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A IN THIS WORLD, there live people who are the complete slaves of the machines of our technological age. We happen to be a long-time member of this group who among the initiated are known as the Pedestrians. Machines baffle and frighten us. We can't understand how they operate or even why they are here.

You've seen the Pedestrians, standing by a stalled automobile with the hood raised. We are usually scratching our heads and staring into the innards of this monster as if our perplexed looks would in themselves start the engine turning again.

You've passed our homes and watched us wrestling fruitlessly with an un­cooperative gas-powered lawn mower. If some evening you should open the front door, chances are you'll find us trying to repair the TV set by banging on its side with a blunt instrument.

In this world of do-it-yourselfers, we are complete outsiders—born victims of a society. And, we find all this out at an early age.

We are the names lost by machines, the holes left unpunched in the card files, the cursed typographical errors, the Walter Mittys of this era—thwarted in our dreams of a quiet, uncluttered old age by the confused mind of a punch-card operator at the Veterans Adminis­tration.

* * * A. IN TWO WARS, we have been the boys called in early by mistake, assigned the wrong serial numbers, lost in the shuffling of red tape, promoted by misdated orders, and finally released only after everyone else had gone back to civilian life for good. In college, the Registrar's Office made us its target because the machines dictated it.

The true Pedestrians withstand all of this by a head-shrugging, passive resist­ance that would put the Hindus to shame. We fear protest because it might bring us more grief.

But. this time, the machines have gone too far. Last month, the punched card system with its attendant machines ar­rived at the Alumni Offices in the base­ment of the Carnegie Building. TsJaturally, the Office of Publications was moved from its pleasant quarters to make room for the equipment. We are now quartered temporarily in what will soon become the new ladies' lounge in the Administra­tion Building. We trust that they will

move u again before the new I is completed. But. we aren't r it. And we don't intend to v o W ? 1

against the code of the Pedestrid

k MOST ALUMNI MAGAZINES hav . little "Book Review" c o l u m n s

h

Tech men do most of their in highly specialized technical < is the way it should be And pointed out earlier in this colur effort by us to review this type ofV' ture is predoomed to failure We mally just insert a class note when" alumnus publishes and let it g0 at

But, we often long for the chance to a general-interest book by an alumni and then review it.

Recently, not one but two Tech . have written books that might interest you. The first one, "// It Had Been Snake," Vantage Press, New York Monroe J. Willner, EE '50, is a w, of fiction concerning the problems of th engineer in modern society. The fi third of this book (which is ft autobiographical) is devoted to G Tech and its effect on the budding eat neer. It is as strong and honest a trea on the Tech of the immediate pi years as can be written. It catches both the spirit of the school and the attituc of the students of that age. We wish * had written it. And, we advise you buy a copy now.

The second book is concerned with-of all things—the art of writing fit Its author is Edwin A. Peeples. GE 1 and its title is "A Professional 5 writer's Handbook," Doubleday and C pany. Inc., New York. Mr. Peeples been writing and selling fiction si fore he came to Tech as a student. 1 knows his subject and his book n this knowledee. If you have ever sidered writing fiction to sell, this is a must. In fact, this is an excel book just to sit around and read fi sheer enjovment of it. Get it by all tm

* * *

A IN LIGHT of recent scalping ir that have touched Tech. we hesi. bring this subject up. But. George Gr is again dollars (10 this year

happen :or lecn aw..".- - -

n George's ticket group

his ticket manipulations (comp .«.•-> f„r Tech alumni. If >oU ""^

orge's ticket group• a»d n the year, g've the short $10 on the year,

a call.

TECH A tUMNUS

„ , £ . Raymond. Senior EngineermoV.ee

t dent of Douglas, goes over a proposed

V i c t o r y w,th Maxwell Hunter, Asst.

S f t fEno ineer -Space Systems

Guided tour of the

solar system

The new NASA T h o r - b o o s t e d research rocket, DELTA, now in pro­duction at Douglas, wi l l set up important signposts for f u r t he r space explorations.

Combining e lements a l ready proved in space projects with an advanced radio-inertial guidance system developed by the Bell Tele­phone Laboratories of Wes te rn Electric Company, DELTA has the versatility and accuracy for a wide variety of satellite, lunar and solar missions. Douglas reliability rides with these 90 foot, t h ree -s tage rockets on every flight.

Douglas is now seeking qualified engineers, physicists, chemists and mathematicians for programs like ZEUS, DELTA, A L B M , GENIE, ANIP and others far into the future. For full information write to Mr. C. CLaVene, Douglas Aircraft Com-Panv.Inc.,Santa Monica, California, N Section.

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reetings to students and

alumni everywhere. We share

your interest in the advancement

of our alma mater, Georgia Tech.

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T A N K S , S M O K E S T A C K S , P I P I N G , W A T E R H E A T E R S , B R E E C H I N G , P L A T E W O R K

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for quick delivery

29 Pryor Street • Atlanta

Augusta • Columbus

Gainesville

Macon • Rome

Gadsden, Ala. • Athens, Tenn.

Greenville, S. C.

OFFICE SUPPLIES

OFFICE EQUIPMENT

ENGINEERING SUPPLIES

PRINTING • BLUEPRINTS

A IN THIS WORLD, there live people who are the complete slaves of the machines of our technological age. We happen to be a long-time member of this group who among the initiated are known as the Pedestrians. Machines baffle and frighten us. We can't understand how they operate or even why they are here.

You've seen the Pedestrians, standing by a stalled automobile with the hood raised. We are usually scratching our heads and staring into the innards of this monster as if our perplexed looks would in themselves start the engine turning again.

You've passed our homes and watched us wrestling fruitlessly with an un­cooperative gas-powered lawn mower. If some evening you should open the front door, chances are you'll find us trying to repair the TV set by banging on its side with a blunt instrument.

In this world of do-it-yourselfers, we are complete outsiders—born victims of a society. And, we find all this out at an early age.

We are the names lost by machines, the holes left unpunched in the card files, the cursed typographical errors, the Walter Mittys of this era—thwarted in our dreams of a quiet, uncluttered old age by the confused mind of a punch-card operator at the Veterans Adminis­tration.

* * * A. IN TWO WARS, we have been the boys called in early by mistake, assigned the wrong serial numbers, lost in the shuffling of red tape, promoted by misdated orders, and finally released only after everyone else had gone back to civilian life for good. In college, the Registrar's Office made us its target because the machines dictated it.

The true Pedestrians withstand all of this by a head-shrugging, passive resist­ance that would put the Hindus to shame. We fear protest because it might bring us more grief.

But. this time, the machines have gone too far. Last month, the punched card system with its attendant machines ar­rived at the Alumni Offices in the base­ment of the Carnegie Building. TsJaturally, the Office of Publications was moved from its pleasant quarters to make room for the equipment. We are now quartered temporarily in what will soon become the new ladies' lounge in the Administra­tion Building. We trust that they will

move u again before the new I is completed. But. we aren't r it. And we don't intend to v o W ? 1

against the code of the Pedestrid

k MOST ALUMNI MAGAZINES hav . little "Book Review" c o l u m n s

h

Tech men do most of their in highly specialized technical < is the way it should be And pointed out earlier in this colur effort by us to review this type ofV' ture is predoomed to failure We mally just insert a class note when" alumnus publishes and let it g0 at

But, we often long for the chance to a general-interest book by an alumni and then review it.

Recently, not one but two Tech . have written books that might interest you. The first one, "// It Had Been Snake," Vantage Press, New York Monroe J. Willner, EE '50, is a w, of fiction concerning the problems of th engineer in modern society. The fi third of this book (which is ft autobiographical) is devoted to G Tech and its effect on the budding eat neer. It is as strong and honest a trea on the Tech of the immediate pi years as can be written. It catches both the spirit of the school and the attituc of the students of that age. We wish * had written it. And, we advise you buy a copy now.

The second book is concerned with-of all things—the art of writing fit Its author is Edwin A. Peeples. GE 1 and its title is "A Professional 5 writer's Handbook," Doubleday and C pany. Inc., New York. Mr. Peeples been writing and selling fiction si fore he came to Tech as a student. 1 knows his subject and his book n this knowledee. If you have ever sidered writing fiction to sell, this is a must. In fact, this is an excel book just to sit around and read fi sheer enjovment of it. Get it by all tm

* * *

A IN LIGHT of recent scalping ir that have touched Tech. we hesi. bring this subject up. But. George Gr is again dollars (10 this year

happen :or lecn aw..".- - -

n George's ticket group

his ticket manipulations (comp .«.•-> f„r Tech alumni. If >oU ""^

orge's ticket group• a»d n the year, g've the short $10 on the year,

a call.

TECH A tUMNUS

„ , £ . Raymond. Senior EngineermoV.ee

t dent of Douglas, goes over a proposed

V i c t o r y w,th Maxwell Hunter, Asst.

S f t fEno ineer -Space Systems

Guided tour of the

solar system

The new NASA T h o r - b o o s t e d research rocket, DELTA, now in pro­duction at Douglas, wi l l set up important signposts for f u r t he r space explorations.

Combining e lements a l ready proved in space projects with an advanced radio-inertial guidance system developed by the Bell Tele­phone Laboratories of Wes te rn Electric Company, DELTA has the versatility and accuracy for a wide variety of satellite, lunar and solar missions. Douglas reliability rides with these 90 foot, t h ree -s tage rockets on every flight.

Douglas is now seeking qualified engineers, physicists, chemists and mathematicians for programs like ZEUS, DELTA, A L B M , GENIE, ANIP and others far into the future. For full information write to Mr. C. CLaVene, Douglas Aircraft Com-Panv.Inc.,Santa Monica, California, N Section.

DOUGk

^ N D SPACE SYSTEMS • MILITARY AIRCRAFT

AlACOMn ' C A R G ° TRANSPORTS C 0 ^ - GROUND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT

reetings to students and

alumni everywhere. We share

your interest in the advancement

of our alma mater, Georgia Tech.

s» rtf*"** !^S»'

S e r v i n g A m e r i c a ' s G r e a t N a m e s in I n d u s t r y f o r o v e r 4-2 Y e a r s

in your hot water generator. look to FINNIGAN

Finnigan Hot Water Generators are engineered to give you large

quanti t ies of hot water for low operat ing cost . The f inest materials,

creative skill and quality const ruct ion assure eff icient

performance . . . "Fabr icated by F inn igan" assures qual i ty.

Finnigan bui lds hot water generators to your speci f icat ions. Cal l , wire

or write today for complete informat ion with no obl igat ion to you.

W . J . M c A L P I N '27, P r e s i d e n t W . J . M c A L P I N , Jr . , '57, T reasu re r

T A N K S , S M O K E S T A C K S , P I P I N G , W A T E R H E A T E R S , B R E E C H I N G , P L A T E W O R K

• U H H H J P W O ) .

7 2 2 M A R t E T T A S T . , N . W . .

Birmingham 5, Ala. 1107 Seventh Ave. New Orleans 25, La., 4054 Thalia Ave. Greensboro, North Carolina Hillsboro, Texas

Houston 6, Texas, P. 0. Box 6025 Dallas 9, Texas, 4431 Maple Avenue Washington, D.C., 3714 14th St., N.W. Kansas City 41, Mo., 1720 Harrison St. Memphis, Tennessee, 5930 Laurie Lane Jacksonville 4, Florida, P. 0. Box 2527 Little Rock, Arkansas, 4108 C. Street

JfW MARCH, 1960

rflmW VOLUME 38

CONTENTS 2. RAMBLIN'—the editor complains about his prob­

lems with the machines and reviews two books. 5. THE GEORGIA TECH STUDENT: 1960—pre­

lude to a special issue on an important subject. 6. HIS CRUSADE—academic honesty today?

10. HIS IDIOSYNCRASIES—like the student they have a tendency to be practical.

12. HIS PORTRAIT—how he stacks up with the MIT student of the same vintage.

16. HIS HEROES—they wear short pants and bounce a round ball extremely well.

18. FOOTBALL REVIEW—Ed Danforth returns for a look at the 1960 football season.

20. SYMPOSIUM ON SCIENCE—Dr. Walter Buck­ingham on the consequences of technology.

25. WITH THE CLUBS—latest reports. 26. ROLL CALL REPORT—a breakdown. 28. NEWS BY CLASSES—an alumni gazette.

Officers of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association

Joe L. Jennings, '23, Pres. R. A. Siegel, '36, VP Morris M. Bryan, '41, VP Frank Willett, '45, Treas.

W. Roane Beard, '40, Executive Secretary

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

Tom Hall, '59, Advertising Mary Peeks, Assistant

THE COVER

Nothing could be more typical of the Georgia Tech Student of 1960 than this photograph of umbrellas, rain, and wind. For this winter was one of brutal weather for Atlanta. When it wasn't raining, it was snowing or sleeting or icing up. Twice during early March, the campus was hit by ice and snow storms that halted classes or disrupted activities.

Cover Photo—Bob Bland

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

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L

I N NOVEMBER OF 1954, the trustees of the r Electric Educational and Charitable Fund

lished a revolutionary program of financial aid to i n education. Based on the "help those who heb selves" philosophy, the new program was immediati called the Corporate Alumnus Program. Throueh General Electric matches up to $1,000 a year gift by an employee-alumnus to his Alma Mater *'

Realizing that higher education, faced with constant ly rising costs, badly needed additional avenues of su port, the trustees of the GE Fund felt that this prograi might be part of the answer to this problem. They a believed that their action might be just the beginning o a new concept of corporate support.

History has shown the trustees to be extremely good prognosticators. After four years, gifts totaling over $823,000 have been received by 509 institutions as a direct result of this one program. And, by early 1959, 68 other companies—large and small, national and re­gional—had formally adopted matching gift plans.

Many of these plans are less restrictive than A original GE plan. For instance, led by Scott Paper Company, several companies removed the limitations "requiring an employee to have been a student at any such institution in order that that institution is eligibli for a matching gift." Other companies were more re strictive in their programs. Some of the companies < eluded state-supported institutions from their eligibili lists.

But all of these programs have one thing in commc the desire to aid America's universities and colk through direct gifts while at the same time inspiri increased alumni giving. What fairer concept could devised than this one? Helping those institutions w alumni are willing to give their own strong finar support is obviously the most equitable approac

If you work for a company with a matching gift gram, be sure that your gift to the Roll Call is m Tech has received matching gifts from the foil corporations: Atlas Powder, Burlington Indu Cleveland Electric Illuminating, Dow Chemical, « eral Electric, General Foods, B. F. Goodrich, J Mills, International Business Machines, Lehigh • land Cement, McGraw Hill, The Merck Co., Lead, Owens Fiberglas, Scott Paper, and Tenness

TECH A l UWNv-i

Georgia Tech photograph—Bob Bland

I960 Practical. That's the word for the Georgia Tech student of today. In this respect he is no different than his

predecessors. His manner of dress is practical (sloppy, inexpensive, comfortable). His language is practical (terse, to-the-point, often blue). If he is married, chances are his wife works (he would be losing money if she sat at home). He uses his school facilities even more than previous students. The library is almost always full (again the practical angle, for this is the best place on the campus to study and work on the ever-present reports). His laboratories and classrooms stay busy from Monday morning to Saturday after­noon taking care of the heavy workload that the engineering student readily accepts as his present lot in life.

The Tech student knows exactly what he wants from college— education and training applicable to obtaining a good job and a chance to "make it" in the outside world. He selects his job finally on the basis of three rigid criteria—his own impression of the cor­porate image of the company, the amount of money offered, and the location. The fancy brochures, fringe benefits, and other sell­ing points do not impress him or sway him.

He is practical in his selection of fads or adornments of leisure (the latest one, the umbrella, protects his books and slide rule and himself in case of bad weather). And, as the following pages indicate, he is even practical in matters of morality.

M o r t h , I960

JfW MARCH, 1960

rflmW VOLUME 38

CONTENTS 2. RAMBLIN'—the editor complains about his prob­

lems with the machines and reviews two books. 5. THE GEORGIA TECH STUDENT: 1960—pre­

lude to a special issue on an important subject. 6. HIS CRUSADE—academic honesty today?

10. HIS IDIOSYNCRASIES—like the student they have a tendency to be practical.

12. HIS PORTRAIT—how he stacks up with the MIT student of the same vintage.

16. HIS HEROES—they wear short pants and bounce a round ball extremely well.

18. FOOTBALL REVIEW—Ed Danforth returns for a look at the 1960 football season.

20. SYMPOSIUM ON SCIENCE—Dr. Walter Buck­ingham on the consequences of technology.

25. WITH THE CLUBS—latest reports. 26. ROLL CALL REPORT—a breakdown. 28. NEWS BY CLASSES—an alumni gazette.

Officers of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association

Joe L. Jennings, '23, Pres. R. A. Siegel, '36, VP Morris M. Bryan, '41, VP Frank Willett, '45, Treas.

