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A s THIS COLUMN is being shaped, com­mencement day is just a week in the

future. The seniors have finished their work except for the unlucky few who are taking re-exams. And, most of the members of the Class of 1956 are making final preparations to leave Georgia Tech for good. Oh, they'll be drifting back from time to time to take in a Home­coming or to see the Jackets win one or to look over a new campus development. But, never again will the Hill belong to them the way it does this very moment. And most of them know it.

It is the time of the year for looking back over the past twelve months and taking stock of what history has done to Georgia Tech in just 366 days.

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T HE VERY BEST MEDIUM for this type of reminiscing is a college yearbook.

And, as we thumb through the pages of our copy of the 1956 version of The Blue Print, the year just passed falls neatly and gently into place. The 48th version of Tech's student annual is an excellent one. Edited handsomely by Mathematics major Woody Bartlett and his staff, the thick book faithfully records what cer­tainly must have been the greatest year of change in the university's history.

Think back over the past twelve months at everything that has happened to our school: the death of the Institute's Fifth President, Blake R. Van Leer, the beginning of construction on the Alex­ander Memorial Building, the approval of the long-awaited Classroom Building, another great football year, the Sugar Bowl mess, the Sugar Bowl victory, the big start on a nuclear science program of major proportions, the opening of two new computer laboratories, graduation of the first coeds and the most successful alumni program in history. Looking back, it seems that something newsworthy was happening on the campus every single

week of the year. * * *

I N ADDITION to turning out Tech's first female-type engineers (see page 7)

Commencement, 1956, fostered one of the biggest campus hassles in years. It started about two months before gradu­ation when a group of seniors protested to the campus officials that Tech's grad­uation ceremony was a wee bit too much like an assembly line. "For one thing,"

the seniors argued, "nobody except the graduate school candidate seems to b ; entitled to have his name read out as he walks across the stage to receive his de­gree and handshake." The group felt that the entire senior class was entitled to this little bit of courtesy.

Within a week or so, thanks to a couple of senior class meetings and some healthy cartooning and editorializing in the rejuvenated Technique, most of the graduates-to-be joined in the squabble.

Alas, the seniors lost the battle but not the war. The school officials, sym­pathetic but determined, had to turn down the request on their original de­fense: the name-reading would add too much time to an already lengthy pro­gram, and the Fox Theater had to be cleared by noon on graduation under the agreement that allowed Tech to use the theater. But, the Class of 1956 did leave a legacy to the future graduates: names of all graduates will be read beginning with the 1957 commencement.

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WALKING INTO THE FOX on graduation

morning, we noticed with a chuckle that the sign on the marquee read "The Searchers." We thought the movie title was most appropriate for a graduation and reported the coincidence to Alumni Association President Fred Storey when we ran into him in the theater lobby a few minutes later. "I didn't notice that one," he answered, "but I did get a chuckle out of the one covering the in­side marquee."

We looked up at the big sign advertis­ing the next week's attraction. It was. "The Man Who Knew Too Much."

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W E'VE JUST ADDED the name of L. Allen Morris, '36, of Miami, Florida to our

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July, 1956

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RAMBLIN'—the editor reminisces about the year just past and reports on a commencement hassle. COMMENCEMENT MOOD, '56—a special re­port on a class about to graduate. THE GREAT TRANSITION—an alumnus talks to the Class of '56. ROTC SUMMER CAMP—photo and text treat­ment of the six weeks military duty by Army ROTC cadets. ON THE HILL—Les looks at the last week of school from an entirely new angle. TALK ABOUT TECH—latest happenings. WITH THE CLUBS—latest reports. NEWS BY CLASSES—latest on the alumni. END OF THE NINTH—a report on the success of the Alumni Association's greatest fund drive.

Officers of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association

Fred Storey, '33, Pres. I. M. Sheffield, '20, V-P

Charles Simons, '37, V-P Walt Crawford, '49, Treas.

W. Roane Beard, '40, Executive Secretary

Staff

Bob Wallace, Jr., '49, Editor Mary Peeks, Assistant

THE COVER Firing a big 'un during summer R O T C Camp at Fort Bliss, Texas, are these Tech students. The gun is a 90-millimeter anti­aircraft weapon. And the cadets are members of Tech's Antiair­craft Artillery section, one of the six iinits of the MS & T Department. For a complete story of one uait's stay at camp, turn to page 12 of this issue.

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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. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, Atlanta, Georgia under the Act of March 5, 1879.

I KNOW that all alumni are interested in the search for a President for Georgia Tech, and as your represen­

tative on the committee, set up at the invitation of the Board of Regents, it seems appropriate to report to you at this time.

The committee is composed of three men: Walter Mitchell, President of the Georgia Tech Foundation, Dean Jesse W. Mason, representative of the Faculty, and myself, representative, selected by the Trustees, of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association. I can say with certainty that no member of this committee has had, nor has any candidate. AH of us are seeking the very best man that we can find for Georgia Tech.

First, we tried to outline an elastic set of qualifica­tions which this man should possess, knowing that no prospect could possess them all. Age, educational back­ground, administrative and teaching experience, govern­mental contacts, professional reputation — these and other factors plus a high personal reputation were de­termined as basic for consideration. Meanwhile, from the start, a compilation of prospective names was begun. It is a basic tenet of the committee that every name sug­gested will be submitted to the Board of Regents when our recommendation goes forward to them. No person then need fear that his candidate has been ignored.

Some 125 names have been considered to date and by our screening approximately 15 have seemed to fit the "worthy of serious consideration" category. Each of these candidates has been interviewed by one or more members of the committee. If the man-days of travel and interview time spent in this direction plus the time spent in committee meetings were totaled, it would come to a surprising figure.

We feel that at last we are moving toward a conclu­sion, and it is my hope that we can have this matter completed by the start of the fall term.

I know that the other members of the committee join me in expressing our appreciation to the Chairman of the Board of Regents, to the Board itself and to the Education Committee for their help. Their assistance added to the cooperation of the Governor, the Chancel­lor — Dr. Harmon Caldwell, and many other interested Georgia Tech friends has been most helpful and deeply appreciated.

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A SPECIAL ALUMNUS REPORT

The mood of '56 at Commencement C O M M E N C E M E N T AT GEORGIA T E C H is a paradoxical ™-̂ affair right from the beginning. It's held in the mid-morning under the stars. The explanation is simple: Tech, as in years past, carried out its June 9 commencement pro­gram in the nearby Fox Theater which features one of those built-in starlit skys. The reason for this is also simple: there is no building on the campus large enough to house the graduating class and their families. Tech has tried the out­door commencement at Grant Field in the past, but they have always flopped because of the hot Atlanta June weather. Next year, the scene will change to the nearly-completed Alexander Memorial Building.

The normal activities associated with a college gradua­tion don't stir up much interest here in this engineering

institution famed for its "Rambling Wreck" song, hard working graduates and football teams. The boys (and this year the girls) go through the motions, but their hearts just aren't in it. There is no senior dance or banquet connected with commencement. And any effort to start one in the past has been met with disinterest bordering on complete apathy. As one '56 ME graduate put it, "I wouldn't bother with commencement at all if it wasn't for my folks. They're set on coming up to see me graduate, so I have to go through with it."

Reasons for this lack of interest in the most important of the collegiate ceremonies seems to be twofold: Tech is just too big for general campus interest, and the graduating class has completed its degree work in four sections—Sept.,

July, 1956

Mr. Monie Alan Ferst, ME '11, receives congratulations from a fellow alumnus as he stands in the Association's receiving line after he became the 21st recipient of the Alumni Distinguished Service Award.

The citation accompanying the award presented by Acting President Paul Weber read in part: "For your leadership in the incorporation and direction of the Industrial Development Council, for your service on the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Tech Research Institute since its organization in 1946, for your establishment and support of the annual Sigma Xi awards, for your gene­rosity of time, service and financial support to the Georgia Institute of Technology."

COMMENCEMENT—cont.

1955, Dec, 1955, March, 1956 and June,' 1956. The earlier graduates of the class must wait till June to come back and pick up their diplomas which doesn't help. This class-split business has been ad­vanced by some Tech officials as one of the major reasons the school has so little class spirit. Each student seems to have a small (25 or so) circle of friends that he gathers during his freshman year from dormitory, fraternity or church affilia­tions. And he stays with this same circle the whole way through school.

