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A D R . JAMES R. KILLIAN, JR., the pres­ident of MIT, isn't a man to pull his punches when he makes a speech. Now on leave as President Eisenhower's scientific advisor, the Georgia-born head of the Boston institution hit a few long-neglected nails smack on their heads in his initial speech on his new job.

The respected educational adminis­trator told a dinner meeting of the Women's National Press Club in Wash­ington on Jan. 7 that recent Soviet missile-satellite successes have not de­prived this country of its overall scien­tific-technological superiority. He then proposed a four-point program to insure that the United States will retain world leadership in science and technology.

Two of the four points that Dr. Kil­lian outlined were not surprising to any­one who has happened to read a news­paper or magazine in the months that have followed the Russian scientific up­set. They were (1) a plea for colleges and universities to raise their entrance requirements "to exclude the ill pre­pared and incompetent applicants," and (2) to increase the emphasis on the value of intellectual discipline.

A I T WAS in the other two points that Dr. Killian must have shocked all the newspaper and magazine columnists and editorial writers and the letter-to-the-editor bugs who have become educational experts recently.

The first of the shockers noted by the new missile czar was that educators and the public must rid themselves of the idea that science is "materialistic" and in competition with the socalled hu­manities like literature, languages and philosophy.

It has long been one of our pet peeves that a great number of educators and writers in this country have con­tinued to foster the misconception that graduates of our engineering and scien­tific schools are a group of dull clods unable to appreciate anything but the material things of life. Every engineer­ing and scientific school in this country gives its students a solid dose of the humanities. And we have never heard a single technological or scientific edu­cator say that the humanities should be

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sacrificed for more materialistic courses in their own curricula. In fact just the opposite is true. They are constantly try­ing to find ways to put more humanities in their required courses.

In today's world, the engineer and the scientist are no more materialistic than anyone else. Most of them show just as much or more interest in the good things of life as any other educated group.

A T H E OTHER POINT made by Dr. Kil­lian was to us the best of the lot. He said that this country must achieve a "high degree of scientific literacy amon^ the rank-and-file of Americans." For a man can not be educated for modern living "unless he has an understanding of science."

This brings up another moot point. These same people in education who have made it a point to criticize the scientific and technological schools for not teaching more humanities have in their own institutions allowed many men and women to get a Liberal Arts de­gree without taking a single course in science or engineering. How, in this day and age, can they call these people educated?

Sure, Georgia Tech and its fellow in­stitutions do not educate the whole man. But then what university does?

For another man's view on engineer­ing education, take a look at Tech senior Karl Johnson's article on "Education-eering" on page 10.

A A N ARTIST at any trade is always a welcome sight. Tech has a new one around the campus. He goes by the name of David "Duke" Denton, and he is a basketball player by trade. Although the Duke is just a sophomore, he has already taken over the crowd at the Big Dome.

Unfortunately the Duke is not an artist with the books. And keeping him eligible may be the biggest problem facing Whack Hyder in the next two years. For more about the Duke and the Tech basketball team turn to page 20 of this issue.

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CONTENTS

2. RAMBLIN' — the editor sounds off on the sub­ject of engineering education and its critics.

6. BUILDING BOOM — a report on the coming campus expansion, biggest in Tech's history.

10. EDUCATIONEERING NEEDED — a student takes a look at teaching methods of today.

12. WITH THE CLUBS — reports from everywhere.

13. THE LOOK OF FEBRUARY — The Alumnus proudly presents its first photo essay.

20. THE UPS AND DOWNS — for one brief week, the Tech basketball team was at the top.

22. NEWS BY CLASSES — an alumni gazette.

Officers of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association

Charles Simons, '37, Pres. I. M. Sheffield, '20, V-P Charles Thwaite, '33, V-P Walt Crawford, '49, Treas. W. Roane Beard, 40, Executive Secretary

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

Bob Eskew, '49, Advertising Mary Peeks, Assistant

THE COVER

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Portraying the particular look of one month on one college campus was the job thrown at photographer Bill Diehl in this issue. The starkness of Febru­ary at Georgia Tech can be found in the cover picture while the month's tendency towards loneliness and curiosity are pic­tured on pages 13 through 19 of this issue.

Cover Photo-Bill Diehl, Jr.

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.

IN THIS DAY AND AGE of space satellites, guided missiles, and proposed trips to the moon, it might seem rather old-fashioned to write a column about helping others. But there are some things that should never be out­moded, and lending a helping hand to another Tech man is one of them.

I know that at one time or another in the life of each of you, a fellow Tech alumnus has gone out of his way to do something nice for you when you really needed help. It may have been a business or social favor, help­ing you find a place to live, an introduction to a local civic or business club, making you feel at home in a strange and lonely city or one of the many other help­ful things that one man can do for another a long way from home.

One of the fine memories of my life grew out of an incident that happened to me in a strange city soon after my graduation from Tech. It was a period at which my spirits had hit a new low. Eugene D. Hill, II . whom I had just met in Louisville, Ky., invited me to have dinner with his family. Just the chance to talk with someone who shared a common experience lifted me out of this depression. Out of this seemingly insignificant incident came an awareness of how much Georgia Tech had come to mean to me.

Helping another Tech alumnus in this manner is just one more way in which you can help Georgia Tech. The man you aid will surely become a bigger Tech booster for knowing you. Try it, you'll see what I mean.

The Big Expansion

On page 6 of this issue is reported for you the greatest physical plant expansion in the history of Tech. Within less than three years, over $10,000,000 will be added to a plant that less than 15 years ago totaled but $4,-500,000. The solid support that you have given Georgia Tech has had a great deal to do with this physical plant expansion. The Governor of Georgia, the General As­sembly and the Board of Regents are well aware of the type of support the alumni of Georgia Tech and indus­try have been giving the institution. And they have acted accordingly to increase State support to Tech. Your continued support of the Roll Calls has borne fruit for Georgia Tech in many ways.

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What is the Bell System? -#-.

The Bell System is wires and cables and laboratories and manufacturing plants and local operating companies and millions of telephones in every part of the country.