W. Roane Beard, '40, Executive Secretary

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

Tom Hall, '59, Advertising Mary Peeks, Assistant

THE COVER

Nothing could be more typical of the Georgia Tech Student of 1960 than this photograph of umbrellas, rain, and wind. For this winter was one of brutal weather for Atlanta. When it wasn't raining, it was snowing or sleeting or icing up. Twice during early March, the campus was hit by ice and snow storms that halted classes or disrupted activities.

Cover Photo—Bob Bland

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

j^a^^^f

L

I N NOVEMBER OF 1954, the trustees of the r Electric Educational and Charitable Fund

lished a revolutionary program of financial aid to i n education. Based on the "help those who heb selves" philosophy, the new program was immediati called the Corporate Alumnus Program. Throueh General Electric matches up to $1,000 a year gift by an employee-alumnus to his Alma Mater *'

Realizing that higher education, faced with constant ly rising costs, badly needed additional avenues of su port, the trustees of the GE Fund felt that this prograi might be part of the answer to this problem. They a believed that their action might be just the beginning o a new concept of corporate support.

History has shown the trustees to be extremely good prognosticators. After four years, gifts totaling over $823,000 have been received by 509 institutions as a direct result of this one program. And, by early 1959, 68 other companies—large and small, national and re­gional—had formally adopted matching gift plans.

Many of these plans are less restrictive than A original GE plan. For instance, led by Scott Paper Company, several companies removed the limitations "requiring an employee to have been a student at any such institution in order that that institution is eligibli for a matching gift." Other companies were more re strictive in their programs. Some of the companies < eluded state-supported institutions from their eligibili lists.

But all of these programs have one thing in commc the desire to aid America's universities and colk through direct gifts while at the same time inspiri increased alumni giving. What fairer concept could devised than this one? Helping those institutions w alumni are willing to give their own strong finar support is obviously the most equitable approac

If you work for a company with a matching gift gram, be sure that your gift to the Roll Call is m Tech has received matching gifts from the foil corporations: Atlas Powder, Burlington Indu Cleveland Electric Illuminating, Dow Chemical, « eral Electric, General Foods, B. F. Goodrich, J Mills, International Business Machines, Lehigh • land Cement, McGraw Hill, The Merck Co., Lead, Owens Fiberglas, Scott Paper, and Tenness

TECH A l UWNv-i

Georgia Tech photograph—Bob Bland

I960 Practical. That's the word for the Georgia Tech student of today. In this respect he is no different than his

predecessors. His manner of dress is practical (sloppy, inexpensive, comfortable). His language is practical (terse, to-the-point, often blue). If he is married, chances are his wife works (he would be losing money if she sat at home). He uses his school facilities even more than previous students. The library is almost always full (again the practical angle, for this is the best place on the campus to study and work on the ever-present reports). His laboratories and classrooms stay busy from Monday morning to Saturday after­noon taking care of the heavy workload that the engineering student readily accepts as his present lot in life.

The Tech student knows exactly what he wants from college— education and training applicable to obtaining a good job and a chance to "make it" in the outside world. He selects his job finally on the basis of three rigid criteria—his own impression of the cor­porate image of the company, the amount of money offered, and the location. The fancy brochures, fringe benefits, and other sell­ing points do not impress him or sway him.

He is practical in his selection of fads or adornments of leisure (the latest one, the umbrella, protects his books and slide rule and himself in case of bad weather). And, as the following pages indicate, he is even practical in matters of morality.

M o r t h , I960

£ m

Photograph—Bill Diehl, Jr. The G e o r g i a Tech Student: 19<

HIS CRUSADE IS FOR ACADEMIC HONEST'

TECH A l UMNU'

pHE YOUNG GENTLEMEN- pictured above represent the

new ri ? r e ° f G e o r 2 i a T e c h ' s s t u d e n t leadership in a iemb U h y " u s a d e f o r academic honesty. They are

fODKi" h t hC T C C h c h a P t e r o f Omicron Delta Kappa other H t 0 P n a t i o n a l leadership society. Along with

dent groups (notably The Technique honor com-tney are now mounting an all-out campaign to curb

""""K i960

student cheating—a problem that has suddenly blossomed forth as the major moral issue on the campuses of many American universities.

In typical Tech fashion, they are approaching the issue from a completely practical standpoint. They reason that this problem- involves both students and faculty and that

Continued on page 8

£ m

Photograph—Bill Diehl, Jr. The G e o r g i a Tech Student: 19<

HIS CRUSADE IS FOR ACADEMIC HONEST'

TECH A l UMNU'

pHE YOUNG GENTLEMEN- pictured above represent the

new ri ? r e ° f G e o r 2 i a T e c h ' s s t u d e n t leadership in a iemb U h y " u s a d e f o r academic honesty. They are

fODKi" h t hC T C C h c h a P t e r o f Omicron Delta Kappa other H t 0 P n a t i o n a l leadership society. Along with

dent groups (notably The Technique honor com-tney are now mounting an all-out campaign to curb

""""K i960

student cheating—a problem that has suddenly blossomed forth as the major moral issue on the campuses of many American universities.

In typical Tech fashion, they are approaching the issue from a completely practical standpoint. They reason that this problem- involves both students and faculty and that

Continued on page 8

Academic Honesty-continued

it cannot be solved without the cooperation of both groups. They also know that if cheating is to be stopped the atti­tude of condoning it (now held by the majority) must be changed. For, despite the fact that the cheaters are in the minority, all students are scarred by it one way or another.

ODK's first formal move to correct this-situation was to add a statement to its by-laws barring from membership any students who have been known to have cheated.

Their next move was to convince other campus organiza­tions to include a similar statement in their own by-laws. This accomplished, they made arrangements to place speci­al speakers on next fall's freshman camp and orientation programs to discuss the importance of the honest approach to school work.

While all of these formal moves were being carried out, an all-out campaign against cheating was going full blast in Tech's major publications—The Technique, The Rambler, and The Engineer. It was this editorial campaign, pushed mainly by the efforts of the Technique honor committee (headed by Managing Editor Arnold Berlin, EE senior), plus a series of circumstances that brought about the first signs of a shift in student attitude. Item: A student jimmies one of the transoms in a profes­sor's office in the new Classroom Building, enters the office and takes some papers. When he leaves, he doesn't relock the transom. The next morning, the professor opens his office door, and the 55-pound transom drops to the floor, missing his head by a few inches. This student wasn't caught, but the resulting publicity blast in The Technique started the students thinking. Item: Two weeks after this incident, two students are caught breaking and entering another professor's office to change their grades on a quiz and in the record book. The students are kicked out of school for a year on recom­mendation of the student-faculty honor committee which handles all cases of this type. Last year, The Technique would have had to handle the story with no student identi­fication and a minimum amount of details. This year, as a result of the stepped-up campaign on cheating, the ad­ministration cleared details of the story (excluding the student's names but identifying their class and course). The student paper printed it on page 1 and added a bruising editorial on page 4. I tem: In the March 4 issue of The Technique, two columns, an editorial and a front-page story were devoted to de­velopments in the cheating area. One of the columns and the editorial headlined the Technique honor committee's recommendations concerning the problem, another column was a humorous jab at the student's attitude toward the cheating problem, and the front-page piece reported the English Department's new policy of placing on file in the library, samples of previous examinations in sophomore courses. The editorial indicated how far Tech students

have come in changing the atmosphere concern" ing in the past three months. Here's what it said-8

"Cheating is no longer being passively condoned Tech campus. People, committees, and orsani^ .• ' taking action in order to eliminate academic d and we heartily applaud the effort.

3nestv

"In this issue, the Technique honor committee composed of top leaders from all phases nf r,J. ,,„„ „.,ui;„i,„j S~ ,. , „ „ „ J „ . : „ _ : . . . , . . , camPus life

con-nd

proc-

group

has published two recommendations which introdu crete plans to cope with the situation. First, they reco that the Administration and students initiate a strict toring system in order to make cheating as difficult sible.

"Second, they asked that convicted offenders of bre V and entering or of classroom cheating be subject to a mum penalty of suspension; thus insuring a punishme that fits the crime.

"ODK is also sponsoring a program designed to change student attitudes on the subject.

"Of great importance, too, is the action of individuals Students are beginning to talk about cheating and many professors have taken class time to discuss the situation In fact, some professors have even given quizzes on the honor system.

"So, one can see that things are being done now. We hope that if such action continues in the future, the cheat­ing problem will become insignificant." Item: Rambler editor Grey Hodges took up another side of the matter in his editorial in the March issue of Tech's feature magazine when he pointed out that an investigation into the files showed that 16 Tech students had been turn­ed in to the student-faculty honor committee during the first quarter of 1959-60 while a total of only 38 cases had reached the committee in the three previous years. Hodges added that of the 54 students turned in over the past three and one-third years, only four were expelled from school nine were suspended for a quarter and the rest were placec on probation. "A very conservative estimate," he continued. "would be that at least this many more cases of cheatin were handled by the professors themselves. These wou be cases where the prof just gave the student an 'F or le him off with a warning not bothering to report the studei to the student-faculty honor committee. All cases are s posed to be reported to this committee, but some profes­sors don't want to spare the time required.

"Of those 54 cases of cheating as cheating is usui thought of, nine students were given a quarter's vac Not a bad return on investment is it? The other 45 guy* were placed on probation. This means that if you talk 1 to a prof, throw bottles at the campus cops, or organize shirt-tail parade, you get a quarter's vacation, too. N minds a vacation.

"Solution to the entire mess? Why not make suspcna^ mandatory for all first cases, and expulsion mandator, anyone caught the second time."

T ECH ALUMNUS

r Editor Bill Miller (also head of the ODK | £"£'"^ t e e ) c a m e 0ut with a strong editorial in his

Miller's piece attacked the cheater on pure-February BSU • ^ ^ ( h e s t r o n g e s t approach to the prob-

'>' "' , fronTthis standpoint. Miller said: lem has cheated, lied, and stolen! Without pursuing fur-

Hh details of each instance, he says that no evil has ther the ^ ^ \)\x\h, nor have conditions been forced

him to cause these degenerate actions. He only lacked 'turity to understand a little of what gives meaning

1 He realized he must be satisfied with himself after rtWel'v producing. He found that to produce, he must

onfidence. But confidence comes only through self-Tect And self-respect is that earned feeling made pos-

%k only by recognizing his entity and true identity and and then being satisfied with that person.

•Thus love, fame, cash or a high test score is of no value if obtained by fraud. An attempt to gain a value by de­ceiving the minds of others is an act of placing the victims J his cheating in a position where the cheater becomes a pawn of their blindness, a slave of their non-thinking and their evasions. Their intelligence, their rationality, their perceptiveness become the enemies he has to dread.

"This obviously is an unhealthy self-imposed situation. Needless to say, a person cannot develop, pursue his pur­pose, or be happy with life under these conditions.

•When expressing himself, the mature productive indi­vidual who possesses self-esteem, integrity, and pride knows that his expression is what he is. So he wants it first to be his and second to be the best possible. When a person cheats, lies, or steals and these are all classified alike, this person loses a part of himself; he degenerates in mind, in soul and he feels it, although sometimes not knowing the na­ture of his feeling. Whether fear of going to hell, fear of getting caught, or confidence in his self-earned esteem be the reason, a person should not, must not, cheat, for he is only cheating himself. He cheats himself out of his right to earn that satisfied life that he knows is his and his alone."

ii Earlier in the year, The Technique began getting a series of extremely intelligent "Letters to the Editor" from a Junior Physics student, Dave Whisnant. The letters were o well received that the paper went out and hired Dave r a regular column. He now blasts away at himself and

"is fellow students in every issue.

inning through all of this verbage is the enormously ctical side of the Tech student. No one has come out

or an honor system, because no one believes that the cli-here is ready for it yet. What the crusaders want in

an * ° r d s o f P a u l Hodgson, editor of The Technique, is

takes fS,ty S y S t e m ' ° n e t h a t w e c a n a11 l i v e w i t h - I f it raculty pohce action to get it started, let's have it."

cepts of fCnt ° f t 0 d a > d ° e S n 0 t W a n t a r e t u r n t o t h e c o n -"lember i ,, m ° m h S a g ° w h e n a s e n i o r s a i d t 0 a f a c u l t y Hill was tn n Se r , 0Usnes s> "I thought the policy of the

3S t 0 all°w one free cheat."

^K I960

Arnold Berlin, EE '60. He spearheads the most active honor group on the Hill, The

Technique honor committee. Through his own strong editorial efforts, the tide changes.

Academic Honesty-continued

it cannot be solved without the cooperation of both groups. They also know that if cheating is to be stopped the atti­tude of condoning it (now held by the majority) must be changed. For, despite the fact that the cheaters are in the minority, all students are scarred by it one way or another.

ODK's first formal move to correct this-situation was to add a statement to its by-laws barring from membership any students who have been known to have cheated.

Their next move was to convince other campus organiza­tions to include a similar statement in their own by-laws. This accomplished, they made arrangements to place speci­al speakers on next fall's freshman camp and orientation programs to discuss the importance of the honest approach to school work.

While all of these formal moves were being carried out, an all-out campaign against cheating was going full blast in Tech's major publications—The Technique, The Rambler, and The Engineer. It was this editorial campaign, pushed mainly by the efforts of the Technique honor committee (headed by Managing Editor Arnold Berlin, EE senior), plus a series of circumstances that brought about the first signs of a shift in student attitude. Item: A student jimmies one of the transoms in a profes­sor's office in the new Classroom Building, enters the office and takes some papers. When he leaves, he doesn't relock the transom. The next morning, the professor opens his office door, and the 55-pound transom drops to the floor, missing his head by a few inches. This student wasn't caught, but the resulting publicity blast in The Technique started the students thinking. Item: Two weeks after this incident, two students are caught breaking and entering another professor's office to change their grades on a quiz and in the record book. The students are kicked out of school for a year on recom­mendation of the student-faculty honor committee which handles all cases of this type. Last year, The Technique would have had to handle the story with no student identi­fication and a minimum amount of details. This year, as a result of the stepped-up campaign on cheating, the ad­ministration cleared details of the story (excluding the student's names but identifying their class and course). The student paper printed it on page 1 and added a bruising editorial on page 4. I tem: In the March 4 issue of The Technique, two columns, an editorial and a front-page story were devoted to de­velopments in the cheating area. One of the columns and the editorial headlined the Technique honor committee's recommendations concerning the problem, another column was a humorous jab at the student's attitude toward the cheating problem, and the front-page piece reported the English Department's new policy of placing on file in the library, samples of previous examinations in sophomore courses. The editorial indicated how far Tech students

have come in changing the atmosphere concern" ing in the past three months. Here's what it said-8

"Cheating is no longer being passively condoned Tech campus. People, committees, and orsani^ .• ' taking action in order to eliminate academic d and we heartily applaud the effort.

3nestv

"In this issue, the Technique honor committee composed of top leaders from all phases nf r,J. ,,„„ „.,ui;„i,„j S~ ,. , „ „ „ J „ . : „ _ : . . . , . . , camPus life

con-nd

proc-

group

has published two recommendations which introdu crete plans to cope with the situation. First, they reco that the Administration and students initiate a strict toring system in order to make cheating as difficult sible.

"Second, they asked that convicted offenders of bre V and entering or of classroom cheating be subject to a mum penalty of suspension; thus insuring a punishme that fits the crime.

"ODK is also sponsoring a program designed to change student attitudes on the subject.

"Of great importance, too, is the action of individuals Students are beginning to talk about cheating and many professors have taken class time to discuss the situation In fact, some professors have even given quizzes on the honor system.

"So, one can see that things are being done now. We hope that if such action continues in the future, the cheat­ing problem will become insignificant." Item: Rambler editor Grey Hodges took up another side of the matter in his editorial in the March issue of Tech's feature magazine when he pointed out that an investigation into the files showed that 16 Tech students had been turn­ed in to the student-faculty honor committee during the first quarter of 1959-60 while a total of only 38 cases had reached the committee in the three previous years. Hodges added that of the 54 students turned in over the past three and one-third years, only four were expelled from school nine were suspended for a quarter and the rest were placec on probation. "A very conservative estimate," he continued. "would be that at least this many more cases of cheatin were handled by the professors themselves. These wou be cases where the prof just gave the student an 'F or le him off with a warning not bothering to report the studei to the student-faculty honor committee. All cases are s posed to be reported to this committee, but some profes­sors don't want to spare the time required.