Tech's fierce workload (averaging 20 credit hours per quarter) also helps to hold back class spirit as well as acting as the regimentation, the discipline and the attrition that willows out 45% of the student body before graduation.

But the fact that the Tech seniors of 1956 have little class spirit does not mean there is no school spirit. This year's class, like those in the past, is extremely loyal to its Alma Mater. Oh, they might carp about the way they are treated in school, but no one else is allowed the privilege of criticizing the Tech way of education in their presence.

A large majority of students inter­viewed does not feel that the four-year engineering college has given them enough tools for the long pull ahead in this tech­nological age. They feel that industry— especially the big corporations—can sup­plement the basic knowledge they've gained in school to the extent needed for success. There is definitely no cocksure attitude in the '56 graduate about how much he knows. The students feel that Tech has given them as much or more than they could have received at any other engineering school, but four years is just not enough time to learn this com­plicated engineering business of today.

When the average Tech student comes here to school he may be thinking about getting an education. But by the time he reaches his junior year, he's thinking about a job, money and location. All students interviewed agreed on this point. Tech students know exactly what they got out of college, and everyone will tell you the same thing with a slight differ­ence in phrasing. They got training di­rectly applicable to the procurement of a good job and money. The motivating purpose here is not to get an education, but to get a job and make a success in life. Tech is not educating the whole man, but then what institution does?

About 30% of this year's graduating class is going directly into the military. The majority of the remainder is going with the big companies. The boys say the big companies get the nod for two reasons: more money and more oppor­tunity to find a niche in life. The boys are not concerned with security. They know now that today's world is pretty much an engineer's world. But they are not sure what type of work they want to do. So they select the big company be­cause they feel it will give them a greater opportunity to learn and to look around till they find the type of engineering work that best suits their tastes and talents.

The word, security, is absolutely taboo in Tech's placement setup, long recog­nized as one of America's best. When he

starts his yearly work of finding them jobs, Placement Director Fred Ajax tells the seniors that he doesn't want to hear the word security. He heard it three times in working with 25,000 interviews last season.

Speaking of jobs, the 1956 graduate is commanding the highest starting sal­aries in history. Average for B.S. is run­ning at $430 a month with the range going from $375 to $600. Masters' aver­age is $525 and the PhD's are getting $675 average. Highest salary for this year went to a PhD in Chemical Engi­neering—$1000 per month, but the man had experience.

Only about 10% of the class is going into graduate work. Very few, if any. are thinking in terms of teaching as a career. A couple are planning on going into the ministry, and one of them was editor of the Blue Print, a campus leader and an honor graduate in Applied Mathe­matics. Tech seems to send two or three boys into this profession each year.

There is complete acceptance of the American way as the ideal by the grad­uating class. As a dean says, "No pickets. no communists, no crackpots." Students themselves say that the student body is 99 to 100% loyal. Almost nobody can remember any anti-American sentiment in the four years they spent here.

No polls have been taken on anything on the campus during the past few months. The students are very apathetic about campus politics, another outgrowth of the lack of class unity. In the most recent campus election only about 25% of the class even bothered to vote despite an all-out campaign by The Technique.

Outside politics get almost as little campus notice as the student politics. Former Governor Herman Talmadge drew a pretty good crowd at his campus speech, the first after he announced his candidacy for the U. S. Senate. But, other than State races, the students don't seem interested in politics.

The senior apathy concerning com­mencement is further pointed out by the fact that only about 250 turned out for Baccalaureate on Friday, June 8.

Other commencement ceremonies are better attended, however. The Alumni Association's senior reception following commencement drew around 1000 count­ing graduates and family members. And the special ceremony for wives of the married students drew a good crowd the afternoon of commencement day. This half-gag ceremony was initiated back in the days of the World War II veterans. many of whom were married. It has grown into one of the most popular fea­tures of the commencement week. The diploma is similar to a Tech diploma

Tech Alumnus

with a seal of crossed rolling pins over a Yellow Jacket in the place of the regular school seal. It reads Mistress of Patience in Husband Engineering and is signed by the Dean of Faculties, the Acting Presi­dent and the husband.

Summing up the attitude of the Tech seniors of 1956 at commencement time: They look at commencement with some­thing less than interest. They accept it because it's expected of them. They look to the big companies to fill up the gaps

in their education. They are not security seekers. They are not politically minded. They are going at the rest of life just as they went through Tech, with an incredi­ble amount of industry. They'll get down and work the dirtiest of assignments if they can learn something doing them. They have no illusions as to their worth to the world. They know engineers are wanted and needed and will be wanted and needed for a long time to come in this technological world. They don't

think the world owes them a living. They just think it will provide them with the opportunity to make one. They are prac­tical about almost everything, and the two big deciding factors about what job they took were money and location. Ev­erything else—pension plans, etc.—were tempting but just frills to the Recks. The company that offered the money got the engineers. They know what they want, and they're going after it now that they've finished their formal schooling.

The first of many Diane Michel, IE '56, first coed to receive an engineering degree from Georgia Tech, proudly smiles.

^ W 7 " E L L ! " exclaimed the graduate-to-be, "It's all over ~* now but the shouting. After we finish talking with

you, we're thinking about driving the car up on the campus and running a stop sign or two . . ."

This week-before-graduation statement might easily have been attributed to any Tech senior. For nothing irritates the Reck of '56 more than the campus parking regulations, which, because of extremely crowded conditions, keep the student cars off the campus during school hours. However, the statement was made by one of the first two girls to receive an engineering degree from Georgia Tech, Miss Diane Michel, IE '56, of Houston, Texas. The statement itself is important. It indicates how completely the girls have been indoctrinated with the mores of Georgia Tech. They have not, as many feared when they first arrived on the campus, changed Georgia Tech one bit. It is the girls who have changed.

Miss Michel, one of the two original Tech coeds, finished with a 2.9 average and was heading for a job with Shell Oil Company at a starting salary of $435 per month. She and Miss Shirley Clements—an EE transfer student with three years at Tech, a 2.4 average and a job in components research at $430 per month with IBM in Poughkeepsie, New York—were talking about their years on the hill.

"One thing I'd like to get straight right from the begin­ning," said Miss Michel, "I didn't come to Tech to find a husband."

Miss Clements broke in to add, "Neither did I, and any girl who does is getting one the hard way. Not that Tech men aren't good husband material. They're the best. It's just that this is such a tough school, and the girls who come here for a lark don't last long enough to get married."

"I came here to get the best possible engineering educa-

And Shirley Clements, EE '56, adds her smile as she becomes the second Georgia Tech alum­nae.

tion," resumed Miss Michel, the taller of the two brunettes. "When Tech announced that it was accepting coeds, I was planning to attend another school. My father urged me to go to Tech and get the best engineering education while I was about it. So I ended up here. I'll admit that the chal­lenge of being the first to do something intrigued me, as it would any American, but that wasn't the only reason why I came here."

"At first, it was plenty tough," continued Miss Michel, "we definitely weren't accepted like we are now. And the great publicity fuss made over the two of us sure didn't help. The fear that somehow we might change Tech infected the boys. And although they were never nasty to us, they didn't-go out of their way to ease our situation.

"I think what changed them was the fact that Tech boys are so capable of thinking for themselves," suggested Miss Clements, "when they saw that we weren't trying to change them, they decided to accept us and change our ways. Any­one who tells you that the modern engineering education doesn't teach people to live in our society hasn't been around many of these Tech students."

Miss Michel agreed with this statement. "I think engin­eering is the best education for tomorrow's world," she said. "Perhaps it needs another year because of the increas­ing complexities in the field. But it still has any other education beat. I've dated boys from other schools around here, and, frankly, they're pretty dull."

"Before we go, how about straightening one thing out for us?" requested Miss Michel. "Tell the alumni not to worry. We are proud to be alumnae of Tech. We intend to be career engineers, and we have no intentions of trying to bring about any changes in the profession."

We agreed and off they went to run that stop sign.

July, 1956

The 1956 Commencement Address

THE GREAT J.T is A HIGH PRIVILEGE to hold the place assigned me in your Commencement ceremonies. I deem it so for many reasons—including some personal ones. This is my alma mater and Atlanta is the city of my birth. Because the order of my life has held me chiefly in other regions, this is my first formal return here for nearly one-third of a century. When I was last here, I sat as you members of this class do now—surrounded by relatives and friends, awaiting the Great Transition from student to alumnus.

