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THE LAST OF THE WOLFES COMES HOME AGAIN

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Incident in Birmingham

Final Football Roundup

A Homecoming Scrapbook

Baking a Theoretical Cake

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A THIS IS usually the issue in which our happy year-end column of sentimental vignettes appears. As we begin this col­umn on the day after Thanksgiving, we are anything but happy or sentimental. The column of sweetness and light will have to wait for another time while we remove a pressing obstacle from our chest.

On pages 14 and 15 of this issue ap­pears a series of pictures and official Alumni Association comment on the now infamous "Chick Graning" incident. However, this column is not official. It is a personal thing, written in an anger that has been smoldering now for almost a week.

A CHICK GRANING is a personal friend of ours, a man of the highest standards. He has been a welcome guest in our home from time to time over the past four years. His daily visits to our office during the school year have become pleasant respites in the daily routine of publica­tions work.

We have seen Chick Graning, just using his natural charm and gentility, turning another friend of ours who played on some of Georgia's greatest teams into a Tech rooter for a year. We have seen him help change our three daughters (who have previously had nothing to do with football) into fans with this same charm.

Now, this athlete who was basically too gentle to be a truly great football player lies in a bed at Piedmont Hospital with a shattered face. Officially the diagnosis on Chick Graning by Dr. Lamont Henry is (1) fracture of alveolar process (facial bones); (2) five missing front upper teeth; (3) fracture of nasal bone; (4) fracture of right maxillary sinus and sinus filled with blood; (5) fracture of right zygomatic process (bone beneath right eye); (6) cerebral concussion; and (7) possible fracture of base of skull. All of this face-smashing came as a re­sult of a blow from the elbow and fore­arm of Darwin Holt, a defensive spe­cialist for the University of Alabama. Holt, a chronic offender in this senseless type of football, admitted the incident to his coach on Saturday after the ball game and both Bryant and Holt said they would write Graning their apologies for

the tragedy. So far, no word from either man has been received.

Graning's answer to this breach of eitquette was "I never expected an apology. He hit a lick and I happened to be there. He just did more damage than he bargained for." There is no sign of bitterness in Graning. As an athlete he knows that every game he enters carries with it a chance of injury. He was much better adjusted to the situation than a lot of other people not directly involved with the incident.

Graning's father and mother have not heard from the Alabama officials either— an even more serious indication of the lack of common courtesy that seems to have surrounded the Graning affair. Mr. Graning rapped this lack of concern on Alabama's part in a United Press Inter­national dispatch of November 23: "Ala­bama should take steps to keep that kind of individual from playing," the Missis­sippi hardwood dealer said.

"If this had happened in a pileup we wouldn't have thought anything of it," he continued. "But it clearly was an in­tentional foul downfield. It could not have been an accident. The Alabama boy was shorter than Chick and had to leave his feet to hit him in the face." Holt, of course, said the incident was an accident growing out of a legal block that slipped. He didn't say it that way on Saturday after the game. But, the following Wed­nesday that is the way it came out in the Birmingham papers.

A SEVERAL lines of thought have de­veloped from this incident. The Birming­ham papers have indicated that Tech is crying because they lost the game. In characteristic fashion they have thrown up a bush-league smoke screen of accusa­tions at Tech players for being free with elbows during the game. This is designed to take the play away from the main in­cident and is a divergent tactic well known to anyone who has ever been exposed to psychological warfare.

Tech's Bobby Dodd said little about the incident on his November 19 tele­vision show. He didn't say much then because he did not see the incident when it happened and had not looked at the films prior to the TV appearance. After viewing the films he issued one statement:

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"I have made my own feelings known to Dr. Frank Rose, the Alabama President, and to Coach Bryant. I will not make public what I said and I have asked them not to publish it. Severing relations with Alabama will be given consideration at the proper time. I released our film clips to the press after they requested them because Holt is a chronic offender. After an incident such as this one happens, there is nothing anyone can do about it except the player's own school."

A FOR THE benefit of the Birmingham papers, Dodd has publicly called the Ala­bama team the best he has seen this year and added that even at full strength he doubts that Tech could have changed the score. The incident happened after the game was decided and came without rhyme or reason.

As far as this writer is concerned Ala­bama's failure to censure and drop Holt from the squad is a poor precedent for the Conference and for the game of foot­ball. And, we don't believe they deserve an explanation of why the Tech people are so upset about this affair. Because of Alabama's shoulder-shrugging, so-what approach to this incident, there will be more Chick Granings in the hospital in years to come. And, the many enemies of football in the world of education will eventually have enough ammunition to destroy a game that has meant a great deal to a lot of people.

A As TO the subject of severing relations with the University of Alabama, we be­lieve that this will finally be decided by the Georgia Tech faculty. It is the prov­ince of the faculty to vote on the athletic schedule each year. Tech has a contract with Alabama through 1964. Whether the faculty will still be upset enough to re­ject the schedule when it meets in Feb­ruary is anybody's guess. But, the feeling is running high on this campus at this moment. If a vote were taken today, a debating schedule with Alabama on it wouldn't stand a chance.

JL PRESIDENT HARRISON has stated that he will protest the incident at the next SEC meeting. This is where it should be discussed. The presidents better give the commissioner some rules to follow on such flagrant behavior or the NCAA will be stepping into the picture. Then, if the commissioner (who says he has no power in these cases) doesn't act in an incident like this one, maybe a new commissioner misiht be in order.

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CONTENTS 2. RAMBLIN' — the editor puts in his two-bits worth

in the infamous "Holt-Graning" incident.

6. A SCRAPBOOK HOMECOMING — the annual meet­ing minutes dressed in a new suit of clothes.

10. How TO BAKE A THEORETICAL CAKE — a scientist looks at research from a new angle.

14. INCIDENT IN BIRMINGHAM — pictures and text of the "Holt-Graning" affair.

16. A WOLFE COMES HOME AGAIN — Fred Wolfe, '22, last of a famous family visits Tech.

18. A N EVEN SPLIT TO THE GATOR BOWL — Tech wins a pair and loses a pair and heads for one more.

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

Officers of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association

J. F. Willett, '45, Pres. I. H. Hardin, '24, VP W. S. Terrell, '30, VP Jack Adair, '33, Treas.

W. Roane Beard, '40, Executive Secretary

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

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

THE COYER Standing on a stage set which represents his childhood home, Fred Wolfe, EE '22, talks to the first-night audience at Drama Tech's version of the play^by Ketti Frings based on his brother's novel, "Look Homeward, Angel." The play marked the opening of Tech's new Crenshaw Field House and drew a capacity audience for all five nights that it played. Cover Photo-Bernie Wenke

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

THE FACE OF GEORGIA TECH

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T HE CLASS OF 1901 holds a special place in the history of Georgia Tech. In a way, it stands for the basic re­

bellion that marks every Tech man at one time or another during his college career. On New Year's Day, 1901, the class overstayed by one day its Christmas leave. For this incident the members of the class were suspended and denied their diplomas until the late fall of 1901. Since that time, the "Insubordinate Seniors" have been full of fierce

class pride and every five years they have returned to the campus to have a portrait made on the steps of the Adminis­tration Building. On Homecoming Day this year, Julien P. Benjamin of Jacksonville, Florida, was the only member of the class able to return for the ceremony. And here is how he looked on that Homecoming day amid pictures of bygone years, a spry old man, last of a great breed: The Insubordinate Senior of 1901.

Photographed for the Alumnus by Harley Ferguson

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PRESIDENT R. A. SIEGEL called the meeting to order at 10:05 A.M. and welcomed all alumni to the meeting and to Homecoming. Events of the day were outlined.

1. The minutes of the last Annual Meeting held on October 22, 1960 were approved as published in the No­vember-December, 1960, issue of the Georgia Tech Alum­nus.

2. Frank Willett introduced and inducted members of the 1961-62 National Advisory Board. All but one were present. Those inducted were: Carl V. Cesery, '31, Jack­sonville, Florida; L. Carl Smith, '31, Birmingham, Ala­bama; C. Gale Kiplinger, '17, Washington, D. C; Dr. Ed­ward F. Lafitte, '11, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Dr. La-fitte was absent due to illness); Carl B. Whyte, '25, Des Plaines, Illinois; Frederick E. Fuchs, '36, New Orleans, Louisiana; John F. Cochran, '31, Long Beach, California.

3. Treasurer J. L. Brooks, Jr. reported that the last fiscal year was a successful one; that our income exceeded our expenses by $12,915.98 and that the books appeared to be in good order. He announced that the audit by W. H. James and Associates was open for inspection to any alum­nus upon request.

On Motion the following Resolution was passed: ' R[-SOLVED: That the report of the Treasurer be ap­

proved as presented." 4. Trustee John E. Aderhold, Chairman of the Home­

coming Committee, introduced the Homecoming Queen

and attendants and Mrs. Homecoming and her attendants. The escorts were also introduced. They were: Queen Susan Stetler, Miss Mike Carr, and Miss Carol Curry; Mrs. Dottie Poston (Mrs. Homecoming), Mrs. Hazel Laxson, and Mrs. Sally Pfaff. All received a warm ovation.

5. J. F. (Josh) Powell, student president of the ANAK Society, presented a citation to Dr. E. Calvin Johnson, EE '47, Royal Oak, Michigan. Dr. Johnson received the George McCarty ANAK Award as the "Outstanding Young Georgia Tech Alumnus" for 1961.

6. Trustee James Ramage presented certificates to the newly elected Honorary Members of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association. Those honored were Mrs. Dorothy Crosland, Director of the Georgia Tech Library; Reverend Pierce Harris, Pastor of the First Methodist Church, Atlanta; and Mr. Robert W. Woodruff, Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Coca-Cola Company.