"Of those 54 cases of cheating as cheating is usui thought of, nine students were given a quarter's vac Not a bad return on investment is it? The other 45 guy* were placed on probation. This means that if you talk 1 to a prof, throw bottles at the campus cops, or organize shirt-tail parade, you get a quarter's vacation, too. N minds a vacation.

"Solution to the entire mess? Why not make suspcna^ mandatory for all first cases, and expulsion mandator, anyone caught the second time."

T ECH ALUMNUS

r Editor Bill Miller (also head of the ODK | £"£'"^ t e e ) c a m e 0ut with a strong editorial in his

Miller's piece attacked the cheater on pure-February BSU • ^ ^ ( h e s t r o n g e s t approach to the prob-

'>' "' , fronTthis standpoint. Miller said: lem has cheated, lied, and stolen! Without pursuing fur-

Hh details of each instance, he says that no evil has ther the ^ ^ \)\x\h, nor have conditions been forced

him to cause these degenerate actions. He only lacked 'turity to understand a little of what gives meaning

1 He realized he must be satisfied with himself after rtWel'v producing. He found that to produce, he must

onfidence. But confidence comes only through self-Tect And self-respect is that earned feeling made pos-

%k only by recognizing his entity and true identity and and then being satisfied with that person.

•Thus love, fame, cash or a high test score is of no value if obtained by fraud. An attempt to gain a value by de­ceiving the minds of others is an act of placing the victims J his cheating in a position where the cheater becomes a pawn of their blindness, a slave of their non-thinking and their evasions. Their intelligence, their rationality, their perceptiveness become the enemies he has to dread.

"This obviously is an unhealthy self-imposed situation. Needless to say, a person cannot develop, pursue his pur­pose, or be happy with life under these conditions.

•When expressing himself, the mature productive indi­vidual who possesses self-esteem, integrity, and pride knows that his expression is what he is. So he wants it first to be his and second to be the best possible. When a person cheats, lies, or steals and these are all classified alike, this person loses a part of himself; he degenerates in mind, in soul and he feels it, although sometimes not knowing the na­ture of his feeling. Whether fear of going to hell, fear of getting caught, or confidence in his self-earned esteem be the reason, a person should not, must not, cheat, for he is only cheating himself. He cheats himself out of his right to earn that satisfied life that he knows is his and his alone."

ii Earlier in the year, The Technique began getting a series of extremely intelligent "Letters to the Editor" from a Junior Physics student, Dave Whisnant. The letters were o well received that the paper went out and hired Dave r a regular column. He now blasts away at himself and

"is fellow students in every issue.

inning through all of this verbage is the enormously ctical side of the Tech student. No one has come out

or an honor system, because no one believes that the cli-here is ready for it yet. What the crusaders want in

an * ° r d s o f P a u l Hodgson, editor of The Technique, is

takes fS,ty S y S t e m ' ° n e t h a t w e c a n a11 l i v e w i t h - I f it raculty pohce action to get it started, let's have it."

cepts of fCnt ° f t 0 d a > d ° e S n 0 t W a n t a r e t u r n t o t h e c o n -"lember i ,, m ° m h S a g ° w h e n a s e n i o r s a i d t 0 a f a c u l t y Hill was tn n Se r , 0Usnes s> "I thought the policy of the

3S t 0 all°w one free cheat."

^K I960

Arnold Berlin, EE '60. He spearheads the most active honor group on the Hill, The

Technique honor committee. Through his own strong editorial efforts, the tide changes.

T h e G e o r g i a T e c h Student: I960

EVEN HIS IDIOSYNCRASIES

ARE PRACTICAL

ASUDDEN rain shower or snow storm brines practical side of the Georgia Tech student—h

to adapt to changing conditions without break' As the picture on the cover indicates the umbrell coats are now standard equipment for the h months. But, as these pictures show, a sportv plastic covering, or an old box picked up from th " discards can be put to good use on a moment's .atnPUs

photographed by

Bernard Wenke, Jr.

11

T h e G e o r g i a T e c h Student: I960

EVEN HIS IDIOSYNCRASIES

ARE PRACTICAL

ASUDDEN rain shower or snow storm brines practical side of the Georgia Tech student—h

to adapt to changing conditions without break' As the picture on the cover indicates the umbrell coats are now standard equipment for the h months. But, as these pictures show, a sportv plastic covering, or an old box picked up from th " discards can be put to good use on a moment's .atnPUs

photographed by

Bernard Wenke, Jr.

11

The Georgia, Tech Student* I960

Georgia Tech photograph—Bob Bland

A PORTRAIT

OF T W O CLASSES

Dr. N . Z. Medal ia , a s s o c i a t e p r o f e s s of

12

Social Sc i ences at Tech compares fresh

c las ses of Tech and MIT. A s research fell

of the Southern Regional Education Board h

spent the year , 1958-59, studying, rather tha

teaching freshmen, h e r e at Georgia Tech

CLASS PORTRAITS come in many forms other than the stereotyped photograph of a large group of young

people dressed in commencement gowns and staring into a camera. This combined portrait of two freshman classe reflects figures instead of faces and percentages rather than personalities, it is the type of portrait that may help you to better understand the make-up of the student bodies of two of America's leading engineering universities—the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Although a great deal different at first glance (MIT is privately endowed and is located in the Northeast, while Georgia Tech is tax-supported and is located in the South­east) these two institutions have a lot in common including, as this portrait shows, a striking similarity in the social origin of their students.

In the fall of 1958, 1,054 freshmen at Georgia Tech answered a comprehensive survey during one of their regu­lar orientation periods. A year earlier, 815 entering fresh men at MIT had been subjected to much the same treat­ment. Since only 8% in each class failed to return the questionnaires, representative pictures of these two classe may be developed easily. Here is what these pictures shov

Social Characteristics

If these surveys are any indication, the masculine image < the engineer will be preserved intact in these two colleg generations: exactly 2% of those answering both surve; were women. And, this percentage is well above that all engineering students in the country who are woma The national percentage stood at 0.6% in 1957.

MIT freshmen run one to three years younger than th Georgia Tech counterparts: 25% of Tech '62 is 19 oro^ while only 5% of MIT '61 had reached that advanced at college entrance. The 16-year-old freshman is a rarity both institutions. At Tech he comprises less than 1% first-quarter students; at MIT, he represents 4%. The

TECH ALUMN"5

much more concentrated in the 17-18 age {reShmen are ^ ^ ^ T e c h (gi% for M n . range than are

lXc:c for Tec: - ^ o f t h i s difference in age distribution at ° " e C°trance is that marriage (or plans for marriage or

™ ent) figures more prominently in the lives of & !.ngJgfreshmen than in those of the MIT first-year men. the Teen ^ ^ ^ reported that they were married, 3 % TW° P r26% going steady, which leaves 69% of the Tech e n g a g e " tt„rhed For MIT freshmen, the corresponding

Geographic Origins

Although Georgia Tech is a tax-supported institution and

MIT is P" v a t e ' b o t h a r e e s s e n t i a l l y r e l i o n a l i n t h e geo" raphical origin of their students. The MIT freshman class f 1957 was 54% hard-core Yankee (the six New England

states, plus New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania), vhile60% of the Tech freshman class in 1958 came from the Old South. The next largest contingent at MIT (15% ) came from the Middle West; at Tech, second place (20%) went to the Border and New South states. In foreign stu­dents MIT had 6% while Tech had 4 % .

These figures show that only one fourth of the MIT fresh­men of 1957 were native to regions in the United States other than the Northeast and Middle West, and only 15% of Tech freshmen of 1958 count themselves American though non-Southern. Unfortunately, almost 70% of the entire United States population is American though non-Southern (1950 Census), so it could be argued that the Tech entrant will receive from his classmates an education in right-thinking somewhat more indigenous to his region than to his nation as a whole. In view of this, perhaps some of the effort devoted to bringing foreign students to Tech might be channeled usefully into exchange programs be­tween students at Southern and non-Southern technological universities.

Home Towns

City life predominates as the setting in which these fresh­men spent their pre-college and presumably most formative years. Two-thirds at MIT and over half at Tech lived in cities of 50,000 or over. Home town in the case of 46% K the MIT freshmen turns out to be a metropolis of half a million or more as the figures in Table I indicate.

Table I - Home-town backgrounds of students % livinq in

MIT '61 Tech '62

Metropolis of 500,000 or over or suburb

City, 100,000-500.000 C8y, 50,000 -100,000 C'ty, 10,000-50,000 Jown. 2.500-10,000 Kural Area

Continued on page 14

46% 13 9

16 II 5

26% 18 7

21 16 11

MIT Photo Service—/. Ralph Jackman M""-th, i 9 6 0

13

The Georgia, Tech Student* I960

Georgia Tech photograph—Bob Bland

A PORTRAIT

OF T W O CLASSES

Dr. N . Z. Medal ia , a s s o c i a t e p r o f e s s of

12

Social Sc i ences at Tech compares fresh

c las ses of Tech and MIT. A s research fell

of the Southern Regional Education Board h

spent the year , 1958-59, studying, rather tha

teaching freshmen, h e r e at Georgia Tech

CLASS PORTRAITS come in many forms other than the stereotyped photograph of a large group of young

people dressed in commencement gowns and staring into a camera. This combined portrait of two freshman classe reflects figures instead of faces and percentages rather than personalities, it is the type of portrait that may help you to better understand the make-up of the student bodies of two of America's leading engineering universities—the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Although a great deal different at first glance (MIT is privately endowed and is located in the Northeast, while Georgia Tech is tax-supported and is located in the South­east) these two institutions have a lot in common including, as this portrait shows, a striking similarity in the social origin of their students.

In the fall of 1958, 1,054 freshmen at Georgia Tech answered a comprehensive survey during one of their regu­lar orientation periods. A year earlier, 815 entering fresh men at MIT had been subjected to much the same treat­ment. Since only 8% in each class failed to return the questionnaires, representative pictures of these two classe may be developed easily. Here is what these pictures shov

Social Characteristics

If these surveys are any indication, the masculine image < the engineer will be preserved intact in these two colleg generations: exactly 2% of those answering both surve; were women. And, this percentage is well above that all engineering students in the country who are woma The national percentage stood at 0.6% in 1957.

MIT freshmen run one to three years younger than th Georgia Tech counterparts: 25% of Tech '62 is 19 oro^ while only 5% of MIT '61 had reached that advanced at college entrance. The 16-year-old freshman is a rarity both institutions. At Tech he comprises less than 1% first-quarter students; at MIT, he represents 4%. The

TECH ALUMN"5

much more concentrated in the 17-18 age {reShmen are ^ ^ ^ T e c h (gi% for M n . range than are

lXc:c for Tec: - ^ o f t h i s difference in age distribution at ° " e C°trance is that marriage (or plans for marriage or

™ ent) figures more prominently in the lives of & !.ngJgfreshmen than in those of the MIT first-year men. the Teen ^ ^ ^ reported that they were married, 3 % TW° P r26% going steady, which leaves 69% of the Tech e n g a g e " tt„rhed For MIT freshmen, the corresponding

Geographic Origins

Although Georgia Tech is a tax-supported institution and

MIT is P" v a t e ' b o t h a r e e s s e n t i a l l y r e l i o n a l i n t h e geo" raphical origin of their students. The MIT freshman class f 1957 was 54% hard-core Yankee (the six New England

states, plus New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania), vhile60% of the Tech freshman class in 1958 came from the Old South. The next largest contingent at MIT (15% ) came from the Middle West; at Tech, second place (20%) went to the Border and New South states. In foreign stu­dents MIT had 6% while Tech had 4 % .

These figures show that only one fourth of the MIT fresh­men of 1957 were native to regions in the United States other than the Northeast and Middle West, and only 15% of Tech freshmen of 1958 count themselves American though non-Southern. Unfortunately, almost 70% of the entire United States population is American though non-Southern (1950 Census), so it could be argued that the Tech entrant will receive from his classmates an education in right-thinking somewhat more indigenous to his region than to his nation as a whole. In view of this, perhaps some of the effort devoted to bringing foreign students to Tech might be channeled usefully into exchange programs be­tween students at Southern and non-Southern technological universities.

Home Towns

City life predominates as the setting in which these fresh­men spent their pre-college and presumably most formative years. Two-thirds at MIT and over half at Tech lived in cities of 50,000 or over. Home town in the case of 46% K the MIT freshmen turns out to be a metropolis of half a million or more as the figures in Table I indicate.

Table I - Home-town backgrounds of students % livinq in

MIT '61 Tech '62

Metropolis of 500,000 or over or suburb

City, 100,000-500.000 C8y, 50,000 -100,000 C'ty, 10,000-50,000 Jown. 2.500-10,000 Kural Area

Continued on page 14

46% 13 9

16 II 5

26% 18 7

21 16 11

MIT Photo Service—/. Ralph Jackman M""-th, i 9 6 0

13

Portrait in Duplicate-continued While the large metropolis dominated the distribution of

M I T freshmen by size of home community, Georgia Tech's is more even and bi-modal, coming to a peak at the level of the metropolis and also at that of the city 1 0 , 0 0 0 - 5 0 , 0 0 0 in size. In this respect these two student populations reflect the urbanization patterns of their regions of origin: the established metropolitan dominance in the Northeast and Middle-West; and the emerging metropolitan dominance in the South. In another respect, however, these two freshmen classes resemble each other much more than they do their regional bases: both attract very small contingents from rural areas: at Georgia Tech 1 0 % , at M I T 5 % .

In accounting for this small percentage, it is difficult to ascertain just how much weight should be given to the quality of secondary education in rural areas or to the occupational and educational ambitions of boys living in these areas. There is evidence from a 1956 study of Wis­consin high school seniors that the boys from the rural areas desire to enter high-level jobs with the same frequency as boys of non-farm residence. But, the rural boys have relatively less interest in college education, because they are not equally aware of the educational requirements for these jobs. (Haller, A. O. and Sewell, "Farm Residence and Levels of Aspiration," American Journal of Sociology, Jan. 1957) .

The magnitude of this problem of educational aspira­tion, especially in the South, may be indicated by the fact that sixty percent of all white males 15-19 years of age lived in rural areas (new census definition) of the South in 1950. In comparison, only 2 5 % of such youths were so classified in the Northeastern area of the country.

Home and Secondary School

Despite MIT's relatively high tuition, $1,100 per year, the distributions of MIT and Georgia Tech freshmen are sur­prisingly similar in reported parental income as Table II indicates.

Table II — Report Parental Income

Family's Present Annual Income MIT'61 Tech '62

American People," N.Y. 1955, pp 152-7.) It « work in technical and professional fields such ^ — r „ , i . . i . ^ ••, rr >•-><.-!.) J.t is intp fnthers worn m <•*-*• *

therefore, that approximately 8 5 % of the freshm 'n& w h ° S e hool teacher, CPA, metallurgist: Tech 7 % , MIT schools come from families which have an estim T *'

Under $5,000 5,000 to 8,000 8.000 plus to 10,000 10,000 plus to 15,000 15,000 plus to 25,000 Over 25,000 No response

15% 31 14 15 11 8 5

17% 34 17 14 S 4 7

I

On these figures, either Georgia Tech students could afford to pay about twice their present yearly tuition; or MIT must have a very substantial program of loans and scholar­ships for entering freshmen.

While we have no check on the accuracy of these stu­dents' estimates, there is evidence that, on the average, such estimates tend to understate rather than overstate the actual income by a tenth to a fifth. (Miller, H. P. "Income of the

14

both income of over $5,000. By comparison, only Tatf3""1131

U. S. families received $5,000 or more in I957 rn °^ 3" Survey of Current Business April ' 5 9 ) . i n Q e . ~-C. probable that no more than one fourth to one th ^H*' "* 'S

white families earned over $5,000 in 1958 (based Census 2 0 % sample in 1949, with assumption of 50 S' percent increase in annual income by date of est' ° The reader must decide whether these comparisons h ^ give rise to rejoicing that Tech and MIT students °fi themselves in such good financial company; or to c ' that these two institutions are able to develop prone. ately little scientific and technological potential ! families with incomes below the median.

Secondary Education

Similarity of background among Tech and MIT freshmen extends to the type of secondary school which they attend­ed. In both cases, the public high school strongly predorai nates ( M I T 8 0 % , Tech 8 5 % ) . A tenth of the freshmen at Georgia Tech, and 14% at MIT came from non-sectarian private schools, and parochial schools account for the remainder.