There are occasions when elevation of the spirit gives memory a telescopic quality, bringing the past into sharp focus. For me this is one of those occasions. The impulse to report on what is seen down the long vista of experiences, back to my own commencement day, is understandably tempting. I have counteracted that impulse by endeavoring to think through what I might say to you in a few minutes which would be worth recalling tomorrow and tomorrow —as you carry on your dual task of "making a living" and "making a life."

To such end, I must regretfully forego remarking upon the particulars of the momentous changes that have oc­curred here, as well as in other units of this State's fine system of higher education. But it is not amiss to note that this always distinguished institution of such outstanding value has now come of age as one of our great national assets, possessing an earned international reputation as well.

I must refer also to the fact that the presence of women among the graduates here—a new feature of recent years-is salutary indeed, for the future needs of this nation will be met more readily if greater numbers of women are trained each year to fill professional and other roles.

What has secured—and can surely enhance—the emi­nence of Georgia Tech is the vision and combined devotion of public officials and private citizens concentrated upon its well-being. Presidents and faculties of Georgia Tech have been dedicated to the cause of keeping it vital.

It was my great honor to know personally the last three Presidents here—each a man of national stature. Among them they carried the heavy burdens for half a century. The man who stood behind you through your time, the late Presi­dent Blake Van Leer, devoted his life to the cause of this alma mater of yours and mine. His goal was to make this institution pre-eminent in education—not mere training. This region, and this nation, forever shall be indebted to him, and the finest tribute to him will be in your careers and in your discharge of responsibilities to this and other institutions—the matter on which I shall touch today.

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Tech Alumnus

by W. Homer Turner, ME '26

TRANSITION You have been students for a seemingly short time. When

you receive your diplomas, the Great Transition of which I spoke a moment ago will have occurred—each of you will then be an alumnus. God willing, each of you will, I hope, be an alumnus for fifty years or more.

This Great Transition is the beginning of a very special kind of maturity. Its scope is beyond certain important classes of responsibility already assumed. Prepare yourself for it. Decisions and judgments, defeats and victories, the acceptance of the consequences of your actions—all these await you. Some of you will come to know the supreme loneliness of high command, but all of you must henceforth live with yourselves, as well as with others. You will be forced to be on your guard to the end that the urgent does not push out the important. You will be relentlessly driven into selecting the ideas and institutions to which you will be loyal. And while this process operates, the world about you will be undergoing profound change.

This hour of Great Transition requires a new perspective. You may think that the alumni ties that bind you most securely here will be the memories and friendships mani­fested later in social reunions or in devotion to Georgia Tech's great athletic teams. All this is good and important but quite beside the main point. The real tie that binds— and the one that counts—will be your active, intelligent ef­forts to attain the true ends of education for yourself and for this and other institutions and organizations with which you will become identified.

Every human being must continue to grow in terms of his own intellectual and personality development as well as in social sensitivity. Arrested growth is like a rut; it differs from a grave only in its dimensions.

As you graduate into this world of inexorable change, one of your basic tasks will be to continue learning—within and outside of your vocational field—so that you can master the business of change and not be broken by it. Change is not only inevitable; it is essential. Along this road of learning, however, you must discover those changes which make for progress and those which make for decay.

As you go on to increasing maturity in the face of change, you will find the task three-phased. First, you will have to acquire additional knowledge in your special fields to equate yourselves with new developments; second, you will have to extend the interests begun by you in undergraduate years and from new ones; and third, you will have to cure any educational deficiencies which may exist within you because of concentration upon specific areas of study. cont.

from President Fred Storey, right, as the transition begins.

July, 1956

About the Author

Dr. William Homer Turner, M E '25, made this address to the '56 graduating class on June 9. He is at present executive director of the United States Steel Foundation, Inc., as well as assistant to the vice president and comptroller of U. S. Steel.

Formerly a writer and editor with the New York Herald Tribune. Dr. Turner has been with U. S. Steel since 1938.

Great T r a n s i t i o n — C o n t .

This is a good place to recall a view long prevalent. It was once strongly held that scientific and technological education was inadequate for modern society's needs. This opinion has now come full circle. Currently, there is concern that our humanistic education has produced too few who possess adequate insight into such matters as physics, chemistry, mathematics, psychology and, above all, the full implications of the scientific method. If you would be men and women of achievement who can think straight, you will not go into an educational deep freeze at this point, but will continue to expand your fine grounding in liberal disciplines. Thus armed, you will be pre­pared to balance the quantitative and analytical with the qualitative and human elements of every situation. Warfare be­tween the physical, biological and social sciences on the one hand, and liberal education disciplines on the other, has ended in a treaty of peace. It is one of your tasks to assist in preserving this treaty so that its benefits will be secured for all.

As practitioners in your various fields, you now join the aristocracy of service. You and your contemporaries will have the opportunity to serve all mankind. If you do this nobly and well, you will write new pages to the history of human ad­vance. You will likewise have opportunity to enlarge man's free choice and free will, and the extent of your success will re­move still further the vestiges of space and mobility and other barriers. Your achievements should operate to keep vi­brant the concept that society exists f ° r

the individual and not man for society. You have been trained to be good team-players while remaining individualists, resistant to the tides of conformity.

J \ . s YOU CAST ABOUT for anchor rocks in the stream of change, I humbly suggest that it may be well to attach lifelong loyalties to all those institutions which appear to be basic to all societies. For example, as we look back so as to chart a

better forward course, it seems clear that only four great institutions persist in all civilizations. These are the family, re­ligion, the economy, the state. It seems clear also that, whenever and wherever man has advanced, these institutions have been in good balance—with none of the four overly dominating the others for any long period.

Let me illustrate by a few historical references. When, in patriarchal times, the family was all-powerful, then progress was fitful; when, in the Middle Ages, re­ligious institutions were dominant, ad­vance was unbalanced; when, in other ages, either the economy or the state has been overly dominant, progress again lacked needful balance. We see this social principle operative in the futile effort of Russia to destroy all balance—making the family, religion and the economy mere appendages of the state.

The twentieth-century changes arising from science and technology, and from the only partly understood individual and group psychological principles, must beat upon these same four elemental institu­tions. While many modern technologi­cal and psychological factors do have enormous effects on the pace and forms of change, these do not eliminate the need for good balance in man's essential institutions. As educated persons, each of you must determine what balance you want in your nation and, by proper means of extension, throughout the world.

One of the painful truths with which we are now reckoning is that America and the world cannot have political and industrial progress and remain unchanged in the sociological sphere—for the reason that technological advance always is ac­companied by social shifts. Basic values and standards are never immune from jeopardy. Each generation must defend them anew and the fight is always carried by you—the minority of educated men and women.

Our Alma Mater has well over 20,000 alumni who have worked or served in every part of the world. As you now join that band you must also begin to think of yourselves as part of an army of ten

million constituting the alumni of all higher educational institutions.

Fortunately, a few valiant graduates have broken through the barrier which William Tomlinson of Temple has called the "sheepskin curtain"—the barrier of apathy which falls upon many soon after they receive their diplomas and stays down forever after. Today, only about two out of ten alumni have any sustained relationships with their alma maters. The hour is here when the ranks of the few must be swelled by millions. This is no reflection on the splendid work of present alumni officers and leaders on and off the campus; it is merely a meas­ure of the task still ahead—one happily deriving momentum through the out­standing teamwork of such groups as the American Alumni Council and the Amer­ican College Public Relations Association.

Theodore Distler, onetime president of Franklin and Marshall, now executive director of the Association of American Colleges, likens alumni to stockholders of the modern corporation. They have ob­tained some dividends at the outset and must determine whether to pull out or to go on investing in the business and giving support to sound management. I suggest that the decisive role of education in our time and the magnitude of its unsolved problems leave you no alternative to active and positive participation.

Such is the nature of your fifty-year challenge. Let us now look at some spe­cific responsibilities. And to get on to the fundamental aspects, let us first examine quickly the narrower self-interest factors. All of you realize that, just as your good name is one of your lifelong assets, so also from this day forward, you will be known as a product of this particular institution and of this type of educational background. If your institution rises or falls in the scale of values, the improve­ment or retrogression reflects upon you— the good points are good advertisements and the shortcomings are bad ones.