7. Dr. Edwin D. Harrison, Georgia Tech President, thanked the alumni for the support given to Georgia Tech and for their cooperation and encouragement during the integration of Georgia Tech. Dr. Harrison mentioned the self study currently taking place on the campus and urged all alumni to give him advice on the direction the institution should take during the coming years.

8. W. C. Wardlaw, Jr., President of the Georgia Tech Foundation, expressed his gratitude to the alumni for their support. He then told of the sources of revenue available

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to the Foundation and the uses made of the funds received. Mr. Wardlaw announced that $1,113,000 has been allocated to Georgia Tech by the Foundation for charter purposes.

9. R. A. Siegel, Association President, reported that the year had been one of real pleasure for him. He stated that the cooperation between the Association, the Foundation and the Institute had been excellent.

Mr. Siegel then outlined the services performed by the Alumni Association, such as: keeping of records, finding of 1,000 lost alumni, the usefulness of the placement serv­ice, the active clubs, appointments by the board, funds raised, etc. He stated that we fell short in only one area and that was in the low average gift per alumnus.

Mr. Siegel gave special praise to the employees of the Association. He pointed out that we had won awards in national competition, thus receiving recognition from the American Alumni Council. Mr. Siegel introduced and thanked the trustees who had served with him.

10. President Siegel stated that a year ago at the Annual Meeting, R. J. Thiesen, '10, former alumni secretary, had introduced a resolution asking the trustees to change the titles of the Executive Secretary and Associate Secretary to Executive Director and Associate Director. He reported that the matter had been investigated by the Personnel Committee and that due to certain circumstances, the change was not recommended at this time.

11. Trustee Hardin made a few remarks concerning Secretary Beard's hospital experience and the extra expenses incurred and presented Secretary Beard with a check for $250 in appreciation for his services.

12. Mr. Siegel turned the gavel over to the new presi­dent, Mr. J. Frank Willett. Mr. Willett expressed his pleasure at being privileged to serve and promised to do his best to continue the good work. He then introduced the new electees and appointees to<the board.

13. Secretary Beard presented Mr. Siegel with a sterling silver tray appropriately engraved. This gift was from the individual trustees of the Association.

There being no further business the meeting was ad­journed by President Willett at 11:08 A.M.

Those who registered for the meeting were: Jack Adair, '33; John E. Aderhold, '45; D. R. Allen, '26; Sam D. Allen, '43; J. D. Ambrose, '28; Frank L. Asbury, '21; J. H. Baggerly, '28; Frank Baker, '35; Carter Barron, '56; W.

Roane Beard, '40; G. Nolan Bearden, '29; Julien P. Benja­min, '01; W. C. Boteler, '52; J. L. Brooks, Jr., '39; W. H. Bowen, Jr., '48; W. L. Carmichael, '26; Willis Castle be rry, '34; Carl V. Cesery, '31; Joel Chambliss, '58; John Cochran, '31; M. F. Cole, '41; C. C. Courtney, Jr., '47; Dorothy Crosland, Hon.; W. H. Curry, '21; J. W. Davis, '26; Oscar G. Davis, '22; Robert T. Davis, Jr., '47; J. Tucker Day, 56; Parker Day, '29; Neil DeRosa, '54; Paul Dorn, '31; S. DuPree, '31; C. Preston East, '26; Howard Ector, '40; L. M. Edwards, '34; Floyd Elsom, '23; Thomas F. Faires, '28; Alvin M. Ferst, Jr., '43; Lamar Franklin, '36; Frederick Fuchs, '36; Ashby Gibbons, '48; Jack Glenn, '32; Jose I. Gonzalez, '44; Berry Grant, '27; L. F. Green, '11; Frank Griggs, '26; F. F. Groseclose, Faculty; George Griffin, '22; Ed Haigh, '54; John C. Hall, '26; J. L. Hall, '21; Thomas H. Hall, III, '59; Allen Hardin, '53; Pierce Harris, Hon.; President Edwin D. Harrison, Hon.; Mrs. William T. Healey, Hon.; Ralph Hicks, '57; W. M. Hill, Jr., '23; Frank Hollberg, '56; W. J. Holman, Jr., '28; Frank Hooper, '16; W. K. Hyers, '21; Carl Ingram, 35; E. D. Ivey, '11; H. L. Jacobs, '21; Joe Jennings, '23; Doyle Johnson, '47; E. C. Johnson, '47; Don Johnston, '37; John Kinnett, '49; C. Gale Kiplinger, '17; C. D. LeHardy, '33; James F. Lcware, '57; A. L. Loeb, '13; Harry W. Loving, 'I 1; J. H. Lucas, '15; Judson Manly, '18; George March-mont, '07; Howard H. McCall, '45; J. M. McCathern, '26; Dan McKeever, '32; Henry L. Michael, '11; Wayne Miller, '52; W. L. Mingledorff, Jr., '36; H. Clay Moore, '21; El­bert B. Morgan, '31; Robert Morgan, '09; Donald N. Murray, '54; Ivey Murray, '28; Robert D. Neill, '43; Edward T. Newton. '26; J. F. Nichol, '27; Thomas J. Nuckolls, '21; Gordon Oliver, '56; John W. Parker, '31; John T. Phillips, '31; Tench H. Phillips, '22; A. V. Polak, '07; James P. Poole, '42; Merritt Pope, '39; J. J. Powell, '36; Jim Ramage, '37; L. W. Robert, Jr., '08; L. W. Robert, '34; Lyman H. Robertson, '36; Emmett Alton Rogers, '32; O. H. Sale, Sr., '26; Oliver Sale, Jr., '56: Mar-thame Sanders, '26; Thomas A. Sharpe, '26; I. M. Sheffield, Jr., '20; G. W. Shultz, '31; Charles R. Simons, '37; ('. Carl Sloan, '12; Carl Smith, '31; Hal Smith, '26; Charles Smith-gall, '33; Jack M. Spurlock, '58; L. A. Staples, '26; John Staton, '24; C. E. Stephenson, '31; Joe Stern, '31; Frederick

G. Storey, '33; W. E. Tidmore, '30; G. H. Traylor, '26; Walter H. Tripod, '34; W. Harry Vaughan, '23; Bob Wal­lace, '49; W. C. Wardlaw, Jr., '28; R. Fulton Webb, 22; Paul Weber, Hon.; Ernest G. Welch, '28; Fred Wenn, Hon.; Randolph Whitfield, '32; Carl Whyte, '25; John C. Wilker-son, '31; J. Frank Willett, '45; Robert B. Williams, 39; Frank Wilson, 32; Charles Witmcr, '30; James G. Wohl-ford, '41; John H. Woodall, Jr., '38; and James F. Wyatt, '39.

Respectfully submitted.

W. Roane Beard Executive Secretary

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HOW TO BAKE A THEORETICAL CAKE

Associate Professor Harold Gersch of the School of Physics

proves that scientists do have a sense of humor about their work

I LIKE this title and hope someday to find the copy that should go with it. The trouble lies not with the theory

of course—it's in good shape. The difficulty is with all those complicated cakes. As it stands, it is like the title on the cover of a book—only vaguely informing. I shall talk about what I think doing physics amounts to, first in a general sense, but getting always closer to the specific area in which I try to work. I shall use words only. I say this in the spirit of the little boy, who, while riding his bicycle, lets go of the handles, proudly announcing, "Look, no hands." For me it's "Look, no symbols." As we all know, this is the hard way, and that's part of my story.

One of the things that makes physics so interesting is the great deal of freedom it offers the individual. First, there is the freedom with respect to all the possible choices of areas in which to work. This we can see from the range of activities on our own campus. One of us uses radio astronomy to study planets and stars, another studies ele­mentary particles. One uses rockets to study the physics of the atmosphere, another studies the nucleus. Our list is longer, and growing rapidly. A second type of freedom lies in the approach you can take to a specific problem. You can see this flexibility when you read the published scientific papers. There's a style, a mode of approach which labels their different authors. Not as distinctly as in literature, of course, but the artistry in physics is evident to most of us. There is the judicious selection of the proper ingredients, and a skillful blending of them to give a pleasant whole. This is the sort of identification of scientific research with art that Dr. Elmer Rhodes so beautifully described in his 1954 Sigma Xi talk, and leads to analogies of scientific effort with artistic effort. For an analogy, any art form will

do. I could choose the artistry involved in cake baking, and say we work with basic ingredients, the elementary particles, to whip up pleasant, artistic theoretical cakes. Now I have paid my respects to the title.

In physics, just as in baking, the place to start is with the basic ingredients—the elementary particles. Our goal has always been to try to understand all the complex be­havior of nature as being due to the interaction between a few elementary particles. Its beginnings go back 2000 years ago, to the Greeks, whose elementary particles, or atoms as they called them, were water, air, fire and stone. Every­thing else was supposed to be made from them. For ex­ample, metals, they supposed were combinations of stone atoms with fire atoms. The fire atoms gave the metals their glitter, of course. Gold glitters the best, hence gold has the most fire atoms in it. This made it logical that putting more fire atoms into common metals like iron should turn them into gold. The Greeks did nothing with this interesting pre­diction, being theorists, and evidently, independently wealthy as well.

In the 19th century, the search for elementary particles resulted in an explosive development in chemistry, brought about by Dalton's revival of atomic theory, and the support given to it by Mendeleef's periodic arrangement of the atoms. Mendeleef is the only scientist ever to correctly predict the existence of six new elementary particles—they were atoms in those days. More important is the reason for his prediction. The periodic arrangement is a scheme with definite regularity. But without the six atoms there were unsightly gaps in this regular array. Mendeleef's belief

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in his conceptual scheme was strong enough for him to pre­dict their existence. Mendeleefs table now hangs in all chemistry classrooms and, as I recall from my student days, affords an interesting source for the attention of the day­dreaming student.