Father's Education and Occupation

MIT freshmen differ more from those at Georgia Tech with respect to fathers' education and occupation than they do in parental income. The greatest difference is that 19% of freshmen at MIT compared to 8% at Georgia Tech, said their fathers had attended graduate school. However, ap­proximately the same percentage in both schools reported fathers with terminal college degrees (21% Tech, 24% MIT), or with some college education (Tech 18%, MIT 13%) . Approximately the same proportion said their fa­thers were terminal high school graduates (Tech 21 MIT 2 4 % ) ; but a larger proportion at Tech reported that their fathers had not graduated from high school (Tech 26%, MIT 2 0 % ) .

Here again, the similarities in social origin of these fresh men, with respect to educational attainment of their fathers, outweighs dissimilarities of educational level in the region where their institutions are located. The 1950 census show that of all persons in the country 25 years and over, 6% had completed four or more years of higher education; 0 the other hand, 66% had left high school before gradua­tion. In Massachusetts, of the population 25 and over, 7' had taken four or more years of higher education, and 6( did not have a high school degree. In Georgia, considern only the white population 25 years and over, 5.7% college graduates, but 7 1 % had left high school bef graduation.

Turning now to occupation, the percentage of fres whose fathers are engineers is about the same 1 schools: Tech 6%, MIT 8%. Similar also is the percen

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as high ko7h"groups, the most frequently reported father's '*" '"• ° is business owner, agent or broker, or manage-occUpation ^ ^ ^ 3 7 % , MIT 3 8 % . Of freshmen whose ment emp°?a w h i t e c o i i a r jobs or skilled trades—e.g. retail fathers ar to military non-com, foremen, print-sales, c ien^ ^ a t T e c h j 2 4 % at MIT. Very few of the e r ' t h e r £ either group follow semi-skilled or service occu-

• (truck driver, machine operator, fireman): Tech PaI1°MIT 6%; and e v e n f e w e r a r e f a r m o w n e r s o r opera-

• Tech 3%, MIT 1%. As one might expect from the 5 on parents' education, the largest difference in parental

Spation comes at the level of professions which cus-X riiv reauire graduate education: doctor, lawyer, min-

t e r scientist. Seven percent of Techs 1962 class corn­ed to 18% of MIT's 1961 class reported that their

fathers followed such occupations. Put another way, as in Table III, the largest single group

of freshmen at both Tech and MIT have fathers in business or management. However, the second largest category of parental occupation among freshmen at Tech is that of clerical work or skilled trade, while at MIT it is that of professional or technical work.

Table III — Occupation Statistics

Pother's Occupation Tech '62 MIT'61

Professional or technical 20% 3 1 % Business and management 37 38 Clerical, Supervisory, Skilled Trade 32 24 Miscellaneous (farm owner, semi­

skilled, unreported) 11 7

Compared to the occupational distribution of men in the nation as a whole in 1950, the professional group is over-represented three to four times among the fathers of fresh­men at Tech and MIT; the business group is over-repre­sented three times; and the clerical or skilled group is represented by about the same proportion. However, the proportion of fathers of these freshman classes who work in unskilled or semi-skilled jobs is less than one sixth that in the occupational distribution of men nation-wide.

Summary

In comparing the freshman classes at these two institu­tions, we find many similarities. In both, students are for the most part public school products; they are mostly urban

ongin; and their families are at approximately the same «ls of annual income. The education of the fathers of

6 freshmen is much above the national average. And, at • two institutions it is much more similar than the differ­

ences; m educational attainment between populations in the ortheast and Southeast regions would lead one to expect.

tfleD a1' P r o b a b i l i t y , similarities in social origin between

two freshman classes simply reflect facts of life in our

l e a r n T ' 0 S O d e t y ' W U h r a r e e x c e P t i o n s , for a boy to the motivations that make him believe it is absolutely

M o « h , 1960

natural and necessary (not-simply desirable) to prepare for college entrance, it is not so important that he be bright as that he come from a relatively unusual type of socio­economic family background. For example, a study made at Harvard in 1950 explored the educational expectations of 3,000 boys in the Boston area, all sophomores and jun­iors in public high school. Among the brightest boys in this sample (top quintile I Q ) , 9 0 % whose fathers were profes­sional men or executives expected to go to college, while only 3 0 % from homes of unskilled or semi-skilled workers expected to do so. Among boys with below-average IQ for the sample (4th quintile), 7 0 % from the top occupational group still expected to go on to college, compared to 6% from the bottom. Of the entire sample, the proportion seek­ing college entrance increased from 12 to 80 percent, from the lowest to the highest occupational background; on the other hand, the proportion from the lowest to the highest quintile of intelligence increased from 11 to only 52 per­cent. (Kahl, Jr. "The American Class Structure," N.Y. '57, p. 283-4) . If developing intellectual resources were as lucrative as developing petroleum resources, in our society, these percentages might change somewhat.

To want to prepare for a "career in technology restricts still further the range of social origins of the college fresh­man but in an opposite way. Available evidence on this point indicates that from within the narrow range of fam­ilies that are effectively able to motivate their offspring towards higher education, the engineering freshman's fam­ily is more likely to be at the modest end in income and occupation than is the family of the freshman who intends to major in a theoretical science or liberal arts subject. Thus a recent study of a large national sample of high school seniors in the top 3 0 % of scholastic aptitude found that a third of the engineering aspirants, compared to only a quarter of the would-be scientists and mathemati­cians, came from lower white collar and skilled trade home backgrounds (data from Stice, G. et al., "Background Fac­tors and College-going Plans Among High Aptitude Public High School Seniors," Princeton 1956; quoted in Trow, M., "Some Implications of the Social Origins of Engineers," Scientific Manpower 1958, NSF 59-37, p . 6 8 ) .

Thus the fact that Georgia Tech and MIT are engineer­ing colleges, which enjoy excellent reputations in their re­spective regions, and set high standards for entrance, would seem to outweigh the differences between them in public or private status, tuition charged, or location, so far as the social origin of their entering students is concerned. How­ever, MIT's high emphasis, and reputation, in the field of graduate study may be a decisive factor in its stronger attraction to freshmen whose parents have themselves taken graduate education. In turn, one would expect to find this difference in social origin associated with differences in academic values and career motivations, among students in these two institutions. A future article in the Alumnus will explore these values and motivations, among entering fresh­men at Georgia Tech and MIT.

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Portrait in Duplicate-continued While the large metropolis dominated the distribution of

M I T freshmen by size of home community, Georgia Tech's is more even and bi-modal, coming to a peak at the level of the metropolis and also at that of the city 1 0 , 0 0 0 - 5 0 , 0 0 0 in size. In this respect these two student populations reflect the urbanization patterns of their regions of origin: the established metropolitan dominance in the Northeast and Middle-West; and the emerging metropolitan dominance in the South. In another respect, however, these two freshmen classes resemble each other much more than they do their regional bases: both attract very small contingents from rural areas: at Georgia Tech 1 0 % , at M I T 5 % .

In accounting for this small percentage, it is difficult to ascertain just how much weight should be given to the quality of secondary education in rural areas or to the occupational and educational ambitions of boys living in these areas. There is evidence from a 1956 study of Wis­consin high school seniors that the boys from the rural areas desire to enter high-level jobs with the same frequency as boys of non-farm residence. But, the rural boys have relatively less interest in college education, because they are not equally aware of the educational requirements for these jobs. (Haller, A. O. and Sewell, "Farm Residence and Levels of Aspiration," American Journal of Sociology, Jan. 1957) .

The magnitude of this problem of educational aspira­tion, especially in the South, may be indicated by the fact that sixty percent of all white males 15-19 years of age lived in rural areas (new census definition) of the South in 1950. In comparison, only 2 5 % of such youths were so classified in the Northeastern area of the country.

Home and Secondary School

Despite MIT's relatively high tuition, $1,100 per year, the distributions of MIT and Georgia Tech freshmen are sur­prisingly similar in reported parental income as Table II indicates.

Table II — Report Parental Income

Family's Present Annual Income MIT'61 Tech '62

American People," N.Y. 1955, pp 152-7.) It « work in technical and professional fields such ^ — r „ , i . . i . ^ ••, rr >•-><.-!.) J.t is intp fnthers worn m <•*-*• *

therefore, that approximately 8 5 % of the freshm 'n& w h ° S e hool teacher, CPA, metallurgist: Tech 7 % , MIT schools come from families which have an estim T *'

Under $5,000 5,000 to 8,000 8.000 plus to 10,000 10,000 plus to 15,000 15,000 plus to 25,000 Over 25,000 No response

15% 31 14 15 11 8 5

17% 34 17 14 S 4 7

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On these figures, either Georgia Tech students could afford to pay about twice their present yearly tuition; or MIT must have a very substantial program of loans and scholar­ships for entering freshmen.

While we have no check on the accuracy of these stu­dents' estimates, there is evidence that, on the average, such estimates tend to understate rather than overstate the actual income by a tenth to a fifth. (Miller, H. P. "Income of the

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both income of over $5,000. By comparison, only Tatf3""1131

U. S. families received $5,000 or more in I957 rn °^ 3" Survey of Current Business April ' 5 9 ) . i n Q e . ~-C. probable that no more than one fourth to one th ^H*' "* 'S

white families earned over $5,000 in 1958 (based Census 2 0 % sample in 1949, with assumption of 50 S' percent increase in annual income by date of est' ° The reader must decide whether these comparisons h ^ give rise to rejoicing that Tech and MIT students °fi themselves in such good financial company; or to c ' that these two institutions are able to develop prone. ately little scientific and technological potential ! families with incomes below the median.

Secondary Education

Similarity of background among Tech and MIT freshmen extends to the type of secondary school which they attend­ed. In both cases, the public high school strongly predorai nates ( M I T 8 0 % , Tech 8 5 % ) . A tenth of the freshmen at Georgia Tech, and 14% at MIT came from non-sectarian private schools, and parochial schools account for the remainder.

Father's Education and Occupation

MIT freshmen differ more from those at Georgia Tech with respect to fathers' education and occupation than they do in parental income. The greatest difference is that 19% of freshmen at MIT compared to 8% at Georgia Tech, said their fathers had attended graduate school. However, ap­proximately the same percentage in both schools reported fathers with terminal college degrees (21% Tech, 24% MIT), or with some college education (Tech 18%, MIT 13%) . Approximately the same proportion said their fa­thers were terminal high school graduates (Tech 21 MIT 2 4 % ) ; but a larger proportion at Tech reported that their fathers had not graduated from high school (Tech 26%, MIT 2 0 % ) .

Here again, the similarities in social origin of these fresh men, with respect to educational attainment of their fathers, outweighs dissimilarities of educational level in the region where their institutions are located. The 1950 census show that of all persons in the country 25 years and over, 6% had completed four or more years of higher education; 0 the other hand, 66% had left high school before gradua­tion. In Massachusetts, of the population 25 and over, 7' had taken four or more years of higher education, and 6( did not have a high school degree. In Georgia, considern only the white population 25 years and over, 5.7% college graduates, but 7 1 % had left high school bef graduation.

Turning now to occupation, the percentage of fres whose fathers are engineers is about the same 1 schools: Tech 6%, MIT 8%. Similar also is the percen

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as high ko7h"groups, the most frequently reported father's '*" '"• ° is business owner, agent or broker, or manage-occUpation ^ ^ ^ 3 7 % , MIT 3 8 % . Of freshmen whose ment emp°?a w h i t e c o i i a r jobs or skilled trades—e.g. retail fathers ar to military non-com, foremen, print-sales, c ien^ ^ a t T e c h j 2 4 % at MIT. Very few of the e r ' t h e r £ either group follow semi-skilled or service occu-

• (truck driver, machine operator, fireman): Tech PaI1°MIT 6%; and e v e n f e w e r a r e f a r m o w n e r s o r opera-

• Tech 3%, MIT 1%. As one might expect from the 5 on parents' education, the largest difference in parental

Spation comes at the level of professions which cus-X riiv reauire graduate education: doctor, lawyer, min-

t e r scientist. Seven percent of Techs 1962 class corn­ed to 18% of MIT's 1961 class reported that their

fathers followed such occupations. Put another way, as in Table III, the largest single group

of freshmen at both Tech and MIT have fathers in business or management. However, the second largest category of parental occupation among freshmen at Tech is that of clerical work or skilled trade, while at MIT it is that of professional or technical work.

Table III — Occupation Statistics

Pother's Occupation Tech '62 MIT'61

Professional or technical 20% 3 1 % Business and management 37 38 Clerical, Supervisory, Skilled Trade 32 24 Miscellaneous (farm owner, semi­

skilled, unreported) 11 7

Compared to the occupational distribution of men in the nation as a whole in 1950, the professional group is over-represented three to four times among the fathers of fresh­men at Tech and MIT; the business group is over-repre­sented three times; and the clerical or skilled group is represented by about the same proportion. However, the proportion of fathers of these freshman classes who work in unskilled or semi-skilled jobs is less than one sixth that in the occupational distribution of men nation-wide.

Summary

In comparing the freshman classes at these two institu­tions, we find many similarities. In both, students are for the most part public school products; they are mostly urban

ongin; and their families are at approximately the same «ls of annual income. The education of the fathers of

6 freshmen is much above the national average. And, at • two institutions it is much more similar than the differ­

ences; m educational attainment between populations in the ortheast and Southeast regions would lead one to expect.

tfleD a1' P r o b a b i l i t y , similarities in social origin between

two freshman classes simply reflect facts of life in our

l e a r n T ' 0 S O d e t y ' W U h r a r e e x c e P t i o n s , for a boy to the motivations that make him believe it is absolutely

M o « h , 1960

natural and necessary (not-simply desirable) to prepare for college entrance, it is not so important that he be bright as that he come from a relatively unusual type of socio­economic family background. For example, a study made at Harvard in 1950 explored the educational expectations of 3,000 boys in the Boston area, all sophomores and jun­iors in public high school. Among the brightest boys in this sample (top quintile I Q ) , 9 0 % whose fathers were profes­sional men or executives expected to go to college, while only 3 0 % from homes of unskilled or semi-skilled workers expected to do so. Among boys with below-average IQ for the sample (4th quintile), 7 0 % from the top occupational group still expected to go on to college, compared to 6% from the bottom. Of the entire sample, the proportion seek­ing college entrance increased from 12 to 80 percent, from the lowest to the highest occupational background; on the other hand, the proportion from the lowest to the highest quintile of intelligence increased from 11 to only 52 per­cent. (Kahl, Jr. "The American Class Structure," N.Y. '57, p. 283-4) . If developing intellectual resources were as lucrative as developing petroleum resources, in our society, these percentages might change somewhat.

To want to prepare for a "career in technology restricts still further the range of social origins of the college fresh­man but in an opposite way. Available evidence on this point indicates that from within the narrow range of fam­ilies that are effectively able to motivate their offspring towards higher education, the engineering freshman's fam­ily is more likely to be at the modest end in income and occupation than is the family of the freshman who intends to major in a theoretical science or liberal arts subject. Thus a recent study of a large national sample of high school seniors in the top 3 0 % of scholastic aptitude found that a third of the engineering aspirants, compared to only a quarter of the would-be scientists and mathemati­cians, came from lower white collar and skilled trade home backgrounds (data from Stice, G. et al., "Background Fac­tors and College-going Plans Among High Aptitude Public High School Seniors," Princeton 1956; quoted in Trow, M., "Some Implications of the Social Origins of Engineers," Scientific Manpower 1958, NSF 59-37, p . 6 8 ) .

Thus the fact that Georgia Tech and MIT are engineer­ing colleges, which enjoy excellent reputations in their re­spective regions, and set high standards for entrance, would seem to outweigh the differences between them in public or private status, tuition charged, or location, so far as the social origin of their entering students is concerned. How­ever, MIT's high emphasis, and reputation, in the field of graduate study may be a decisive factor in its stronger attraction to freshmen whose parents have themselves taken graduate education. In turn, one would expect to find this difference in social origin associated with differences in academic values and career motivations, among students in these two institutions. A future article in the Alumnus will explore these values and motivations, among entering fresh­men at Georgia Tech and MIT.

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T h e Georgia, Tech Student-I960

HIS HEROES NOW

W E A R SHORT PANTS

THE THIN GOLD LINE, slightly frayed by a tough b etball season, almost snapped during its final fon * games, but recovered enough to finish second in the S m eastern Conference and receive an NCAA bid for th time in Tech's history.

Physically exhausted and obviously off their feed th Jackets lost to Tennessee, 56-57, in the last second of nl then edged Georgia 69-68. They were forced into overtim before beating Florida 69-55, and finally lost a tie for th SEC crown (won by Auburn) in the final regular game o the season when Vanderbilt beat them 57-62 in Nashville

The Tech team finished in the first ten nationally for the first time in history (8th in the AP poll and 13th in the UPI poll) with their best-in-Tech's-history 21-5 record Their conference record was 11-3.

