(Few noticed, perhaps, the demise of 21 institutions reported in the 1969-70 Office of Education Directory, or that of several others which have decided to go out of business since the directory was published.)

• Preliminary figures from a study of financial problems at the 900 member institutions of the Asso­ciation of American Colleges indicate that an alarming number of colleges are going into the red. William W.

_ Jellema, the association's research director, estimates

A he situation is darker

than we—or anyone

else—anticipated

that about one-fourth of all private liberal arts colleges in the nation are now drawing on their endowments in one way or another to meet operating expenses.

• At least half of the 70 private colleges and uni­versities in Illinois are operating at a loss. A special commission created to study their fiscal problems warned that deficits "threaten the solvency, the quality, the vitality—even the survival—of some institutions." The lieutenant governor of Illinois predicts that one-third of the nation's private colleges may go out of existence by the end of the decade, unless state govern­ments provide financial assistance.

• Predominantly black colleges and universities are feeling the pinch. The former president of one such institution put the problem in these terms: "If all the black students at Harvard, M.I.T., Brandeis, and the main campus of the University of Virginia were sud­denly to drop out of college, there would be headlines all over the country. But the number of black students who will drop out of my school this year is equal to the number of black students* at those four schools, and nothing will be said about it. We could keep most of them for another $500 apiece, but we don't have it."

Even the "rich" institutions are in trouble. At Yale University, President Kingman Brewster noted that if the present shrinkage of funds were to continue for another year, Yale "would either have to abandon the quality of what we are doing, or abandon great dis­cernible areas of activity, or abandon the effort to be accessible on the merits of talent, not of wealth, or of race, or of inheritance." As the current academic year began, Yale announced that its projected deficit might well be larger than anticipated and therefore a freeze on hiring would be in effect until further notice—no new positions and no replacements for vacancies. The rest of the Ivy League faces similar problems.

R ETRENCHMENT has become a household word in campus administrative offices and board rooms everywhere. It is heard at every type

of college and university—large and small, public and

Photographs by Erich Hartmann, Magnum

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private—and in every part of the country. For example: • One morning several months ago, the trustees of

a member-institution of the prestigious Association of American Universities spent several hours discussing the eventual necessity of scaling down to a small-college operation.

• Saint Louis University has closed its school of dentistry and is phasing out its school of engineering.

• Tufts University has eliminated its school of theology.

• Case Western Reserve University has terminated its graduate physical therapy program.

• A large university in the South has been forced to phase out six Ph.D. programs.

• Huston-Tillotson College has cut back on its athletic program, reduced the number of course offer­ings, and eliminated several faculty positions.

• Reed College has taken steps to cut the size of its student body and to raise the student-faculty ratio.

• A high-priced nuclear reactor at an Eastern state university stands idle for lack of research support and operational funds.

The Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame, sums it up this way: "In the 25 years that I have been associated with the uni­versity . . . I can think of no period more difficult than the present. Never before has the university taken on more tasks, and been asked to undertake many more, while the sources of support, both public and private, both moral and financial, seem to be drying up."

THE FINANCIAL SITUATION is nowhere more urgent than in the medical schools. Forty-three of the country's 107 medical schools are in

such severe financial straits that they are getting "dis­aster grants" from the federal government this year.

Dr. John Cooper, president of the Association of American Medical Colleges, warns that "the whole financial structure of our medical schools is gravely threatened." He blames cuts in federal funding (which provides more than 50 per cent of many medical school budgets) as well as inflation and reductions in Medic­aid to hospitals.

Cutbacks in federal programs have also begun to erode the quality and effectiveness of academic science. Prominent scientists, who are not given to overdrama-tizing the facts, have issued urgent warnings.

Jerome Wiesner, provost of M.I.T. and former Presi­dential science adviser, said: "Cutbacks now in scien­tific research may cost the nation its leadership in

science and technology, and its economic well-being in the decades ahead."

Teams of scientists and technicians, painstakingly organized over the years, are now being scattered. Training and educational programs that provided the country with scientific manpower are faltering, and some have been forced to shut down.

Philip Handler, president of the National Academy of Sciences, has said: "Our national apparatus for the conduct of research and scholarship is not yet dis­mantled, but it is falling into shambles." The universi­ties are the backbone of that apparatus. When support of the universities weakens, science weakens.

WHAT ALL THIS ADDS UP TO is a crisis of un­

precedented proportions for higher educa­tion—"the greatest financial crisis it has

ever had," in the words of Clark Kerr, chairman of the authoritative Carnegie Commission on Higher Edu­cation.

Dr. Kerr's commission recently determined that two in every three U.S. colleges and universities were facing financial "hard times." Some 540 institutions, the com­mission estimated, were already "in financial difficulty"; another 1,000 were found to be "headed for financial trouble."

"Serious enough to be called a depression," was the estimate of Earl F. Cheit, professor of business admin­istration at the University of California, who studied higher education institutions of all types for the Car­negie Commission and concluded that almost all colleges and universities eventually may be in financial difficulty. (In the course of his study, Mr. Cheit found that most college presidents believed that the loss of public con­fidence in higher education was, in large measure, at the root of much of the trouble.)

ALARMS about higher education's financial plight have been raised regularly over the years, sim-

L ply because financial hardship has always been a fact of life for colleges and universities. In the past, the warnings and admonitions have produced at least enough response to provide some monetary relief and to forestall disaster. But the problem has grown steadily worse in recent years, and educators are pessimistic about the federal government's, or the state legislatures', or the alumni's coming to the rescue this time. In fact, the turmoil on the campuses and the growing antago­nism toward the academic community could result in the situation becoming even worse.

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The basic fiscal problem of colleges and universities is rather simple. They are nonprofit institutions which depend for their income on tuition and fees, interest on endowment, private gifts, and government grants. Tuition and fees do not cover the cost of education, particularly of graduate education, so the difference must be made up from the other sources. For private institutions, that means endowment income and gifts and grants. For state institutions, it generally means legislative appropriations, with relatively small amounts coming from endowment or private gifts.

In recent years, both costs and income have gone up, but the former have risen considerably faster than the latter. The widening gap between income and expendi­tures would have been enough in itself to bring colleges and universities to the brink of financial crisis. Reduc­tions in funding, particularly by the government, have' pushed the institutions over the brink.

Federal support for higher education multiplied nearly fivefold from 1960 to 1971, but the rate has slackened sharply in the past three years. And the future is hot very promising. The president of a Wash­ington-based educational association said bluntly: "In Washington, there is a singular lack of enthusiasm for supporting higher education generally or private higher education in particular."

Highly placed Administration officials have pointed out that colleges and universities have received a great deal of federal money, but that the nation has many urgent problems and other high priorities that are com­peting for the tax dollar. It cannot be assumed, they add, that higher education will continue to receive such a substantial share of federal aid.

Recent actions make the point even more dramatic­ally:

• The number of federally supported first-year graduate fellowships will be nearly 62 per cent lower in 1971-72 than in 1967-68.

' • The National Science Foundation has announced that it will not continue to make grants for campus computer operations. The foundation reports that— when inflation is considered—federal funds for re­search at colleges and universities declined 11 per cent between fiscal 1967 and 1970.

• The Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963, which helped to pay for much of the construction on campuses during the past seven years, is being phased out. In 1967 the outlay was $700-million; last year President Nixon requested no funds for construction. Instead he proposed an interest subsidy to prompt insti-

JLhe golden age:

"we have discovered that it

was only gold-plated"

tutions to borrow construction money from private sources. But a survey of state higher education com­missions indicated that in most states fewer than 25 per cent of the institutions could borrow money on reasonable repayment terms in today's financial market. Six states reported that none of their private institutions could borrow money on reasonable terms.

• The federal government froze direct loans for academic facilities in 1968. On June 30, 1969, the Office of Education had $223-million in applications for loans not approved and $582-million in grants not approved. Since then only $70-million has been made available for construction.

• The National Aeronautics and Space Administra­tion has reduced its obligations to universities from $130-million in 1969 to $80-million in 1971.

"Losing federal support," says a university research scientist, "is almost worse than never having received it." Since much of higher education's expansion during the '60's was financed with federal funds, the withdrawal of federal assistance leaves the institutions with huge commitments and insufficient resources to meet them— commitments to faculty, to students, to programs.

The provost of a university in the Northeast notes wistfully: "A decade ago, we thought we were entering a golden age for higher education. Now we have dis­covered that it was only gold-plated."

MUCH THE SAME can be said about state funds for public higher education. The 50 states

, appropriated $7-billion for 1970-71, nearly $1-billion more than in any previous year and five times as much as in 1959-60. But a great part of this increase went for new facilities and new institutions to accommodate expanding enrollments, rather than for support of existing institutions that were struggling to maintain their regular programs. Since public institu­tions are not permitted to operate with fiscal deficits, the danger is that they will be forced to operate with quality deficits.

"Austerity operations are becoming a fact of life for

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a growing number of institutions," says the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Col­leges.

Many public institutions found their budgets cut this year or their requests for capital funds denied or reduced. Colorado State University's capital construc­tion request for this year was cut from $11.4-million to $2.6-million in the face of projected enrollment increases of 3,600 juniors and seniors.

As state support has started to level off, public in­stitutions have begun to raise tuition—a move that many feel is contrary to the basic philosophy of public higher education. The University of California is im­posing a tuition charge for the first time in its history. The University of Illinois has boosted tuition by 60 per cent. Between 1959 and 1969, tuition and required fees doubled at public institutions.