Just three years before the end of the 19th century, Thomson discovered the electron as the constituent of cathode rays. We entered the 20th century knowing the atom was not elementary, but a complex of the elementary particles electron and proton.

In our century, we have seen how the attempt to under­stand the interaction between electron and proton has culminated in the quantum theory of elementary particles. This theory, by far the most powerful we have ever had, gives a completely adequate description of all atomic phenomenon. So powerful in prediction has it been, that inside of thirty years from its inception it is a standard requirement for undergraduate engineers who want to understand phenomenon on a microscopic level. In a short time we will remove the historical development of the theory from our teaching curriculum, and replace it by the postu­lates of the theory, the logical consequences of its history. When this happens, we will be formally cutting the um­bilical cord which ties quantum theory to mystery, thus treating it just as we do old comfortable theories.

In the last ten years, the search for elementary particles found new impetus with the development of the high energy particle accelerator. We were then in the position of a child, who, while playing around the house with a rubber hammer, comes across an iron mallet—new discoveries are bound to be made. They were—out came a new set of particles, with physical attributes and interactions still only vaguely understood. Nothing indicates the excitedly un­settled state here better than their name—they're called the strange particles.

What will happen as our hammers get bigger and bigger? Will we find, that just as our atom was really made of sub­atomic particles, our present elementary particles are them­selves really complexes of sub-elementary particles? Or, in everyday language, which is our world more nearly like, a bucket of molasses or a pail of sand? If the answer is sand, will we ever have the super-theory of these particles which explains just why we have these with their physical attributes and none others? Speculative? Of course, but part of our exciting future.

We now have the basic ingredients (elementary par­ticles) and the quantitative knowledge of how some at least act on one another (the equations of quantum theory). This is after all a good deal, and one might ask—with all this, what's so hard about baking a cake, or making a theoretical prediction. The recipe seems clear enough, why not just follow it?

Well, I can only demonstrate by an example of what will happen if we do literally follow the recipe. Let's take a problem, not an easy one, but a doable one. Say the prob­

lem is to predict the physical properties of the uranium atom. That gives us two kinds of basic ingredients—protons and electrons—in round numbers, 90 of each, so 180 in all. The thing that tells us how they will interact is our equation, which we take from quantum theory. It involves the 180 labels that tell where the particles are. Solving the equation will give us essentially the probability for the 180 things to be anywhere we want them to be. From this we can work out any physical property we might be interested in. Of course, we have to solve the equation numerically, for no mathematician ha.s as yet tabulated its solution, not even during the days of the WPA projects. Then we make our table with 180 columns, and start to put in the entries, working the probability out from the equation. After a few weeks we have used up all the paper in the supply room, and climbing over the pile of tabulations to get to our desk is quite a job. What to do now is clear: order more paper. We better find out how much more we need to finish the job. If we're doing a sensible job here (with sense defined in the framework of the present operation), we'll find that before we're finished, we'll have a total num­ber of entries equal to the number 10 followed by 300 zeros. That's a lot of paper. It works out to require far more paper than there is in all the books in the world.

We're probably thoroughly disenchanted with this project by now, but perhaps the high speed calculating machines can handle our problem. They won't want it either—there's not enough storage tape in the world to make our table.

A visit to the friendly, neighborhood chemist

At this stage we'll probably stop and go see our chemist, which we should have done before we ever got started. Chemists are the master bakers for this kind of cake. For years chemists have been making beautiful intuitive inroads into problems much more complicated than this one. The chemist will probably tell us that the whole idea is wrong— we don't really want to solve this equation. What we really want to do is learn all about the hydrogen atom, because it's the simplest atom—one electron, one proton. The equation for it is simple, its solution is well known, and we don't have to make a table. When we understand these solutions completely we use them to build up more complicated atoms, including the uranium atom. Of course, to see just how everything works out here we'd have to become experts in atomic structure, because we really chose a hard problem. We aspired to bake a three-layered cake with all the trimmings before we knew how to produce a respectable cookie.

Hard problems are always tackled by simplifying ideas based on solutions to simple problems. Anyone connected with science knows that. Another way to say it is that we seek in the irregular complex structure of a new system some elements of old, well understood regularity. This is precisely what led Mendeleef to the prediction of the new particles. When we can't find this regularity, we are like the strange particle physicist—out of this world.

Sometimes we may try to force regularity where it doesn't

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exist. There is the story of the sculptor who is convinced that the form of a human head exists inside of every chunk of marble. We may not believe it, but he easily proves it to us, merely using his chisel to separate out the form of the head. He is not at all concerned about the heap of marble chips left over—it is a mere contami­nation for him. But scientists do not have the freedom of the artist-—all scientists must find the form one says he sees. If we keep on predicting heads where heads are not found, the experimentalists will simply bury us in that rubble accumulated by their chisels in the unprofitable searches.

Of course, the experimentalist sometimes contributes to this thing. I could say that every now and then he slips with his chipping, and out comes something new. But that's like saying, this is a fine new cake, what mistakes did you make? In reality the experimentalists are very eager to help —in getting experiment to conform to theory. Some the­orists say the experimentalists are wont to use the Pro­crustean treatment. Procrustes, the Greek, had the habit of stretching or chopping down his guests so that they would fit his bed. We add to this that the next morning he measured their heights, and fired off a paper to the Physi­cal Review entitled: "On the amazing uniformity in stature of Grecian travelers."

The search for conceptual simplicity has led us to rely less and less on the language of everyday experience. Galileo is credited with being the first to realize that the two are not necessarily connected. At his time, everyday experience said heavy objects like rocks fall to the earth, while light objects like smoke ascend to the heavens. Galileo said, in effect—that's true, but complicated. He literally invented a far simpler system in which all bodies fall down and with the same acceleration. We now know what a good idea that was. So good, in fact, that now we play according to his rules: invention of the simple.

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Sometimes it is said that science in its search for the simple has completely discarded everyday language from its vocabulary. This seems like an overstatement—we still use the language of everyday life—we simply don't mean what we say. This is no new circumstance—nobody means it when he says he sees a man getting smaller as he walks away. We say the electron is a particle, but we don't really mean it. That is, we don't mean it's a miniature marble with all the physical attributes of a scaled-down marble. We can, if insisted upon, be precise—we can write out the whole story that tells all we know about the electron in words and never use a symbol. But, that's going to take an awfully lot of paper, and we know there's a shortage of that right now. For the physicist, the simple is a mathemati­cal model. We all make them, and sometimes to the ac­companiment of pictures. Ask an intuitive physicist to ex­plain why the earth goes around the sun, and he draws two dots on the blackboard. Then he numerically integrates in his head an equation he has stored away there as he roughly

draws the orbit, talking madly and waving his free arm all the time to show how easy this all is. Ask a formal physicist the same question and he silently writes down the famous differential equation, integrates it, and hands you the equa­tion for the orbit. They both use the same model—each hides something. The first hides the mathematics, the second hides the dots.

Now dots are simple things, but they do a big job. They take us from complex reality to mathematical simplicity. Surely, we have left out a lot in the transition. For example, maybe we ought to work Earth's neighboring planets into the picture. Well, they're^in that rubble we discarded to chip out the dots, and we can find them if we have to.

The greatest "Pimpernel" of them all

One model can span a lot of physical phenomenon, giving great economy. In Baroness Orczy's book, The Scarlet Pimpernel, the hero is this most elusive Pimpernel of whom it is said: "You see him here, you see him there"—a most elusive character, flitting in and out. Probably the greatest Scarlet Pimpernel of all models is the harmonic oscillator model. Here it is, a ball rattling around the bottom of a spherical cup, there it is a mass on a string, jiggling up and down. Or maybe it's a current circulating around an electric circuit, or an atom vibrating in a solid. It has many physical forms, but only one mathematical form. As soon as we see this form in a phenomenon we're through — we know all its physical properties.

There are other powerfully simple models—like the collection of non-interacting particles, sometimes called the ideal gases.

Wherever we find good agreement between experiment and theory in physics, this happy state of affairs can al­ways be traced back to the existence of simple, powerful mathematical models.

Physicists like these powerful models so much that we even impose their form where we know they are not right— we start seeing heads where there are none. Our hope— and sometimes that's all it is, is that the real simple form, which we do not know—is not too far from that we have imposed. To try to fix everything up we have to rummage around in the rubble of marble dust, picking up pieces we think are physically important, and putting them back on the form we chipped out. It makes for a lopsided head, but better physics. We call it perturbation theory. Some never stop picking up pieces, and they do perturbation theory to infinite order. This isn't as nonsensical as it sounds, be­cause sometimes after putting back all this tremendously large number of tiny relevant pieces, the head isn't merely lopsided—lo and behold it has some new, unsuspected, simple form.

Well, as happens sometimes even to good cake bakers, we forgot our cake in the oven as we went chiselling around here in the underworld. It's probably burned to a crisp, but we can make another. And for me, as well as many other physicists, the cake we would really like to bake, the blue ribbon cake, is the really useful model.