Your first jobs, and to some degree your future progress, are tied directly to your being an approved product of Georgia Tech. You recognized this factor yourself when you elected this institution and course of study over others. Again, out ahead, you will want to help guide your own children and those of associates into a sound educational atmosphere. Sustained relationships with educational institutions will help you make wise judg­ments in other areas. For example, you will be concerned later on with staffing your business, or that of an employer. And there will be times when you will need the aid of faculty members as con­sultants.' Thus your knowing, at first

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hand, the quality and scope of their abili­ties will be highly useful. It need hardly be added that the research undertaken under campus direction will have pro­found, often controlling, influence upon the climate for your professional or busi­ness success. The time gap between scien­tific discovery and technological applica­tion steadily narrows—as we have just seen in nucleonics.

I, M PORT ANT AS THESE MATTERS are, they are as mere by-products compared with the basic factors involved. Here are sev­eral of them:

A first area of alumni responsibility— and now I have in view the millions of alumni as a unit—is to see to it that un­sound curbs emanating from political, or any other, source do not transgress free­dom of thought, of research and opera­tion of educational institutions. If such proper freedoms be preserved, the power to make purely educational decisions will continue where it rightfully belongs—in the hands of dedicated professionals, wise laymen and skilled administrators.

A second area of alumni action is serv­ice as the "eyes and ears" of your institu­tion. You do this by calling attention to changes in the non-academic world that may indicate the desirability of changes in curricula and teaching methods.

A third responsibility involves the spe­cific obligation to become acquainted with the objectives of the many groups which seek to shape educational goals. Alumni have a duty to uncover the phony groups and encourage the valid ones. One central source of danger is not intellectual radicalism but loss of enthusiasm by teachers to forge ahead in relentless ex­ploration for truth. Only by strengthening the drive in this direction can we pre­serve the right to differ and maintain respect for minority views.

A fourth area of alumni responsibility is to aid in enlarging opportunities for postgraduate study needed by many in the mid-stream of their careers. Such ac­tivity has as prime objectives both neces­sary inner development and catching up with change. Alumni can help provide the themes, the occasion, the techniques useful to such ends.

A fifth way to discharge alumni re­sponsibility—one of urgency—is to ob­tain better public endorsement of com­munity goals and aspirations. Earlier I spoke of the need for balance among the four fundamental institutions of family, religion, economy and state. There are never-ceasing opportunities for alumni throughout the nation to bring higher education into a more effective role as a countervailing influence against all forces

that are destructive of good balance in the social order.

Higher education does not exist to per­petuate the status quo but rather to realize the foreseeable and attainable for the good life. High in the hierarchy of your value system as alumni must be unswerv­ing faith in the freedom of initiative. Since your education here is forever part of your personal heritage, you owe this area a primary responsibility. It offers you many opportunities for service, for the whole South is headed for economic fulfillment on a scale beyond any prior contemplation.

A sixth opportunity for you as alumni is to help institutions deal with the mounting student enrollment trend of landslide proportions. Campus counsel­lors cannot deal with this problem with­out constructive alumni aid. They will tell you precisely how you can help if you ask them.

A seventh duty of yours as alumni is just as important to you in your daily work as it is in connection with educa­tion. It is your "three-C" duty to stimu­late more creativity, to help prevent the hardening of the arteries of com­munication, and to aid in securing a meaningful comprehension of what ex­perience teaches.

Now the eighth, and last, responsi­bility which I shall mention may be one with which you are fairly familiar, namely, financial. This matter has two sides—the public and private. I refer here only to alumni giving. Such supple­mental catalytic aid is needed urgently and in steadily greater volume by both public and private institutions. Perhaps you saw, as I did recently, a grim car­toon showing the candidates lined up for their diplomas having to pass in front of the "alumni dues desk" before reaching for the sheepskin. Happily that was fiction and not fact.

But there are a series of hard realities to be reckoned with, for the financing of higher education is an acute problem. Everywhere facilities are inadequate and outmoded; faculties, staff and adminis­trators are so grossly underpaid compara­tively, and otherwise under-privileged, that present and prospective shortages in the right kind of educational personnel threaten a breakdown in the whole struc­ture. The greater needs arise from the well-publicized facts of inflation, expand­ing population, rising scale of living, changing consumer habits, and other in­fluences. Heavily in the catalog, also, are greater needs arising from advances in science and technology, from major de­fense requirements and from the national assumption of world responsibilities. In

the presence of such needs America ap­pears to be spending less on education today — percentagewise — than it did a quarter of a century ago.

Whether you are a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology, or its distinguished sister institution, the Uni­versity of Georgia, or a graduate of any other institution, as part of the total family of alumni, you cannot escape the direct obligation to help make available the financial resources required to en­hance the quality of education and ex­pand its public services.

Even if you worked your way through college you did not pay the full cost of your education; heavy tax payments and savings voluntarily given by others paid for the major portion of what you re­ceived here. You have a cash debt which must be repaid if you would live as honorable men and women. New sources may respond to the emergency calls for financial help from higher education, but such sources first, and properly, ask: "What have the alumni done to discharge their obligations?"

J_N AMERICA, we have held to the view that trained and disciplined intelligence is a master key to our culture. Until the present, generally we have been willing to pay for educational opportunity. Now we are wavering. As alumni, you must help reassert the idea that such intelli­gence is a cardinal value which supports other values. We can somehow afford more and better education; we cannot afford less of it.

We have devaluated our money, but if we devaluate our education we are through. This matter of intellectual lead­ership truly determines national survival. No nation has survived when its leader­ship ceased to believe in its mission. Material superiority never exceeds the will and ideas of the people behind re­sources. Ideas decide what happens to the world of things and power.

As you leave here today you will em­bark upon a tragic mistake if you limit your vision and efforts to purely voca­tional affairs and take only a casual interest in your broader responsibilities.

I have given you an obligation for every day in the week and one to spare. And, in closing, I want to say, most earnestly and from my heart, to each of you that, if you are to be known as one who really has made the Great Transition to true maturity, if you are to be known as being loyal to ideas of importance and to institutions of value, then you will not say "good-by" now, but begin today, in this very hour, a lifelong relationship in the cause of education. Thank you and good fortune to you, the Class of 1956.

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Company "A" cadets zero their M-l rifles at Tracy Range as they ready to fire for score.

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The engineer must learn the use of a large and varied assortment of weapons like this bangalore torpedo. Here, a Tech cadet in­stalls a detonating cap with experienced aid.

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ROTC SUMMER CAMP

I PHOTOGRAPHS U. S. Army

THE YOUNG MEN pictured above — trudging down a Vir­ginia road on a hot, hazy, June day — are cadets of "A" Com­

pany on a tactical march during ROTC Summer Camp at Fort Belvoir, Va. Among them are many Tech students, taking the advanced Military Science and Tactics course (Corps of En­gineers) at the Flats.

The Corps of Engineers is one of six options of MS & T at Tech. The other five are Antiaircraft Artillery, Chemical Corps, Infantry, Ordnance Corps and Signal Corps. Students taking these options attend summer camp at other military installations. For, all advanced cadets must undergo this camp in addition to four years of classwork and drills on the campus before they are commissioned as 2nd Lts. in the Officers Reserve Corps of the Army of the United States. As the pictures on this and the fol­lowing pages indicate, this training is concentrated and tough. But two wars and a police action have proven its worth.

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SUMMER CAMP - - cont. In the army, as everywhere, the engineer must build. Here a group of cadets work on a culvert as part of a road project.

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This often means going out in front of the other units to build or destroy. At Belvoir, the future engineers get plenty of training in both building up and tear­ing down.

For all this work, the cadets are paid at the rate of $78 a month plus food, clothing, shelter and medical and dental care. But the practical education they re­ceive during this six weeks makes up for the low pay and long hours.

This option of MS & T is open only to students enrolled in an academic course leading to an engineering, tech­nical or scientific degree. On the campus, the instruction in technical subjects sup­plements that of the student's normal curriculum, with particular attention to the military application of these subjects.

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Construction in the modern army calls for a knowledge of the operation of machinery like the crane shovel this cadet controls.

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fffifr To build you often must destroy. Here, a Tech cadet gets experience in tree-climbing as he attaches lines in preparation for felling.

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During a war, the engineering units in com- • bat spend a great deal of their time con- 8J structing bridges. Here, the cadets receive training in building a floating bridge.

After carrying the ramp section out (above) the cadets of "A" Company must assemble it under the direction of a cadet instructor.

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SUMMER CAMP - - cont.