The Bell System is people . . . hundreds of thousands of employees and more than a million and a half men and women who have invested their savings in the business.

I t is more than that. The Bell System

is an idea.

It is an idea that starts with the policy of providing the best possible telephone service at the lowest possible price.

But desire is not enough. Bright dreams and high hopes need to be brought to earth and made to work.

You could have all the equipment and still not have the service you know today.

You could have all the separate parts of the Bell System and not have the benefits of all those parts fitted together in a nation­wide whole.

BELL SYSTEM

The thing that makes it work so well in your behalf is the way the Bell System is set up to do the job.

No matter whether it is some simple mat­ter of everyday operation — or the great skills necessary to invent the Transistor or develop underseas telephone cables to distant coun­tries—the Bell System has the experience and organization to get it done.

And an attitude and spirit of service that our customers have come to know as a most important part of the Bell System idea.

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THE GOVERNOR AND THE PRESIDENT

BIGGEST BOOM IN BUILDINGS

Georgia Tech's biggest expansion program gets into high gear with a groundbreaking

T HE TWO GENTLEMEN pictured above are engaged in the ancient and honorable ceremony of breaking ground

for a new building. Taking place on January 23, this par­ticular ceremony was in honor of the long-needed $2,100,-000 Classroom Building now being constructed South of the Price Gilbert Library.

It was a most significant groundbreaking for several rea­sons, chief among them being that it heralded a new era of construction at Tech that will increase the net worth of the physical plant by almost one-third in three short years. During this year, the groundbreaking ceremony should be repeated at least three times as Tech begins to expand to get ready for the onslaught of students which is expected to drive the Institute's present enrollment of 5,500 up to the 7,000 mark by 1962.

The Electrical Engineering Building, the Nuclear Re­search Reactor, and the Radioisotopes and Bioengineering Laboratory—the other new buildings definitely set to be added—are marked in white on the adjoining aerial map which includes the new planning boundaries for the campus.

Tech also expects to get new dormitory facilities to house 1,000 students through a loan now pending with the Public Housing Administration. And the new Georgia Tech Motel and Southern Regional Education Board building, though not strictly Georgia Tech buildings, reflect the increased construction on the campus.

For more about the new buildings please turn the page.

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BIGGEST BUILDING BOOM

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Tech's new $2,100,000 Classroom Building as envisioned by the arch­itect. The front of the Price Gilbert Library is on the left, here

CLASSROOM AND EE: LONG-NEEDED BUILDINGS ON THE WAY THE BIGGEST PSYCHOLOGICAL LIFT for Tech faculty mem­bers and students in many a moon should come to pass in the summer of 1959 when the building sketched above will be ready for occupancy. For, from that time on, the IM's will no longer shuffle down the hallowed and antiquated halls of Swann, the Math classes will be held outside of the dreary Old Shop, the English courses will no longer be taught in the oldest building on the campus, and the Psychology Department will come out of the temporary structures where it has been in hiding all of these years.

All four of these departments will be housed in the sleek, air-conditioned, 137,000-square-foot building with its 68 classrooms, 23 special-purpose rooms and numerous fac­ulty and administrative offices. Connected to the Library by a two-story corridor, the new building will be of reinforced concrete frame, brick veneered with aluminum windows. The site drops off so that the building will be four stories

high on Hemphill Ave. with the three top floors supported by columns. It was designed by the Atlanta architects, A. Thomas Bradbury & Associates. Financing for the build­ing came through a bond issue under the University System Building Authority.

Electrical Engineering Building In its most recent bond sale, the University System Build­

ing Authority included the cost of the new Electrical Engin­eering Building. A tentative architect has been appointed for the $3,700,000 structure, and design plans are now in progress. This building will take over the load of one of Tech's largest and oldest schools which has been occupying its present outmoded structure since 1896.

The EE Building is expected to be completed late in 1960. It will be located north of the Textile Building in the new campus area (see map on page 6) .

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RADIOISOTOPES: A YEAR AWAY MAJOR LECTURE AND LABORATORY COURSES in Tech's nu­clear graduate program are being taught in temporary loca­tions on the campus awaiting the completion in early 1959 of the building shown above. This Radioisotopes and Bio-engineering Laboratory, which will also be used for re­search, had the distinction of being expanded by 60% in Iloor space and $231,000 in equipment before it ever got off the drawing boards at the office of John Cherry, the architect. The additional funds for the expansion came from the National Institutes of Health ($125,000) and the Board of Regents ($69,500) while the equipment funds came from the Atomic Energy Commission.

NUCLEAR REACTOR: A CONCEPT THE ARTIST'S SKETCH below represents a concept of what in 1960 will be the equal of any Nuclear Research Reactor located at an institution of higher learning in the world. Its value is $3,800,000, and $2,500,000 of this amount has already come to Georgia Tech through the Board of Re­gents from the Governor of Georgia. The remainder of the funds are expected to come from various federal agencies. The reactor will be of the heavy-water-moderated, hetero­geneous, enriched fuel type, and its conceptual design was done by Dr. Walter H. Zinn, dean of reactor designers.

Drawing by Frank Bate, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Magazine

February, 1958

Photo by Bill Diehl, Jr. One of the key courses in Industrial Engineering, Time and Motion Study. Author Johnson is the student in dark shirt.

by Karl G. Johnson, IE '58

Educationeering Needed

AMERICA has just been jolted out of its complacency. L In spite of our smug belief to the contrary, we now

know that Russia is definitely forging ahead or us in some branches of science. Even allowing for the fact that Russia obtained a great deal of her scientific knowledge from the secrets stolen from the United States by the several spy rings that have been active, and allowing for the tremendous help they have received from captive Ger­man scientists, still we must recognize that Russia has made tremendous advances on her own in the past few years.

At present everyone is making excuses for America not being the first to launch a satellite. The Army is blaming the Navy; the Democrats are blaming the Republicans; the Integrationists are blaming the Segregationists. In fact, almost everyone is putting the blame on everything and everybody except where it is due. The sad fact is that there have not been enough qualified engineers and scien­tists to complete the task.