Tuition in public institutions still does not approach tuition in private colleges and universities, which is now nearing $3,000 in many places. At these levels, private institutions are having increasing difficulty attracting applicants from middle-income families. Many small liberal arts colleges, which depend on tuition for as much as 80 per cent of their income, are losing students to less expensive public institutions. Consequently, many smaller private colleges reported vacancies in their entering classes last fall—an indication that they may be pricing Themselves out of the market.

Private giving is not likely to take up the slack; quite the contrary. The tax reform laws, recent declines in corporate profits, pressures to redirect resources to such pressing problems as environmental pollution, and the mounting unrest on the campuses have all combined to slow the pace of private giving to colleges and univer­sities.

The Commission on Foundations and Private Philanthropy concluded that "private giving is simply not keeping pace with the needs of charitable organi­zations." The commission predicted a multibillion-dollar deficit in these organizations by 1975.

Colleges and universities have been working harder in their fund-raising efforts to overcome the effects of campus unrest and an ailing economy. Generally, they have been holding the line. An Associated Press survey of some 100 colleges throughout the country showed that most schools were meeting fund-drive goals—in­cluding some which experienced serious student disrup­tion. Although the dollar amount of contributions has risen somewhat at most schools, the number of contrib­utors has declined.

J. he consequences

may go well beyond

the campuses

"That is the scary part of it," commented one devel­opment officer. "We can always call on good friends for the few big gifts we need to reach the annual goal, but attrition in the number of donors will cause serious problems over the long run."

ALL OF THIS quite obviously bodes ill for our colleges and universities. Some of them may

L have to close their doors. Others will have to retrench—a painful process that can wipe out quality gains that have taken years to accomplish. Students may find themselves paying more and getting less, and faculty may find themselves working harder and earn­ing less. In short, a continuation of the fiscal crisis can do serious damage to the entire higher educational es­tablishment.

But the negative consequences will go well beyond the campus. "What happens to American higher edu­cation will ultimately happen to America," in the words of one observer. Examples:

• Much of the nation's technological progress has been solidly based on the scientific effort of the uni­versities. To the degree that the universities are weak­ened, the country's scientific advancement will be slowed.

• The United States needs 50,000 more medical doctors and 150,000 more medical technicians right now. Yet the cutback in federal funds. is leading to retrenchment in medical schools, and some 17 are threatened with closing.

• For two decades U.S. presidents and Congress have been proclaiming as a national goal the educa­tion of every young person to the limit of his ability. Some 8.5-million students are now enrolled in our col­leges and universities, with 12-million projected by 1980. The Carnegie Commission on Higher Education recommends the creation of between 230 and 280 new community colleges in the next decade and an addi­tional 50 urban four-year colleges to serve metropolitan areas. Yet federal programs to aid in campus construc­tion are being phased out, states are cutting back on

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capital expenditures, student aid programs are being reduced, and colleges are being forced to close their doors.

• Governmental rulings are now clearly directed to integrating black Americans into the larger society and creating equal educational opportunities for them and for the nation's poor. Many colleges and universities have enlisted in that cause and have been recruiting minority-group students. This is a costly venture, for the poor require almost complete scholarship support in order to matriculate in a college. Now, the shortage of funds is hampering the effort.

• An emergent national goal in the 1970's will be the cleaning of the environment and the restoration of the country's urban centers as safe, healthy, and sane places to live. With this in mind, the National Science Foundation has shifted the emphasis in some of its major programs toward the environmental and social sciences. But institutions which face major retrench­ment to offset growing deficits will be seriously con­strained in their efforts to help solve these pressing social problems.

"The tragedy," says the president of a large state university, "is that the society is rejecting us when we need it most—and I might add when it most needs us."

T HE PUBLIC'S loss of confidence in the colleges and universities threatens not only their fi­nancial welfare, but their freedom as well.

Sensing the public's growing dissatisfaction with the campuses, state legislators and federal officials have been taking actions which strike directly at the auton­omy and independence of the nation's educational insti­tutions.

Trustees and regents have also begun to tighten con­trols on colleges and universities. A number of presi­dents have been fired, frequently for not dealing more harshly with student and faculty disrupters.

"We are in a crossfire," a university president points out. "Radical students and faculty are trying to capture our universities, and they are willing to destroy our freedom in the effort. Authorities, on the other hand, would sacrifice our freedom and autonomy to get at the radicals."

The dilemma for college and university officials is a particularly painful one. If they do not find effec­tive ways to deal with the radicals—to halt campus violence and resist efforts to politicize the institutions— outside forces will exert more and more control. On the other hand, if administrators yield to outside pressures

A l u m n i who understand

can help to restore

the public confidence

and crack down on radicals, they are likely to radical­ize moderate students and damage academic freedom and individual rights in the process.

McGeorge Bundy, president of the Ford Foundation, summed it up this way:

"To the degree that violence subsides and the uni­versity community as such is kept separate from polit­ical conflict, the danger of attack upon the freedom of the university from the outside will be reduced. No institution which depends upon society for its resources will be allowed—as an institution—to choose sides in the general contests of the democratic process, and vio­lence by the privileged is an uncommonly unpopular phenomenon. If it be true, as I believe, that both poli­tics and violence must be restrained in the academic world for reasons that are intrinsic to the nature of the university, it is also true that when violence spreads and the university is politicized, society as a whole turns hostile—and in a prolonged contest with society as a whole, the university is not a likely winner."

Freedom would be the first casualty—the freedom to teach, the freedom to learn, the freedom to dissent, and the freedom of the academy to govern itself. Truth, objectivity, vitality, and knowledge would fall victim in quick succession. Were this to happen, society as a whole would suffer, for autonomous colleges and uni­versities are indispensable to society's own self-renewal, its own cultural and intellectual advancement, and its own material well-being.

Samuel Gould, former chancellor of the State Uni­versity of New York, once told his legislature some­thing that is especially relevant today: "A society that cannot trust its universities," he said, "cannot trust itself."

U Ti I HE CRISIS on American campuses has no parallel in the history of this nation. It has its roots in divisions of American

society as deep as any since the Civil War. The divi­sions are reflected in violent acts and harsh rhetoric and in the enmity of those Americans who see themselves

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as occupying opposing camps. Campus unrest reflects and increases a more profound crisis in the nation as a whole."

Thus did the President's Commission on Campus Unrest begin its somber "call to the American people" last fall. Only greater tolerance and greater understand­ing on the part of all citizens, the commission declared, can heal the divisions.

If a major disaster for higher education and for so­ciety is to be averted, moderate Americans in every seg­ment of society must make their voices heard and their influence felt. That effort must begin on the campuses, for the primary responsibility to increase understanding lies with the academic community.

Polls and studies have made it abundantly clear that the overwhelming majority of faculty members, students, and administrators are moderate people who reject vio­lence as a means of changing either society or the uni­versity. These people have been largely silent and in­active; in the vacuum they have left, an impassioned and committed minority has sought to impose its views on the university and the society. The moderate majority must begin to use its collective power to re-establish the campus as a place of reason and free expression where violence will not be tolerated and harsh rhetoric is scorned.

The majority must also rethink and restate—clearly and forcefully—the purpose of our colleges and uni­versities. It has become clear in recent years that too few Americans—both on and off the campus—under­stand the nature of colleges and universities, how they function, how they are governed, why they must be centers for criticism and controversy, and why they must always be free.

Only such a moderate consensus will be effective in restraining and neutralizing extremists at either end of the political spectrum. The goal is not to stifle dissent or resist reform. Rather, the goal is to preserve colleges and universities as institutions where peaceful dissent

and orderly change can flourish. Violence in the name of reform inevitably results in either repression or a new orthodoxy.

Polls and studies show that most alumni are also moderate people, that they support most of the campus reform that has occurred in recent years, that they share many of the concerns over social problems expressed by activist students, and that they sympathize with col­lege officials in their difficult task of preserving freedom and order on the campus.

"What is surprising," notes a college alumni relations officer, "is not that some alumni are withdrawing their support, but that so many have continued to support us right through the crises and the turmoil." He went on to point out that only one of four alumni and alumnae, on the average, contributes to his or her alma mater. "Wouldn't it be something," he mused, "if the ones we never hear from rallied round us now." Wouldn't it indeed!

Alumni and alumnae, by virtue of their own educa­tional experience and their relationship to colleges and universities, have a special role to play in helping to restore public confidence in higher education. They can make a special effort to inform themselves and to under­stand, and they can share their information and under­standing with their fellow citizens. Too many Americans, influenced by mass-media coverage which invariably focuses on the turmoil, are ready to believe the worst about higher education, are willing to sanction the pun­ishment of all colleges and universities in order to retaliate against the disruptive minority. Too many Americans have already forgotten the great positive contributions that colleges and universities have made to this nation during the past three decades. Here is where the alumni and alumnae can make a contribution as important as a monetary gift. They can seek to cool passions and to restore perspective. They can challenge and correct misinformation and misconceptions. They can restore the public confidence.