Physical fitness is a must for potential Army officers. Here, a Tech cadet does squat-jump exercises during an achievement test.

Getting your own house in order is another army tradition. Two Tech cadets complete tent-pitching early and wait for inspection.

Army physical fitness is a group effort as well as an individual one. Contests like this late-afternoon volleyball game help.

And, as at every military post, there is the passing of the color guard.

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T, HE STRANGENESS that grips Georgia Tech when the school year draws to a close is something I never could understand. You know the story—the sudden conflict of quizzes and re­ports, baggage and bus terminals; and then suddenly the culmination of that final hectic week's work when we file out after the last quiz and find ourselves a little at a loss with our new found freedom from the academic rat-race.

The quick one-two punch of finals and moving day always staggers the normal order of campus life. The effects are obvious. As the "week to end all weeks" fast approaches, the baggy eyes and furrowed brows make their appearance in ever increasing numbers. And it's quieter in the evenings, for regardless of what's at the Techwood the thing to do during these days is study.

When final week does roll around the campus booms into a new aspect, for this is the time when our hesitant antici­pation of the inexorable passage of those last days must pay off. The early morning patterns of brightly-lit dormitory rooms testify to many an all night session. It's difficult to conceive of the frantic brain pounding that disrupts the quietude of these evenings but whether we can understand it or not, we accept it, and strangely, it draws us all closer together.

To my mind this sympathetic union of all students in the face of the pressure of final week justifies the demands it makes on our time and nervous systems.

It's all part of the picture, though. The high spirit evi­denced at our sporting and social events makes good news­paper copy but it gives an inaccurate representation of the actual goings on. There's a morbid side too—the rigorous study and sweat and in some cases, panic, that accompanies the last barrage of mental taxation. When we look back at our college days, I'm sure we will have forgotten these things for the more pleasant facets of our careers at Tech. But we should be kept mindful of them because they occupy a much larger portion of our school life than the much bally-hooed recreational end of it.

c AMPUS CONVERSATION is another big factor in the chang­ing scene during finals. You can't help but notice the dif­ference in tone—from "What'd you do last Friday night?" to "How'd you do on that Mech. final?" Or "Did you get 361 joule-seconds for number six?" When the inevitable rehashing gets hot and heavy, the pessimists are bound to learn that they passed after all, but as often as not, a few sorry souls tread meekly back to their rooms and recompute their point-averages. They then become the pessimists.

Nowhere is the change more apparent than in the dormi­tories. The perpetual clutter of newspapers and Varsity boxes in the corridors is swamped suddenly by a deluge of nameless and dimensionless trash that exudes from every doorway. We wonder when we pack how we ever accumu­lated so much junk in so small a space in so short a time. But it's only a passing thought. That train reservation and thoughts of home leave little time for conjecture on its origin. Our only concern now is its disposal. Janitors with soulful eyes peck away at the stuff, but theirs is a fruitless task. Experience has taught them long ago that the passage of every moving day just about doubles their clean-up time.

The scene is further complicated by proud but feverish parents ushering their neo-sophomore sons in and out of doorways under huge loads of luggage and textbooks. And then there's the inevitable pile-up of Railway Express trucks and automobiles double parked with doors and trunk lids hanging agape for the hoard of freight on the way.

But gradually the croud thins out and we are struck with the realization that the mass exodus is over. Another school year has come to an end. And an unwieldy peace settles on the Georgia Tech sod.

T HE BUILDINGS lose an intangible personality and charm; seemingly, the very life which justified their being there. And they stand somewhat ludicrously with no purpose— anonymous structures on a desolate hill. Of course, an occassional student violates the serenity of the dormant campus as he flips by on a mission to determine his grades. And a depleted staff of employees still maintains that last link with the Georgia Tech of one week past. But in all the campus is as deserted as a great city laid wiste after a long siege. Only a few wind-blown sheets of discarded notebook paper tell of the bristling activity that held sway here such a short time ago.

In all this the seniors have one last foothold. Their return for their degrees and commissions replenishes the diminish­ing crowds for awhile, but then the 'day' comes and goes. and the wind blows with more freedom across the barren intervals between campus buildings.

Before I join the ranks of those departing for the summer I'd like to mention the topic of my next column. You're all familiar with the Naval ROTC's policy of summer cruises. I'm slated to take the air-amphib phase of my training this summer, and if you're as curious as I am about just what goes on during one of these 'middie' cruises don't forget to flip to On the Hill in the next issue.

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W ITH THIS ISSUE, we are inaugurating a new section of the Alumnus. In it, from time to time, will appear photo­

graphs and articles covering important happenings on the Tech campus or among the alumni: happenings that have received coverage in the local and national press. In the past, we had been unable to decide where—within the bounds of our format—we could give such items as these the treatment that they obviously deserved. Often items

such as these were either edited down to practically nothing and stuck in some vacant area of white space or simply just omitted because of the lack of a proper place in which to present them.

The final suggestion for this new section came from President Fred Storey. And here it is. We trust that it will meet with a favorable response from you, the readers of the Georgia Tech Alumnus.

Two New Computers Added TECH'S Rich Electronic Computer Center added an IBM 650 Magnetic Drum, Data Process System, to its facilities during the early part of June. Dr. E. K. Ritter (above), director of the center, operates the^iew system for Dr. Paul Weber (left), acting president and local and national IBM officials. The new medium-scale, high-speed digital system was acquired through the IBM Educational Plan and will be used for teaching and basic and applied research.

Another recent addition to Tech's growing computation facilities is the new Analog Computer Laboratory, located in the Defense Branch of the Engineering Experiment Sta­tion. The new equipment (right) operated by M. David Prince (standing )and Bob Johnson, is now in use.

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Sketch—Preston S. Stevens, '19 Architects—Stevens & Wilkinson

A New Campus Building A NEW Navy-Marine Corps Training Center is now under construction at the corner of Fifth and Cherry Streets on the Tech Campus. The center (above) will be used by the Tech Naval ROTC unit during the daytime and by Naval and Marine reserve units during the evenings. The center will consist of 2 buildings with a total area of 60,000 sq. ft.

Alumni Elected to ANAK ANAK SOCIETY, honorary campus leadership fraternity, elected the following 12 outstanding alumni to membership in May: Otis A. Barge, ME '12, James L. Brooks, CE '39, Harold E. Montag, ME '18, I. M. Sheffield, ME '20, R. A. "Pop" Siegel, ChE '36, Frederick G. Storey, BS '33 all of Atlanta, and Charles R. Simons, IM '37 of Gainesville, Ga.; Ernest B. Merry, Jr., CerE '28 of Augusta, Ga.; David J. Arnold, EE '18, of Griffin, Ga.; Joe K. McCutchen, ME '32, of Ellijay, Ga.; Thomas R. Jones, IM '39, of Dalton, Ga. and Charles Fleetwood, CE '23, of Houston, Texas.

An Outstanding Alumni Design THE NEW $35,000,000 New York Coliseum, one of the city's greatest showcases, was designed by two Georgia Tech architectural graduates. Leon Levy, '22 and Lionel Levy, '24 were the architects on this building (above) which was just recently completed. The new coliseum is located on Columbus Circle and will be used in the business of put­ting on expositions, trade gatherings, sales fairs, etc.

Faculty Award Winner DR. ERLING GROVENSTEIN (left), associate professor of chemistry at Tech since 1948, was the tenth recipient of the annual Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award for the best scientific paper of the year, 1955-56, by a faculty member. Dr. Grovenstein, a 1944 graduate of Tech's chemistry school who received his Ph.D. from MIT, received the award and a $300 stipend at the annual campus Sigma Xi dinner on June 5. At this dinner, as is the custom, Dr. Grovenstein presented the Sigma Xi Award Lecture, "Some Factors in the Choice of Basic Research Problems in Science."

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ATLANTA, GEORGIA—The Atlanta Georgia Tech Club held "Coaches Recognition Night" on May 22 as 23 mem­bers of the Georgia Tech coaching staff did the talking and Athletic Director Bobby Dodd did the listening.

Assistant Athletic Director Tonto Coleman introduced his cohorts on the Tech athletic staff and each one responded with a few words. At the speakers table were Joe Pittard, Whack Hyder, Byron Gilbreath, George Griffin, Tommy Plaxico, Lyle Welser, Fred Lanoue, Shorty Bortell, Norris Dean, Buck Andel, John R. Bell, Bob Bossons, Frank Broyles, Howard Ector, Ray Graves, Jack Griffin, Spec Landrum, Jim Luck, Whitey Urban and Lewis Woodruff.