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strips on these two pages started one of the biggest controversies of this or any other football season. With Alabama safely in front, 10-0, Tide line­backer Darwin Holt (32) struck Tech's Chick Graning in the face on a fair-catch play. The obviously intentional foul was first admitted by Alabama Coach Bear Bryant and then denied three days later. Graning, as you can see from the picture on the opposite page, ended up in the hospital in Atlanta in bad shape. At its meeting of December 1, the Alumni Board decided to leave the matter up to the officials and faculty of Tech in the following res­olution: "RESOLVED: That the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association unanimously expresses complete confidence in the ability of the administration, faculty, and athletic board of the Georgia Institute of Technology to handle all of the ramifications of the Alabama-Georgia Tech game in Birmingham, November 18, 1961, in the best interests of the Institute, its students, and its alumni."

At this writing, indications were that the matter was far from closed by the Tech administration. President Harrison and Coach Dodd had already writ­ten letters to Alabama authorities concerning the incident and the president has stated that the matter will be aired at the next SEC meeting.

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FRED WOLFE, EE '22 COMES HOME AGAIN

The sole survivor of a famous American family returns to r campus to see himself on a sta CTP.

Photographs by Bernie Wenke and Bill Diehl, Jr.

BY FRANK BIGGER

"Tom said, 'you can't go home again.' Speaking objec­tively, that is true, because Georgia Tech is not the Tech of 39 years ago. But, in spirit, I am home again."

So spoke Fred Wolfe who returned recently to the Alma Mater he had not really visited since his graduation in 1922. This time he came as an honored guest.

The occasion was the November 11 presentation by Drama Tech of "Look Homeward, Angel," a play based on the book of the same name by his world famous author brother, Thomas Wolfe. Fred Wolfe, only surviving member of the colorful and sometimes brawling North Carolina family depicted in the play, accepted an invitation to see the production and renew his acquaintance with the school. He and his wife, Mary, drove down from their home in Spartanburg, S. C.

The years have done little to change Fred Wolfe. He is now 67, but he is still much like the person his brother described in "Look Homeward,~Angel." Thomas Wolfe, a master at capturing personalities, gave Fred the name "Luke," and pictured him as a rather flamboyant, joking extrovert who stuttered, but who loved to laugh, the type who never meets a stranger. This description fits perfectly even today.

It is easy to see that Fred Wolfe likes people. He also loves to talk and his tour of the Tech campus, conducted by Public Relations Director Fred Ajax, was spiced by "little stories" from Wolfe that ran to considerable length.

Ajax, no amateur at holding his own in conversation, was hard put to get a word in here and there.

All this talk brought admonitions from Ajax for Wolfe to be brief in off-the-cuff remarks from the honored guest before the play commenced. "The play's the thing," Ajax reminded Wolfe.

Fred Wolfe, despite his slight stutter, is a highly ar­ticulate man and he lavished much praise on Georgia Tech. He used such terms as "amazing," "astounding," "a revela­tion," when he was shown the new Electrical Engineering Building, Price Gilbert Memorial Library, The Nuclear Research Center now under construction, and the new Classroom Building. Standing there in the midst of these glittering new citadels of learning, he could, in an instant, recall the Georgia Tech of yesterday and visualize the Georgia Tech of tomorrow. Wolfe was last on the Tech campus about 12 years ago when he and his wife "just drove through" without benefit of a guide.

His mind is quick and his memory keen. In front of the Carnegie Building he pointed out the grassy slope where his graduation exercise was held. He remembered that his class received diplomas without the traditional caps and gowns because a flood had delayed the arrival of these academic garments.

"That was on June 12, 1922," he said. "It was hot as blue blazes and the graduation speaker was Georgia's chief executive, who was preparing to run for the U. S. Senate. It was perhaps the finest and longest political address any graduating class ever heard."

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In Dean Griffin's office he examined wall after wall of pictures Griffin has collected throughout his career at Tech. Here and there he recognized a former classmate or lab partner. He had a comment about each. Wolfe and Grif­fin were classmates, but did not meet on the visit since Griffin had been called out of town unexpectedly.

Wolfe also had comments and anecdotes about former Tech presidents whose portraits he saw in Price Gilbert Library. The same was true as he examined portraits of Tech's two former coaches in the Athletic Department. He reminisced briefly with Coach Bobby Dodd and discussed the team's current season which he is following closely.

During this time, Mrs. Wolfe kept to the background, moving out of range when a camera appeared. She seemed to feel this day at Tech belonged exclusively to her husband. They had arisen early to begin the tour and had found their way to The Varsity for breakfast. Neither had ever seen "anything like it."

Fred Wolfe enrolled at Tech in 1912 as a cooperative student and worked during his stay at Atlantic Steel Co. Information from the registrar's office shows that he listed his father's business as "monuments and tombstones." His scholastic preparation was "fair to good"; his intellectual promise was "average"; his seriousness of purpose indi­cated he was "interested in business affairs"; and his per­sonal character was marked "good." He flunked English on the initial try.

Thomas Wolfe had some comments to make about Fred's or "Luke's" education in "Look Homeward, Angel." He

said Fred took the money he had earned selling the Satur­day Evening Post, worked at school and made every sacri­fice to get a degree, save one—he did not study. Fred verified this bit of information from the novel.

Fred Wolfe left Tech in 1915 for study at Carnegie Tech and for a stint in the Navy. He returned in September of 1921 and received the B.S. in electrical engineering the following spring.

"I went home on the bus to the house at 48 Spruce St. in Asheville with my degree from Georgia Tech," he recalled. "My dad and mother were on the front porch to greet me. Dad was in a wheelchair>and he told me they were sorry they could not come to my graduation. He added that they found it strange they could read my writing in copy books from my grammar school days and couldn't read a word I wrote now that I had finished college." Fred Wolfe was 28 at the time. His father died of cancer a week after this incident. The house he mentioned here is now the Thomas Wolfe Memorial.

Shortly after graduation he went to work for E. T. Fairbanks Scales Co., which had a sales office in Atlanta. He was a "sales engineer" and the piedmont regions of North and South Carolina were his territory. The firm is now known as Fairbanks Morse & Co.

He recalled that one Dr. Fitzgerald at Georgia Tech made this recommendation to the people at Fairbanks: "If you want a salesman, Fred will do fine. As an engineer he's not worth a damn." Wolfe later went to work in the dairy products industry at Spartanburg. He retired this past August.

Fred Wolfe seems much more pleased with his brother's treatment of their early life than with Ketti Frings' adapta­tion of the material into the famous play which was a smash hit on Broadway, winning both the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Award for the playwright. He feels that Ketti Frings could not present a full and true picture of the Wolfe family using only 40 pages from the book for the play.

It is obvious he feels little identity with Luke, the char­acter in the play who is supposed to represent himself.

In remarks to the audience before the play began he addressed himself principally to Tech students present:

"You are in a school that is not on the way, but which has arrived. It is to my mind the greatest engineering school in the world. I came to Tech undisciplined, and I went through undisciplined to the ignominy of Tech. My gradua­tion was noted by a great sigh of relief from the professors.

"I think I hold the record for the longest tenure of any student at Tech. It took me 10 years to get a degree and I want to remind you it wasn't at doctorate. You try to do it in four years."

Then with mist in his voice, Fred Wolfe said that he did not feel alone standing there on the stage setting of his childhood home. "I can feel the presence of my mother and father, and of Tom and my other brothers and sisters. They would say, Thank you for the honor of letting Luke come home again if only for a day."

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LOTHRIDGE GETS SET TO LATERAL TO WILLIAMSON ON THE 30-YARD PLAY THAT SCORED AGAINST GEORGIA.

JACKETS CLOSE OUT BEST SEASON SINCE 1956

WITH A LONG-AWAITED 22-7 WIN OVER GEORGIA

TECH'S YELLOW JACKETS broke even in their final four games to close out

the season with a 7-3 record and an in­vitation to play Penn State in the Gator Bowl on December 30.

First game in the home stretch was the Homecoming one with Florida's Gators who had edged Tech, 18-17, in the last minute last year. This year, Dodd's boys got revenge with a 20-0 win. Tech scored early in the second quarter on a nine-play, 23-yard drive after a recovered fumble. Lothridge dove in from the one and added the extra point. Another fumble in the third period gave Tech the ball at the Gators' 44 and again it took nine plays to score. In the fourth, to prove it could be done, Tech_<«drove 73 yards with Graning going over from the Florida 28 on a great run. Lothridge added the final point after missing the second one to make it 20-0.

The next Saturday, Tech dropped the Orange Bowl bid when Tennessee played its best game of the season to whip the Jackets, 10-6. Tennessee caught the Jack­ets down physically and mentally and gave them a sound whipping. The Vols scored on a 21-yard field goal after a

Tech fumble and added seven points on a 35-yard drive in the final period with a Faircloth pass accounting for the score. Tech came back to score in the final min­ute after a 77-yard drive with Gann going in when the clock showed 26 sec­onds left to go. A try at a two-point con­version failed and the Jackets were beat for the day.

The Alabama game is covered in an­other section of the magazine. It is enough to say that Tech was never in the game and got no" closer than the Tide's 35-yard line during the game. Tech—outclassed completely by the great Alabama defense—couldn't mount an of­fense and was lucky to come off the field with such a small score.

For the seventh time this season, Tech won the coin toss at the Georgia game. The crowd gave a mighty cheer for the Jackets have won every game in which they won the toss in 1961. This day, the Jackets completely outclassed Georgia in handing the Bulldogs the first loss, 22-7, in the past five years of the series. Tech opened up early, scoring the first time it got the ball. The drive featured slashing running by Billy Williamson and Joe

Auer (filling in admirably for the in­jured Graning) with Gann getting the score on an eight-yard jaunt on the op­tion series.