The report on this and the preceding 15 pages is the product of a cooperative endeavor in which scores of schools, colleges, and universities are taking part. It was prepared under the direction of the persons listed below, the trustees of EDITORIAL PROJECTS FOR EDUCATION, INC., a nonprofit organization in­formally associated with the American Alumni Council. The trustees, it should be noted, act in this capacity for themselves and not for their institutions, and not alb the editors neces­sarily agree with all the points in this report. All rights reserved; no part may be reproduced without express permission. Printed in U.S.A. Trustees: DENTON BEAL, C. W. Post Center; DAVID A. BURR, the University of Oklahoma; MARALYN O. GILLESPIE, Swarthmore College; CORBIN GWALTNEY, Editorial Projects for

Education; CHARLES M. HELMKEN, American Alumni Council; GEORGE c. KELLER, State University of New York; JACK R. MA-GUIRE, the University of Texas; JOHN I. MATTILL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; KEN METZLER, the University of Ore­gon; JOHN w. PATON, Wesleyan University; ROBERT B. RENNE-

BOHM, the University of Wisconsin Foundation; ROBERT M. RHODES, the University of Pennsylvania; STANLEY SAPLIN; VERNE A. STADTMAN, Carnegie Commission on Higher Educa­tion; FREDERIC A. STOTT, Phillips Academy (Andover); FRANK J . TATE, the Ohio State University; CHARLES E. WIDMAYER, Dartmouth College; DOROTHY F. WILLIAMS, Simmons College; RONALD A. WOLK, Brown University; ELIZABETH BOND WOOD,

Sweet Briar College; CHESLEY WORTHINGTON.

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Sports Scene By Jim Schulr:

Photographs by Deloye Burre

Rich Yunkus' number 40 jersey has been retired, and "Whack" Hyder bears laurels as Georgia College Coach of the Year—just part of the best basketball season in Georgia Tech History.

The finest week in Georgia Tech Basketball history.

That's how the Yellow Jackets wrapped up their best season ever (23-9)—by recording three straight upsets in the National Invitation Tournament before dropping the championship game to North Carolina. Tech's unexpected success in New York's Madison Square Garden was a rewarding climax to a job well done by coaches and players alike.

When we last left the Jacket cagers, they were anticipating trips to Charlotte and Hawaii and maybe, just maybe, a post-season tourney berth. The Engineers had some road trouble, however, and managed to beat only North Carolina State, while losing to the Tar Heels once and Rainbows twice. Then, with an uncertain future facing them, coach Whack Hyder's troops regrouped and won their final four regular season

games to earn their second consecu­tive trip to New York.

A lot of folks thought the Jackets would have a short stay in the North when it was learned they would be paired against Eastern power La-Salle, an early NIT favorite. Tech proceeded to send the Explorers back to Philadelphia on an early train, 70-67. Senior forward Tommy Wilson, who was to enjoy an out­standing tournament, had the best night of his career with 21 points on nine of 15 shooting, grabbed 10 rebounds and calmly sank two clinching free throws with three seconds left. Rich Yunkus rebounded from a below-par first half to finish with a game high of 27 points.

Tech thus earned the right to challenge strong Big Ten representa­tive Michigan. There was no way the Jackets could stay with the strong, leaping Wolverines. So the

Engineers, playing a nose-to-nose defense and scrapping under the boards, advanced with a 78-70 victory. Upset No. 2. Yunkus scored 27 points for the fourth straight time in the NIT and snared a difficult 16 rebounds. Robert (Peanut) Murphy, who at 6-2 looks slightly out of place at forward, was red-hot early and added 16 points. Wilson contributed 15 and defensive ace Frank Samoylo 10 to Tech's balanced attack.

So then came St. Bonaventure, the same Brown Indians who had wrested the Gator Bowl trophy from the Jackets' hands with a last-second 70-68 win in December. This time fortune smiled on Tech and the Jackets moved into the NIT finals by edging the Bonnies, 76-71, in two overtimes. Paul Hoffman had a golden chance to put Tech in the consolation game, but missed two (that's right, a pair of free throws) after the clock had run out on the first extra session. Needing no further # encouragement, the Jackets blitzed St. Bona with seven free throws and a field goal in the second overtime for upset no. 3. Guard Jim Thorne, another senior who has meant much to the Tech basketball scene for the past three years, led the way with a career-high 27 points on 11 of 15 firing.

So this was it. The unsung Jackets, finally beginning to be recognized by the New York Press, would play North Carolina, a deep club that had whipped them 87-58 in Charlotte, for the championship of the 34th annual NIT. The tired Engineers gave it all they had, but wound up on the short end of an 84-66 count. It was a finale of streaks. It looked like a total disaster when the Tar­heels jumped off to an 8-0 lead in the opening minutes. The Jackets rallied to temporarily pull ahead and were down just 44-40 at intermission. They were back by those same four points with seven minutes left when the Tarheels, more specifically tournament MVP Bill Chamberlain,

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Sports Scene (continued)

went on a decisive spree. Wilson and Murphy split 38 points in Tech's losing effort.

Despite that 18-point setback the Jackets had every right to stand tall. No other Tech team had won as many games or scored as many points. Hardly anyone, except the Jackets themselves, believed they could win in New York. Three out of four isn't bad when you're an under­dog in every game. Hyder, who qualifies as a fair judge in his 20th season as Tech's head coach, was well pleased after it all was over. "This has to be the greatest week in Tech basketball history," he said. "Our players showed great determina­tion and went a long way. They gave me more than any team has ever given me. They refused to believe what people said and anyone who beat them had to prove it to them on the court."

Hyder justly won some official and unofficial honors of his own for

so skillfully handling his team. Knowledgeable observers commented that the respected Hyder and as­sistants Byron Gilbreath and Butch Clifton did the most outstanding coaching job in the NIT and one of the best in the country throughout the year. The Atlanta Tipoff Club named Hyder its Georgia college Coach-of-the-Year.

Yunkus, of course, was the big star throughout the 1970-71 season and, for that matter, for the last three years. Big Rich wound up with a bundle of Tech records, many of which likely will stand for some time. Yunkus, drafted by the NBA Cincinnati Royals in the third round and the ABA Carolina Cougars in the second, scored 2,232 points, better than 600 more than Roger Kaiser sank during his all-America career. The Engineers' best big man in history also holds career standards for scoring average (26.6) and for field goals made, attempted,

Guard Jim Thorne achieved his career high in leading the win against St. Bona-venture in the NIT. v

Forward Tommy Wilson was a standout in the NIT, figuring strongly in the win against Michigan.

and percentage; season records for total points, scoring average, and field goals and free throws made and attempted; and game marks for points, field goals and free throws. Yunkus had his No. 40 Jersey retired for his accomplishments, an honor bestowed on only one other basketball Yellow Jacket—Kaiser.

Yunkus will be missed, as will Thorne, Wilson and Howard Thompson. But don't bet that Hyder and his staff won't develop another winning combination next year.

Tech's baseball team opened its season in super fashion, winning 11 of its initial 12 games. Particularly impressive were junior college transfer pitcher Bill Pridgen, who won his first three games including a couple of shutouts; shortstop Larry Elliott, who batted better than .450 in the first dozen games; and fresh­man first baseman Cam Bonifay, a stickout both in the field and at the plate. Coach Jim Luck's squad listed Tennessee, North Carolina and Wake Forest among its early victims and may possess the right combina­tion of defense, pitching and hitting to continue the 1970-71 success tradition of Bud Carson's footballers and Hyder's quintet.

The Jacket track team, paced by distance runner Joel Majors, com­pleted an eventful indoor season before turning its attention outdoors. Majors had lowered the school two-mile record to 8:55.2 as of this writing and seemed destined to cut several seconds off that time in up­coming meets.

The Tech football staff underwent some changes. Warner Alford, a first-class gentleman and coach, returned to his alma mater, Mississippi, as a linebacker coach, and was replaced by Bill Lewis of Wake Forest. Dick Bestwick first accepted, then turned down, the head Marshall job and now serves Tech as assistant to the head coach and as chief freshman coach.

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One of the most difficult decisions of my l i fe . . . . w

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Another Goodbye Ri vumors had been circulating for about a week, gradually picking up frequency and substance. It 's hard to keep something like a presi­dential resignation quiet.

About a week prior the student newspaper at Purdue University called the Georgia Tech Technique, asking if they had any word about President Hansen accepting the presidency of Purdue. T h e only rumor they had heard was that he had turned the offer down in De­cember but had now accepted ef­fective Ju ly 1, 1971.

Signs appeared all over campus announcing a special s tudent meet­ing for 12:00 noon in the Old Gym, urging students to attend. Faculty members were urged by memo­randum to attend the faculty meet­ing scheduled for 11:00, just before the s tudent meeting.

On Monday, April 11, the radio local news announcers made much of the impending meetings, specu­lating on the rumors that Hansen was to resign. On Tuesday morning the newspaper carried an article about the expected announcement.

The faculty meeting must have

set records for at tendance. All seats in the Electrical Engineering audi­torium were taken, and faculty members stood along the walls and at the entrance. Dr. Bloom, Associ­ate Vice-President for Academic Affairs, conducted a bit of routine business before the arrival of Dr . Hansen. "Don ' t expect across-the-board raises; the money's not there. . . . Systems Science building and SAC-70 are now top two building priorities. . . . Blood drive. . . ." Comments of "haven' t seen some of these people in years—we need to do this more often" and "one way to ensure a good at tendance is to have a spectacular program," wel­come tension relievers, drew laughs easily from the group.

When President Hansen ap­peared he was greeted with en­thusiastic applause. The announce­ment was short, softly spoken, to the point.

It is with many mixed emotions that I am informing you of my intent to resign as President of Georgia Tech on July 1. I have been offered the presidency of Pur­due University and have accepted that offer.

After a standing ovation, a moment of quiet listening.

In many ways I regret leaving Tech. I have often spoken of the "Tech Mystique" — that magic

\ quality that Tech possesses that i engenders allegiance, loyalty, and

devotion. I understand that well and have been most proud to have been a part of Tech. During the four and one-half years I have been at Tech, I have seen many changes. I have watched Tech grow and move toward its goal of quality. There are many challenges left, but I am now fully confident that they will be met successfully. I once said that it was no longer necessary to talk about Tech's "potential." We were in the game with other top-notch schools and it was time to play the game to win. I leave Tech believing this even more than when I first made the statement. The recent extra help given us by the Board of Regents convinces me that our needs are understood and that we shall have the support re­quired. I wish to personally express my thanks to the Board and par­ticularly Chancellor Simpson for this understanding and support.