President Allen Liver called on Pop Siegel for two re­ports—the scholarship committee and the nominating com­mittee. Pop reported that five $300 freshman Coop scholar­ships had been awarded to outstanding seniors from high schools in the Greater Atlanta area. He also reported the nomination of the following officers who were unanimously elected to serve for the coming year: Oliver Sale, '26, presi­dent; Ira Hardin, '23, 1st vice president; J. L. Brooks, '39, 2nd vice president; Dan Kyker, Jr., '46, secretary and J. Harry Gault, '23, treasurer.

A committee was also appointed to make selections for the Georgia Tech Hall of Fame. Those named were George Griffin, '22 (chairman), R. L. Dodd (ex-officio), the presi­

dent of the Greater Atlanta Qub (ex-officio), L. W. Robert. '08, A. L. Loeb, '13, Oscar Davis, '22, Wink Davis, '34, J. L. Brooks, '39, Jim Petit, '50 and Bob WaUace, '49 ( sec) .

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND—Baltimore alumni and their wives assembled on May 15 at the New China Restaurant for Chinese dishes and a Tech talk by Alumni Secretary Roane Beard. Over forty were on hand to hear about the latest campus news and the operations of the National Alum­ni Association and the Georgia Tech Foundation.

Robert H. Bonn, '40, presided during the business meet­ing at which the following officers were elected: Walter W. LeRoy, '34, president; D. C. Inglett, '23, vice president; John L. Pfeiffer, '47, secretary and Samuel Grant, '50, treas­urer. Plans were announced at the meeting that the club would hold a family picnic at Jack Lynch's home in June.

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NORFOLK, VIRGINIA—The Tidewater Georgia Tech Qub met on May 14 to hear Secretary Beard talk about the latest news from Georgia Tech as well as to see the Tecli movies, "The Expanding Frontiers" and "The Highlights."'

President Bill Brant presided as the following officers were elected for the coming year: Leonard S. Frieden, '50, presi­dent; Eugene Underwood, '25, vice president and Roy E. Peavy, '50, secretary-treasurer.

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>QC Theodore F. Oetjen, ME, of Cienfu-3 J egos, Cuba, died April 21, 1956. He

had been associated with the United Rail­ways of Havana as division engineer prior to his retirement several years ago.

'flR George Winship, prominent business UU and civic leader in Atlanta, died June

20 after a lengthy illness. He was president of Fulton Supply Company at the time of his death, serving in that capacity since 1914. Mr. Winship was a member of the board of directors of Fulton National Bank, Atlanta Gas Light, Interstate Bond Co., and Continental Gin Co. He had served on the Atlanta YMCA board for more than 45 years, and was president from 1916-1927. He was a member of numerous civic and social organizations. Surviving are his wife, of 187 Peachtree Way, N. E., Atlanta; son, Cieorge Winship, Jr.; daughter, Mrs. H. W. l.eadingham, and brother, Charles T.

' 1 0 H. Norris Pye, EE, has been named I *- secretary of Southeastern Underwriters

Association in Atlanta. He has been chief engineer of the fire insurance service organ­ization since 1928. His home address is 3135 Argonne Dr., N . W., Atlanta.

C. C. Sloan, EE, general manager of Georgia's operations for Southern Bell, has been elected a vice president of the com­pany. He has been with Southern Bell for 4? years. Mr. Sloan's business address is 805 Peachtree St., N. E., Atlanta.

' 1 0 Simon A. Flemister, EE, retired July I " 1 from Southern Bell after 43 years

of service. He had been a transmission and protection engineer since 1921 and only recently was named assistant chief engineer.

I'loyd T. White, formerly of Atlanta, died June 6 in a Berkeley, Calif., hospital. He was associated with Durkee's Food Co. in Berkeley. N o further information was avail­able at this writing.

' I E J. H. Lucas, CE, was presented a gold I *» watch by the Anak Society at the May

meeting of the Fraternity Academic Senate. This watch was presented in recognition of 3 7 years' service to the C. E. School and to Georgia Tech.

' 1 R Frank A. Hooper, ME, judge of the I " Northern Georgia District of the U. S.

District Court, was awarded an honorary doctor of law degree from Mercer Uni­versity in June. Mr. Hooper lives at 3303 Habersham Rd., N. W., Atlanta.

' 1 Q !• A. McMurry, EE, director of ' 3 branches of the Crane Co., was killed

in a plane crash in Indiana May 15. Six Crane executives and 2 crew members were killed in the crash, which occurred as the plane was attempting an emergency landing. They were on a business trip to Chicago at the time of the accident. Mr. McMurry was assistant manager of Crane's Atlanta branch until his transfer to the New Orleans branch as manager about 20 years ago. Later he was made district manager with headquar­ters in Dallas. About 2 years ago he as­sumed the position he held at the time of his death. Surviving are his wife, of 4158 Beaverbrook Lane, Dallas, Texas; son, T. R. McMurry; daughter, Mrs. Willett Baldwin, and several brothers and sisters.

' 0 0 E. H. Howell, Sr., has been promoted LL to Commercial Vice President at Gen­

eral Electric. His new home address is 10062 Betty Jane Lane, Dallas, Texas.

N. Baxter Maddox has been elected senior vice president of the First National Bank of Atlanta. He has been head of First Na­tional's trust department for a number of years and has been in the banking business since 1923.

' 0 0 Rev. William Francis Moses has been ^ w elected Suffragan Bishop of the So.

Florida Diocese, All Saints Episcopal Church. He was ordained in 1925 and has served in Lakeland, Florida, and more re­cently at the Church of the Redeemer in Sarasota.

' O C Julian Lafayette McYere, Com, of 711 ^ J Piedmont Ave., N. E., Atlanta, died

May 31 in an Atlanta hospital. H e was a real estate broker at the time of his death.

' 0 0 Paul A. Chapman, ME, is vice presi-^ " dent of Southeastern Stainless, Inc., a

newly formed company which will distribute Stainless Steel Products in the South. The company is located at 3494 E. Ponce de

Leon Ave. in Decatur, Ga. His home address is Riverview Dr., Elizabethton, Tenn.

Oscar P. Cleaver, EE, has recently re­ceived his second "Outstanding" rating for his work as chief of the Electrical Engineer­ing Dept. of the Corps of Engineers Re­search and Development Laboratories at Ft. Belvoir, Va. He has been with the Labs in a civilian capacity since 1946.

Clement J. Ford, Arch., formed a partner­ship with Charles B. Altman. Both men are prominent in the architectural field. Their firm, which will be known as Fort and Alt-man, has temporary offices at 240 W. An­drews Dr., N. W., Atlanta.

James G. Nichols, EE, is a director of Southeastern Stainless, Inc., a newly formed company in Decatur, Ga., which will dis­tribute Stainless Steel Products in the South. His home address is 2250 Cheshire Bridge Rd., N. E., Atlanta.

' Q 0 Jack J. Cubbedge, ME, president of 0L the Savannah Morning News and

Evening Press, has been elected chairman of The Georgia Press Association.

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A. Hall, III, has been promoted from deputy comptroller to vice presi­

dent and deputy comptroller at C & S Na­tional Bank in Atlanta.

' O P E. H. Gibson, GS, has been appointed *»«• district manager for Southern Bell in

Augusta. He has been with the company since 1936 and prior to his present appoint­ment was district manager at Athens, Ga.

Gilbert T. Stacy has been transferred from the Atlanta office of Carrier Corp. to the Charlotte, N. C , office where he will serve as district manager. He and his family live at 3015 Park Rd., Charlotte, N. C.

'Q"7 Daws L. Echols, GS, is now associated 01 with Campbell & Campbell, Realtors,

located in Dallas, Texas.

Charles Fleetwood, CE '23, vice president of the Prudential Insurance Company of America, was the feature speaker at the Atlanta Convention Bureau's 43rd anniversary celebration in Atlanta on May 31. A native of Savannah, Mr. Fleetwood joined Prudential in 1933 and has been a vice president of the company since 1947. He has directed the company's activities in the South­western area from the Houston office since 1950. For his civic leadership, he was named "Mr. Houston" for 1956, the city's highest civic honor.