Individual honors came thick and fast for Coach Whack Hyder and his boys at the close of the season. Roger Kai­ser led the conference in scoring with a 22.5 average and made every all-SEC team. He was also selected on the sec­ond team on almost all of the all-America teams at the end of the season. Senior Dave Denton made all of the all-SEC teams. And Coach Hyder was the number four choice in the national poll for Coach of the Year.

Because Auburn is still on NCAA probation (for foot­ball reasons), Tech represented the SEC at the regional NCAA tournament in Louisville, Kentucky, March 11,12

In its first game against Ohio University (Mideast re­gional semifinals) Tech came from behind to win in the closing minutes of a thriller. Trailing 30-42 with but 13 minutes on the clock, the Jackets rallied back of Roge Kaiser and Dave Denton to pull it out, 57-54.

In the finals in Louisville, the Jackets tangled with i rough, tough, Ohio State team and gallantly went down to defeat, 69-86. Outmanned by the country's number thre team. Tech stayed close until the last ten minutes when Wayne Richards fouled out leaving them with a tragic height disadvantage. Roger Kaiser scored 52 points in tr two games and was named to the regional team.

Tech's first all-America basketball player, Roger Kaiser, lets fly for two points as the half runs out against Mississippi State. He was named unanimously as one of the coun­try's top ten basketball players of the season.

Photograph—Bill Diehl, Jr.

16 TECH AIOMNUS

EXPANDING THE F R O N T I E R S

OF S P A C E TECHNOLOGY Lockheed Missiles and Space Division is prime contractor for the Navy POLARIS Fleet Ballistic Missile; the Air Force AGENA Satellite in the DISCOVERER program; MIDAS

infrared detection satellite system; SAMOS satellite pro­gram; Air Force X-7; and Army KINGFISHER.

These programs include: celestial mechanics; com­puter research and development; electromagnetic wave propagation and radiation; electronics; the flight sciences; human engineering; magnetohydrodynamics; man in space; materials and processes; applied mathematics; operations research and analysis; ionic, nuclear and plasma propulsion and exotic fuels; sonics; space com­munications; space medicine; space navigation; and space physics.

Headquarters for the Division are at Sunnyvale, Cali­fornia, on the San Francisco Peninsula, and research and development facilities are in the Stanford Industrial Park in Palo Alto and at Van Nuys in the San Fernando Valley.

Facilities are new and modern and include the latest in

technical equipment. A 4,000 acre Division-owned static

test base in the Ben Lomond mountains near Santa Cruz

provides for all phases of static field test. In addition,

flight test facilities are provided at Cape Canaveral,

Florida, and Vandenberg AFB, Santa Maria, California.

ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS

Such programs reach into the future and deal with

unknown and stimulating environments. It is a rewarding

future with a company that has an outstanding record

of progress and achievement. If you are experienced in

any of the above areas, or in related work, we invite your

inquiry. Please write: Research and Development Staff,

Dept. C-52KK, 962 W. El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, Cali­

fornia. U. S. citizenship or existing Department of Defense

clearance required.

Lockheed MISSILES AND SPACE DIVISION JNNYVALE, PALO ALTO. VAN NUYS. SANTA CRUZ. SANTA MARIA. CALIFORNIA • CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA • ALAMOGORDO. NEW MEXICO • HAWAII

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T h e Georgia, Tech Student-I960

HIS HEROES NOW

W E A R SHORT PANTS

THE THIN GOLD LINE, slightly frayed by a tough b etball season, almost snapped during its final fon * games, but recovered enough to finish second in the S m eastern Conference and receive an NCAA bid for th time in Tech's history.

Physically exhausted and obviously off their feed th Jackets lost to Tennessee, 56-57, in the last second of nl then edged Georgia 69-68. They were forced into overtim before beating Florida 69-55, and finally lost a tie for th SEC crown (won by Auburn) in the final regular game o the season when Vanderbilt beat them 57-62 in Nashville

The Tech team finished in the first ten nationally for the first time in history (8th in the AP poll and 13th in the UPI poll) with their best-in-Tech's-history 21-5 record Their conference record was 11-3.

Individual honors came thick and fast for Coach Whack Hyder and his boys at the close of the season. Roger Kai­ser led the conference in scoring with a 22.5 average and made every all-SEC team. He was also selected on the sec­ond team on almost all of the all-America teams at the end of the season. Senior Dave Denton made all of the all-SEC teams. And Coach Hyder was the number four choice in the national poll for Coach of the Year.

Because Auburn is still on NCAA probation (for foot­ball reasons), Tech represented the SEC at the regional NCAA tournament in Louisville, Kentucky, March 11,12

In its first game against Ohio University (Mideast re­gional semifinals) Tech came from behind to win in the closing minutes of a thriller. Trailing 30-42 with but 13 minutes on the clock, the Jackets rallied back of Roge Kaiser and Dave Denton to pull it out, 57-54.

In the finals in Louisville, the Jackets tangled with i rough, tough, Ohio State team and gallantly went down to defeat, 69-86. Outmanned by the country's number thre team. Tech stayed close until the last ten minutes when Wayne Richards fouled out leaving them with a tragic height disadvantage. Roger Kaiser scored 52 points in tr two games and was named to the regional team.

Tech's first all-America basketball player, Roger Kaiser, lets fly for two points as the half runs out against Mississippi State. He was named unanimously as one of the coun­try's top ten basketball players of the season.

Photograph—Bill Diehl, Jr.

16 TECH AIOMNUS

EXPANDING THE F R O N T I E R S

OF S P A C E TECHNOLOGY Lockheed Missiles and Space Division is prime contractor for the Navy POLARIS Fleet Ballistic Missile; the Air Force AGENA Satellite in the DISCOVERER program; MIDAS

infrared detection satellite system; SAMOS satellite pro­gram; Air Force X-7; and Army KINGFISHER.

These programs include: celestial mechanics; com­puter research and development; electromagnetic wave propagation and radiation; electronics; the flight sciences; human engineering; magnetohydrodynamics; man in space; materials and processes; applied mathematics; operations research and analysis; ionic, nuclear and plasma propulsion and exotic fuels; sonics; space com­munications; space medicine; space navigation; and space physics.

Headquarters for the Division are at Sunnyvale, Cali­fornia, on the San Francisco Peninsula, and research and development facilities are in the Stanford Industrial Park in Palo Alto and at Van Nuys in the San Fernando Valley.

Facilities are new and modern and include the latest in

technical equipment. A 4,000 acre Division-owned static

test base in the Ben Lomond mountains near Santa Cruz

provides for all phases of static field test. In addition,

flight test facilities are provided at Cape Canaveral,

Florida, and Vandenberg AFB, Santa Maria, California.

ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS

Such programs reach into the future and deal with

unknown and stimulating environments. It is a rewarding

future with a company that has an outstanding record

of progress and achievement. If you are experienced in

any of the above areas, or in related work, we invite your

inquiry. Please write: Research and Development Staff,

Dept. C-52KK, 962 W. El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, Cali­

fornia. U. S. citizenship or existing Department of Defense

clearance required.

Lockheed MISSILES AND SPACE DIVISION JNNYVALE, PALO ALTO. VAN NUYS. SANTA CRUZ. SANTA MARIA. CALIFORNIA • CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA • ALAMOGORDO. NEW MEXICO • HAWAII

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Honorary alumnus, Ed Danforth, '59, returns

with his preview of the 1960 spring practice

w h i t e y Urban, assistant Var-Or° , i na u cince 1951. left to become roach since „ _ _ . . „ . „ „ T „„• •

A SPRINGTIME LOOK AT THE FALL CROP

BEFORE APPRAISING the 1960 Georgia Tech football team now engaged in

spring practice, let us take a backward glance at that swash-buckling company that carried us through one thriller after another in 1959 and into the Gator Bowl before bowing off the field. No matter what the Yellow Jackets do this trip, they cannot hope to exceed the melo­dramatic succession of close games that the old gentlemen of last year gave us.

Lacking a real running threat at half­back and hampered by injuries to the dedicated gallopers who gave it all they had, they undertook the toughest sched­ule a Tech team has tackled in modern times. As the games were played, they could have won all ten or lost all ten so thin was the margin of victory or de­feat. That they had a 6-4-0 card was due to the rare spirit they gave to every chal­lenge. It may be said that they won five of their first six games by the superb leadership of Captain Maxie Baughan and the sensational defensive play that made him everybody's AU-American and by the sharp quarterbacking of Fred Braselton. Not until Braselton was in­jured did the effectiveness of the team suffer.

Winning football teams always have two or three outstanding players who lift them out of the heavy going. The Yellow Jackets lose Baughan and Brasel­ton. The success of this campaign will depend on whether take-charge players can be uncovered to accept the demand of another big schedule. Practice started March 28 and will be concluded April 29 in the squad game. Then the picture will come in focus.

Championship teams sometimes come through when the schedule develops soft spots. The 1959 Engineers found no cousins in that parade of tough char­acters they faced. This one will find the going equally grim. Clemson, SMU and Notre Dame all three of whom were taken by close scores have been replaced by Rice, Florida and Louisiana State. None but a starry eyed handicapper would give the 1960 club better than an even chance against Rice, Florida and Louisiana State.

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So as the husky troopers—they ARE big for sure—start the tedious process of fitting themselves into a new force they will be looking down a road as bouncy as the last team had and without players who have been established as virtuosos of the game. Robert Lee Dodd's bright young men cannot miss the ob­vious dare given them.

It appears that this year's crew will be thin at ends, stronger than ever at tackles, adequate at guards, uncertain at center. The quarterback post is deco­rated with question marks, left half is thinly manned, right half is in good shape and so is the fullback post. From the freshmen may come reinforcements to give the team a good chance to keep up "in the middle of the conference."

Here's a fast run-down: at left end is Captain Gerald Burch, an All-American prospect, currently sitting out practice to recover from a knee operation; Jim Powell, good offensive end, Butch Carter, excellent defensive man; at right end where Co-captain Fred Murphy was lost by disciplinary action is Terry Evans who has logged no time. Taz Anderson (originally an end) will give the spot a whirl this spring. The best freshman for the spot is John Wright.

Left tackle is elegantly guarded by Billy Shaw, Russ Foret and Dave Stead-man. Over at right tackle are Ed Nutting, one of the best in the league, and Bob Lincoln. The left guards are Harold Ericksen and Jack Moss with a good looking Freshman, Rufus Guthrie, of Smyrna, Ga., standing by. At right guard are Mike Nicholl, George Swanson and a hot Freshman, Dave Watson, of Eu-faula, Ala. The centers are ready and willing to try to take up the slack of Baughan's departure. Willie McGaughey was Maxie's replacement last year and did well. Roy Holt was hampered by a knee but can go now. Carlton Waskey needs lots of work. Ed Chancey is a transfer from FSU. Bobby Caldwell, of Columbus, Miss., and John Matlock, of Norfolk are Freshmen who looked great last fall. Anyhow they are deep at center.

Marvin Tibbetts looks like the boss quarterback to put the show on the road.

He .s a fine safety man and had 800(I

days passing. Jimmy Sides and Wai, Howard have established themselves' fensively. The lads in the spotlight not are Stan Gann and Bobby McKenzfe

. « y . a r ! . „ t , h e . ! 1 0 p e l u l s o f t h e caching ere staff to make the offense go. They w

good in high school and were coached earnestly on defense last year without putting a cleat into a Varsity game If either lad comes through, it would help

At left half they will miss Floyd Fau cette who could do everything well. Chick Graning is the lone experienced hand Coaches are high on Tom Winingder. of Norfolk, who can move and may "develop into a good pass defender. At right half they are better off with Billy Williamson, Frank Nix, Jimmy Nail, and a couple of good Freshman prospects. The coaches are certain to do some shifting in the halfback ranks as they go along. At full­back are Taz Anderson, Ben Smith, Lee Reid, Larry Lafkowitz and Don Coker. a transfer from North Carolina. Though, as we said earlier, it is likely that Ander­son will show up at his old post at right end where the troops are so few. The big fellow was chosen Alternate Captain after Murphy was lost.

The Engineers are armed with good kickers in Burch, Coker and Tommy Wells, the placement specialist. They will not have a linebacker like Baughan. neither will any team they play. A good passer is yet to be found and the jack-rabbit who can go all the way has not yet been flushed.

By winning so many games by clos margins the 1959 outfit finished 6-4-C This one will need some of that s; deft touch in close ones to finish 5-5-u. which is a decent card these days. 1 Engineers play Kentucky, LSU. Tutane Tennessee and Alabama at home, have Rice, Florida, Auburn (at Birming­ham on a new contract), Duke, _an Georgia on the road. Any soft toucn that list is not visible to the unaided eye-

Ray Graves after thirteen years boss the defense left to be head coacri athletic director at Florida to replace : Woodruff. His post was given to M R a « a surressful line coach at •

•

: ° a j Jrtor at Southwestern Louisi-th|ctlC J | r e C „. a ~Uo„,™>c s a w Tr,hn

ana Lite. Staff changes saw John

.«!i InstH1 • ( rtinir Tnmnn m o v e d nn '"liell and Dick Inman moved up Rol,ert Varsity crew and Jimmy Carlen in ^hrad Fershman coach.

like another wild scramble in theastern again. Year in and year

lhe ole Miss can field a team capable of n *nvbodv in the league. Auburn

bea" me nearer holding the Rebels 1 C?hm the others. This trip the top

f lienors should be Georgia, still hold-L h cards in Tarkenton, Dye and

%nd LSU, still well armed with a Hrown anu uw< Lch of top notch players.

The next bracket should find Tennes-Florida. Alabama. Kentucky and

Tech evenly matched. The chances are Tulane. Vanderbilt and Mississippi

g[ t e will be a bit short for the long pull.

THE I960 SCHEDULES

Football Sept. 17—Kentucky Atlanta Sept. 24—Rice Houston 0ct. 1—Florida . Gainesville 0ct. 8—L.S.U. - Atlanta Oct. 15—Auburn Birmingham

•Oct. 22—Tulane Atlanta Oct. 29—Duke Durham Nov. 5—Tennessee Atlanta Nov. 12—Alabama Atlanta Nov. 19—Open Open Nov. 26—Georgia Athens

'Homecoming game.

Baseball

Mar. 21—Stetson Deland Mar. 22—Stetson . . Deland

Mar. 24—Army (U.S. Military Acad.) Coral Gables

Mar. 24—Miami Coral Gables Mar. 25—Army Coral Gables Mar. 26—Miami Coral Gables Mar. 29—Clemson Atlanta Mar. 31—Clemson Clemson Apr. 1—Auburn Atlanta Apr. 2—Auburn Atlanta Apr. 8—Kentucky Atlanta Apr. 9—Kentucky Atlanta Apr. 11—Tennessee Atlanta Apr. 12—Tennessee Atlanta Apr. 15—Florida Atlanta Apr. 16—Florida Atlanta Apr. 22—Auburn Auburn Apr. 23—Auburn Auburn Apr. 25—Vanderbilt .Nashville Apr. 26—Vanderbilt Nashville Apr. 29—Georgia Atlanta Apr. 30—Georgia Atlanta May 3—Mercer Atlanta May 6—Florida Gainesville May 7—Florida Gainesville May 10—Mercer Macon May 13—Georgia Athens May 14—Georgia Athens

Track

Feb. 20—Coliseum Relays Montgomery Mar. 19—Jaycee Invitational

Chattanooga Mar. 23—Stetson Deland Mar. 26—Florida Relays Gainesville Apr. 2—Florida Gainesville Apr. 9—Furman Greenville Apr. 16—Georgia Athens Apr. 23—Miami Miami May 7—Auburn Atlanta May 14—Alabama Atlanta May 20 & 21—S.E.C. Meet Gainesville May 28—Georgia A.A.U. Meet Atlanta

Golf

Mar. 21—Florida State Tallahassee Mar. 22—Florida Gainesville Mar. 23—Rollins Winter Park Mar. 24—Florida Southern .Lakeland Apr. 1—Florida Atlanta Apr. 8—Vanderbilt Atlanta Apr. 11 —Georgia Athens Apr. 18—Tennessee Knoxville Apr. 27—Auburn Atlanta May 5, 6 and 7—SEC &

Southern Inter-Collegiate Championships Athens

May 13—Tennessee Atlanta May 17—Georgia Atlanta May 21—Auburn Auburn

Tennis

Mar. 22—Florida Gainesville Mar. 23—Rollins .Winter Park Mar. 25—Miami Miami Mar. 26—Yale Miami Mar. 29—Davidson Atlanta Mar. 30—Georgia Atlanta Mar. 31—Michigan State Atlanta Apr. 2—Auburn Auburn Apr. 6—Emory Atlanta Apr. 9—Vanderbilt Nashville Apr. 11—Miami Atlanta Apr. 14—Cincinnati Atlanta Apr. 15—L.S.U Baton Rouge Apr. 16—Tulane New Orleans Apr. 18—Florida Atlanta Apr. 19—Presbyterian Atlanta Apr. 23—Tennessee Knoxville Apr. 25—Presbyterian Clinton Apr. 27—Georgia Athens Apr. 29, 30—Georgia Intercollegiate

Tournament Athens May 6—Tennessee Atlanta May 12, 13 and 14—SEC

Championships Knoxville

YELLOW J A C K E T - C O N F I D E N T I A L , Ed Danforth's intimate on the scene report on the Georgia Tech football team goes into its tenth season, more popular with Tech men than ever, the next best thing to a seat on the 50-yard line in the West Stands.