I shall always have a very warm spot in my heart for Georgia Tech and shall recall with pride the memory of being a "Ramblin' Wreck." Thank you for all that you have given me. No president could have asked for more.

At the conclusion of his an­nouncement Dr. Hansen stepped from the stage and made his way toward the exit, shaking hands as he went, the faculty giving him a standing ovation.

T h e Old Gym was almost a re­play of the same scene. T h e crowd of students jammed the seats all the way to the roof girders and spilled onto the floor. Dr . Hansen was introduced, and all scrambled to their feet applauding, whistling, in a thunderous standing ovation that lasted more than two full min­utes, a hundred and twenty deafen­ing seconds. As the din subsided, Hansen began to speak. The mes­sage was essentially the same as that presented to the faculty in content:

You are the reason I took this job as president almost two years ago. . . . There are many memories I shall take with me . . . your en­thusiasm at ball games . . . the rat hats . . . your singing of "Ramblin' Wreck" . . . your willingness to work with me positively. . . . I think back to the memorial service for the Kent State students who died in the spring of last year. Other schools were torn with vio­lence, but you sat quietly on the grass and, when the service was

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NEWS OF THE ALUMNI

Albany Tech Alumni Club

Over one hundred Albany Georgia Tech Alumni and guests were on hand Tuesday, March 9 at the Doublegate Country Club to hear Dr. Arthur G. Hansen honor the club members for their participation in the Institute's 23rd Roll Call. The Albany members achieved a record 95.76 percent participation in the drive, making theirs the top club in its competitive grouping.

The club's performance in the 1968-70 Roll Call gives it one leg on a trophy which will become the club's own if it stays on top two more years.

Indianapolis Georgia Tech Club The winter meeting of the Indiana­polis Georgia Tech Alumni Club was held February 16, 1971 at the Meridian Hills Country Club. Ap­proximately forty members and their wives attended the reception and dinner. After a short business meeting Dr. Vernon Crawford, Vice President for Academic Affairs at Georgia Tech, spoke to the club. Dr. Craw­ford related the many recent develop­ments on campus, and presented a good picture of the student body on campus today.

Tampa Alumni Club News The Florida West Coast Chapter had a stag beer-and-smoked-fish party at the Mullet Inn on March

8, 1971. Of the 640 local alumni, over 100 attended. This great crowd was treated to a very fine, candid talk by Coach Carson, followed by questions from the floor and the football "Highlights" film. Other honored guests at the party included University of Tampa head football Coach Bill Fulcher and Coach Chick Granning, both former Yellow Jackets. Coach Carson brought Coach Joe Popp with him, and the always-popular Red Mitchum was honorary emcee.

CHARTER NIGHT IN PUERTO RICO

Wvtffl The Georgia Tech Club of Puerto Rico was chartered Friday night, February 26,

1971 at the Sheraton Hotel in San Juan. Shown above, left to right, are Mrs. Peggy Beard; Mr. Luis Acosta, '61, M. C. and Treasurer; Mr. Roane Beard, Secretary of the National Association; Mr. Joaquin Taule, '56, President of the Georgia Tech Club of Puerto Rico; Mrs. Olga Taule, Mr. Ramon Zequeira, '67, vice-president; and Mrs. Margie Zequeira. Seventy-one turned out for the occasion at which President Taule received the charter from Secretary Beard.

Hansen (continued)

over, you left the mall with dignity. These are the things that set this student body apart. . . . We have a long, proud tradition; a confi­dence Tech graduates hold that they are capable of excelling when all others have failed. . . . You are a Ramblin' Wreck. . . . I am proud I chose Georgia Tech. It has filled my life. I thank each for being so wonderful. I leave you with sad­ness in my heart but damned proud I've known you. That was all. The applause as

Dr. Hansen left was shorter, some­what subdued.

The following day the Board of Regents announced the appoint­ment of Dr. James Boyd, Vice-,

Chancellor for Academic Develop­ment for the University System, as acting president of Georgia Tech effective July 1 if a permanent re­placement for Dr. Hansen has not been found by that date. Dr. Boyd was president of West Georgia Col­lege from 1961 to 1971, and is a former director of Tech's Engineer­ing Experiment Station. Chancellor Simpson will later announce the formation of three advisory com­mittees, one made up of students, one of faculty, and one of alumni, to aid in the search for a new presi­dent of Georgia Tech. Mr. L. L. Gellerstedt has already been se­lected to chair the alumni commit­

tee; recommendations may be mailed to him in care of the Geor­gia Tech National Alumni Associa­tion.

The alumni will be kept informed of progress, as they were during the search for a president in 1968-69. Georgia Tech will depend upon the support and guidance of its alumni during a time of change. It's a time of tight funding, of taking new di­rections, of seeking new leader­ship—but Georgia Tech can't af­ford to ease its drive to be the best among the excellent. It's true that we've taken on the best in the field along with some tough odds, and we're fighting to win.

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J/i f—) Newton Nesbitt Teague, ME, I ^ of Augusta, Georgia, died on

February 24, 1971.

»/ | A G. IV. Jordan, Jr., ME, died. I ^ - T Date was not given. Mrs.

Jordan's address is P. O. Box 221, Hawkinsville, Georgia 31036.

1/1 r ~ William H. Slack, Jr. died on I O January 29, 1971. Mrs. Slack

resides at 1675 Riverside Drive, Gainesville, Georgia 30501.

>/i r ^ Eugene Anderson Stanley, EE, | D died on January 4, 1971. Mrs.

Stanley resides at 138 East 50th Street, Savannah, Georgia.

f/i«—| Benjamin J. Strauss, ME, died. | y Date was not given. Mrs.

Strauss resides at 6 Avery Road, Carmel, New York 10512.

,(~\\f~\ Lawton T. Stevens, ME, died C L I o n February 6, 1971. Mr.

Stevens was one of the founders of the John H. Carter Company. Mrs. Stevens resides at 505 Gustine Street, Shreveport, Louisiana 71106.

11~\ t~\ Frank Harrison, CE, died on r* f* March 8, 1971. Mr. Harrison

was president of Missouri Valley Con­structors, Inc. Mrs. Harrison resides at 3221 Crockett, Amarillo, Texas.

William O. Kinnebrew, ME, died on November 19, 1970. Mrs. Kinnebrew resides at 17400 Gulf Blvd., North Redington Beach, Florida 33708.

Thomas T. Tucker died on December 7, 1970. Mr. Tucker was a Charter Member of the Georgia Engineering Society and the January issue of the magazine was dedicated to him. Mrs. Tucker resides at 3810 Wieuca Road, NE, Atlanta, Georgia.

1 f^ O Carlton G. George, Com, of f^ \ J Los Angeles, California died

on December 16, 1970. R. E. Walker, Jr.. TE, of Atlanta,

Georgia, died on July 4, 1970.

' O / I John L. Farmer, EE, of ^ ^ - f Tucson, Arizona, died on

February 7, 1971. Ralph L. Hill, TE, died December

15, 1970. Mr. Hill was a retired textile engineering instructor at Georgia Tech.

' r ^ O Walter Anderson, Sr., Com, C. D died February 16, 1971. Mr.

Anderson was retired sales manager for Globe-Union, Inc. Mrs. Anderson resides at 6210 Ferry Drive, NE, Atlanta.

» r ^ ~7 John H. Ankers, ME, died C / on January 2, 1971. Mrs.

Ankers resides at 448 Keenan Avenue, Ft. Myers, Florida 33901.

1 r ^ Q Fred W. Bush, EE, retired as ^_ t J Engineering Consultant tor

Electrical Products, Allis-Chalmers. Mr. Bush resides at 8104 Brookside Place, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin 53213.

Claude T. Grizzard, Jr., chairman of the board of Grizzard Advertising, Inc., is the 1970 Silver Medal Award winner of the Atlanta Advertising Club and the American Advertising Federation.

' (-\ r-\ William W. McCathern has C_ v!j been elected president of the

Colonial-American National Bank in Roanoke, Virginia.

Jack L. Ware, EE, has retired as Packaging Products Manager of American Excelsior Company in Arlington, Texas. The Wares reside at 1808 Elm Hurst Drive, Arlington 76012.

1 r^ A Claire D. Dunlap, CE, died O I on January 9, 1971. Mrs.

Dunlap's address is P. O. Box 747, Frazier Park, California 93225.

Thomas I. Underwood, EE, of Cartersville, Georgia died November 23, 1970.

J r n r~) John A. Kittrell, TE, has been V j C_ named manufacturing product

manager, acetate filament yarns, of the Meadville, Pennsylvania plant of American Visose.

John J. Persee of Enterprise, Ala­bama died September 14, 1970.

George E. Viereck, BS, was elected Chairman, Board of Admissions, University Club, Washington, D. C.

11—\ i—\ Frank C. Brandes, Com, VJ J retired from Retail Credit

Company, Atlanta, in January. He was Staff Vice-President.

Fred S. Dale, EE, died March 11, 1971. Mrs. Dale resides at 632 Dixon Drive, Gainesville, Georgia.

John G. Turner, EE, has been awarded the Clarence E. Ridley In Service Training Award, International City Management Association in Greensboro, North Carolina where he is City Manager.