What is the cause of this shortage? Why should a country which is perhaps the most mechanized in the world have a shortage of scientists? My belief is that America has advanced in every field of scientific endeavor except one of the most important: the science of education.

A TECH SENIOR HAS HIS SAY ABOUT EDUCA­TION IN TODAY'S COMPETITIVE WORLD

The methods of higher education used today are fifty years behind those recognized in all phases of business and in­dustry.

This is a serious charge. Yet I feel that I can back it up. In industry, engineering has weighed, studied, classified, analyzed, and scrutinized all phases of human reaction to working conditions; i.e., type of work, quantity of work per person, and periods of industry, the purpose of all this being to maximize human efficiency and thereby to maxi­mize production. But what efforts have been made in the field of education to study techniques to maximize learn­ing efficiency? How does anyone know what type of train­ing aids or what particular teaching psychology should be used to maximize student's learning efficiency?

The problems of industry are immensely complicated. A manager must have at his disposal all the talent that he can muster in practically every field one can imagine. The deadlines are sometimes seemingly impossible. Yet with all these problems, industry is capable of fantastic pro­duction and is able to offer a product at a fairly reasonable price. Why is it impossible for institutions of higher learn­ing to operate just as efficiently as industry?

The well known Scanlan Plan is an example of maxi­mizing human efficiency in industry. The plan was de­signed to get a floundering business back on its feet, and

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the first step toward accomplishing this was the definition of a goal for the business. In the case of the Scanlan Plan the goal was simply but appropriately "production." Why not define a goal for higher education in much the same manner? Perhaps the wording could be something like this.

The goal of higher education in the United States should be to prepare young persons for handling the problems of life, not only those that involve accomplishing creative tasks (and thereby earning a living), but also for those that involve being good citizens and making good lives.

Once a goal has been established, there must be an elfective means by carrying it out. This is the next problem we must face.

Perhaps the most serious problem in higher education today is the need for teachers who have a superb com­mand of their own particular subject matter. Too often people of this calibre are snatched up by industry, and they find it financially impractical to give up a high-salaried position to return to teaching.

in many schools, however, there are teachers who are literally giants in regard to command of their subject mat­ter. Yet they might as well be speaking in Arabic for all that they accomplish in communicating their knowledge to the students. What they desperately need is a knowledge of training techniques and teaching psychology which would transform them into highly effective teachers.

These, then, are the two main problems that stand, in the way of accomplishing the goal that higher education could set. First, a teacher can accomplish nothing re­gardless of how well he can teach if he has limited com­mand of his subject. Secondly, a teacher can accomplish

nothing regardless of how well he knows his subject if he fails to communicate his knowledge to his students.

It logically follows that there is a need for very great progress in the area where knowledge of subject matter and teaching strategy come together. To plan and carry out an effective course a teacher must know how to instill a reasonable amount of enthusiasm in his students. This can best be done by giving the students a goal toward which to work and by giving them additional motivation along the way in the form of special assignments and quizzes. In other words, a student must be shown that the course is of real and personal value>to his life.

A solution to this gigantic problem could not be laid out neatly on one page, or even in one volume, but a suggested plan of action would necessarily follow from the previous remarks.

A conference must be held to determine what methods should be used to bring into closer agreement subject mat­ter knowledge and teaching strategy and to determine what other action is necessary to improve higher education. This meeting should be a selected cross section of the top-flight men in our universities, colleges, and technical schools throughout the country. The number should be limited to perhaps one-hundred men representative of all major fields. The breakdown of percentages for each field could be de­termined by percent of first degrees granted in the various fields. In the case of one-hundred men this would imply: Engineering, Eleven; Arts and Sciences (including Physical Sciences), Forty; Business Administration, Fourteen; Ed­ucation, Fifteen; English, Five; and All Other Fields, Fif­teen.

There should be two meetings, one per year, and they should last a minimum of two weeks each. Prior to the first meeting four or five papers should be prepared for pre­sentation, and these should be the basis for further re­search of the group.

An extended educational research program, broken into many phases, should be started at the first meeting and continued throughout the year. At the second meeting findings would be presented and a further course of action plotted.

The location of the meeting place should be carefully chosen. Possibly the meetings could be held at the Arden House on the Hudson, or some other very pleasant place.

It is obvious that such a long and confining meeting of the nations' top educational leaders would be impractical were it not for the urgency of the need for such a confer­ence. The goal of improving higher education must be reached as quickly as possible.

An idea is of no use unless it can be tested, and yet this proposed plan would seem to require national attention and cooperation to be put into effect. Yet, there is no need to build an entire plane to test the aerodynamic properties of its design. A scale model of an educational research plan could be tested at Georgia Tech.

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CLUB CALENDAR FOR THE DATE

Feb. 27

Feb. 28

March 6

FUTURE CITY SPEAKER

Pittsburgh, Pa. Pres. Edwin D. Harrison

Baltimore, Md. Pres. Edwin D. Harrison

Chattanooga, Tenn. Dean Griffin, Dr. J. E. Boyd

March 6

March 11

March 13

March 14

March 14

March 14

March 19

March 20

March 21

Columbus, Ga.

Houston, Texas

Baton Rouge

Richmond, Va.

West Palm Beach

Dallas, Texas

Chicago, III.

Indianapolis, Ind.

Louisville, Ky.

Pres. Edwin D. Harrison

Coach Dodd, Coach Graves

Bob Eskew

Coach Tonto Coleman

Coach Dodd

Bob Eskew

Pres. Edwin D. Harrison

Pres. Edwin D. Harrison

Pres. Edwin D. Harrison

ALBANY, GEORGIA—Alumni from Albany, Americus and Moultrie turned out on November 26 for a meeting of the Southwest Georgia Tech Club at Radium Springs, Georgia. President W. E. "Gene" Broadwell, '43, acted as toastmaster for the evening's entertainment which included talks by Alumni Secretary Roane Beard and Athletic Bus­iness Manager Howard Ector and films of the Tech-Duke game.