The following series, the Bulldogs got a bad snap on fourth down and Tech took over at the 16. On fourth and three, Lothridge kicked a field goal to give Tech a 10-0 bulge. Later in the second quarter, the Jackets upped the margin to 16-0 on a great 30-yard play that started as a quarterback option with Lothridge getting 10 yards and lateralling to Williamson who went the rest of the way.

The Bulldogs got back into the game on a passing attack early in the third period when a 30-yard pass play from Saye to Knowles brought them six points and Pennington added the seventh. Tech came back on an 80-yard drive to score in the final period to close the door on the Georgia team. Williamson scored the final six points on a six-yard scamper off the option play.

The season was Tech's best from a won-lost standpoint since the great 1956 year, which was the last time a Tech team won a bowl game.

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Chemistry paints a bright future for your car

Forget about burning sun and foul weather. The finish on new cars is as tough as it is beautiful. Chemicals developed through research at Union Carbide have played an important part in achieving smooth, hard mirror-bright coatings that last for years.

Chemicals and plastics have also caused a revolution in other types of paints and finishes in recent years. The result? Water-base latex paints that beautify your home—and dry in minutes—have turned a time-consuming chore into a simple job for any homeowner. Special solvents assure the uniform surface required in the finishing of fine furniture. And many new chemical ma­terials are going into coatings to safeguard industrial equipment from moisture and corrosive fumes . . . and to protect ships from the ravages of salt water.

This is an example of a vital industry that has forged ahead because of the kind of chemical research that goes on at Union Carbide. Looking to the future, the people of Union Carbide are continuing their efforts to bring forth new and better materials for everyday living.

See the "Atomic Energy in Action" Exhibit at the new Union Carbide Building in New York.

Learn about the work going on now in chemicals, carbons,gases, metals, nuclear energy, and plastics. Write for "The Excit­ing Universe of Union Carbide" Booklet Y-50, Union Carbide Corporation, 270 Park Avenue, New York 17, N. Y. In Can­ada, Union Carbide Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Georgia Tech ourna A digest of information about Georgia Tech and its alumni

T^e-Institute-Top Industrial Researcher visits Tech

DR. OSCAR T. MARZKE, Vice President for Fundamental Research, United States Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was a visitor on the Tech campus, Monday, No­vember 13.

Doctor Marzke was the first of the 1961-62 series of top scientists or engineers to be brought to the Georgia Tech campus through the Neely Visiting Professorship Fund, established by Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Neely of Atlanta.

Doctor Marzke, a national authority in the field of metallurgy, has served as a consultant to numerous industrial organ­izations, as well as to governmental agen­cies. From 1947 to 1950, he served as a member of the Advisory Committee, Metal­lurgical Division, National Bureau of Standards; and from 1951 to 1953 was Head of the Metallurgical Branch, Office of Naval Research. At the present time, he is serving on the Advisory Panel for Engineering Sciences of the National Sci­ence Foundation.

During his visit to Georgia Tech, he held conferences with the divisional chiefs of the Engineering Experiment Station and with the members of the faculty of the School of Chemical Engineering in regard to metal­lurgical programs. He also conferred with the members of the faculty planning inter­disciplinary curricula and research programs in materials.

New Peanut Sampler developed at Tech

A RATHER WEIRD and futuristic-looking de­vice that one might guess had materialized from the pages of science fiction left the campus of Georgia Tech recently, but its destination was not the moon.

It is a completely terrestrial machine, a production model of those that are bound

ultimately for peanut market areas all over the nation. In the planning and develop­ment stages for many years, this device, called a pneumatic peanut sampler, marks yet another step in the mechanization of American agriculture.

One may consider its job a lowly one, but the machine is a product of much study and work for many people, and like its re­latives in the farm machinery family, it will speed production, bring crop uniformity, save manpower and money.

Yes, city folk may overlook the esthetic qualities of the pneumatic peanut sampler, but to the men who produced it, to the farm­ers and the peanut processors, it's just plain beautiful.

Such an important crop as peanuts de­serves better handling methods than are employed at present. The modern new sam­pler is in line with' the importance of this crop. U. S. sales figure for the crop in 1960 was $172,838,000. The dollar value of pea­nuts to Georgia hit $54 million in 1960, ac­cording to the Georgia Department of Agri­culture. This places peanuts fifth in rank in Georgia money crops. Ahead of peanuts are broilers, cotton lint, eggs and tobacco. But the new sampler can take a spot in the cotton picture also, because it can sample cotton seeds as well as peanuts.

The sampler, built by the U. S. Depart­ment of Agriculture and refined by Tech Mechanical Engineer Tom Elliott, had its inception in 1949 when Elliott began studies of peanut grading in the Southeast. These studies and others conducted by the Uni­versity of North Carolina were continued into the mid-Fifties when USDA began de­signing the machine. Elliott and members of the North Carolina team were con­sultants in the project. The sampler is now in operation . in Dothan, Ala., and the production contract will be awarded in the near future.

The pneumatic marvel is designed to re­place the existing archaic method that has been in use probably since the time the peanut was raised to the rank of a money crop. The system used presently employs a

probe that is pushed by hand into the piles of peanuts. This probe consists of a pointed hollow tube with an opening along the shaft of the tube. A wooden rod is kept inside the tube until it is inserted into the peanuts. The rod is withdrawn, allowing peanuts and foreign matter to fall into the shaft which is then pulled free.

The system is not satisfactory because the probe breaks or shells many of the pea­nuts and detracts from their value. It gives no true indication of the amount of foreign material present in a load of peanuts. The probe must be inserted at just the right angle, or the amount of dirt held by the roots of the plants will not be shown con­sistently throughout the load. And not only is it back-breaking labor, but it leaves the way open to cheating by unscrupulous samplers.

The new sampler sits on 24-foot-long cross beams which permit two trucks to drive under the sampler at the same time. The cross beams are mounted on 50-foot rails, allowing the sampler to move to any desired position over the trucks. The rails rest on a 14-foot-tall frame, making the overall height of the device around 30 feet.

For sampling, a tube within a tube is em­ployed. These are made of aluminum and a blower forces air downward between the walls of the inner and outer tubes and also creates a vacuum for drawing the peanuts up through the inner tube. A rotating agita­tor is attached to the lower end of the shaft for easy insertion into the load. The ma­chine is quick, accurate and less fatiguing for the sampling personnel.

About 10 insertions are made per truck-load, s h o w i n g a homogeneous mixture throughout. The samples are then sent across a divider and about one-eighth of the total, just the right amount for proper handling, is left.

Tom Elliott, a native of Athens who graduated from Georgia Tech with a de­gree in mechanical engineering and later re­ceived his master's in industrial engineering, might be called Tech's "special problems man." He is endowed with a sparkling

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sense of humor and a talent for diversified projects. The pneumatic sampler is the lat­est addition to a long list of industrial, agri­cultural and research equipment he has de­signed, built and perfected.

Some of his projects include a rotary kiln for Tech's new Minerals Preparation Laboratory, a subcritical assembly for teaching students how to operate atomic reactors, a tilting flume, a neutron diffrac-tor, a treating plant for impregnating wood with chemicals to prevent rot and termite damage, a bacon-packaging machine, a cobalt teletherapy unit for Emory Univer­sity, a high-speed dental drill, a rotary for­age harvester, an extendable boat trailer to facilitate boat launchings and a micro­organism distintegrator to explode bacteria for research.

One of his most unique developments is what he calls "a massive baby carriage." Officially, it is a hydraulic cattle stock for transporting skittish bovines.

Cows quite often become excited and balk at stepping into moving vans that are not on the same level with their stalls. El­liott's device tricks "bossy," saves her high­ly-strung nerves and moves her about with little bother as the hydraulic stock rolls up to her stall, adjusts itself to her level, takes her aboard and whirls away like a gigantic baby stroller with the unsuspecting animal.

The cattle stock and the micro-organism disintegrator are now in use at the Univer­sity of Georgia.

New Lab to help State's minerals industry AN "INFANT" at Georgia Tech is about to help breathe new energies into an already substantial Georgia industry and aid in bringing it to its full potential as a major contributor to the state's economy.

This infant is a long-sought minerals preparation laboratory, and the industry is Georgia's multi-million dollar minerals busi­ness.

In the planning stages for a number of years, the laboratory suffered several de­

lays. Now two main stumbling blocks, lack of space and equipment, have been pushed aside far enough to permit work to begin. More machinery and financial support are urgently needed, but at least the laboratory is in business. Benefits which it can bring to the industry and to Georgia practically stagger the imagination.

Georgia is by no means far down the scale in mineral wealth, but it could be much higher simply through research and development leading to greater and eco­nomical utilization of her resources. Na­ture has been kind to the state, endowing her with many industrially useful minerals that are found from the mountains to the sea, and from the Chattahoochee to the Savannah.

According to the latest U. S. Bureau of Mines Minerals Yearbook, Georgia's min­eral industry had a dollar value in 1959 of nearly $90 million. This is one-half per cent of the total U. S. output, and repre­sents a rapid growth for the industry, be­cause Georgia has practically doubled her proportionate position compared to fifteen years ago when her output was only one-quarter of a per cent. Georgia ranks 30th among the states considering all minerals, including oil and coal; 19th if gas, oil, and co.al are excluded; and ranks 14th in the production of non-metallic minerals.

Trie dollar volume and rating on the na­tional scale may seem low, but are im­pressive since the "big money" minerals are apparently missing or occur only in small amounts. Although oil explorations have been made on Georgia's coastal plains and offshore, the wells, so far, have all been "dusters." Coal is mined only in rel­atively small amounts in northwest Geor­gia, mostly for local consumption.