GET YOUR f ! Order your YELLOW JACKET-CONFIDENTIAL now to

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I

Honorary alumnus, Ed Danforth, '59, returns

with his preview of the 1960 spring practice

w h i t e y Urban, assistant Var-Or° , i na u cince 1951. left to become roach since „ _ _ . . „ . „ „ T „„• •

A SPRINGTIME LOOK AT THE FALL CROP

BEFORE APPRAISING the 1960 Georgia Tech football team now engaged in

spring practice, let us take a backward glance at that swash-buckling company that carried us through one thriller after another in 1959 and into the Gator Bowl before bowing off the field. No matter what the Yellow Jackets do this trip, they cannot hope to exceed the melo­dramatic succession of close games that the old gentlemen of last year gave us.

Lacking a real running threat at half­back and hampered by injuries to the dedicated gallopers who gave it all they had, they undertook the toughest sched­ule a Tech team has tackled in modern times. As the games were played, they could have won all ten or lost all ten so thin was the margin of victory or de­feat. That they had a 6-4-0 card was due to the rare spirit they gave to every chal­lenge. It may be said that they won five of their first six games by the superb leadership of Captain Maxie Baughan and the sensational defensive play that made him everybody's AU-American and by the sharp quarterbacking of Fred Braselton. Not until Braselton was in­jured did the effectiveness of the team suffer.

Winning football teams always have two or three outstanding players who lift them out of the heavy going. The Yellow Jackets lose Baughan and Brasel­ton. The success of this campaign will depend on whether take-charge players can be uncovered to accept the demand of another big schedule. Practice started March 28 and will be concluded April 29 in the squad game. Then the picture will come in focus.

Championship teams sometimes come through when the schedule develops soft spots. The 1959 Engineers found no cousins in that parade of tough char­acters they faced. This one will find the going equally grim. Clemson, SMU and Notre Dame all three of whom were taken by close scores have been replaced by Rice, Florida and Louisiana State. None but a starry eyed handicapper would give the 1960 club better than an even chance against Rice, Florida and Louisiana State.

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So as the husky troopers—they ARE big for sure—start the tedious process of fitting themselves into a new force they will be looking down a road as bouncy as the last team had and without players who have been established as virtuosos of the game. Robert Lee Dodd's bright young men cannot miss the ob­vious dare given them.

It appears that this year's crew will be thin at ends, stronger than ever at tackles, adequate at guards, uncertain at center. The quarterback post is deco­rated with question marks, left half is thinly manned, right half is in good shape and so is the fullback post. From the freshmen may come reinforcements to give the team a good chance to keep up "in the middle of the conference."

Here's a fast run-down: at left end is Captain Gerald Burch, an All-American prospect, currently sitting out practice to recover from a knee operation; Jim Powell, good offensive end, Butch Carter, excellent defensive man; at right end where Co-captain Fred Murphy was lost by disciplinary action is Terry Evans who has logged no time. Taz Anderson (originally an end) will give the spot a whirl this spring. The best freshman for the spot is John Wright.

Left tackle is elegantly guarded by Billy Shaw, Russ Foret and Dave Stead-man. Over at right tackle are Ed Nutting, one of the best in the league, and Bob Lincoln. The left guards are Harold Ericksen and Jack Moss with a good looking Freshman, Rufus Guthrie, of Smyrna, Ga., standing by. At right guard are Mike Nicholl, George Swanson and a hot Freshman, Dave Watson, of Eu-faula, Ala. The centers are ready and willing to try to take up the slack of Baughan's departure. Willie McGaughey was Maxie's replacement last year and did well. Roy Holt was hampered by a knee but can go now. Carlton Waskey needs lots of work. Ed Chancey is a transfer from FSU. Bobby Caldwell, of Columbus, Miss., and John Matlock, of Norfolk are Freshmen who looked great last fall. Anyhow they are deep at center.

Marvin Tibbetts looks like the boss quarterback to put the show on the road.

He .s a fine safety man and had 800(I

days passing. Jimmy Sides and Wai, Howard have established themselves' fensively. The lads in the spotlight not are Stan Gann and Bobby McKenzfe

. « y . a r ! . „ t , h e . ! 1 0 p e l u l s o f t h e caching ere staff to make the offense go. They w

good in high school and were coached earnestly on defense last year without putting a cleat into a Varsity game If either lad comes through, it would help

At left half they will miss Floyd Fau cette who could do everything well. Chick Graning is the lone experienced hand Coaches are high on Tom Winingder. of Norfolk, who can move and may "develop into a good pass defender. At right half they are better off with Billy Williamson, Frank Nix, Jimmy Nail, and a couple of good Freshman prospects. The coaches are certain to do some shifting in the halfback ranks as they go along. At full­back are Taz Anderson, Ben Smith, Lee Reid, Larry Lafkowitz and Don Coker. a transfer from North Carolina. Though, as we said earlier, it is likely that Ander­son will show up at his old post at right end where the troops are so few. The big fellow was chosen Alternate Captain after Murphy was lost.

The Engineers are armed with good kickers in Burch, Coker and Tommy Wells, the placement specialist. They will not have a linebacker like Baughan. neither will any team they play. A good passer is yet to be found and the jack-rabbit who can go all the way has not yet been flushed.

By winning so many games by clos margins the 1959 outfit finished 6-4-C This one will need some of that s; deft touch in close ones to finish 5-5-u. which is a decent card these days. 1 Engineers play Kentucky, LSU. Tutane Tennessee and Alabama at home, have Rice, Florida, Auburn (at Birming­ham on a new contract), Duke, _an Georgia on the road. Any soft toucn that list is not visible to the unaided eye-

Ray Graves after thirteen years boss the defense left to be head coacri athletic director at Florida to replace : Woodruff. His post was given to M R a « a surressful line coach at •

•

: ° a j Jrtor at Southwestern Louisi-th|ctlC J | r e C „. a ~Uo„,™>c s a w Tr,hn

ana Lite. Staff changes saw John

.«!i InstH1 • ( rtinir Tnmnn m o v e d nn '"liell and Dick Inman moved up Rol,ert Varsity crew and Jimmy Carlen in ^hrad Fershman coach.

like another wild scramble in theastern again. Year in and year

lhe ole Miss can field a team capable of n *nvbodv in the league. Auburn

bea" me nearer holding the Rebels 1 C?hm the others. This trip the top

f lienors should be Georgia, still hold-L h cards in Tarkenton, Dye and

%nd LSU, still well armed with a Hrown anu uw< Lch of top notch players.

The next bracket should find Tennes-Florida. Alabama. Kentucky and

Tech evenly matched. The chances are Tulane. Vanderbilt and Mississippi

g[ t e will be a bit short for the long pull.

THE I960 SCHEDULES

Football Sept. 17—Kentucky Atlanta Sept. 24—Rice Houston 0ct. 1—Florida . Gainesville 0ct. 8—L.S.U. - Atlanta Oct. 15—Auburn Birmingham

•Oct. 22—Tulane Atlanta Oct. 29—Duke Durham Nov. 5—Tennessee Atlanta Nov. 12—Alabama Atlanta Nov. 19—Open Open Nov. 26—Georgia Athens

'Homecoming game.

Baseball

Mar. 21—Stetson Deland Mar. 22—Stetson . . Deland

Mar. 24—Army (U.S. Military Acad.) Coral Gables

Mar. 24—Miami Coral Gables Mar. 25—Army Coral Gables Mar. 26—Miami Coral Gables Mar. 29—Clemson Atlanta Mar. 31—Clemson Clemson Apr. 1—Auburn Atlanta Apr. 2—Auburn Atlanta Apr. 8—Kentucky Atlanta Apr. 9—Kentucky Atlanta Apr. 11—Tennessee Atlanta Apr. 12—Tennessee Atlanta Apr. 15—Florida Atlanta Apr. 16—Florida Atlanta Apr. 22—Auburn Auburn Apr. 23—Auburn Auburn Apr. 25—Vanderbilt .Nashville Apr. 26—Vanderbilt Nashville Apr. 29—Georgia Atlanta Apr. 30—Georgia Atlanta May 3—Mercer Atlanta May 6—Florida Gainesville May 7—Florida Gainesville May 10—Mercer Macon May 13—Georgia Athens May 14—Georgia Athens

Track

Feb. 20—Coliseum Relays Montgomery Mar. 19—Jaycee Invitational

Chattanooga Mar. 23—Stetson Deland Mar. 26—Florida Relays Gainesville Apr. 2—Florida Gainesville Apr. 9—Furman Greenville Apr. 16—Georgia Athens Apr. 23—Miami Miami May 7—Auburn Atlanta May 14—Alabama Atlanta May 20 & 21—S.E.C. Meet Gainesville May 28—Georgia A.A.U. Meet Atlanta

Golf

Mar. 21—Florida State Tallahassee Mar. 22—Florida Gainesville Mar. 23—Rollins Winter Park Mar. 24—Florida Southern .Lakeland Apr. 1—Florida Atlanta Apr. 8—Vanderbilt Atlanta Apr. 11 —Georgia Athens Apr. 18—Tennessee Knoxville Apr. 27—Auburn Atlanta May 5, 6 and 7—SEC &

Southern Inter-Collegiate Championships Athens

May 13—Tennessee Atlanta May 17—Georgia Atlanta May 21—Auburn Auburn

Tennis

Mar. 22—Florida Gainesville Mar. 23—Rollins .Winter Park Mar. 25—Miami Miami Mar. 26—Yale Miami Mar. 29—Davidson Atlanta Mar. 30—Georgia Atlanta Mar. 31—Michigan State Atlanta Apr. 2—Auburn Auburn Apr. 6—Emory Atlanta Apr. 9—Vanderbilt Nashville Apr. 11—Miami Atlanta Apr. 14—Cincinnati Atlanta Apr. 15—L.S.U Baton Rouge Apr. 16—Tulane New Orleans Apr. 18—Florida Atlanta Apr. 19—Presbyterian Atlanta Apr. 23—Tennessee Knoxville Apr. 25—Presbyterian Clinton Apr. 27—Georgia Athens Apr. 29, 30—Georgia Intercollegiate

Tournament Athens May 6—Tennessee Atlanta May 12, 13 and 14—SEC

Championships Knoxville

YELLOW J A C K E T - C O N F I D E N T I A L , Ed Danforth's intimate on the scene report on the Georgia Tech football team goes into its tenth season, more popular with Tech men than ever, the next best thing to a seat on the 50-yard line in the West Stands.

GET YOUR f ! Order your YELLOW JACKET-CONFIDENTIAL now to

1 960 ORDE I s t a r t w i t h S P r i n 9 P r a c t i c e L e t t e r followed by 10 regu-| lar game Letters.

Enclosed is my check for $4 (by air mail $5). IN NOW

i

Tech men scattered far and wide . . . Djakarta, Indonesia • • • Bangkok, Thailand . . . Salvador, Brazil . . . Air Force bases in England and the Pacific . . . keep up with the Engineers through these colorful letters. The spring prac-«ce letter will be forwarded to you on May 1.

] Name

I Address_

j City

Make check payable to Yellow Jacket-Confidential, P.O. Box 1126

Atlanta 1, Georgia

TECH Al LUMNUS Worth, I960 19

Mi

I SYMPOSIUM ON SCIENCE: III

Portrait of the Author

Dr. Walter S. Buckingham, Jr., IM '48, is a young, inter­nationally-known economist who has just been named as the new director of Tech's School of Industrial Manage­ment. The Florida-born professor of Industrial Manage­ment will take over on July 1 when Professor Maurice Brewster drops his administrative duties to return to full-

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Photograph—Bill Diehl. fr

time teaching and research. Dr. Buckingham received b his B. S. and M. S. at Tech's IM School and then earn* M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Indiana. He returned to as an assistant professor in 1951. He was promoted professor in 1957. His article is from his forthcoming & "Economic and Social Impact of Automation."

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THE CONSEQUENCES OF TECHNOLOGY by Walter Buckingham, Professor of Industrial Management

IAN ERA of world history so dominated by

technological progress, it is remarkable how little serious attention has been given to the

onsequences of technology. Material and social improvements for over a century have been con­trolled to a high degree by technical advance, yet the economic, social, and philosophical impact of technology has largely escaped scientific study. Economists, engineers, psychologists, and socio­logists have all tended to consider this an area to be more appropriately investigated by the others. Consequently, the field has been left largely to writers of propaganda and science fiction whose purposes are to misinform or, at best, to entertain.

Science is knowledge, systematized and formu­lated to discover general truths. Technology is science applied to the industrial arts. While science I concerned with understanding, technology is concerned with practical uses. Nearly everybody knows that technology can solve a multitude of problems. Our spectacular economic growth has been due in great part to advances in technology. Untold millions of people, especially in the under­nourished parts of the world, fully expect science "id technology to solve all of their most pressing Problems.

Too few of us recognize that while technology I countless old problems, it also creates many

' ones. All technological improvement is not a §airi- Some new technology is necessary just

cure the ills of previous technology. For exam-Pe- if afterburners are perfected for automobile J aust pipes, then the air will merely be as clean

j | was before the automobile came. Some new nology is efficient but not yet economical. The

TECH ALUMNUS M„ r t h , 9 6 Q

commercial production of atomic and solar energy are examples of this. Some technology has enor­mous potential for human betterment but, if not clearly understood, could do more harm than good.

The unquestioned economic advantages of tech­nological progress can be distributed in three ways: reducing the hours of work, increasing the pro­duction of consumer goods, or increasing invest­ment in capital equipment. The first increases leisure time; the second raises material living stand­ards; and the third accelerates economic growth. Increasing any one of these must be at the expense of the others.

In "The Future Problems of the American Economy," famed theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr pinpoints the philosophical dilemma of our highly developed technology in this way: "Ironically enough, the productive power of our industry threatens tchmake our culture subordinate to our economy, when in the past only very primitive economies dominated the culture while advanced cultures made economy subordinate to culture. . . . But in an economy with an ever increasing rate of production, we are confronted with cultural alternatives which may both be morally undesir­able; and we must choose which of the alternatives will do us most harm. As automation becomes more widespread, we will undoubtedly face the alterna­tive of choosing between two high values, both of which may turn into disvalues by excess: comfort and leisure."

-L/ISRAELI EXPRESSED the view of the Victorians when he said, "increased means and increased leisure-are the two civilizers of man." Today, most

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I SYMPOSIUM ON SCIENCE: III

Portrait of the Author

Dr. Walter S. Buckingham, Jr., IM '48, is a young, inter­nationally-known economist who has just been named as the new director of Tech's School of Industrial Manage­ment. The Florida-born professor of Industrial Manage­ment will take over on July 1 when Professor Maurice Brewster drops his administrative duties to return to full-

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Photograph—Bill Diehl. fr

time teaching and research. Dr. Buckingham received b his B. S. and M. S. at Tech's IM School and then earn* M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Indiana. He returned to as an assistant professor in 1951. He was promoted professor in 1957. His article is from his forthcoming & "Economic and Social Impact of Automation."

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THE CONSEQUENCES OF TECHNOLOGY by Walter Buckingham, Professor of Industrial Management

IAN ERA of world history so dominated by

technological progress, it is remarkable how little serious attention has been given to the

onsequences of technology. Material and social improvements for over a century have been con­trolled to a high degree by technical advance, yet the economic, social, and philosophical impact of technology has largely escaped scientific study. Economists, engineers, psychologists, and socio­logists have all tended to consider this an area to be more appropriately investigated by the others. Consequently, the field has been left largely to writers of propaganda and science fiction whose purposes are to misinform or, at best, to entertain.