C. T. Oxford, '30, presented a report of the club's Scholarship Committee which he heads. During the bus­iness meeting the following officers were elected for the coming year: Neil M. Cavette, '41, president; Leo T. Bar­ber, Jr., '47, vice president and William W. Pace, Jr., '40, secretary-treasurer.

* * * CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—Sixteen Tech alumni from the Chicago area met for luncheon on December 6 at the University Club to hear Alumni Secretary Roane Beard present a briefing on campus and alumni activities. Ben L. Crew, '28, is president of the Chicago Club.

* * * KINGSPORT, TENNESSEE—Assistant Football Coach Whitey Urban was the featured speaker at the December 13 meeting of the Kingsport Georgia Tech. President Jim Hudson, '48, introduced the popular Tech coach who briefed the club on the 1958 football prospects at Tech and reviewed the film of the 1957 Tech-Duke game.

During the business meeting the election of 1958 of­ficers was held. They include Bill Snyder, president; Walter Earnest, vice president; D. P. Templeton, Jr., secretary-treasurer; and Bob Beard, director. On a motion by Ted

Hagen the club elected to have a special DODD-DAY for their next meeting in the spring of 1958.

MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN—The Milwaukee Georgia Tech Club held a combination dinner and business meet­ing in early November at the Ambassador Hotel. President Aubrey Phillips, '36, presided over the meeting. Elected officers for the coming year at the meeting were Tom Blood-worth, '29, president; Bill Lefferts, '28, vice president; and Bill French, '51, secretary-treasurer. In addition to these officers Bill Schroeder, '51, was elected program chairman for 1958. Movies of the Tech-Pitt Gator Bowl game and "The Expanding Frontier" were shown to round out the program.

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK—Over 130 members and guests of the New York Georgia Tech Club turned out in inclement weather to hear new Tech President Edwin D. Harrison, at their December 5 meeting at the Reeves Sound Studio. Dr. Harrison spoke on the forthcoming changes in secondary and college curriculum. During his talk, the Tech President complimented Tech alumni on their loyalty and support and stated that this quality of Tech alumni was very influential in helping him to accept the challenge of the presidency of Tech. A lengthy question and answer session followed Dr. Harrison's first talk to the club.

Special guests at the meeting were three members of the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Tech Foundation; John P. Baum, '24; Ben R. Gordon, '25; and W. J. Holman, Jr., '28. The guests were introduced by J. F. Nicholl, '28, presi­dent of the New York Club.

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PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA—Over 35 members of the Georgia Tech Club of Pittsburgh were in attendance at the December 16 meeting. Elected as officers for 1958 at the meeting were Charlie LeCraw, '40, president; and Glenn A. Wilson, '43 secretary-treasurer. John Lasch, a member of the 1957 Tech football team, narrated the films of the Tech-Duke game for the group.

President LeCraw appointed the following committee to arrange the spring meeting for the club: B. G. Daven­port, '50; Harold E. Matson, '52; and George Phillips, "36.

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA—Tech Placement Director Fred Ajax spoke to the Georgia Tech Club of Richmond on November 14. Robert M. Lester, Jr., '48, president of the club, introduced Dean Ajax who spoke on "The Present-day Georgia Tech."

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The Look

of February

at Georgia Tech Eugene Quails

E ebruary is a month with a look all of its own . . . A month with the look of bleakness and loneliness . . . A month in itself a paradox . . . The very shortest of months . . . Yet, coming as it does in the middle of the school year, it somehow is also the longest . . . It is the month of changing weather and of changing moods . . . At Georgia Tech, February looks like this.

An Alumnus Portfolio of Georgia Tech Photographs by Bill Diehl, Jr.

February, 1958 13

February is the curiosity of a sophomore physics class intent on listening and learning.

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And February is the loneliness of a lab cleaning detail.

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February is a month dedicated to the inquisitive.

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Who might wonder what the future will hold for them.

Or debate the proper proce­dure for grading a paper.

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Or discuss the myraid problems of teaching.

Or fire the inevitable question at the teacher.

February is also a month for the lonely.

Who work out the complicated lab prob­lems into the late afternoon.

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Or run off a quiz for tomorrow.

Or work day and night at the Drafting tables.

Or prepare for the teaching of the coming day.

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THE STUDENT SECTION MAKES THE BIG NOISE AS THE JACKETS RALLY AGAINST THE KENTUCKY WILDCATS.

The Alexander Memorial Coliseum packed them in this year to see

Photographed by Dick Thompson

THE UPS AND DOWNS OF WHACK HYDER'S BOYS

FOR ONE WONDERFUL FIVE-DAY PERIOD in late January, Georgia Tech's basketball team was the little train that

could, sittin' loftily on top of the SEC in a tie with mighty Kentucky. But two successive beatings by Alabama and Auburn knocked Whack Hyder's boys back into the middle.

Tech had attained its top ranking by whipping Adolph Rupp's Wildcats, 71-52, before 7,600 people, the largest crowd to ever witness a basketball game in the State. It was the fifth crowd of capacity or over at the Alexander Coliseum this season. Oddly enough, the Jackets won every one of these big games. Mississippi State (undefeated until Tech beat them, 78-61), Vanderbilt, Tennessee and Georgia were the other victims of the crowcf-conscious Jackets.

At this writing with four games remaining on the schedule, Tech's record is 14 and 8. In the conference, the Jackets are 7 and 3. The Jackets who were supposed to be a year away pulled the first surprise of the season when they won the Motor City Invitational Tourney in Detroit over the Christmas holidays by beating Marquette and Detroit. The Mississippi State, Kentucky and Tennessee wins were the other upsets pulled off by this team.

Stars of this year's team have been the great junior guard tandem of Blemker and Randall and the Duke from Bowl­ing Green, Kentucky, Dave Denton, a sophomore. Sopho­more 6' 1" center Frank Inman and seniors Gary Phillips and Jimmy Johnson are the other Jackets who have alter­nated as starters.

With a top-notch, high-scoring freshman team which has lost but one game, Tech stands to be a mighty rough squad next year. Of course, the success of next season may well rest on keeping the pro baseball scouts from signing Blem­ker as a pitcher and Denton's scholastic average.