' Q 1 ^ Robert C. Eley, Jr., ChE, %J (_) retired as Employee Relations

Superintendent of Barksdale Works, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Ashland, Wisconsin.

» O O Warren A. Butler, Jr., BS, \j D has been appointed Assistant

Vice President, Alexander & Alexander, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia. The Butlers reside at 4181 North Stratford Road, NE, Atlanta.

1 Q —j J.E. (Ed) Carter, ChE, was F_} / named President of the Hunt­

ington Division of International Nickel in Huntington, West Virginia. He also becomes Vice President of International Nickel, the parent com­pany.

Allen H. Jensen, ME, was promoted to general manager of the Electric Power Department of Public Service

Sin New Orleans. The Jensens reside at ,1701 King Drive, New Orleans.

Samuel R. Young, CE, recently retired from the U. S. Air Force, is a Senior Airport Engineer with Atlanta Airport Engineers, a joint venture of Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff, and Robert and Company Associates.

' f^ Q John Robert Childs, Jr. of l j t j Santa Maria,' California died

on February 15, 1971. James E. Pierce, CE, has retired

from Jones and Laughlin Steel Corpora­tion, Pittsburgh, after 31 years of service where his last position was General Manager of Sales. Mr. Pierce resides at 2050 Outlook Drive, Trotwood Acres, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Herbert W. Sams has been elected President of Scripto, Inc., in Atlanta. Mr. Sams resides at 3504 Paces Places, NW, Atlanta.

Lucien Williams, TE, chairman of Augusta's Urban Renewal Committee and a leading real estate developer died January 3, 1971. Mrs. Williams resides at 606 Milledge Road, Augusta, Georgia.

I n n J. A. Vendrell, GE, of Pye-t 1 1 ) Barker Supply Company,

Atlanta, received the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Award of Merit in March 1971.

1 A /—» Harold L. Ewing died on ^ + U February 4, 1971. Mr. Ewing

was a pilot for Delta Air Lines for more than 20 years before his retire­ment. Mrs. Ewing resides at 1361 Downs Drive, SW, Atlanta, Georgia.

> A A Troy H. Par ham, Jr., ChE, has ^ T | been appointed Chief

Chemical Engineer, Tenite Plastics Development Department, Tennessee Eastman Company, Kingsport, Tennessee.

» A (—\ William T. Clearman, PhE, is ^ T C_ a member of the civilian corps

that helped put Apollo 14 in space. Mr. Clearman is assigned at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida as Deputy Chief of the Apollo vehicle office.

William W. Massengale, died on March 1, 1971. Mr. Massengale was a manufacturer's representative for housewares. Mrs. Massengale resides at 2676 Sharondale Drive, NE, Atlanta.

Edmond T. Richardson died on January 4, 1971. Mrs. Richardson resides at 1621 Cutty Sark Road, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23454.

J. Cooper Shackelford, CE, a build­ing contractor of Greenville, South Carolina, was elected President of Carolinas Branch, The Associated Gen­eral Contractors of America for 1971.

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J y i f-\ James O. Conley, IM, was ^ T i J promoted to Executive Vice

President—Operations, Jackson-At­lantic, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia.

Glenn A. Wilson, ME, has been elected president of The New Jersey Zinc Company, Bethlehem, Pennsyl­vania. The Wilsons reside in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.

» y i y l Merrill J. Osborne, EE, di-^~X^-T rector of engineering, Bowater,

Inc., Old Greenwich, Connecticut, was elected Vice President of the technical association of the Pulp and Paper Industry for 1971.

»y i p— Captain Hubert W. Keith, CE, *-f \~J was appointed Chief of the

National Ocean Survey's Miami, Florida Ship Base. Captain Keith is a commissioned officer of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra­tion.

Eugene Miller, BS, vice president of the New York Stock Exchange, was elected to the Board of Trustees of Bethany College which is located in West Virginia.

George A. Trigaux, ChE, of Weston, Connecticut, manager of New Opportunities Development for Union Carbide Corporation was appointed to the Board of Directors of the William Inlan Corporation, Westport, Connecticut.

t y i r-» Colonel John C. Beals, IM, has ^-f-rTI assumed command as the new

Base Civil Engineer at Langley Air Force Base.

Robert D. Clarke, NS, has been ap­pointed as Manager of Chemical Development for Lockwood Greene Engineers, Inc. Mr. Clarke will be based in Atlanta.

Philip E. Culbertson, AE, is a member of the civilian corps that helped put Apollo 14 in space. Mr. Culbertson is a director in the Office of Manned Space Flight, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Washington, D. C.

William Reid Martin, CE, of Lahore, West Pakistan died on December 1, 1970.

Af. David Prince, EE, of Lockheed-Georgia Company, Marietta, Georgia, has written a new book entitled Interactive Graphics for Computer-Aided Design.

1 y i —l Robert L. Knox of Atlanta, ^•f / Georgia died on January 19,

1971.

» y i Q Thomas J. Allen, EE, has been ^ T t J elected a Vice President of

Georgia Power Company and will be located at the General Offices in At­lanta.

Roland F. Griner, AE, is a member of the civilian corps that helped put Apollo 14 in space. Mr. Griner is as- v

signed to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville. Alabama.

y i r~% Fabian J. Bishop, IM, of ^ T t J Palatine, Illinois died on

December 13, 1970. Charles L. Davidson, Jr., IM, has

been elected president of two major granite producing firms, Davidson Mineral Properties, Inc., Lithonia, and Gainesville Stone Company.

Thomas C. Denmark, IE, has been named an assistant vice president of Illinois Bell Telephone. Mr. Denmark resides at 21W710 Dorchester Court, Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137.

Robert C. Nisbet, CE. has been ap­pointed senior staff engineer of Humble Oil & Refining Company's South Texas Division gas engineering group, Corpus Christi, Texas.

Raymond E. Shafer, IE, of Morgan-town West Virginia died on February 22, 1971.

J r ~ f I Emil Alfred Adomat, EE, of i~J l_J Fort Lauderdale, southeastern

division manager of the Florida Power & Light Company, has been named a vice president of the utility.

Emory D. Ayers, CE, has been named assistant to the chairman of Union Carbide Eastern, Inc., New York City.

J. J. Cordova, EE, has been appointed Division Manager in Valdosta, Georgia for Georgia Power Company.

Elmer L. Perry, BS, was elected to the board of directors of the Augusta Federal Savings and Loan Association in Augusta, Georgia.

William R. Sanders, IE, has been appointed Vice President of Manu­facturing of Erb Plastics, Incorporated. Mr. Sanders resides at 315 Forest Hills Drive, NE, Atlanta, Georgia.

James C. Sheehan, EE, has been named sales manager, Safety Products Division of Mine Safety Appliances Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

James E. Still, Jr., IM, has been named president and chief executive officer of Areata Data Management in Hawthorne, California.

James B. Wagnon, ME, has been promoted to commercial sales coordi­nator of Chattanooga Gas Company. The Wagnons reside at 2413 Woolson Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

' P ~ / l Jack G. Owens, IE, has been u J I named plant manager, Allied

Chemical Corporation, Columbia, South Carolina.

Gerald L. Peters, ME, is a member of the civilian corps that helped put Apollo 14 in space. Mr. Peters is assigned to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama.

Richard D. Vaughan, CE, the director of the Federal Bureau of Solid Waste Management, was featured in a recent issue of Design News.

' C^ Q William R- Frizzell, BS, a Fort O C_ Myers, Florida, architect, has

been elected to the Board of Directors of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association.

Dr. Henry E. Meadows, Jr., EE, was co-author of a new book, Modern Net­work Analysis. Dr. Meadows is a professor in the Department of Elec­trical Engineering and Computer Science at Columbia University in New York.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sadow, Text, a son, Adam Neil, on February 23, 1971. Mr. Sadow is employed by Burlington Industries in New York. The Sadows reside at 391 Plymouth Drive, Freehold, New Jersey 07728.

John N. Scandalios, IM, has been elected Vice President of Manufactur­ing, Phelps Dodge Tube Company. Mr. Scandalios resides at 335 Fair Haven Road, Fair Haven, New Jersey.

Campbell L. Smith. IM, is Vice President of Ivy H. Smith Company in Jacksonville, Florida. The Smiths reside at 1422 River Oaks Road, Jacksonville, 32207.

James R. Wells, CE, will serve as an Assistant Project Engineer for Duke Power Company, Charlotte, North Carolina.

' CZ Q Daniel J. Bello, Jr., EE, of • J v J Holland, Pennsylvania died on

August 29, 1970. George B. Moore. CE, has been ap­

pointed director of North Latin America for the International Division of Armco Steel Corporation, Middletown, Ohio.

» p " y i U. S. Air Force Major Bobby O ^ T G. Albritton, IE, has arrived

for duty at Shaw AFB, South Carolina. Major Albritton is an air operations officer with a unit of the Tactical Air Command.

Lieutenant Colonel Charles Eng, CE, died on October 3, 1970. His most recent assignment was with the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, The Pentagon. Mrs. Eng resides at 8111 Frye Road, Alexandria, Virginia.

David L. Harrison, Text, has been promoted to Executive Vice President of the La France Division of Riegel Textile Corporation, Ware Shoals, South Carolina.

John S. Hunsinger, IE, has formed a new industrial and commercial real estate company in Atlanta, John Hunsinger and Company.

William Thomas Musgrove, IM, has been named manager of Burton's Shoe Store, Beechwood Shopping Center, Athens, Georgia.

Robert L. Puckett, EE, was promoted to partnership of Walk Jones-Mah &

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Jones Architects, Inc., 1215 Poplar Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee.