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'39 William R. Shook, Jr., EE, is president

Stainless, Inc., distributors of Stainless Steel Products in the south. Paul A. Chapman, ME '28, of Elizabethton, Tenn., is vice president, and James G. Nichols, EE '28, of Atlanta, is a director. The company address is 3494 East Ponce de Leon Ave., Decatur.

'41 Wiley P. Ballard, Ch.E., and two other research men at the Texas Co.,

are patentees of a recently issued patent assigned to the Texas Co. and directed to improvements in "Dethiolizing Hydrocar­bons." Mr. Ballard has been with the com­pany since graduation. He lives at 4235 Sunken Ct., Port Arthur, Texas.

Joseph T. Bayer, Jr., IM, has been ap­pointed division inventory and costs engineer

Eor the Fla. Division of Southern Bell in Jacksonville, Florida.

Thurman O. Day, ME, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, died May 22. He was associated with Reynolds Metal Co. at the time of his death. No further information was available at this writing.

BORN To: Oscar L. Young, IM, and Mrs. Young, a son, Michael Lamar, April 24. Their home address is 326 Buckhead Ave., Atlanta.

'42 £ George Center, ME, has been promot-

whose home port aboard the USS Randolph, is Norfolk, Va.

' J O BORN TO: Robert W. Goree, IM, and •'* Mrs. Goree, a daughter, Julia Russell,

6 a.m., June 10, in Alexander City, Ala.

Major Joe M. Palmer, CE, is taking part in LOGEX 56, one of the Army's largest peacetime logistical exercises, at Fort Lee. Va. He is regularly stationed at Fort Belvoir. Va., where he is attending the Engineer School.

' A A Rnlph A. Ireland, Jr., EE, was chair-• • man of the Georgia Lions Club Con­

vention which was held in Augusta recently. Mr. Ireland is assistant district supervisor with Ga. Power Co.

'45 EE, to Miss Sallie Mixon. The wed­ding will take place in October. Mr. Ander­son is associated with Georgia Power Co. in Atlanta.

A RECORD FOR THE NINTH In an effort to secure more funds from alumni, foundations, business, industry and the State Legislature, the Foundations of Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia joined forces for their respective 1955-56 fund drives. Headed by Herman Talmadge and Robert Troutman, Jr., for Georgia, and Ivan Allen, Jr., and Fred Storey for Tech, the joint effort broke all records for both schools. ( The responsibility for the alumni portion of the effort remained with the individual Founda­tions, thus all money collected from Tech alumni went to the Tech Foundation.)

What this effort meant to Tech can be seen in this graphic presentation of the growth of the Roll Call over the past nine years. The work of hundreds of volunteer "Recks" produced an alumni response of record proportions, increased the aver­age gift by #14, resulted in over #71,000 in special gifts, and helped secure close to #40,000 as Tech's share (not shown) in the joint business and industry drive which is still in progress. The effort also $57,790!

resulted in increased aid for Tech from the Governor, the Legislature, and the Board of Regents. It was a great year — thanks to you, the alumni of Georgia Tech.

47-48 48-49 49-50 50-51 51-52 52-53 53-54

Years of Roll Call

55-56

24 Tech A lumnus

' AC MARRIED: Kenneth Webster Dunwody, " " Jr., to Miss Ann Herman, July 14.

Mr. Dunwody is with Armco Drainage and Metal Products, Inc.

Edley W. Martin, Jr., EE, has joined the faculty of Indiana Univ. in Bloomington as associate professor of business administra­tion and consultant in the Bureau of Busi­ness Research. He will set up undergraduate and graduate courses to teach the use of equipment as a tool for management.

' 4 7 B. Frank Davis, IM, has been appoint-" ' ed analyst for Allstate Ins. Company's

North and South Carolina Regional office at 222 So. Church St., Charlotte, N. C.

John Franklin, IM, is now executive di­rector of the Dale Carnegie Sales Course with headquarters in Atlanta. His new ad­dress is 208 No. Colonial Homes Circle.

' 4 Q William L. Martin, EE, has been pro-• " moted to senior mechanical engineer

in the engineering division at Humble Oil & Refining Company's Baytown, Texas, Re­finery. His home address is 1503 East Fayle Ave., Baytown, Texas.

' A Q ^ ' " Doc F°wlkes, IM, has joined the • « firm of John F. Spear & Associates,

Atlanta industrial engineers and consultants. He will handle assignments on management planning and control and personnel admin­istration.

R. Hays McKinney, IM, was killed in the crash of a private plane near St. Simons Island, Ga., June 14. Three other prominent Atlanta business men were killed in the ;rash. The four men and their wives had spent the weekend at the island and at the time of the crash Mr. McKinney was en-route to Savannah to board a commercial plane. He was vice president of the United American Insurance Co. in Atlanta. While at Tech he played on the football team for three years. Survivors include his wife, of 4668 E. Conway Rd., N. W., Atlanta, and mother, Mrs. Maude McKinney, of 915 Griffin St., Gadsden, Ala.

John Hayes Pritchard, A r c h ' 30 , has been elected regional di rector of the Gulf States Region of the A m e r i c a n Insti tute of Architects . Mr . Pr i t chard has been a m e m b e r of the firm of Pr i tchard and Nickles of Tunica , Miss., since 1946. H e is a past president of the Mississippi chap te r of A I A .

Robert E. (Bob) Eskew, I E ' 4 9 , M S ' 5 5 , h a s j o i n e d

t h e staff of t he G e o r g i a T e c h N a t i o n a l A l u m n i

A s s o c i a t i o n as A s s o c i a t e Sec re t a ry , it w a s r ecen t ly

a n n o u n c e d by P r e s i d e n t F r e d e r i c k G . S to rey .

A n a t i v e of T e n n e s s e e , B o b h a s h a d a g r e a t dea l

of experience on the Tech campus, having served as assistant to the director of the Evening School, acting director of Short Courses and Conferences and research engineer with the Rich Electronic Computer Center. He is a member of several professional and civic organizations, including AIIE, ASME, and the Georgia Society of Profes­sional Engineers.

' r n Duane C. Bowen, ME, has been named 3 U patent counsel at the Boeing Airplane

Company's Wichita Div. Prior to his present appointment he was an attorney in Seattle.

BORN T o : R. L. Doyal, Jr., IM, and Mrs. Doyal, a daughter, Joyce Carter, May 30. His business address is 1401 Peachtree St., N . E., Atlanta.

Lloyd F. Meacham, Jr., ME, has been named division manager in the Atlanta ordi­nary agency of the Prudential Ins. Co. His address is 466 Eleanor St., S. E., Atlanta.

MARRIED: George Benjamin Pennington, TE, to Miss Marguerite Barnett, June 23. Mr. Pennington is with George A. Penning­ton & Co., CPA.

BORN T o : Richard H. Rector, CE, and Mrs. Rector, a son, Richard Maurice, April 16. Their home address is 5049 Bevly Dr., Corpus Christi, Texas. Mr. Rector is with Brown & Root, Inc.

I C I John O. Allred, Ch.E., has completed v I two years in the Navy and has now

returned to his position with Technical Serv­ice Div. at Humble Oil & Refining Com­pany's Baytown, Texas, refinery. His home address is 109Vi Forrest St., Baytown, Texas.

ENGAGED: John Louis Brooks, ME, to Miss Carolyn Sims. The wedding will take place in late summer. Mr. Brooks is associ­ated with the Boiler Equipment Service Co. in Atlanta.

MARRIED: Claude Augustus McGinnis, III, Ch.E., to Miss Jean Martin, June 23. Mr. McGinnis is with Buckeye Cellulose Corp. His address is 2441 So. Floyd St., Louisville, Ky.

Jack C. Webb, TE, has been appointed supervisor of the Production Control Section of The American Enka Corp., Asheville, N. C. His home address is 14 So. Oak Forest Dr., Oak Forest, Arden, N. C.

BORN T O : William Weiller, IM, and Mrs. Weiller, a daughter, Margo Jean, April 26. Their address is 115 Pine Lake Dr., N. W., Atlanta, Georgia.

' C O ENGAGED: Robert Chapman Barnett, J fc IE, to Miss Mary Jeanne Budd. Mr.

Barnett is associated with Babcock & Wilcox in Akron, Ohio.

Richard L. Churchill, Phys., is now a sales engineer with the Clock & Timer Dept. of G. E. at Ashland, Mass. His home address

is 17-A Windemere Rd., Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts.

Charles E. Gearing, EE, has been as­signed to the Birmingham Office of Allis-Chalmers Industries Group as sales repre­sentative.