No matter what their won and lost record is at the end of this season, the 1957-58 Jacket team will go down as one of the most exciting of all Tech athletic teams. They have the ability to excite a crowd like no other team seen in this area in recent years. And their victory over Ken­tucky brought on a shirt-tail parade and a day's holiday from school for the Tech students.

Basketball has caught on at Georgia Tech. And future years will probably see the sellout crowd at the Big Dome the rule rather than the exception.

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Fabulous Tech Sophomore Dave "The Duke" Denton grabs one of his 22 rebounds from the center of three Kentucky players as Tech won 71-52.

In the postgame celebration, Duke and Terry Randall on the shoulders of students cut down the nets from the Coliseum's baskets.

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High scorer Randall leaps above a Tennessee man to add two points in the Jackets' thrilling 82-79 win over the Volunteers.

Deadeye Buddy Blemker sinks one against Mississippi State as the Jackets tumble the Maroons from the unbeaten ranks, 78-61.

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further information was available at this writing.

' f l f l Frank M. Butner, owner & operator " " of the Pioneer Riding Academy for

the past 25 years prior to his retirement in October, died January 3 at his home.

> 1 ^ Hugh Thomas Barron, EE, retired I • Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co.

employee, died of a heart attack Nov. 25, 1957. He lived at 3120 Eton, Berkeley, Calif.

' Q O William Callaway Summers, of 744 LL Kennolin Dr., S.W., Atlanta, died

Jan. 18 in a local hospital. He had been with the Ga. Highway Dept. since '27 and was assistant office engineer at the time of his death.

' 0 4 E. C. Hammond, Com., secretary of '•'I the Georgia Power Co., has been

appointed to head Georgia's 1957-58 Teach­er of the Year program which is sponsored by the Georgia State Chamber of Com­merce.

»OE Brig. Gen. B. B. Talley, US Army fcJ (ret . ) , EE, has been elected a vice

president of Raymond Concrete Pile Co. in New York City. General Talley has been with the company since 1956, serving in the Brizilian subsidiary as president. Prior to joining Raymond he was Division Engineer, Mediterranean Division, Corps of Engi­neers.

Albert Mell Wright, ME, died Nov. 23 in an Atlanta hospital. He was a me­chanical engineer with Gulf Oil Corpora­tion. His wife lives at 727 Button Rd., N.E., Atlanta.

' 9 R W'Uiam Anderson DuPre, TE, of fcU Rome, Ga., died April 22, 1957.

' 0 0 Bolan H. Boatner, EE, has been *-\t made vice president in charge of

sales of Westinghouse Electric Supply Co. in Pittsburgh, Pa.

' O Q Guy Henry, CE, is now president of Lit Providence Gas Co., 100 Weybosset

St., Providence, R. I. Prior to this appoint­ment, he was president of the East Ten­nessee Natural Gas Co. in Knoxville.

in Birmingham, has accepted a call to be­come pastor of the Granada Presbyterian Church in Coral Gables, Fla.

»QO Ivan Allen, Jr., Com, president of 0 0 the Ivan Allen Co. in Atlanta, has

been listed in the 1958 Who's Who in America. Mr. Allen is president of the Georgia Tech Foundation and a former president of the National Alumni Associa­tion.

' Q T Ernest S. Tharpe, GS, has joined 0 1 Tharpe & Brooks, Inc. as vice presi­

dent and member of the Board of Directors. He assumed management of the Columbus, Ga. office Jan. 1.

'39 L. F. "Red" Anderson, Jr., IM, is Southwestern District Manager for

Devoe & Reynolds Co., Inc. with head­quarters in Dallas, Texas. His home ad­dress is 3901 University Blvd., Dallas 5, Texas.

'41 J. T. Bayer, Jr., IM, former district engineer with Southern Bell in Jack­

sonville, Fla., is now division engineer of North Florida with headquarters in Jackson­ville.

'44 R. E. Morris, EE, has been ap­pointed manager of the St. Louis

district of Allis Chalmers Industries Group. Prior to this appointment he was a sales representative in the Washington office.

' A R S' RusseU McGee, Jr., IM, has been • " appointed Superintendent of Agencies

for Piedmont Life Ins. Co. of Atlanta. For the last 3 % years he has been manager for the Connecticut General Life Ins. Co. in Charlotte.

' i T Alfred H. Guritz, IE, has been ap-•f' pointed assistant plant manager of

the Macon, Ga. plant of Armstrong Cork Co. He has been with the company since 1947, serving as plant industrial engineer in the Macon & Pensacola plants and chief industrial engineer at Lancaster, Pa.

»4fl Married: Roy Cox Burdette, IM. to ^ 0 Miss Eliza Shirley Dec. 21 . Mr.

Burdette is with the U. S. Rubber Co. The couple reside at Winnsboro, S. C.

' i n Robert H. Barge, IM, has been ap-" 3 pointed regional services manager for

Allstate Insurance Company with offices in Roanoke, Va. He has been with the company for 5 years and prior to his re­cent appointment was regional operating manager in Jackson, Miss.

Engaged: Junius Clyde Bell, IM, to Miss Margaret Duke. The wedding will take place April 19 in Pelham, Ga. Mr. Bell is with the Technical Services Div. of the Coca-Cola Co.

W. G. Denning, Ch.E., has been pro­moted to section head in the Technical Services Div. at Humble Oil & Refining Company's Baytown, Texas refinery. Mr.

'32 The Rev. Frank Alfred Mathes, ME, pastor for the past 11 years of

the South Highland Presbyterian Church

Albert S. Williams, '32, Is First

Alumnus Named to Magazine's

Distinguished All-America

Albert Sidney (Syd) Williams, '32, became the first Georgia Tech graduate to be named to the Sports Illustrated Silver Anniversary All-Amer­ica team when he was selected for the 25-man squad in December. This is the second year

that SI has named such a team. The 25 men, who were senior collegiate foot­ball players 25 years ago and were among the hundreds nominated by their alma maters for outstanding career and community service records in the in­tervening years, were selected by a panel of distinguished judges. Williams, who went from Bethesda Orphans Home in Savannah to Georgia Tech on a football scholarship, is now regional manager for Coca-Cola Export in London, England.