According to Frederick Bellinger, chief, Material Sciences Division of Tech's En­gineering Experiment Station, the new lab­oratory has a two-fold objective: to find ways to "upgrade" naturally occurring ores and minerals and increase their value in so

doing; and to take these ores and minerals, determine their potentially valuable mineral components, and treat them mechanically and chemically for more economical proc­essing, or the production of new products.

In the first instance, Bellinger pointed to the kaolin industry as an example. An­nual sales figure for this white clay, found mostly along Georgia's Fall Line, is near the $40 million mark, making it the leader of the industry. Many people know that kaolin is used extensively as a ceramic ma­terial, but few realize it is also an essential ingredient in such diversified products as book, magazine and wall paper; rubber heels *and soles, bicycle tires, insecticide dusts, adhesives, greases, and literally hun­dreds of other everyday items. Profits for the industry, however, could be much higher if economical ways could be found to "bright­en" the clay by removing small amounts of "contaminating" ingredients. Tech's lab­oratory may discover the answer.

In the second instance, Dr. A. S. Furcron, assistant state geologist has said: "We know a lot about what and where Georgia's minerals are, but we don't know enough about how much is there or how to take them apart and use them." The feldspar in­dustry in North Carolina can be used to illustrate the importance of separation proc­esses; of taking things apart and using the parts. Soda-feldspar finds a large market in the glass industry, and for years it has been recovered by a rather tedious high-labor process from complex ore called "peg­matites." It also occurs in granites and in a particular variety of granite called Alaskite, of which North Carolina has large reserves. The Tar Heelers developed an economical process for. extracting feldspar from the Alaskite, and an important new industry was added to that state.

"Georgia is now importing almost all of the feldspar it uses," Bellinger said, "but perhaps the new laboratory can find a way of recovering feldspar from Georgia's granites and other ores."

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The laboratory, headed by John E. Hus-ted, is part of the Minerals Engineering Group which was established in 1958.

Space for the laboratory became avail­able on campus when the Ceramics Branch, through its rapid expansion, found it neces­sary to move to larger quarters at Peach-tree-DeKalb Airport.

Some equipment for the laboratory was obtained through the cooperation of Dr. Lane Mitchell and Dr. Homer V. Grubb, directors of the Schools of Ceramic Engi­neering and Chemical Engineering, respec­tively. Other critically needed pieces of equipment were purchased. On hand in the lab is equipment for coarse and medium crushing, a magnetic separator, sieves and other dry separators, flotation "jig" and other liquid-type separators, drying ovens, and a pilot rotary kiln designed and fabri­cated at Tech to operate at temperatures up to 2300° F., which permits controlled variations in pitch, speed of rotation and temperature. Of course, lots of chemical and other laboratory items are on hand. Also available in Tech's other laboratories are kilns, ovens, grinders, spectrophotom­eters, electron microscopes and physical properties test equipment.

Bellinger explained that this new lab cannot, at this time, be viewed as a large, completely equipped laboratory. Fine crushers, air-separation devices, special ovens and kilns, and instruments are needed. But even in its present stage, it pro­vides a sorely-needed facility and service to the research and development of the min­eral resources of the state. Several projects for industry are already being carried out.

"A rapid, steady growth of activities in this new laboratory is anticipated," he said. "It is believed that if sufficient funds were available to round-out the equipment and to provide additional staff, the laboratory would be flooded with work of inestimable value to Georgia.

"At least Tech has started. Georgia and the minerals industry would do well to help this laboratory, both financially and with donations of equipment. The rewards will be great."

Senior wins top military honor CADET COLONEL Harry C. Whitehead, Reg­imental Commander of the Army Cadet Corps at Tech received the Bronze Cross for Achievement at a special military re­view at Tech on November 9. Major Thomas A. Hackett of Atlanta, a member of the Legion of Valor, made the presenta­tion.

The award is the highest honor that any ROTC cadet can achieve while participat­ing in the program. This marks the first year that the award has been presented.

Cadet Whitehead is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Whitehead, Sr. (Class of 1932), of 1631 North Gatewood Road in Atlanta.

The Cadet Colonel was selected for the award from among more than 16,000

ROTC students in 22 senior division schools in the XII U. S. Army Corps area, which embraces the states of North and South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee.

Nomination for the award is based upon an outstanding record in scholastics, mili­tary leadership, and leadership in campus extracurricular activities of a non-military nature.

Cadet Whitehead is a senior majoring in Mechanical Engineering. His other honors and activities include: Captain (President) of Scabbard and Blade Military Honor Society; President of Tau Beta Pi, National Honor Society; Phi Kappa Phi; Outstanding Cadet at the 1961 Engineer-Ordnance ROTC Summer Camp; ODK National Hon­or Society; Pi Tau Sigma National Honor S o c i e t y ; Outstanding Freshman, Army ROTC; Outstanding Sophomore in Mechan­ical Engineering; Outstanding Junior, Army ROTC; Sigma Chi Fraternity.

A. J. "Chief" Garing dead at 86

TECH'S well-known bandmaster from 1928 through 1946, A. J. "Chief" Garing, died on November 11 in Atlanta. Garing, who was a long-time member of the Sousa band, was 86 years old at the time of his death. He is survived by his widow, a former dancer, and a son, John Garing, Jr., a Forest Park, Georgia businessman.

Tech, Georgia Faculties thank Joint Fund

Six years ago a small group of supporters of Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia organized the Joint Tech-Georgia Development Fund.

Their goal was to raise money from busi­ness and industry to supplement money al­ready being raised by alumni to increase faculty salaries. Last year they raised $280,-000 to split between the two institutions, and they have set their 1965 goal at a half-million dollars annually.

The Joint Fund held its second special conference at the University of Georgia over the weekend of Oct. 28, and heard the faculties of the two institutions say "Thank you and keep up the good work."

Speaking for Georgia Tech was Engi­neering Experiment Station Director Robert E. Stiemke, who said that although some salaries are still below average, "faculty members are certainly not griping."

"Instead," he said, "they are thankful for the loyal support of the Joint Fund and are eager to demonstrate their thanks by contributing their utmost to their students and their state."

Dr. Thomas H. Whitehead of the Univer­sity of Georgia stressed the importance of research and said that to "neglect higher education is to invite disaster."

"The basic science which makes possible spectacular technological achievement is not itself spectacular," he said. "It is done by men dreaming and sweating in labora­tories; although all of these men are not in universities, they learned the basic facts, the techniques and the love of discovery in a university."

Trie- Club ALBANY, GEORGIA—Dean of Students, George Griffin, spoke to the SOWEGA Georgia Tech Alumni Club in Albany, November 9, 1961. Over 50 alumni, an area record for stag get-togethers, showed up to hear Dean Griffin tell stories about the older alumni and project his thoughts as to Tech's future. The club heard Dean Griffin explain that he was "a native of southwest Georgia who still had relatives in Baker and sur­rounding counties." President of SOWEGA Georgia Tech Club is William M. Dorsey.

BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA — One hun­dred and forty members of the Birmingham Georgia Tech Club met at the recently opened Holland House in Birmingham on November 10. Speakers for the occasion were Dean George Griffin and Tom Hall, associate secretary of the Alumni Associa­tion. Door prizes received more than lively interest as the club gave away six tickets to the Tech-Alabama game. Dean Griffin spoke to the club and encouraged its scholarship program. Tom Hall complimented the club on its outstanding achievements in the past support to the Roll Call and showed the film of the Georgia Tech-Florida game. Newly elected officers were William J. White, presi­dent; Hunter Price, first vice president; Charles Bradley, second vice president; Frank Lindstrom, treasurer; and Charles Person, secretary.

HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA — Over 65 alumni in the Huntsville area heard Joe Guthridge, Tech's director of development and assistant to the president, talk about "The Many Faces of Georgia Tech," at the November 14 meeting.

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE—On October 20 the Memphis, Tennessee Club met to hear associate secretary, Tom Hall, discuss goals of the Alumni Association. Also featured on the program was the showing of the Georgia Tech-Rice film. Current officers of the club are R. E. Pickett, president; Ted Shuler, vice president; and Marc Brabant, secretary and treasurer.

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>Q Joseph Boyd McCrary, ME, died Oc-3 tober 28 at his home. He was presi­

dent of the J. B. McCrary Company, Inc. and J. B. McCrary Engineering Corpora­tion, which he founded. Mr. McCrary's companies planned or built more than % of the municipal water, light and sewer sys­tems in Georgia. His widow lives at 30 Cherokee Road, N. W., Atlanta, Georgia.

The following attended their 50th re-' union which was held Friday, Novem­

ber 3 at the Capital City Club: Claude E. Anderson, T. T. Blakely, Val S. Dawson, George W. Campbell, Jr., Durward C. Col­lier, J. Eckard Crane, D. C. Dawkins, M. A. Ferst, Linwood F. Green, Eugene D. Hill, Montgomery S. Hill, Ernest D. Ivey, Harry W. Loving, Henry L. Michael, W. M. Robinson, Jr. Guests: L. W. Robert, Jr., Dr. Floyd McRae, R. J. Thiesen, William J. Jenkins.

T. B. Bethel, ME, died October 15, 1961.

Bivins, Jr., Spencer W. Boyd, Marion H. Brandt, George S. Brown, James E. Carl­ton, F. E. Cater, Joseph B. Cheshire, Eu­gene C. Clarke, Jr., John H. Collins, Jr., James B. Crew, E. R. Culbertson, Henry H. Eagar, C. Preston East, Joseph Eich-berg, Harry Erdberg, William L. Gordy, J. D. Green, Frank H. Griggs, E. L. Gunn, Jr., John C. Hall, R. Dudley Hayes, T. Clinton Huguley, Daniel Lease, J. M. Mc-Cathern, John W. McDonald, A. J. Merkle, Frank Moore, John T. Nesbitt, Edward T. Newton, I. L. Partee, Hoyt Phillips, W. Owen Pool, Samuel Y. Pruitt, George W. Race, J. Ridley Reynolds, Jr., Marthame Sanders, Thomas A. Sharpe, Leroy A. Staples, G. H. Traylor, Robert L. Watkins, Warren Wheary, George W. Wilde, Ivan A. Williams, Orval E. Williams, J. B. Wil­son, George L. Word, Jr.