Science is knowledge, systematized and formu­lated to discover general truths. Technology is science applied to the industrial arts. While science I concerned with understanding, technology is concerned with practical uses. Nearly everybody knows that technology can solve a multitude of problems. Our spectacular economic growth has been due in great part to advances in technology. Untold millions of people, especially in the under­nourished parts of the world, fully expect science "id technology to solve all of their most pressing Problems.

Too few of us recognize that while technology I countless old problems, it also creates many

' ones. All technological improvement is not a §airi- Some new technology is necessary just

cure the ills of previous technology. For exam-Pe- if afterburners are perfected for automobile J aust pipes, then the air will merely be as clean

j | was before the automobile came. Some new nology is efficient but not yet economical. The

TECH ALUMNUS M„ r t h , 9 6 Q

commercial production of atomic and solar energy are examples of this. Some technology has enor­mous potential for human betterment but, if not clearly understood, could do more harm than good.

The unquestioned economic advantages of tech­nological progress can be distributed in three ways: reducing the hours of work, increasing the pro­duction of consumer goods, or increasing invest­ment in capital equipment. The first increases leisure time; the second raises material living stand­ards; and the third accelerates economic growth. Increasing any one of these must be at the expense of the others.

In "The Future Problems of the American Economy," famed theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr pinpoints the philosophical dilemma of our highly developed technology in this way: "Ironically enough, the productive power of our industry threatens tchmake our culture subordinate to our economy, when in the past only very primitive economies dominated the culture while advanced cultures made economy subordinate to culture. . . . But in an economy with an ever increasing rate of production, we are confronted with cultural alternatives which may both be morally undesir­able; and we must choose which of the alternatives will do us most harm. As automation becomes more widespread, we will undoubtedly face the alterna­tive of choosing between two high values, both of which may turn into disvalues by excess: comfort and leisure."

-L/ISRAELI EXPRESSED the view of the Victorians when he said, "increased means and increased leisure-are the two civilizers of man." Today, most

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TECHNOLOGY—continued

ordinary people can earn a fairly decent living by working less than half of the daylight hours, yet the Victorian prediction that leisure would produce culture has not come true. Workers, freed of their unremitting toil, have not imitated the cultural and intellectual practices of the leisure classes of earlier periods. Nor has the old socialist dream of a new, fresh working-class culture been fulfilled. Instead of higher intellectual and cultural activities, many leisure time products such as barbecue pits, out­board motors and commercialized forms of leisure time activity like TV have arisen. These non-stop distractions would no doubt seem useless, vulgar, even harmful by the nineteenth century cultural standards of both aristocrats and socialists.

The industrial revolution separated labor from management and atomized work into a multitude of narrow, specialized tasks. This greatly increased productivity by making possible the development of high skills and even more complicated machinery but it also trivialized work. The craftsman, who made a complete product and received a lot of satisfaction from it, was replaced by the specialist who contributed only in an infinitesimal way to the final product by doing the same tiny thing over and over again.

When work is boring and meaningless, the most popular type of leisure is likely to be an escape into some kind of fantasy. Drink, the curse of the nineteenth century worker, is today being replaced by forms of vicarious escape. First came mass sports, then movies, now TV. The reason so many people actually prefer horror movies, quiz programs and panel games on TV is that their daily lives, especially their jobs, are so dull and meaningless. Those people who take the least interest in sports, TV and other escapist entertainment are the pro­fessional people—artists, writers and business ex­ecutives whose work is creative and satisfying.

Most educators, entertainers, professional men, and business executives are not excessively special­ized and work about the same hours that they always have. According to the Census Bureau, managers and proprietors work 53 hours a week. This does not include the work they carry home

with them. Many executives and professio admit they never do anything except for h reasons. The new leisure class will thus „J! !

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most successful people in management th i- • _. . J i.i- T* . . . . - rtrv.

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fessions, and public life but will more i the workers in manufacturing and related ind who are low on the economic and educational Those who hold the most responsible jobs0' have to work longer and harder than ever if want to retain their dignified positions. The could well be leisure for the masses and work f"l

the classes.

In earlier times, laborers had to work aim ceaselessly. Leisure was enjoyed only by the ar' tocrats and leaders. A society in which worker have leisure while the executive and professional people work unremittingly would be a complete reversal of all previous social systems. Although this could probably never be more than partially achieved—even by the most advanced technology and automation—the consequences would still be revolutionary. This leisure could conceivably be utilized in making the highways even more mur­derous, in cultivating serious drinking, or in general mischief-making. But some better uses of leisure are equally possible. For one thing, more lower and middle income people might accept respon­sibilities in the civic and political areas tradition­ally reserved for the leisured upper class. Or more education, serious reading, good music, and an could develop. There is a trickle of evidence for this. Sales of hi-fi sets, tickets to serious plays, clas­sical records, and good books are at an all-time high and are rising. But the over-all picture i not encouraging.

According to the Nielson Company's nationwide surveys, about 70 per cent of leisure time is spent at home, most of it watching TV. The averaj American TV set is on over seven hours a da> There are now about 40 million TV sets in Ameri serving nearly everyone. It should not be surpn ing that it is so difficult for the individual to mai tain and express the uniqueness of his own perse ality in a satisfying manner in a world of i communications and predigested opinions.

A gallup poll recently revealed that only 17 cent of Americans are currently reading J

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red with 55 per cent of the British. Thus, he United States. TV is much more popular

1 h oks even poor books. This is a bad show-a"r r a nation that prides itself on its individual-

if mass entertainment is to be our opiate m ' js t r ie danger that it may, more than ever,

ome standardized at a low cultural level unless .°do something about it. Unless our increasing

;c used to broaden minds and cultivate leisure is u3>-" stes a nightmare of dangerously shallow distrac­

tions could emerge.

M A Y B E the newly acquired leisure time created by technology will be used wisely by those who can secure it. If so, what about production? Com­parisons with Russia are the rage today and much has been said about our apparent emphasis on living standards versus Russia's apparent priority on economic growth. Undoubtedly, the rapid Soviet technological growth has been at the expense of consumers' goods and leisure, but America's high material living standard is not necessarily a sign of moral strength or culture. If anything, it shows a lack of self discipline when we save roughly 12 per cent of our gross production for new invest­ment while the Russians save 22 per cent of theirs. Of course, saving is largely voluntary in the United States and largely compulsory in Russia. But this IN more an explanation than an excuse.

Both the United States and Russia could be criticized for developing exaggerated loyalties to their economic systems and worshipping science, technology, production, efficiency, and living stand­ards. In Russia, materialism is openly professed as a philosophy of life so, at least, the Russians cannot be accused of inconsistency. It should not eem any more unusual for Marxists to concentrate

on physics than for Jesuits to emphasize theology. But the philosophic tradition in the United States

ls b e e n lar§ely idealistic. This is harder to recon-6 with our practiced materialism. In this coun-

j*> there has been a predisposition toward physical •ngs that has outweighed intangible values such * e actluisition of knowledge. For example, far

ra°re m o n e y i s sPent on automobiles and household

s than on education and mental health. As a«, we prize the ability to buy it more than the

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ability to produce it. Our inconsistency between theory and practice is undoubtedly better than a consistently practiced materialism, because ideal­ists are still free to compete for public support and in times of emergency we have been drawn upward by our ideals. It was the complete absence of any ideal values at all that permitted the Nazis, for example, to "process" human beings through gas chambers in order to recover the gold from their teeth.

A REBIRTH, not in things but in values, is needed. The responsibility is not on any one group, such as educators, but on all. In part, business has simply been more efficient in selling tangible things than intellectuals have in selling intangible ideas. Cer­tainly, businessmen have merchandised their goods more effectively than universities (both public and private), the professions (such as medicine and law), and the government, on whom the burden falls for providing those necessary but indivisible services of defense, order, and welfare. In conse­quence, the producers of material goods have pros­pered more than those whose function it is to provide the philosophical environment within which the economy must operate. Thus, we face a paradox of being embarrassingly rich in many of the goods we can most efficiently produce, such as automobiles and electrical appliances, and im­poverished in those services that do not so easily lend themselves to mass production, automation, mass merchandising, and advertising, such as edu­cation, medical care, and public parks. We have more chrome and horsepower than we need and less education and mental health. Our homes are clean but the countryside is filthy. Our automobiles are finely engineered and luxurious, but our cities are sprawling and ugly. In "The Leisure Society," (Harvard Business Review, May-June, 1959), Reuel Denny says: "While the poorest man in the United States, no matter what city he lives in, can buy on time . . . the best outboard motor that is made; the richest man, if he lives in any one of a thousand small cities, cannot buy for any price such things as a good local FM station, or a broadly educated language teacher for his children."

Materialism carries another danger. Preoccupa-

23

I

TECHNOLOGY—continued

ordinary people can earn a fairly decent living by working less than half of the daylight hours, yet the Victorian prediction that leisure would produce culture has not come true. Workers, freed of their unremitting toil, have not imitated the cultural and intellectual practices of the leisure classes of earlier periods. Nor has the old socialist dream of a new, fresh working-class culture been fulfilled. Instead of higher intellectual and cultural activities, many leisure time products such as barbecue pits, out­board motors and commercialized forms of leisure time activity like TV have arisen. These non-stop distractions would no doubt seem useless, vulgar, even harmful by the nineteenth century cultural standards of both aristocrats and socialists.

The industrial revolution separated labor from management and atomized work into a multitude of narrow, specialized tasks. This greatly increased productivity by making possible the development of high skills and even more complicated machinery but it also trivialized work. The craftsman, who made a complete product and received a lot of satisfaction from it, was replaced by the specialist who contributed only in an infinitesimal way to the final product by doing the same tiny thing over and over again.

When work is boring and meaningless, the most popular type of leisure is likely to be an escape into some kind of fantasy. Drink, the curse of the nineteenth century worker, is today being replaced by forms of vicarious escape. First came mass sports, then movies, now TV. The reason so many people actually prefer horror movies, quiz programs and panel games on TV is that their daily lives, especially their jobs, are so dull and meaningless. Those people who take the least interest in sports, TV and other escapist entertainment are the pro­fessional people—artists, writers and business ex­ecutives whose work is creative and satisfying.

Most educators, entertainers, professional men, and business executives are not excessively special­ized and work about the same hours that they always have. According to the Census Bureau, managers and proprietors work 53 hours a week. This does not include the work they carry home

with them. Many executives and professio admit they never do anything except for h reasons. The new leisure class will thus „J! !

1 U J not op JL

most successful people in management th i- • _. . J i.i- T* . . . . - rtrv.

22

fessions, and public life but will more i the workers in manufacturing and related ind who are low on the economic and educational Those who hold the most responsible jobs0' have to work longer and harder than ever if want to retain their dignified positions. The could well be leisure for the masses and work f"l

the classes.

In earlier times, laborers had to work aim ceaselessly. Leisure was enjoyed only by the ar' tocrats and leaders. A society in which worker have leisure while the executive and professional people work unremittingly would be a complete reversal of all previous social systems. Although this could probably never be more than partially achieved—even by the most advanced technology and automation—the consequences would still be revolutionary. This leisure could conceivably be utilized in making the highways even more mur­derous, in cultivating serious drinking, or in general mischief-making. But some better uses of leisure are equally possible. For one thing, more lower and middle income people might accept respon­sibilities in the civic and political areas tradition­ally reserved for the leisured upper class. Or more education, serious reading, good music, and an could develop. There is a trickle of evidence for this. Sales of hi-fi sets, tickets to serious plays, clas­sical records, and good books are at an all-time high and are rising. But the over-all picture i not encouraging.

According to the Nielson Company's nationwide surveys, about 70 per cent of leisure time is spent at home, most of it watching TV. The averaj American TV set is on over seven hours a da> There are now about 40 million TV sets in Ameri serving nearly everyone. It should not be surpn ing that it is so difficult for the individual to mai tain and express the uniqueness of his own perse ality in a satisfying manner in a world of i communications and predigested opinions.

A gallup poll recently revealed that only 17 cent of Americans are currently reading J

TECH AlUMNUS

V

1

red with 55 per cent of the British. Thus, he United States. TV is much more popular

1 h oks even poor books. This is a bad show-a"r r a nation that prides itself on its individual-

if mass entertainment is to be our opiate m ' js t r ie danger that it may, more than ever,

ome standardized at a low cultural level unless .°do something about it. Unless our increasing

;c used to broaden minds and cultivate leisure is u3>-" stes a nightmare of dangerously shallow distrac­

tions could emerge.

M A Y B E the newly acquired leisure time created by technology will be used wisely by those who can secure it. If so, what about production? Com­parisons with Russia are the rage today and much has been said about our apparent emphasis on living standards versus Russia's apparent priority on economic growth. Undoubtedly, the rapid Soviet technological growth has been at the expense of consumers' goods and leisure, but America's high material living standard is not necessarily a sign of moral strength or culture. If anything, it shows a lack of self discipline when we save roughly 12 per cent of our gross production for new invest­ment while the Russians save 22 per cent of theirs. Of course, saving is largely voluntary in the United States and largely compulsory in Russia. But this IN more an explanation than an excuse.

Both the United States and Russia could be criticized for developing exaggerated loyalties to their economic systems and worshipping science, technology, production, efficiency, and living stand­ards. In Russia, materialism is openly professed as a philosophy of life so, at least, the Russians cannot be accused of inconsistency. It should not eem any more unusual for Marxists to concentrate

on physics than for Jesuits to emphasize theology. But the philosophic tradition in the United States

ls b e e n lar§ely idealistic. This is harder to recon-6 with our practiced materialism. In this coun-

j*> there has been a predisposition toward physical •ngs that has outweighed intangible values such * e actluisition of knowledge. For example, far

ra°re m o n e y i s sPent on automobiles and household

s than on education and mental health. As a«, we prize the ability to buy it more than the

Morefi, I960

ability to produce it. Our inconsistency between theory and practice is undoubtedly better than a consistently practiced materialism, because ideal­ists are still free to compete for public support and in times of emergency we have been drawn upward by our ideals. It was the complete absence of any ideal values at all that permitted the Nazis, for example, to "process" human beings through gas chambers in order to recover the gold from their teeth.

A REBIRTH, not in things but in values, is needed. The responsibility is not on any one group, such as educators, but on all. In part, business has simply been more efficient in selling tangible things than intellectuals have in selling intangible ideas. Cer­tainly, businessmen have merchandised their goods more effectively than universities (both public and private), the professions (such as medicine and law), and the government, on whom the burden falls for providing those necessary but indivisible services of defense, order, and welfare. In conse­quence, the producers of material goods have pros­pered more than those whose function it is to provide the philosophical environment within which the economy must operate. Thus, we face a paradox of being embarrassingly rich in many of the goods we can most efficiently produce, such as automobiles and electrical appliances, and im­poverished in those services that do not so easily lend themselves to mass production, automation, mass merchandising, and advertising, such as edu­cation, medical care, and public parks. We have more chrome and horsepower than we need and less education and mental health. Our homes are clean but the countryside is filthy. Our automobiles are finely engineered and luxurious, but our cities are sprawling and ugly. In "The Leisure Society," (Harvard Business Review, May-June, 1959), Reuel Denny says: "While the poorest man in the United States, no matter what city he lives in, can buy on time . . . the best outboard motor that is made; the richest man, if he lives in any one of a thousand small cities, cannot buy for any price such things as a good local FM station, or a broadly educated language teacher for his children."

Materialism carries another danger. Preoccupa-

23

T E C H N O L O G Y — c o n t i n u e d

tion with production in an increasingly automated economy involves a grave risk that the resulting standardization of products will lead to a standard­ization of thinking. Automation enormously in­creases both total production and output per man hour. It also makes possible the production of new and better goods although frequently there is a loss in variety as a result of standardization. Many different models are possible from combining a few standardized processes in different ways, but the final products still look pretty much alike.

Of course, many people actually desire to con­form rather than differ at all or even excel. One result of this has been that, with the increase of leisure, the majority has tended to do the same things with their free time. They buy the same recreational goods, watch the same TV shows, pursue the same pattern of outdoor living, and even vacation in the same places.

T, HE LIMITATIONS of genuine variety imposed by mass production and automation technology, to­gether with consumers' desires for conformity, reinforce each other in a sort of closed-loop, feed­back manner. These and increasing size and com­plexity of business enterprises, are changing our society from one based on property ownership— which encourages individuality of expression—to one based on position and membership in organi­zations—which encourages conformity. We are changing from a society that owns things to a society that belongs to things. Instead of excessive individualism leading to exploitation like the nineteenth century witnessed, we are faced with excessive conformism as each person tries to adopt the protective coloration of his group.