Charles Victor Wray, Sr., MS, died recently. Mr. Wray taught at Clemson University in the School of Industrial Management and Textile Science for 22 years. Mrs. Wray resides at 115 Folger Street, Clemson. South Carolina.

» p— P~ George C. Humphreys, IM, of 5 3 5 3 New York City, has been

appointed assistant to the president of the state's Environmental Facilities Corporation.

' t— r-^ Joseph Bearden, IM, was 5 3 D promoted to Atlanta Divisional

Sales Manager of Clarke Floor Machine Company.

Richard A. Guthman, Jr., IE, was promoted to secretary and treasurer of Montag and Caldwell, Inc., Atlanta Investment Counsel. Mr. Guthman is the new Chairman of the Fulton County Republican Party.

U.S. Air Major Hugh M. Saint, AE is on duty at Udorn Royal Thai, AFB, Thailand. Major Saint is a recon-naisance aircraft commander assigned to a unit of the Pacific Air Forces.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Schalow, AE, a daughter, Erica Lynne, on January 27, 1971. Mr. Schalow is head of the Air Defense Trainers Division of the Naval Training Device Center, Orlando, Florida. The Schalows reside at 2631 Mandan Trail, Winter Park, Florida 32789.

Robert E. Shivers, BS, died on December 19, 1971. Mr. Shivers was owner of Robert E. Shivers Company, realty brokers. Mrs. Shivers resides at 2742 Ridgemore Road, NW, Atlanta, Georgia.

' r ~ ~j Fred Berman, IE, has been • I / named Director of Special

Studies at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.

J. T. Johnston, Jr. was elected assistant vice president administration and personnel of Volunteer State Life Insurance Company, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

James S. Ray, IE, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Na­tional Association of Building Service Contractors at their meeting in Las Vegas. Mr. Ray is president of Environ­mental Consultants, Inc., in Greensboro, North Carolina.

James H. Stovall, SanE, manager of environmental services department, Southern Kraft Division, International Paper Company, Mobile, Alabama, was awarded the 1971 Water & Air Division Award of the Technical Association of the Pulp & Paper Industry.

Morgan M. Schuessler, IE, has been named Vice President—Operations for the Alamac Knitting Division of West

Point Pepperell in West Point, Georgia. Born to Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Vallejo,

ME, a son, Rodrigo. on February 1, 1971. The family resides at Diagonal III No. 52-A 85, Bogota D. E. 9, Colombia.

Byron G. Wolford, IE, has been appointed plant manager of the Foot-burt-Reynolds machine tool manufac­turing facilty in Celevland, Ohio. The Wolfords reside at 5290 Meadow Wood Boulevard, Lyndhurst, Ohio.

» p ~ Q Born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 5 3 D W. Brown, EE, a daughter,

Margaret Helen, in June 1970. The family resides at 6712 Forsythia Street, Springfield, Virginia 22150.

Leigh M. Davis, IM, has been appointed assistant manager of Con­tinental Assurance Company's Jacksonville brokerage agency. The family resides at 11418 Beacon Drive, Jacksonville, Florida.

Dr. Cecil I. Hudson, Jr., Phys, was appointed chairman of the ad hoc Think Tank and ad hoc Metropolitan Planning Branch at the Diocese of California. Dr. Hudson is a Group Leader at the University of California Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, California.

Guy V. Morris, EE, has been appointed Radar Department Manager for the Avionics & Communications Operations of the Magnavox Govern­ment and Industrial Division, Fort Wayne, Indiana. The Morris family resides at 11602 Trails North Drive, Fort Wayne.

James C. Pierce, Jr., CE, director of Sanitary Engineering at Van Note-Harvey Associates in Princeton, New Jersey, has been named a DIPLOMATE of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, having completed the specialty certifica­tion examination.

Guy F. Sillay, BS, has been appointed stylist for the Lumite Division of the Chicopee Manufacturing Company, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. William E. (Bozy) Smith, CE, a son, Jason Edward, on February 14, 1971. The Smiths reside at 2225 West Foster Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60625.

Jarrell M. Thomas, ME, is a member of the civilian corps that helped put Apollo 14 in space. Mr. Thomas is assigned to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

David H. Tisinger, IM, was sworn in as a Regent, University System of Georgia, in February, 1971. Mr. Tisinger was appointed to this post by Governor Jimmy Carter, '46, to represent the Sixth District.

Victor H. Waldrop was appointed public relations director for Siena

H. James Barber Herbert Sams

J. A. Vendrell Robert Clark

T. C. Denmark Charles Davidson, Jr.

James Sheehan James E. Stil l, Jr.

John Scandalios James Wells

John Hunsinger William Sanders

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College at Loudonville, New York. Dr. Peter Weissenberg, IE, was raised

to the grade of Senior Member of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers. He has contributed four book reviews to Industrial Engineering.

» P~ Q George E. Gates, IE, was y) £"J promoted to partnership of

Walk Jones-Mah & Jones Architects, Inc, Memphis, Tennessee.

Morton L. Metersky, AE, received his Master of Science degree from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in February, 1971.

Horace H. Peek, ME, is export sales manager for Alvey, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri.

L. R. (Pete) Robinson died on February 6, 1971 of injuries sustained when his dragster crashed into a guard rail during qualifying for the 11th Winternational Drag Racing Meet. Mr. Robinson was 1961 National Hot Rod champ and world champion in 1966. Mrs. Robinson resides in Atlanta, Georgia.

G. M. Stevenson, ChE, is senior chemical engineer responsible for Development in the CE Development & Control Department, Tennessee East­man Corporation, Kingsport, Tennessee.

Dr. C. Turner Lewis, Jr., ChE, a Texaco Port Arthur Research Labora­tory Chemical Engineer, Houston, Texas, is a patentee of recently issued patent, U. S. No., 3,524,807, assigned to Texaco, Inc., covering improvements in Hydrocracking in the Presence of Controlled Amounts of Nitrogen.

William J. VanLandingham, IE, has been elected Executive Vice President-Public Affairs at The Citizens and Southern National Bank, Atlanta, Georgia.

» O f~l E. Grey Hodges, IM, has been l ) l_J named manager of Jefferson

Productions in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mr. Hodges resides at 4242 Chevington Road, Charlotte, 28211.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. O. Thomas McCurdy, IM, a daughter, Vanessa Adair, on January 7, 1971. Mr. Mc­Curdy is Southeastern Territory Man­ager for Nichols-Homeshield, Inc. The family resides at 4011 Addie Lane, Marietta, Georgia 30060.

William Mack Riggs, EE, has been appointed Chief of the Automatic Inspection Engineering Department at the Owens-Illinois Technical Center in Toledo, Ohio.

Michael D. Sims, IM, has been promoted to assistant vice president-systems development, Penn Central Transportation Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Harry B. Thompson, HI, IE, has been elected president of Conklin Tin Plate and Metal Company. He succeeds his father Harry B. Thompson, Jr., BS '28, who becomes Board Chairman.

» r ^ /t Theodore H. Davis, IM, has D | been appointed controller of

Fuqua Industries, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia. Michael Howard Greene, IM, is

engaged to Miss Janet Henderson. Mr. Greene is employed by Fulton Supply Company, Atlanta, Georgia.

John Frank Gullatt, died December 23, 1970. Mr. Gullatt.was an associate with the Delaware Engineering & Design Corporation, Newark, Delaware.

William D. Heisel, IM, is co-owner of Commercial Data Services, Inc., 1280 West Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia. This company provides com­puterized data processing services.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. William D. Mallard, Jr., IM, a son, James Monroe, on September 26, 1970. Mr. Mallard is a senior at Cumberland School of Law, Samford University. The Mallards reside at 1612 Saulter Road, Birming­ham, Alabama.

W. M. (Bill) McEuen, Jr., IM, has been named a senior marking represen­tative for Honeywell's Pinellas Aerospace Division, St. Petersburg, Florida.

Charles D. Snepp, Jr., CE, is Presi­dent and Treasurer of Snepp & Associates, Inc., 3290 Northside Park­way, NW, Suite 304, Atlanta, Georgia. The firm performs general construction contracting and engineering.

' C^ <"") David L. Bacchus, AE, is a D C_ member of the civilian corps

that helped put Apollo 14 in space. Mr. Bacchus is assigned to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama.

John W. Bates, CE, has been named Senior Transportation Planner for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bell. CP, a son, Randal Alexander, on August 24, 1970. Mr. Bell has helped establish a new firm, Vismor, McGill & Bell, a planning and research firm, in Colum­bia, South Carolina.

Clellan K. Coleman. IE, of Holly­wood, Florida was recently elected to the Board of Directors of Sheridan House, a rehabilitation home for delinquent boys in South Florida.

D. C. Molthrop, Sr., IM, received his MBA on January 22, 1971 from LSU. Mr. Molthrop resides at 37 Neron Place, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118.

' O O Frank V. Dennison, IM, has L J i j been named director of market­

ing for commercial and industrial properties of Buena Vista Land Company, Inc., a subsidiary of Walt Disney Productions, in Orlando, Florida.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jerome D. Goodrich, a son, Glenn Elliott, on January 7, 1971. Mr. Goodrich is District Chief Engineer for Humble

Oil and Refinery Company. The family resides at 804 South Calvin, Monahans, Texas 79756.

Charles G. Guffey. ChE, received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from LSU in August 1970 and returned to work at Humble's Baytown Texas Refinery.

Howard E. Hartsjield. IM, has been named Central regional manager in Dallas, Texas for Reynolds Metals Company.