J. F. McElwee, EE, is now southeastern manager of Utility Sales with General Elec­tric. His business address is 1860 Peach-tree Street, N. E., Atlanta, Georgia.

' O T William Linton Murphy, of Felton. ^ ' Georgia, died August 30 of a heart

attack. He was with the Georgia State Highway Department.

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' 9 Q Fre<* P' M°reton< 0 I Biloxi, Missis-fc»* sippi, died March 25, 1961.

' 0 1 The following attended their 30th re-** ' union at the Atlanta Athletic Club on

November 3: J. Cleve Allen, Elbert B. Anderson, Thomas W. Anderson, James W. Austin, Jr., Ray Brosnam, Adm. James R. Cain, Jr., James A. Caldwell, Sr., Carl V. Cesery, M. H. Clarke, H. M. Coachman, John Cochran, Samuel W. Colvin, Frank E. Corrigan, Louis L. Dettelbach, E. C. Dickey, Paul L. Dorn, Sam DuPree, R. T. Easley, A. O. Evans, Myles W. Fletcher, Harol^ G. Haskell, William J. Hendrix, Harold D. Hirsch, Henry P. Hopkins, Al­fred W. Jones, E. Posey Jones, Tom Jones, Philip F. Jones, Jr., L. E. Justice, Hurst A. Lefferts, Brannon E. Lesesne, D. A. Melli-champ, William C. Miller, Capt. James E. Minter, Neil Pansey, John W. Parker, Jr., Henry W. Persons, John T. Phillips, Wil­liam L. Randol, L. Carl Smith, Joe Stern, Luther H. Ward, Gelon E. Wasdin, John C. Wilkerson, John M. Wilkerson, Jr., Lloyd K. Williams, Thomas L. Wilson, John W. Zuber. Guests: Professor Fred B. Wenn,

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' 1 Walter H. DuBard, Sr., of Green-• wood, died June 28, 1961 of a heart

attack.

Lewis R. Sams, TE, has been elected • executive vice president of Retail

Credit Company in Atlanta. He was former­ly vice president and sales manager.

The following attended their 40th re-*• union at the Atlanta Athletic Club

Grill on November 4: J. Hudson Almand, Frank L. Asbury, Jr., Ralph N. R. Bard-well, William H. Curry, Paul M. Douglass, E. M. Eastman, Gilbert R. Fraser, Morris Fuller, Wally E. George, George Gibson, Price Gilbert, Jr., J. Lamar Hall, S. Herschel Harris, Allen Haskell, Scroop D. Hooker, W. K. Hyers, Hubert L. Jacobs, James H. Johnston, Ben W. Kaplan, E. R. Kinne-brew, William A. Knapp, John R. Kruse, John Harry McDonald, H. Clay Moore, Thomas J. Nuckolls, Edward A. Ryder, Frank G. Thomas, Thomas Twitty, C. C. Whelchel, J. Burton Wilder, B. H. Wilk-ins, Jr. Guests: Joe Guyon, William E. Fin-cher.

Thomas Henry Wood, retired textile * executive of Westminster, South Caro­

lina, died May 24, 1961.

The following attended their 35th re-^ union at the Atlanta Athletic Club on

November 3: D. R. Allen, George Archer, Frederick Bellinger, Joe Bernafh, Arthur C.

The Class of 1926 at its 35th An­niversary party held November 3 at the Atlanta Athletic Club. The class had its biggest turnout for this party.

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NEWS BY CLASSES-confinuec/

Prof. Earle E. Bortell, Mr. Roy Mundorff.

' Q Q Roland L, Toups, ME, has been *»«! elected general manager of The South

Coast Corporation in Houma, Louisiana. He will continue to serve as vice president-operations, also.

' Q C The following attended their 25th re-w O union at the Capital City Club on

November 3: Richard L. Aeck, Arch Avery Austin, J. Elwood Barbre, James G. Bishop, Jr., George B. Black, Fred L. Carothers, Dave Center, James F. Darby, Howard Duval, Frampton Ellis, Jr., Harvey L. Fell, Jr., J. H. Finch, Lamar H. Franklin, Sr., Frederick E. Fuchs, E. H. Gibson, Sam T. Gibson, William J. Greene, Jr., George A. Harbour, Jr., John J. Hill, D. M. Holsen-beck, Jr., John F. Howard, Thomas E. Jones, Leon S. Kaniecki, Howard F . Kast-ner, Rayford P. Kytle, Jr., W. N. Lamber-son, Charles M. Lokey, William A. Mc-Cree, Jr., G. E. McDonald, W. L. Mingle-dorff, Jr., L. Allen Morris, Frank C. Pate, James H. Perry, J. G. Ponder, James K. Rankin, B. L. Rickenbacker, Lyman H, Robertson, W. H. Sachs, Jr., L. R. Sam-ford, Jr., Hansford Sams, Jr., R. A. Siegel, George Smith, William O. Street, Ralph S. Thomas, Samuel S. Tomlin, Jr., F . M. Vollberg, James W. Bell. Guest: R. P . Black, Jr.

Lury B. Redmond, EE, has been ap­pointed Employee Relations Manager of the Houston Exploration and Producing Division of Mobil Oil Company. His home address is 1327 Vassar, Houston, Texas.

' A f i Engaged: William Marshall John-™U ston, EE, to Miss Emily Mallet. The

wedding will take place December 9. Mr. Johnston is with Lockheed Aircraft in Mari­etta, Georgia.

' A 1 T n e I o l l o w i n S attended their 20th re-** union at the Standard Town and

Country Club on November 3: Frank W. Allcorn, Jack M. Averett, Bruce S. Bailey, Wiley Perry Ballard, Alvin Barge, David R. Berry, Howard L. Burpo, Jim Clay, Robert P. Cochran, Jr., Madison F. Cole, Henry L. Collier, Harold K. Couch, Clay­ton J. Davis, Richard E. Forrest, Ed Gar­ner, R. I. Gibbs, Jr., Jack Gibson, Charles M. Goodman, C. P. Goree, III, J. Ross Hana-han, Charles D. Heidler, Richard Herzog, Jim Hiegel, Riley A. Holt, Frank P. Hud­son, Jim Hutchinson, Frank Jamison^ Edgar D. Johnson, Leo Kelly, Robert E. Lee, E. F. Lindgren, Laurence F. Martin, William R. McLain, John A. Miller, Donald H. Nickell, Dixon R. Olive, Jr., William A. Parks, Charles L. Perkins, Tommy Plaxico, Charles H. Ponder, James P. Poole, Charles T. Pottinger, Jr., Oscar Price, Carl Reis-man, W. L. Shipman, W. H. Sims, Ralph S. Stewart, Robert S. Stoops, J. Frank Stov-all, J. R. Sturgis, Joseph J. Tribble, W. S. Tutt, H. C. VanArsdale, Herbert L. Wa­

ters, John F. Wear, M. S. Williams, Jr., Ralph H. Willis, Douglas Winfree, James G. Wohlford, Hugh E. Wright, P. D. Yates, Jr. Guest: Dean George C. Griffin.

' A A. Dr' Harry R- Linden, ChE, has been ' ' appointed Director of the Institute of

Gas Technology, Illinois Institute of Tech­nology, Chicago, Illinois.

1 At\ Born to : Lcdr. & Mrs. Ernest D. •** Sanders, UE, a daughter, Edee Duke,

October 14 in San Francisco, California.

' A R Harry w- Little, EE, is a field engi-™ " neer with the General Telephone

Company of Florida. His home address is 6225 Travis Boulevard, Tampa 10, Florida.

Benjamin Stegall, Jr., IE, is an account executive with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fen-ner & Smith, Inc. His business address is 3600 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles 5.

' 4 T Charles B. Moore, ChE, is assistant * ' manager of Fuel Products and Gen­

eral Planning in the Manufacturing Depart­ment of Humble Oil in Houston, Texas.

' E f l Paul G. Barnett, Jr., IM, has been * ' • ' transferred by DuPont to the Treas­

urer's Department in Wilmington, Dela­ware. He lives at 2421 Chatham Drive, Wilmington 3, Delaware.

Edwin B. Feldman, IE, president of Serv­ice Engineering Associates, has announced the incorporation of the firm. S-E-A offers consulting services in custodial organiza­tion, methods improvement and sanitation. His business address is 932 Ashby Street, N. W., Atlanta 18, Georgia.

' C I The following attended their 10th re-*J ' union at the Piedmont Driving Club,

November 3: James C. Bailey, B. B. Blem-ker, N. L. Bryant, Charles E. Commins, Tony Costanza, Dan B. Darden, Gordon E. Dasher, Richard Galphin, Frank D. Gar­ner, Millard N. Gilbert, Sig Guthman, Felix Harber, George T. Heery, John C. Huskis-son, Jr., Henry A. McGee, Jr., Richard Mc-Han, Karl W. Meschke, F . B. Montgomery, Jr., Z. S. Norville, Jr., Henry L. Pruitt, William B. Richardson, Grady R. Smith, Robert W. Smith, Virgil A. Stock, L. Kitt Tucker, III, Robert E. Vaughn, Richard J. Veenstra, William E. Weatherly, E. C. Wer-schmidt.