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and Mrs. Denning live at 1601 East Fayle St. in Baytown.

Capt. Linton D. Stables, Jr., IM, has graduated from the officer advanced course at The Infantry School, Ft. Benning, Ga.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. John M. Ziegler, ME. a son, Carl Malcolm, Dec. 31. Their address is 8803 Weldon Dr., Richmond, Va.

' C O Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. J U Bottoms, Jr., IM, a daughter, Beverly

Claire, Dec. 30. Mr. Bottoms is with the Coca-Cola Co. in Jackson, Miss.

Brian S. Brown, CLU, IM, has been promoted to the official staff of the Guar­dian Life Insurance Co. of America in New York as director of field training. Prior to joining Guardian's Holcombe T. Green Agency in Atlanta in 1952, he was manager of alumni activities for the Geor­gia Tech Alumni Association. Mr. Brown and his wife reside with their two children at 565 Broadway, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.

T. M. Davis, ME, Chief Test Engineer of the Thiokol Chemical Corp., has been elected to a two-year term as vice chairman of the JANAF Solid Propellant Rocket Stat­ic Test Panel. He will also serve as chair­man of the Special Devices Committee.

Samuel J. Jordan, IE, has been promoted to chief engineer of the Craft Fabrics Divi­sion of Pacific Mills at Halifax, Va.

William Lee Queen, IM, Jacksonville, Fla. insurance executive, has been named a member of the Duval County School Board.

'51 Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Maurice H. Furchgott, IE, a son, Kenneth Roy,

Nov. 26. Their home address is 2795 Queensbury Lane, N.W., Atlanta, Ga.

Loyd M. O'Guin, Jr., TE, has joined Chemstrand as a senior representative in the Technical Sales Service Dept. at Deca­tur. Ala. He lives with his wife and son at 419 7th Ave., N. W., Decatur, Ala.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. James C. Taylor, EE. a daughter, Rosemary Lynn, October 28. Mr. Taylor is section head in the Elec­trical Engineering Dept. with National Cash Register Co. in Dayton. Their home address is 5310 Flamingo Ct., Dayton 31, Ohio.

tFO Paul Edfelt, Jr., IE, has been trans-vL ferred by Stockham Valves & Fit­

tings from Philadelphia to their Baltimore, Md., office. His home address is 1711-A Edgewood Rd., Towson 4, Md.

Engaged: Lt. Archibald Little Griffin, USNR, IM, to Miss Alma Whitfield. Lt. Griffin is serving in the office of the Chief of Operations at the Pentagon in Wash­ington, D . C.

Engaged: Thomas G. Moore, IE, to Miss Janet Knox. The wedding will take place in March. Mr. Moore is vice president of the Atlanta Utility Works.

James D. Reeves, Ch.E., is now with George Armistead & Co., Engineering Con­sultants, at 1000 Connecticut Ave., Wash­ington, D. C. His home address is 1307 Burleigh Rd., Lutherville, Md.

DESIGN OF BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS BY H U G H STUBBINS.

Two Firms Headed by Alumni Win National Awards Designs submitted by two architectural firms headed by Tech men were awarded national honors in the Fifth Annual Design Awards Program sponsored by Progressive Architecture, a national magazine. The Boston firm of High Stubbins & Associates won an award citation in the Education category for the proposed business and student administration buildings at Brandesis University and the Memphis firm of Mann & Harrover with Leigh Williams as associate won an award citation in the Public Use category. Hugh Stubbins and William Mann are both graduates of the School of Architecture at Tech.

F I N E ARTS CENTER A T MEMPHIS BY MANN A N D HARROVER

Married: Samuel H. Scott, Jr., I.M., to Miss Martha Jo Smith. Mr. Scott is pres­ident of O'Flanagan's, Inc. in Atlanta. The couple live at 23 Woodcrest Ave., N.E., Atlanta, Ga.

Lt. James E. Williams, Ch.E., was grad­uated second in a class of 15 from the Ordnance Guided Missile Course (Surface-Air Missiles) at the Ordnance Guided Mis­sile School, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., and has been assigned as commanding officer of the 15th Ord. Det. (DE Nike) at Loring AFB, Maine.

' E Q Lt. Richard Lee Clement, US Navy, J w IE, was lost on a night fighter in­

terceptor training mission near Fallon, Ne­

vada Sept. 18. He was a jet pilot. Memorial services were held in Atlanta Jan. 11. Lt. Clement is survived by his parents, Col. & Mrs. Coleman C. Clement, of 1360 Spring-dale Rd., N.E., Atlanta; 2 brothers, Capt. Coleman C. Clement, Jr., US Army, '48; Capt. Robert W. Clement, USAF.

Quentin C. LaPrad, EE, US Army, has been promoted to the rank of major. He is an instructor in the corporal missile div. of the Dept. of Material at Ft. Sill, Okla.

Freddie H. Wood, Jr., TE, IE, is an in­dustrial engineering consultant with Kurt Salmon Associates, Washington, D.C. con­sulting management engineer. His home ad­dress is 210 W. Green St., Milledgeville, Ga.

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February, 1958 23

Alumnus Renamed Regent Howard H. Callaway, '47, center, was sworn in for his second term as a member of the Board of Regents by Governor Marvin Griffin on January 8. Callaway is president of the Gardens Ind. Inc. of Hamilton, Georgia. Mrs. Callaway is at left. Other Tech men presently on the regents include Free­man Strickland, '24, of Atlanta; Morris Bryan, '41, of Jefferson and David Rice, '29, of Atlanta. The Regents are appointed by the Governor for a seven-year term and are the governing body of the State's University System.

'54 Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Camilo L. Castro, EE, a daughter, Carmen

Annette, Nov. 15. Their address is 6350 No. Hampton Dr., N.E., Atlanta, Ga.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Forest Fowler, Jr., IM, a daughter, Virginia Claire Dec. 22.