A. W. Johnson, IM, has been promoted to manager of the Customer Administrative Program for the Dept. of Education at IBM's Poughkeepsie, N . Y., plant. He lives at 2 Needle Lane in Poughkeepsie.

MARRIED: John Randolph Seckman, Jr., IE, to Miss Joyce Marie Spiker, May 5.

Cecil Wellborn, TE, has been promoted to Administrative Assistant, Machinery Div. of the Atlanta Paper Co. His home address is 3791 Hamilton Rd., Decatur, Ga.

»CQ Norman A. Abend, CE, was recently u « promoted to the rank of first lieutenant

at Ft. Belvoir, Va. He is assistant administra­tive officer of the Dept. of Military Arts at the Engineer School there.

ENGAGED: Lt. Adrian Davis Bolch, Jr., ME, to Miss Nancy Bowers. The wedding will take place in August. Lt. Bolch is sta­tioned with the Army at the Atlanta Gen­eral Depot.

Edward R. Holladay, IM, has completed his initial training at Delta Air Lines' Flight School in Atlanta and will transfer to the Airlines' N. Y. base in July. His current address is 519 Overbrook Drive, N. W., Atlanta.

Lt. Elmer R. Warf, IM, recently received the Expert Infantryman Badge at Ft. Devens, Mass. He is with the 74th Regimental Com­bat Team's 99th Bn. His home address is Rt. 2, Gainesville, Ga.

»C i MARRIED: Lt. Thomas Nelson Colley, J • Jr., ME, to Miss Mary Joyce Mc-

Lanahan, June 22. Lt. Colley is stationed at Keesler AFB, Biloxi, Miss.

MARRIED: Lt. William Ray Davis, IE, to Miss Rebecca Everett, July 1. Lt. Davis is serving with the Army Chemical Corps.

William G. Grizzell, IE, was recently commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army after being graduated from the Artil­lery & Guided Missile OCS at Ft. Sill, Okla. His permanent mailing address is 2300 W. Beach, Biloxi, Miss.

MARRIED: Robert Donald Harvey, Jr., TE, to Miss Patricia Dunwoody. Mr. Harvey is

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currently with the Army at Ft. Lee, Va. BORN To : Loren M. Marshall, Jr., and

Mrs. Marshall, a son, Loren, Jr., May 16. Their address is RD 2, Horseheads, N . Y.

MARRIED: Lt. Virgil W. Milton, Jr., USMC, to Miss Sylvia Louise Thomas. Their address is 11210 N. E. 10th Ave., Miami.

Clement C. Reeves, Jr., TE, has been pro­moted to first lieutenant at Aberdeen Prov­ing Grounds, Md. He is a section chief at The Ordnance School.

Spec. 3rd Class Henry C. Smith, Jr., IE, is a member of the Headquarters & Service Co. of the 1st Armored Division's 16th Armored Engrg. Bn. at Ft. Polk, La.

MARRIED: Lt. John Welch Adams, USA, EE, to Miss Hilda Elena Ortez, lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps. The wedding took place April 14 at the Post Chapel, Munch-weiler, Germany. Lt. Adams is on leave from Western Electric, Winston - Salem, N. C , where the couple will reside upon their return to the States in 1957.

' C C Lt. Walter G. Abrams, TE, recently WW graduated from the Army's Antiair­

craft Artillery and Guided Missile School at Ft. Bliss, Texas. His home address is 1370 Devereaux Ave., Philadelphia, Pa.

Lt. Jimmy L. Beeland, TE, recently gradu­ated from the Engineer School at Ft. Bel-voir, Va. His permanent address is 204 Rich­land Ave., Greensboro, Ga.

Lt. Michael Cady, Chem, recently gradu­ated from the Army's Antiaircraft Artillery and Guided Missile School at Ft. Bliss, Texas. His permanent address is 606 W. Wesley Rd., N. W., Atlanta.

Ens. John P. Carley, IM, has graduated from the Naval Pre-Flight School at Pensa-cola and is now stationed at Whiting Field.

Lt. Richard W. Cook, ME, is receiving 6 months' training on active duty under the Reserve Forces Act at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md. His home address is Rt. 4, Harriman, Term.

Jerome Maurice Cooper, Arch, 618 East 53rd St., Savannah, Ga., is the recipient of a Fulbright Award to study architecture at the University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

ENGAGED: Thomas William Greene, IE, to Miss Anne Welborn. The wedding will take place in the fall. Mr. Green's home address is 615 Stokeswood Ave., Atlanta.

Maurice D. Pratt, IE, is now with Lock­heed Aircraft at Burbank, Calif. His home address is 6212 Beck Ave., Apt. 6, North Hollywood, Calif.

Lt. Lewis Price, Jr., TE , recently gradu­ated from the Army's Antiaircraft Artillery and Guided Missile School at Ft. Bliss, Texas. His home is at 910 Broad St., La-Grange, Ga.

BORN T O : Burroughs H. Prince, Jr., Arch, and Mrs. Prince, a daughter, Bar­bara Ann, April 1. Mr. Prince is with Re­public Aviation Corp. Their home address is 255-17 Walden PI., Great Neck, N. Y.

Lt. Jed P..Shepardson, Ch.E., is a student at the Ordnance School, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md.

ENGAGED: Brooks Smith Lide, Jr., IM, to Miss Cary Minnich. Mr. Lide is associated with the C & S National Bank in Atlanta. He will enter the Army as a second lieu­tenant in January.

Lt. James N. Swift, IM, recently gradu­ated from the Artillery & Guided Missile Center at Ft. Sill, Okla.

Lt. Col. William D. Ward, IM, graduated from the Command and General Staff Col­lege at Ft . Leavenworth, Kansas, June 15.

Lt. Robert L. Williams, Jr., IE, recently graduated from the Engineer School at Ft. Bel voir, Va. His home address is 1506 Val­ley PL, Birmingham, Ala.

' C P MARRIED: James William Benson, IM, J " to Miss Mary Eugenia Martin. The

wedding took place in June. Mr. Benson re­ceived a commission in the Marine Corps upon graduation from Tech.

Navy Ens. Jimmie O. Collins, EE, is sta­tioned at Whiting Field, Milton, Fla. His permanent address is 352 Piedmont Ave., Rock Hill, S. C.

MARRIED: Willis Neal Harden, Jr., IM, to Miss Bettie Callaway, June 23. Mr. Hardin is with the O. E. Szekely and Assoc. His address is 8 Victoria St., Commerce Ga.

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George W. Harris, Jr., IM, was married to Miss Harriett Griffin June 30.

Lt. Carl M. Lester, CE, is a member of the 712th Medical Co. at Ft . Sam Houston. Texas.

MARRIED: Roy N. Lewis, Jr., IM, to Miss Marie Ann Jackson, June 23.

MARRIED: James H. Moorman, Jr., IK. to Miss Farish Vivian Brookshire, June 1. Their address is 104 Everett Sq., Fort Valley. Georgia.

MARRIED: Rudy Andrew Rubesch. Jr.. AE, to Miss Joan Ryckeley, June 9. Their address is 1840 No. 36th St., Milwaukee Wisconsin.

Salvador Sala, IE, is with the Cia. Petro-lera Shell de Cuba, S. A., at their Havana Refinery. He is currently in England to re­ceive training in the petroleum industry. He-arrived in England in January of 1955 and will remain there until November of 1956. His current address is c / o Shell Ref. & Marketing Co., Ltd., Overseas Staff Training Dept., Stanlow Refinery, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England.

Lt. Robert M. Sharp, Ch.E., is currently on six months' active duty at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md. His permanent ad­dress is 612 Clifton Rd., N. E., Atlanta

MARRIED: Charles Edward Smith, Jr.. AH, to Miss Mary Ellen Jones, June 14.

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LOOKING AT THE MAN, it's difficult to believe that Robert Lee Dodd has completed twenty-five years at Georgia Tech. But, it hap­pens to be true. In that period, he has matured from a "boy-wonder" backfield coach to one of the all-time greats of the profession. In the next issue, The Alumnus will present a search­ing, intimate profile of the Volunteer who be­came one of Tech's greatest assets. Also in the Football Preview Issue we'll bring you the '56 squad appraisal and the complete Tech-Ken­tucky squad listings for those who will take in the September 22 opener via television. All this and more will come your way Sept. 15.

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