Born to: Mr. & Mrs. John Cerny, ME, a son, John David, October 25. Mr. Cerny is with the Georgia Tech Engineering Experi­ment Station.

' 5 ? chff°rd L- Roberts, IM, has been * » ^ n a m e d A t h e n s (Georgia) district

traffic manager with Southern Bell. He was formerly district traffic manager in Waycross, Georgia. He lives at 205 Chap­man Place, Athens, Georgia.

' C Q Arthur Bruckner, II, IE, is now Op- , 3 0 erations Research Analyst with the T h e m e m b e r s of t he 4 1 C l a s s gag i t

Boeing Company, Aero Space Division, in u p a t t he i r p a r t y o n N o v e m b e r 3 .

Seattle. His permanent mailing address is 5544 Fair Oaks Street, Pittsburgh 17.

Born to : Mr. & Mrs. Jerome A. Holiber, IE, a son, Adam Jay, October 13. They live at 4114 Davis Place, N. W., Washing­ton 7, D.C.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. William Rich­ard Kelly, IE, a daughter, Linda Caroline, October 31. Bill is an engineer in the Jet Engine Department with General Electric. They live at 658 Fairborn Road, Cincin­nati 40, Ohio.

,QA Charles M. Weeks has been elected *» • assistant vice president of the Bal-

lenger Paving Company, Greenville, South Carolina.

' C C Werner Pels, TE, has been named a *»*' research adviser to the Southern

Utilization Research and Development Di­vision of the U.S. Department of Agricul­ture, with headquarters in New Orleans, Louisiana.

' C C The following attended their 5th re-* » " union at the Riviera Motel on No­

vember 3: William H. All, III, William Arrants, Pat Atkinson, Chuck Averett, B. F. Barfield, Carter T. Barron, Gerald R. Beck, Robert L. Bennett, Earle E. Bortell, Ir., Harrold P. Bowen, M. R. Brewster, Jr., William H. Brown, Jr., Albert R. Butler, Jr., Leonard H. Caveny, Donald, L. Champ­ion, Thomas F. Davenport, Jr., Phil Den­ton, William A. Dunlap, Ralph M. Eden, Jr., Albert F. Gandy, William T. Gary, Jere W. Goldsmith, Dan Graham, Ed Greer, Stanley K. Gumble, Richard A. Guthman, Jr., George W. Harris, Jr., Ralph H. Hicks, James L. Holcomb, John G. Holey, C. Frank Hollberg, III, Claude H. Hollis, Frank R. Howard, Jr., Thomas A. Jackson, Jr.. Perry L. James, Emory Jenks, Jr., Theron Jen­nings, Jr., Robert A. Johnston, Carl Lee Jones, II, Martin J. Keller, C. E. Kirkpat-rick, Jr., John P. Klinke, Slater Marshall, C. Bernard Martin, Jack McFarland, John

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H. Meeks, Raymond M. Morrison, Jr., Jim Moye, McRay Newsom, Bill Nippier, Alex­ander F. Nofi, A. Gordon Oliver, Robert C. Parrott, V. Don Perrin, James E. Pruitt, Jr.. Kenneth R. Purdy, Thomas A. Ripley, Jr., Alan Salzman, Robert L. Simerly, Charles P. Spencer, Carter S. Terrell, Trygve J. Tolnas, Alexander L. West, Ed­ward W. White, Sr., Buck Wiley, Milton A. Witt. Guests: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Com­mander.

Engaged: William Harold Metcalf, IM, to Miss Judith Wagner. The wedding will take place February 3. Mr. Metcalf is with the First National Bank of Atlanta.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. James F. Walden, MF, a daughter, Joy Susanne, June 17. Mr. Walden is with Carrier Air Conditioning. They live at 3401 Barfield Drive, Charlotte 8, North Carolina.

' ( James L. Altman, IE. is chief service *» engineer with Service Engineering As­

sociates, Inc., 932 Ashby Street, N.W., At­lanta, Georgia.

Edward L. Cowan, ME, is a sales engineer with Carrier Atlanta Corporation. He lives at 1080 North Hills Drive, Decatur, Georgia.

Clifford C. Groover, Jr., IE, is chief proj­ect engineer with Service Engineering Asso­ciates, Inc., 932 Ashby Street, N.W., At­lanta, Georgia.

Lt. Thomas P. Harvard, USA, IE, has completed the associate signal officer career course at The Signal School, Fort Mon­mouth, New Jersey.

Married: Joe H. Kilgore, Jr., AE, to Miss Elaine Burnett, November 18. Mr. Kilgore is with General Dynamics Astronautics in Topeka, Kansas.

Engaged: Samuel W. VanLeer, CE, to Miss Mary Van Kirk. The wedding will take place December 22 in Atlanta.

Ronald White, EE, has been promoted to GS 13 with the U.S. Army Engineer Re­search and Development Labs, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He lives at Route 1, Alexandria, Vircinia.

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Born to : Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy B. C. Yuen, IE, a daughter, Tammy Mei Yung-Yuen, August 4. Mr. Yuen is with the Public Utilities Commission in Honolulu, Hawaii.

' C O C. Sam Davis, IE, has announced the * » " formation of C. Sam Davis and As­

sociates, Engineers and Land Surveyors. His address is 3757 Brookcrest Circle, Decatur, Georgia.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Elroy Strickland, IM, a daughter, Laura Jean, April 4. They live at Broad Run Farms, Sterling, Virginia.

Peter Weissenberg, IE, has completed the Manufacturing Training Program at Gen­eral Electric and is now in the Light Mili­tary Electronics Department at Johnson City, New Jersey. He lives at 26 Grand Boulevard, Binghamton, New York.

' E Q David Colin, EE, has joined the Sys-*»*» terns Division of Electro-Mechanical

Research, Inc., Sarasota, Flordia, as a sys­tems engineer.

Edward C. Doughty, Jr., EE, is an engi­neer with the Range Systems group of the Defense Systems Department at General Electric in Syracuse. He lives at 2 Bellevue Drive, North, Syracuse, New York.

Born to: Lt. and Mrs. Alva Knox Gillis, Jr., EE, a daughter, Jean Marie, August 18. Lt. Gillis is stationed at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

Married: Robert W. Hodges to Miss Mary Mills Carter, November 25.

Engaged: Jerome Howard Horwitz, EE, to Miss Elaine Ginsberg. The wedding will take place in June. Mr. Horwitz is with RCS in Levittown, New Jersey.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Bowen Jones, IM, a daughter, Suzanne, September 22. They live at 68 Main Street, Garden City, Savan­nah, Georgia.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Lang-ley, Phys., a daughter, Laura Leith, July 2. They live at 1570 Dantzler Drive, Atlanta, Georgia.

Lt. James B. Mathis, Jr., USA, ME, has

The Class of 1921 sits for a portrait during its 40th Anniversary party.

been assigned to the U.S. Army Chemical Center, Maryland.

Captain Eugene M. Simonson, USA, IM, was commended for meritorious service as an instructor in the Management-Logistics Division, U.S. Army Chemical School, Fort McClellan, Alabama.

Married: Lt. Robert S. Soderholm to Miss Judy Johnson, August 7.

Engaged: Lt. Paul Ware, USN, ME, to Miss Penny Dale. The wedding will take place December 22 in Memphis, Tennessee. Lt. Ware is in Aircraft Maintenance School in Memphis. He recently completed ad­vanced* jet training in Beeville, Texas.

' C f l Born to: Lt and Mrs. James J. O U Davidson, USA, ME, a daughter,

Sherry Lynne, October 16 at Quantico, Vir-gina.

Lt. Richard G. Hunter, USA, IM, has completed the officer orientation course at The Transportation School, Fort Eustis, Vir­ginia.

Married: Calvin S. Moore, ChE, to Miss Patricia Alice Thomas, October 1. Mr. Moore is with the Ethyl Corporation in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Engaged: Henry Russell Powell, III, ME, to Miss Maria Diprima. The wedding will take place December 27 in Rome, Georgia. Mr. Powell is with Lockheed in Marietta, Georgia.

Pvt. James H. Thompson, USA, IM, has completed 6 weeks of Unit Armor training at Fort Knox, Kentucky.

Jesse W. Wallace, IM, has been trans­ferred to Avicel Sales as assistant to the sales manager with American Viscose Corporation, Wilmington, Delaware.

Lt. Ronald C. Wicks, USA, ChE, is as­signed to the 557th Ordnance Company in Aschafenburg, Germany.

» C 1 Lt. Kenneth W. Alford, USA, ChE, O I has been assigned to the Army

Chemical Center, Maryland. Engaged: Rev. Marcus Andrew Booker,

ME, to Miss Katharine Davis. The wedding will take place December 15. Rev. Booker is attending Candler School of Theology at Emory University and is pastor of Friend­ship Methodist Church in Kenwood.

Pvt. John D. R. Bowen, IM, USA, has completed the supply course at The Armor Training Center, Fort Knox, Kentucky.

Lt. Dwight B. Bronnum, USA, ChE, has completed the officer orientation course at the Army Chemical Training Center, Fort McClellan, Alabama.

Lt. Luther T. Martin, USA, IM, has com­pleted the officer basic course at The Ad­jutant General's School, Fort Benjamin Har­rison, Indiana.

Engaged: Walter Waitt Saville, IM, to Miss Carol Connah. Mr. Saville is with the General Adjustment Bureau in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Lt. John C. Walker, USA, IE, has com­pleted the officer orientation course at the Army Chemical Corps Training Center, Fort McClellan, Alabama.

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