Frank M. White, ME, former technical director for the Atlanta Housing Authority, is now associated with the Ga. State High­way Dept. as a highway engineer.

Theodore M. Williams, Midshipman 1/c, CE, has been selected as a speaker for this year's "Operation Information," a program initiated at the Naval Academy to maintain a high level of interest in the academy.

JCC Durwood V. Cason, Jr., ME, was u u drowned Dec. 18 while swimming

in the surf at San Diego. He had accepted a position as assistant professor of Drawing & Mechanics at Tech and was to begin work in January. While in San Diego he was with Convair. He is survived by his wife, 2 daughters, parents and 2 brothers.

Born to : Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Cobb, ME, a daughter, Janet Arlene Nov. 26. Their home address is 2021 West Dr., West Palm Beach, Fla.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Comp-ton, ME, a daughter, June 10, 1957. Mr. Compton is with Combustion Engineering. Their home address is 419% Haney Dr., Chattanooga, Term.

W. C. Morrison, IM, is with Allis-Chal-mers Industrial Group and is currently at­tending training school at Norwood, 111. He will then train in Milwaukee for 6 weeks before being assigned to the Southeast.

Married: Lt. Kenneth F. Read, USN. ME, to Miss Sondra Duvall, Dec. 21 . Lt. Read is currently with the Dept. of Marine Engineering, U.S. Naval Academy, Annap­olis, Md.

Lt. Charles Leon Sherman, IM, U.S. Army, was released from active duty at

Ft. Holabird, Baltimore, Md. on Nov. 15 where he was an instructor with the U. S. Army Intelligence School. He is now an industrial engineer with the Associated Gar­ment Industries. Mr. Sherman lives at 4954 West Pine Blvd., Apt. 602, St. Louis 8, Mo.

' E C Ensign Carter T. Barron, Jr., IM, *IU is now stationed aboard the USS

Saint Paul (LA-73), in Long Beach, Calif. He is serving as disbursing and ships store officer.

Lt. James M. Blankenship, IE, is execu­tive officer aboard the USS Crestview (PCE-895), FPO, New York, N . ' Y .

Lt. James I. Giddings, U. S. Army, IE, has graduated from the Officer Airborne Course at The Infantry School, Ft. Benning, Ga.

Lt. George R. Greenacre, USAF, Ch.E., has completed a special 1-yr. graduate course in meteorology at Texas A&M and is now stationed at Bergstrom AFB as a weather forecaster. His address is 451 Mc-Wirk Blvd., Bergstrom Village, Austin, Texas.

Lt. Perry L. James, USMC, IE, has qual­ified as a Naval aviator at Pensacola, Fla. He is now undergoing helicopter training at Ellyson Field near Pensacola.

William D. McCurry, CE, has completed his tour of duty with the Army and is now back with Plantation Pipe Line Co. in Ba­ton Rouge, La. He was married Dec. 8 to Miss Margaret Ann Stacey. Their home ad­dress is 235 Granpre St., Apt. 4, Baton Rouge, La.

Pvt. Robert C. Moore, U. S. Army, has been assigned to the U. S. Army Head­quarters Co. at Ft. Myer, Va.

Lt. John S. West, U. S. Army, Ch.E., is an administrative officer for the Ordnance Supply Training Division, U. S. Army Or­dnance School at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.

Jack Worrell, CE, has been promoted to

first lieutenant and assigned as company commander of "C" Co., 806th Engr. Bn., Ft. Rucker, Ala.

I C 1 Engaged: James Monroe Barker, IV, 3 / CE, to Miss Virginia Barrett. The

wedding will take place Feb. 15. Mr. Barker is with Magnolia Petroleum Co. in Alice, Texas.

Engaged: Carl Miesse Baumgardner, Arch, to Miss Patricia Welding. Mr. Baum­gardner is currently serving with the Air Force at Harlington AFB, Texas.

Engaged: Patrick Edward Bolger, IB. to Miss Elizabeth Cauthen. The wedding will take place March 1. Mr. Bolger is with American T&T in Chicago.

Navy Ens. Donald C. Brown, EE. re­cently made his first solo flight at Pensa­cola, where he is, in basic flight training.

Barry W. Coats, IE, has been commis­sioned an Ensign in the Navy after com­pleting Pre-Flight School at Pensacola.

Ted H. Cook, IE, is now with Babcock-Wilcox Co., Refractories Div., in Augusta, Ga. His home address is 2565 Henry St.

Navy Ens. Richard E. Cossett, Ch.E., recently made his first solo flight at Pensa­cola where he is in basic flight training.

Born to: Dr. and Mrs. Phillip M. Dangh-erty, Chem, their fifth child. Louis Gerard, Nov. 5, Their home address is 353 Eastland Dr. ,Decatur, Ga.

Lt. T. W. Gilmer, ME, has been pre­sented a letter of commendation for being elected honor graduate in the Basic Officers Military Orientation Program at the Army Ordnance School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.

Pvt. Ivan H. Gordon, U. S. Army, has completed basic combat training at Ft. Knox, Ky. His permanent address is 340 Brookline Manor, Reading, Pa.

Navy Ens. Grady L. Gothard, IF . re­cently made his first solo flight at Pensa-

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24 Tech Alumnus

Apart, they're liquid. h4mi0^iogether, they're solid

. . . helping make parts for your car, your television set, and even your tableware

THESE TWO LIQUIDS flow as freely as water. Yet when poured together they quickly turn into a solid — without the use of heat or pressure. Harder than many metals, the resulting plastic is called epoxy.

Delicate parts for television, radio, and other electronic equipment are em­bedded in epoxies to protect them from moisture and vibration. And, in durable tableware, epoxy adhesives seal knife blades in their handles with a strong, permanent bond.

Epoxies are so hard that they are used to make the huge dies that stamp out automobile trunk lids and hoods, airplane wing sections and other varied shapes. These dies are molded in about half the time it takes to shape all-metal dies . . . and, at substantial savings.