George L. Hunnicutt. CE, was promoted to Principal Field Engineer in Duke Power Company's Oconee Nuclear Station in Seneca, South Carolina. The Hunnicutts reside at Route 4, Oconee Estates, Seneca 29678.

E. Larry Kelly, IE, was appointed Division Manager of McCracken Supply Company's Air Conditioning Division in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Kellys reside at 5809 Old Forge Circle, Raleigh 27609.

Lamar A. Long, ChE, has been named Operations Foreman, Multi-Sol Units 1841 & 1842, in the Lubricating Department, Gulf Oil Company, Port Arthur Refinery, Houston, Texas.

Louis B. Stephens. Cere, has been appointed Sales Engineer for Loctite Corporation, Newington, Connecticut.

Born to Dr. and Mrs. Russell P. Wharton, EE, a son, Andrew Perry, on November 11, 1970. The Whartons reside at 12431 Stafford Springs Drive, Houston, Texas 77077.

'64 H. James Barber, IM, has been appointed resident sales

representative in Norfolk, Virginia for the Industrial and Commercial Con­struction Materials Division of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation.

Army Lieutenant Colonel Peter D. Booras, NE, was graduated from the Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia in January 1971.

G. W. Grier, III, Phys, was promoted to Field Engineer for Duke Power Company in Charlotte, North Carolina.

James Charles Lockwood, CE, is engaged to Miss Barbara Jean Brown. Mr. Lockwood is general manager of Optima Division of Scientific-Atlanta Inc., Atlanta, Georgia.

Enoch L. Moser, EE, is a member of the civilian corps that helped put Apollo 14 in space. Mr. Moser is assigned at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, as an electrical systems engineer.

Army Captain Carlton F. Roberson, AE, recently received his second award of the Bronze Star Medal in Vietnam. Captain Roberson received the award while assigned as commanding officer of the 219th Aviation Company.

Ed Scott, Jr., IE. has been assigned as District Superintendent Louisiana Offshore Operations, Pure Transporta­tion Company, Union Oil Building, Houma, Louisiana.

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Dan C. Vismor, Jr., CP, has helped establish a new firm, Vismor, McGill & Bell, planning and research firm, in Columbia, South Carolina.

I p p - If. Shelton Brunson, CE, is D I j Manager-Terminal Operations

of CF Industries, in Chicago, Illinois. Arthur H. Clephane, IM, has been

appointed supervisor, accounting for the Supply & Contracting Division of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, Toledo, Ohio.

John T. Goldner, IM, has been appointed Manager of the Men's and Children's Wear Division, Downstairs Store, of Rike's, a division of Federated Department Stores located in Dayton, Ohio. The Goldners reside at 6456 Fireside Drive, Dayton.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Don Gunther, TE, a son, Donald H., I l l , on October 7, 1970. Mr. Gunther is plant manager of Standard-Coosa-Thatcher Company in Washington, Georgia. The Gunthers reside at 312 Poplar Drive, Washington, 30673.

George R. Harper, IM, graduated from University of Miami Law School with honors. Mr. Harper resides at 5651 S.W. 7th Street, Miami, Florida 33143.

Jack Knight, Jr., EE, is a member of the civilian corps that put Apollo 14 in space. Mr. Knight is a lunar module systems engineer at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas.

Dr. Jon T. Moore, EE, has joined Tennessee Eastman Company in Kingsport, Tennessee as a research physicist in Research Laboratories.

Samuel Thomas Moore, IE, a second-year student working toward the degree of Master in Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Adrninistration, has been elected a George F. Baker Scholar by the Academic Peformance Committee of the Faculty.

John E. Werner, IM, has been elected assistant controller of First Union, Incorporated, St. Louis, Missouri.

Dan Wallis, EE, is an electrical engineer for The Boeing Company at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Mr. Wallis has been a member of the Apollo 4, 8, 10, 12, 13, and 14 launch teams. Mr. and Mrs. Wallis reside at 915 Waikiki Drive, Merrit Island, Florida 32952.

»r~» O W. Ronnie Caldwell, IE, was I"") l l named an assistant vice

president of the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta. Mr. Caldwell will continue to serve the Data Processing Department.

Mickey B. Gunter, IE, has been ap­pointed District Engineer for the Georgia Power Company in Austell, Georgia. Mr. Gunter resides at 3623 Macland Road, Powder Springs, Georgia 30073.

W. Jack Hamilton, IM, has been promoted to Vice President of the Crow, Pope & Carter Management Company. Mr. Hamilton resides at 3626 North Kimberly Drive, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30340.

Charles E. Jamison, IE, was married to Miss Ann Arledge on December 19, 1970. Mr. Jamison received his MSIM from Tech in December and is now employed by the Western Electric Defense Activities Division in Greens­boro, North Carolina.

Max B. Kilbourn, Phys, is a member of the civilian corps that helped put Apollo 14 in space. Mr. Kilbourn is an aerospace engineer at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas.

Joe B. Maffett, Text, has been appointed Manager—-Product Planning and Development of the West Point Pepperell Carpet and Rug Division, Dalton, Georgia.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Mario Rognoni, Jr., IE, a son, Mario Rognoni, III, on January 9, 1971. The Rognonis reside in Panama.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Art Sherwood, EE, a son, Philip Montgomery, on December 22, 1970, Mr. Sherwood is an Engineering Research Associate in Biomedical Engineering at Texas A & M University. The Sherwoods reside at 1400 Dominik Drive, College Station, Texas 77840.

U. S. Air Force Captain Kirby J. White, IM, is attending the Air University's Squadron Officer School at Maxwell AFB, Alabama.

J O ~ 7 Born to Mr. and Mrs. E. E. y) / Bishop, Jr., IE, a son, William

Graham, on November 30, 1970. Mr. Bishop is Vice President of Bishop Uniform and Linen Service. The Bishops reside at 600 North Airport Road, Dothan, Alabama 36301.

Captain W. Michael Field, IM, has received the U.S. Air Force Commenda­tion Medal at Robins AFB, Georgia where he is data automation officer.

David W. Hudgins, IE, has joined the Kansas City Division of the Bendix Corporation as a facilities engineer. Mr. Hudgins resides at 1412-D Mews Drive, Kansas City, Missouri.

Born to Lt. and Mrs. James K. Johnson, AE, a son, Jeffrey Kenneth, on October 2, 1970. The Johnsons reside at 61 Meehan Drive, Dayton, Ohio 45431.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. William E. Kipp, IE, a son, David Thomas, on February 10, 1971. The Kipps reside at 212 Atkinson Drive, Tallahassee, Florida 32304.

Mark B. McKee, IM, was killed in Amaco, Venezuela on February 19, 1971.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. George A. Menendez, IM, a daughter, Jennifer Anne, on January 23, 1971. Mr.

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Menendez is employed as a Customs House Broker with Sack & Menendez, Inc., Tampa, Florida. The Menendez's reside at 3314 Picwood Road, Tampa 33618.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. William Harris Needle, Chem, a daughter, Jennifer Jean, on January 31, 1971. Mr. Needle is associated with the Atlanta Patent Law Firm of Newton, Hopkins & Ormsby. The Needles reside at 769 Houston Mill Road, NE, Apartment 5, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.

James D. Neighbors, EE, was promoted to Army Lieutenant Colonel while a student at the U. S. Army Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.

1 r ^ Q Larry G. Blackwell, SanE, has D Q joined Amoco Chemicals

Corporation at the Standard Oil Re­search Center in Naperville, Illinois as a research engineer in the Organic Chemicals Division.

Army Sergeant Grady E. Bransfield, IM, received the Army Commendation Medal in Vietnam where he is assigned as a legal clerk with Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry of the 101st Airborne Division.

Air Force 1st Lt. John H. Briinson, Cere, has received the Air Medal at De Nang where he is a pilot serving with a unit of the Pacific Air Forces.

Air Force 1st Lt. Oscar V. Bryan, Jr., IE, has been named Outstanding Junior Officer of the Month at Charleston AFB, South Carolina. Lt. Bryan is an industrial engineer in a unit of the Military Airlift Command.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Eastburn, IM, a son, Reid Pratt, on January 8, 1971. Mr. Eastburn is a Systems Engineer with IBM Corpora­tion in Atlanta. The Eastburns reside at 2951 Westminister Circle, NW, Atlanta 30327.

Mine Enginun, ChE, is employed by the Turkish Atomic Energy Com­mission and also does work at the Reactor site in Istanbul as a research scientist in the Radiobiology Depart­ment. Miss Enginun resides in Istanbul, Turkey.

U. S. Air Force Captain Robert R. Foster, IM, has arrived for duty at Peterson Field, Colorado where he is a pilot with a unit of the Aerospace Defense Command.

Thomas Edward Feld, EE, was married to Miss, Dena Margaret De Smet on December 29, 1970. Mr. Feld is a computer engineer at the Point Mugu Navy Missile Center and is in graduate school at the University of Southern California. The couple will reside in Oxnard, California.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. William Faris Gaffney, IE, a son, Shawn Edward, on January 1, 1971. Mr. Gaffney is employed by Radiation, Inc. The

Gaffneys reside at 50 East Ashley Court, Apartment 105-D, Melbourne, Florida 32901.

Lt. E. Gordon Hagewood, IM, was married to Miss Patricia Scarborough on June 27, 1970. Lt. Hagewood is currently attending the Air Defense Artillery Automatic Weapons course at Fort Bliss, Texas prior to going to Viet Nam. Lt. Hagewood was awarded the Army Commendation Medal December 31, 1970.

David B. Howard, Jr., NE, is employed by the Atomic Energy Commission at the Savannah River Plant, Aiken, South Carolina as a nuclear safety engineer.

Air Force 1st Lt. Jon M. Knight, IE, is attending the Air University's Squadron Officer School at Maxwell AFB, Alabama.

Captain William J. Price, IM, is engaged to Miss Ellen Joyce Yogman. Captain Price is stationed at Ft. Benning, Georgia. A June wedding is planned.

T. C. Hardy, TCh, was appointed a technical representative for Eastman Chemical Products, Inc. at Dalton, Georgia.

' O f~] Carey H. Brown, IE, has D O earned membership in Mutual

Benefit's President's Club of The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Com­pany, Atlanta, Georgia.

Jewel Clayton Burnett, Jr., IE, was married to Miss Diana Lynn Bodron on December 21, 1970. Mr. Burnett is employed by the Allen-Bradley Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

2nd Lt. Stanley W. Guth, IM, is assigned to the 66th Maintenance Battalion in Germany. His address is 2Lt. Stanley Guth, 306-50-0938, Co. B, 66th Maint. Bn., APO New York 09227.

Air Force Captain George F. Left-wich, HI, CE, has received the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service in Thailand. Captain Leftwich now serves at Boling AFB, Headquarters Command, Washington, D. C.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis E. Moore, Jr., ChE, a son, Kevin Edward, on February 15, 1971. Mr. Moore is employed by E. I. duPont deNemours in Florence, South Carolina. The Moores reside at 150 Skyland Drive, Florence.

2nd Lt. James L. Oakes, Jr., IE, has been assigned as Financial Man­agement Officer, USAF Regional Hospital, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Clement Francis Perschall, Jr., IE, a son, Clement Francis, III, on October 22, 1970. Mr. Perchall received his Master's Degree in Business Admin­istration from Tulane University and is employed by Tours Infirmary in the office of Project Management.

Army 1st Lt. Anderson W. Smith, Jr.,

IE, recently received the Bronze Star Medal in Vietnam while assigned as Supply Officer for the 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry of the 101st Airborne Division.

Army 1st Lt. Wendell E. Turner, Math, recently received the Bronze Star Medal in Vietnam while assigned as an Assistant Operations Officer in Headquarters Detachment of the 79th Maintenance Battalion.

2nd Lt. James L. Walsh, Jr., MS, has been assigned to the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Organization, Los Angeles, California as a rocket propulsion engineer.

Glenn Roy Wienkoop. Cere, is engaged to Miss Paula Stephana Carpenter. Mr. Wienkoop will receive a master's degree in ceramic engineer­ing from Tech in June. A May 28 wedding in planned.

' - 7 f—\ David Lee Batchelor, IM, is / U Production Manager of LaMae

Manufacturing Company, Bowdon. Mr. Batchelor resides at le Chateau Apartments, No. M-5. Carrollton, Georgia 30117.

Michael W. Baumgartner. IE, is an Engineer for Western Electric in Atlanta. Mr. Baumgartner is also enrolled in Graduate School at Georgia State.

George P. Burdell, Jr., BS, is engaged to Miss Constance E. Crane. Miss Crane is a junior at Agnes Scott College majoring in astronomy. A June 8 wedding in planned at Mt. Pleasant Presbyterian Church, Mt. Pleasant, North Carolina.

H. A. (Bert) Casey, MS, has been named sales representative for Wica Chemicals, division of Ott Chemical in the Georgia territory.

Airman Henry T. Crye, Jr., IM, has graduated at Keesler AFB, Mississippi, from the training course for U. S. Air Force radio operators and is being assigned to Offutt AFB, Nebraska.

Airman Marvin E. Davis, Math, has been assigned to Chanuta AFB, Illinois for training in weather services.

Wilson D. Douglas. Jr., AE, became a 2nd Lieutenant in the Air Force when he was sworn in by his father, Col. Wilson D. Douglas.

Ronald E. Harris, AE, has been commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant and is assigned to Moody AFB, Georgia for pilot training.

Robert J. Leeds, AE, has been com­missioned a 2nd Lieutenant and is assigned to Moody AFB, Georgia for pilot training.

Edward Gordon Morris, Phys, is engaged to Miss Roslyn Louise Heath. Mr. Morris is employed by Texaco, Inc.

Wayne Cochran New, IM, is engaged to Miss Anne Leslie Buchanan. A May wedding is planned.

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Vote For Your 1971 - 72 Alumni Officers The Nominating Committee for

the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association submits the following slate of officers and trustees who have been nominated by the Nominating Committee to serve for the year 1971-72:

T H E NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT—James P. "Pol ly" Poole is president of two Atlanta companies—James P . Poole, CLU, and Associates, Inc., and Esta te and Pension Plan­ning Co., Inc. An Industrial Manage­ment graduate, he is one of the nation's leaders in the insurance field, having held presidential posts in many of the top insurance societies. He was chairman of the fund com­mit tee for the Association for two years, and served last year as Vice-President.

T H E NOMINEE FOR VICE-PRESIDENT— J. Frank Stovall, J r . is president of United Cotton Goods Company, Inc. of Griffin, Georgia. H e is current­ly serving as Vice-President, has served twice in the past ten years as a member of the Board of Trustees, and has served as chairman of the continuing education committee.

T H E NOMINEE FOR VICE-PRESIDENT-— Thomas V. Pat ton is president of Triton, Inc. in Doraville, Georgia. He is currently serving as Treasurer of the Association, and has served on the Board of Trustees and as chair­man of many top committees.

T H E NOMINEE FOR TREASURER—L. Travis Brannon, J r . is a partner in the Law Offices of Hansell , Post, Brandon and Dorsey of Atlanta, Ga. He is currently a member of the Alumni Association Board of Trustees on which he has served for several years. While a Trustee, he was chairman of the committee for Georgia Tech's most successful in­formation program, "Tech Today" . Travis has also served as Vice President of the Greater Atlanta Georgia Tech Alumni Club and Chairman of the 10th and 20th reunion homecoming classes. While a t Tech, he was an officer in ODK, A N A K and other honorary and social fraternities. Travis graduated from Tech in 1949 with a degree in Industrial Management . H e con­tinued his education by obtaining his Law Degree from Emory Uni­versity in 1952.

T H E NOMINEE FOR TRUSTEE—Roger H. Brown, a Civil Engineer, class of 1952 now resides in Gainesville, Ga. H e is President of the Southeast­ern Highway Contracting Company and holds several leadership positions

in Professional Engineering Organ­izations, both nationally and within the State of Georgia. Roger provides active support for many local and charitable organizations through his membership and direction as an officer in these associations. H e is now President of the Georgia High­way Contracting Association, Di­rector of Gainesville Chamber of Commerce, and Executive Board Member of the North Eas t Council of Boy Scouts of America.

T H E NOMINEE FOR TRUSTEE:—Richard K. Whitehead, Jr. , a 1957 graduate in Mechanical Engineering is now President of the Whitehead Die Casting Company in Atlanta. An honor student during his under­graduate days, he held offices in several honorary, social and educational fraternities. Since grad­uation, Richard has continued his interest in public affairs through membership in several charitable and civic organizations.

T H E NOMINEE FOR TRUSTEE—Robert R. Jinright, an Architecture graduate in the class of 1953, lives in Thomas-ville, Ga. During his days on the Tech campus, he was one of the student leaders, holding membership in many school, social and profes­sional organizations. He has actively supported Tech through his leader­ship of the Thomasville area Tech-Georgia Development Fund drives. Robert has been elected President of many local civic organizations in Thomasville; among them is the Rotary Club, Y M C A and the Thomasville Land Mark Society. Additionally, he is Treasurer of the Georgia Association of A.I.A.

T H E NOMINEE FOR TRUSTEE—J. Doyle Butler, 1939, is now president of the Capital Construction Company in Atlanta, Ga. During his campus days, he was active in sports receiving

four Freshman letters and varsity letters in basketball, swimming and track. Since graduation, he has be­come an integral part of the Tech picture by his active support in such efforts as fund raising for Tech's Alexander Memorial Coliseum and the Alexander-Tharpe Scholarship Fund. H e has been active in the Greater At lanta Uni ted Appeal Drives and other civic areas. T H E NOMINEE FOR TRUSTEE—David D. Long, J r . is a 1937 General Science graduate of Georgia Tech who is now Treasurer of the ALCO Manufacturing Company in Douglas-ville, Georgia. During his under­graduate days, he was President of ODK, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and held memberships in Ph i Kappa Phi , the Bulldog Club and other honorary fraternities. He served during World War I I as a member of the U.S . Navy, completing his service as a Captain U S N R . He has served Tech actively through his participation as a member and captain of the Jo in t Tech-Georgia Development Fund team. David now lives in Atlanta, Ga. T H E NOMINEE FOR TRUSTEE—Johnny S. Hunsinger—one of the most active student leaders during his campus days, Johnny played on Tech's 1952 undefeated football team as well as the 1953 and 1954 teams. H e was elected as an Academic All-American in addition to serving as President of the ODK and ANAK. Through his active participation, he has supported civic organizations, such as the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Atlanta Union Mission, Uni ted Appeal, Scottish Ri te and various educational organizations. Johnny graduated from Tech with a BS in IE in 1954 and a M S I E in 1955. H e has recently formed a new real estate and development Company, the Johnny Hunsinger and Company located in Atlanta, Ga.

r BALLOT FOR NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES: 1971-72

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

For President:

For Vice President:

For Vice President:

For Treasurer:

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

Signed:. -Class:

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