M a n y industries are now looking to epoxies to make better things for you. Developing and producing epoxies —as well as such plastics as vinyl and poly­ethylene—is only one of the many impor­tant jobs of the people of Union Carbide.

STUDENTS AND STUDENT AD­VISERS: Learn more about ca­reer opportunities with Union Carbide in ALLOYS, CARBONS, CHEMICALS, GASES, and PLAS­

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N e w Tech Publicat ion Stresses Industr ia l Deve lopment

A 1 0-POINT PROGRAM for optimum industrial growth of Georgia was released to­day by the Industrial Development Branch of the Georgia Tech Engineering Experiment Station in the initial issue of Weas, a new Georgia Tech publication.

Based on 18 months of basic and applied research, the closely-related 10-points of the program are all considered essential by the Tech research group if the State's urgent and long-ranged industrial needs are to be met.

One of the key points of the program was that an independent, non-political committee of business and industrial leaders is needed, both to add prestige and to provide a central, authoritative body which could concentrate on the elimination of existing weaknesses.

This optimum program was prepared at the request of Governor Griffin in order that Georgia could move rapidly toward a more prosperous economy through an intelligent industrial development program.

IDeas is a bi-monthly publication designed to pinpoint needs and dissemi­nate research findings to the industrial development and business leaders and gen­eral public of the State. Alumni may receive it free by writing to IDeas, Publi­cations Office, Georgia Tech, Atlanta 13, Georgia.

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cola where he is in basic flight training. Navy Ens. Ronald F. Hanna, AE, re­

cently made his first solo flight at Pensa-cola. He is in basic flight training.

Married: Ben L. Hading, Jr., IM, to Miss Dianne Lewis Dec. 28. Mr. Harling is cur­rently serving with the Army at Ft. Bliss, Texas.

Engaged: Lt. Robert Winnfred Harrell, Ch.E., to Miss Virginia Lindsey Corry. The wedding date will be announced later. Lt. Harrell is serving with the U. S. Army at Ft. Stewart. After completion of his tour of duty he will go with the Ethyl Corp. in Baton Rouge, La.

Engaged: Charles Jefferson Hollings­worth, EE, to Miss Nancy Cook. The wed­ding will take place in the summer. Mr. Hollingsworth is attending the Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga.

Born to: Lt. and Mrs. Richard E. Len­

holt, EE, twin daughters, Anne Leslie and Mary Elizabeth, Oct. 16. Lt. Lenholt is serving with the Air Force at Eglin AFB, Fla. Their home address is 193 Seminole, Valparaiso, Fla.

Married: William F. Leslie, IE, to Miss Dianne Morris Dec. 25. Mr. Leslie was separated from the Army in October and is now with Magnolia Petroleum Co. at the Beaumont, Texas refinery. Their home ad­dress is 2290 North St., Beaumont.

Luther S. Lott, Jr., IM, has been com­missioned a Marine second lieutenant at the Marine Corps School, Quantico, Va. He is now attending the 9-month officer basic school at Quantico.

James D. Phillips, EE, is with the en­gineering department of Monsanto Chemi­cal Company's Inorganic Chemical Division at St. Louis, Mo.

W. H. Rogers, Ch.E., has joined the staff

at the Institute, West Virginia plant of Union Carbide Chemical Co., Div. of Union Carbide Corp.

Navy Ens. Peter R. Tatro, ME, recently made his first solo flight at Pensacola where he is undergoing basic flight training.

Born to : Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Taylor, IM, a son, Richard Albert Taylor, in Pitts­burgh, Pa. on January 5. Mrs. Taylor is the former Barbara Jean Rhodes, daughter of long-time policeman for Tech athletic teams, Dick Rhodes.

Engaged: Thomas Madison Taylor, Jr., CE, to Miss Glendora Boyce. The wedding will take place in June. Mr. Taylor is a junior engineer with the New York Central Railroad.

Born to : Mr. and Mrs. Martin Torrance, IM, a son, Michael L., July 14.

'58 Married: Edward McAdam Frisbee, CE, to Miss Mary P. Dwyer Dec.

28. They reside in St. Louis, Mo. where Mr. Frisbee is associated with McDonnell Aircraft Co.

Engaged: Richard Norfleet Lawrence, Jr., AE, to Miss Elizabeth Anne Boyst. The wedding will take place in early spring. Mr. Lawrence is with Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica, Calif.

Married: Lt. Michael C. McAdams, IM, to Miss Sandra Gay Dec. 27. Lt. McAdams is stationed at Ft. Bliss, Texas with the U. S. Air Defense School.

Engaged: Lt. Frank L. McClung, USAF, EE, to Miss Joan Mumford. The wedding is scheduled for June. Lt. McClung is pres­ently attending the University of Utah at Salt Lake City.

Joe S. Payne, IM, is on a 3-year training program with the Lamp Division of Gen­eral Electric in Cleveland, Ohio. His ad­dress is 24394 Garden Dr., Apt. 1001, Eu­clid 23, Ohio.

Cadet Michael W. Tierney, IE, is under­going preflight training at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola. His permanent address is 42 Bellview Ct., Delray Beach, Fla.

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Two Leicas, some Conte Pencils and a Typewriter

A special art-photo-text treatment of "The Role of Fraternities at Georgia Tech" will be the feature article of the big 35 th Anniversary Issue of The Georgia Tech Alumnus. Now being prepared by the Alumnus team of

Wallace (Jane), Diehl (Bill) and Wallace (Bob), the article will show how fraternities help and hinder the educational

programs in today's universities and colleges. Also in the same issue, Dr. Edwin D. Harrison returns to the pages of

the magazine for the first time since his July interview prior to the time he became president of Tech. Now with

six months experience in leading Tech, the president will take a long, hard look at engineering education as

practiced at Georgia Tech. Other features of the March issue will include a special profile on Tech's famed placement

director, Fred Ajax. In this case, photographer Bill Diehl will turn to the typewriter to write the story of "The Man

with 20,000 Jobs." We hope you'll be looking for all this in

Jk MARCH, 1958

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A Refreshment to You Through the Years

?s to good times

d good friends

. . . may you always have

an abundance of both

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