There have been several recent books on various aspects of what a cynic might call "collectivism in America." These include Adolph Berle's Power Without Property and David Reisman's The Lonely Crowd. One of the most significant is William Whyte's Organization Man. The "social ethic" of today's corporate or organization man, says Whyte, is based on three propositions: "a belief in the group as a source of creativity; a belief in 'belong-

24

ingness' as the ultimate need of the ind" • and a belief in the application of science to the belongingness." Certainly there are many f ^ at work besides technology that have led "organizational revolution" but the weight f ' new technology seems, so far, to be on th of more uniformity of products and conform'^' opinion although it is becoming increasingly J ° that this is not inevitable, as was once tho There is cause for hope of a revival of individual in the increasing evidence that it is possible if want it.

N I N E T E E N T H CENTURY SCIENCE, like nineteenth century economics, held that space, time and th universe were absolutes and a total theory could embrace everything. The universe was determinable and measurable and it operated with clockwork precision. Man was but a cog in a gigantic ma­chine. Marxism, like the Classical economies, sprang from this philosophy in which the world was governed by external laws from which no man could escape. Thus in both conservative and radical philosophy the individual was thought to be swept along like a chip in a torrent or moved about like a pawn on a gigantic chessboard as depicted in Greek tragedy. Once the stage was set, cause and effect went on to work out their blind, inexorable consequences.

Modern scientific philosophy holds, with Ein­stein, that the universe is not completely determi­nable or measurable. The certainty, measurability and inevitability of nineteenth century science has been replaced by relativity, probability, and chance. The door is thus opened for creative individual action. This is a far cry from the optimistic nine­teenth century thought with its security in natural cause and effect and its inevitability of progress But it, too, can be optimistic if we are willing to accept the responsibility for taking our salvation into our own hands. Arnold Toynbee wrote that a society begins to decline at what seems to be t height of its power when it loses its "cream minority" of people. So. if society survives at a it will have to be due to individuals who acce willingly, and use wisely, the power of man change the world.

T E CH ALUMNUS

MTA GEORGIA—Nuclear reactors were the chief ATLAf discussion at the January 28 meeting of the Greater

Georgia Tech Club. Guest speakers on the subject AtlaTd Dr William B. Harrison, III, director of Tech's

'. r e a c t o r project, and Dr. John Godwin, director of Tories for St. Joseph's Infirmary of Atlanta. President ^Kyker introduced the speakers and received special

a° ts from Paula Stevenson (membership committee) and T°C Keiser (scholarship committee). Special guest Whack avder coach of the Tech basketball team, also briefed the

-mbers on the 1960 season. Music was provided by Wes Burton and his trio.

* * * GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA—Over 100 members turned out for the February 22 meeting of the Northeast Georgia Club meeting, held in Gainesville. Guest speakers at the Ladies Night meeting were Coach Bobby Dodd and Dean George Griffin. James L. "Poppy" Hall, '21, presided at the meeting at which the following officers were elected: Charles A. Smithgall, '33, president; Perrin C. Reynolds, '49, vice president; and James F. Bagwell, '58, secretary-treasurer.

* * * PENSACOLA, FLORIDA—At a special meeting held at the home of Eugene Smith, '27, the following new officers were elected to guide the Pensacola Georgia Tech Club for 1960: Johnny Hunsinger, '54, president; Charlie Scruggs, '43, vice president; George Griffith, '53, secretary; and Carl Stapleton, '50, treasurer.

* * * RICHMOND, VIRGINIA—The Richmond Club held a

special "Professional Engineers" meeting on February 11. Feature speakers included John Ziegler, ME '49, who spoke on "The Advantages of Being a Registered Engi­neer;" and W. Drexel Daniels, IE '56, who spoke on "Who's Who in Engineering." Rhodes Mitchell, '32, also briefed the alumni on "Tech's Student Recruiting."

* * * SAVANNAH, GEORGIA—Dean George Griffin was the speaker at the November 12 meeting of the Savannah Georgia Tech Club. Hugh Armstrong, '43, president of the club introduced Dean Griffin to the 67 members in attend­ance. On March 3, William Hitch, assistant director of Tech's Co-operative Division, and Alumni Secretary Roane Beard were the guest speakers at the club's spring meeting.

CHATTANOOGA SCHOLARSHIP OFFERED—the Chattanooga Georgia Tech Club recently announced that it will offer a $400 engineering scholarship to a deserving high school student from the Chattanooga area. The scholarship will cover tuition and fees for the first two quarters for a student enrolled under the co­operative plan. Final selection will be made by May 1. Shown with City School Supt. J. W. Letson (1) and County Supt. Sam Mc-Connell are Chattanooga Club Scholarship Committee members, left to right, Pat McHugh, Marvin Turner, and Paul Pearce.

35 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE TO HELP YOU SOLVE ELECTRICAL SUPPLY PROBLEMS

For a third of a century our organization has worked closely with electrical supply wholesalers to help them meet

their problems in serving the rapidly expanding electric industry. This experience is at your command to help you.

EDGAR E. DAWES & CO. 405 RHODES BUILDING

STEEL CITY ELECTRIC CO. WAGNER MALLEABLE PRODUCTS CO.

J Ackson .4-7571 ATLANTA 3, GEORGIA SPANG-CHALFANT (Conduit Division)

PLASTIC WIRE & CABLE CORP.

r Mar«li, I960

25

T E C H N O L O G Y — c o n t i n u e d

tion with production in an increasingly automated economy involves a grave risk that the resulting standardization of products will lead to a standard­ization of thinking. Automation enormously in­creases both total production and output per man hour. It also makes possible the production of new and better goods although frequently there is a loss in variety as a result of standardization. Many different models are possible from combining a few standardized processes in different ways, but the final products still look pretty much alike.

Of course, many people actually desire to con­form rather than differ at all or even excel. One result of this has been that, with the increase of leisure, the majority has tended to do the same things with their free time. They buy the same recreational goods, watch the same TV shows, pursue the same pattern of outdoor living, and even vacation in the same places.

T, HE LIMITATIONS of genuine variety imposed by mass production and automation technology, to­gether with consumers' desires for conformity, reinforce each other in a sort of closed-loop, feed­back manner. These and increasing size and com­plexity of business enterprises, are changing our society from one based on property ownership— which encourages individuality of expression—to one based on position and membership in organi­zations—which encourages conformity. We are changing from a society that owns things to a society that belongs to things. Instead of excessive individualism leading to exploitation like the nineteenth century witnessed, we are faced with excessive conformism as each person tries to adopt the protective coloration of his group.

There have been several recent books on various aspects of what a cynic might call "collectivism in America." These include Adolph Berle's Power Without Property and David Reisman's The Lonely Crowd. One of the most significant is William Whyte's Organization Man. The "social ethic" of today's corporate or organization man, says Whyte, is based on three propositions: "a belief in the group as a source of creativity; a belief in 'belong-

24

ingness' as the ultimate need of the ind" • and a belief in the application of science to the belongingness." Certainly there are many f ^ at work besides technology that have led "organizational revolution" but the weight f ' new technology seems, so far, to be on th of more uniformity of products and conform'^' opinion although it is becoming increasingly J ° that this is not inevitable, as was once tho There is cause for hope of a revival of individual in the increasing evidence that it is possible if want it.

N I N E T E E N T H CENTURY SCIENCE, like nineteenth century economics, held that space, time and th universe were absolutes and a total theory could embrace everything. The universe was determinable and measurable and it operated with clockwork precision. Man was but a cog in a gigantic ma­chine. Marxism, like the Classical economies, sprang from this philosophy in which the world was governed by external laws from which no man could escape. Thus in both conservative and radical philosophy the individual was thought to be swept along like a chip in a torrent or moved about like a pawn on a gigantic chessboard as depicted in Greek tragedy. Once the stage was set, cause and effect went on to work out their blind, inexorable consequences.

Modern scientific philosophy holds, with Ein­stein, that the universe is not completely determi­nable or measurable. The certainty, measurability and inevitability of nineteenth century science has been replaced by relativity, probability, and chance. The door is thus opened for creative individual action. This is a far cry from the optimistic nine­teenth century thought with its security in natural cause and effect and its inevitability of progress But it, too, can be optimistic if we are willing to accept the responsibility for taking our salvation into our own hands. Arnold Toynbee wrote that a society begins to decline at what seems to be t height of its power when it loses its "cream minority" of people. So. if society survives at a it will have to be due to individuals who acce willingly, and use wisely, the power of man change the world.

T E CH ALUMNUS

MTA GEORGIA—Nuclear reactors were the chief ATLAf discussion at the January 28 meeting of the Greater

Georgia Tech Club. Guest speakers on the subject AtlaTd Dr William B. Harrison, III, director of Tech's

'. r e a c t o r project, and Dr. John Godwin, director of Tories for St. Joseph's Infirmary of Atlanta. President ^Kyker introduced the speakers and received special

a° ts from Paula Stevenson (membership committee) and T°C Keiser (scholarship committee). Special guest Whack avder coach of the Tech basketball team, also briefed the

-mbers on the 1960 season. Music was provided by Wes Burton and his trio.

* * * GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA—Over 100 members turned out for the February 22 meeting of the Northeast Georgia Club meeting, held in Gainesville. Guest speakers at the Ladies Night meeting were Coach Bobby Dodd and Dean George Griffin. James L. "Poppy" Hall, '21, presided at the meeting at which the following officers were elected: Charles A. Smithgall, '33, president; Perrin C. Reynolds, '49, vice president; and James F. Bagwell, '58, secretary-treasurer.

* * * PENSACOLA, FLORIDA—At a special meeting held at the home of Eugene Smith, '27, the following new officers were elected to guide the Pensacola Georgia Tech Club for 1960: Johnny Hunsinger, '54, president; Charlie Scruggs, '43, vice president; George Griffith, '53, secretary; and Carl Stapleton, '50, treasurer.

* * * RICHMOND, VIRGINIA—The Richmond Club held a

special "Professional Engineers" meeting on February 11. Feature speakers included John Ziegler, ME '49, who spoke on "The Advantages of Being a Registered Engi­neer;" and W. Drexel Daniels, IE '56, who spoke on "Who's Who in Engineering." Rhodes Mitchell, '32, also briefed the alumni on "Tech's Student Recruiting."

* * * SAVANNAH, GEORGIA—Dean George Griffin was the speaker at the November 12 meeting of the Savannah Georgia Tech Club. Hugh Armstrong, '43, president of the club introduced Dean Griffin to the 67 members in attend­ance. On March 3, William Hitch, assistant director of Tech's Co-operative Division, and Alumni Secretary Roane Beard were the guest speakers at the club's spring meeting.

CHATTANOOGA SCHOLARSHIP OFFERED—the Chattanooga Georgia Tech Club recently announced that it will offer a $400 engineering scholarship to a deserving high school student from the Chattanooga area. The scholarship will cover tuition and fees for the first two quarters for a student enrolled under the co­operative plan. Final selection will be made by May 1. Shown with City School Supt. J. W. Letson (1) and County Supt. Sam Mc-Connell are Chattanooga Club Scholarship Committee members, left to right, Pat McHugh, Marvin Turner, and Paul Pearce.

35 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE TO HELP YOU SOLVE ELECTRICAL SUPPLY PROBLEMS

For a third of a century our organization has worked closely with electrical supply wholesalers to help them meet

their problems in serving the rapidly expanding electric industry. This experience is at your command to help you.

EDGAR E. DAWES & CO. 405 RHODES BUILDING

STEEL CITY ELECTRIC CO. WAGNER MALLEABLE PRODUCTS CO.

J Ackson .4-7571 ATLANTA 3, GEORGIA SPANG-CHALFANT (Conduit Division)

PLASTIC WIRE & CABLE CORP.

r Mar«li, I960

25

How is your class doing this year?

THE 13TH ROLL CALL BREAKDOWN THE 13TH ANNUAL ROLL CALL of the Georgia Tech Nation-al Alumni Association is As of February this. How is your

Class

1891

1892

1893 1894

1895

1896

1897

1898

1899 1900

1901

1902

1903

1904

1905 1906

1907

1908

1909

1910

1911 1912 1913

1914

1915 1916 1917

1918

1919

1920

1921 1922 1923

1924

Solicited

2

5

2

1

2

4

4

5

4

8

17

21

25

32

24

40

46

48

51

54

73

74

73

97

104

96

109

121

110

138

168 279

254

308

15, the now well past the halfway mark. breakdown by classes looks like

class doing in thi

Contribut

1

1

1

0

0

0 2

1

1

1

6

6

7

9

8

9

20

19

20

20

31

30

22 32

35

33 47

52

40

53

66 117

124

125

%

i year's Roll Call effort?

Total ors Contributors Amount

50% 20%

50%

0

0

0

50%

20%

25%

12.5%

35.3%

28.6%

28.0%

28.1%

33.3% 22.5%

43.5%

39.6%

39.2%

37.0%

42.5%

40.5%

30.1%

33.0%

33.7%

34.4%

43.1%

43.0%

36.4%

38.4%

39.3% 42.0%

48.8%

41.7%

$ 200.00

25.00

15.00

0

0

0

77.00

10.00

10.00

5.00 160.00

1,155.00

305.00

660.00

530.00

175.00

870.00

2,852.73

410.00

600.00

952.70

1,084.00

566.00

1,530.00

2,027.75

1,504.33

1,683.00

2,143.81

4,092.00

3,489.50

3,570.00 4,156.08

4,712.00

4,321.38

Average Gift

$200.00

25.00

15.00

0

0

0

38.50

10.00

10.00

5.00

26.66

192.50

43.57

73.33

66.25

19.44

43.50

150.14

20.50

30.00

30.73

36.13

25.73

47.81

57.94

45.58

35.81

41.23 102.30

65.84

54.09 35.52

38.00

34.57

Class

1925 1926 1927

1928 1929

1930

1931

1932

1933

1934

1935

1936 1937

1938 1939

1940 1941

1942

1943

1944 1945

1946

1947

1948

1949 1950

1951

1952

1953

1954

1955

1956 1957

1958

TOTAL

Solicited

242 368 313

368 367

413

395

475

492

472

401

318 326

422

428

475 534

581

658

382

444

637

755 883

1,181

1,495

1,135

1,027

809

730

751

833

1,048

1,198

23,757

% Totol Contributors Contributors Amount

121 142

99

130 142

149

136

161

160

164

125

116 102

126

126

128

146

156 176

72

80

86

203 267

365

519 444

342

308

263

297

293

343

290

7,716

50.0% 38.6%

31.6%

35.3% 38.7%

36.1%

34.4%

33.9% 32.5%

34.7%

31.2%

36.5%

31.3%

29.9%

29.4%

26.9%

27.3%

26.9%

26.7%

18.8%

18.0%

13.5%

26.9%

30.2%

30.9%

34.7%

39.1%

33.3%

38.1%

36.0%

39.5%

34.8%

32.7%

24.2%

32.0%

Unsolicited class contributions;

3,389.50

4,306.50

2,588.00 3,733.50

3,246.00

3,119.50 3,224.50 4,935.00

5,511.00 4,132.00 2,762.00

3,045.00

2,547.00 2,744.50 2,916.00

3,157.50 2,871.50 2,992.00 3,417.50

897.50

1,275.50 1,189.50

2,357.50 3,392.50

4,811.00 5,769.99

4,626.00

3,215.50

3,215.00

2,539.00

2,589.50

2,333.11

2,836.50

2,457.00

$152,535.88 1

Class of 1959: 50 contributors, total , Class of 1960: 7 contributors, total !

Avtrag, Gift

28.01

30.33

26.U

28.72

22.86

20.94

23.71

30.65

34.44

25.20

22.09

26.25

24.97

21.78

23.14

24.67

19.67

19.18

19.41

12.46

15.94

13.83

14.08

12.71

13.18

11.12

10.42

9.40

10.44

9.65

8.72

7.96

8.27

8.47

> 19.77

^446.00 \ 75.00

2 6 TECH A l

UMNU5

What's ahead for you... after you join Western Electric?

Anywhere you look — in engineering and other profes­sional areas — the answer to that question is progress. For Western Electric is on a job of ever-increasing complexity, both as the manufacturing and supply unit of the Bell System and as a part of many defense communications and missile projects.

These two assignments mean you'll find yourself in the thick of things in such fast-breaking fields as micro­wave radio relay, electronic switching, miniaturization and automation. You may engineer installations, plan distribution of equipment and supplies. Western also has need for field engineers, whose world-wide assign­ments call for working with equipment we make for the Government. The opportunities are many - and tneij re waiting!

"toull find that Western Electric is career-minded . . . and i/ou-minded! Progress is as rapid as your own indi-i-nK -it P e r m i t W e estimate that 8,000 supervisory fill lT ° p e n i n t h e n e x t t e n yea r s - the majority to be «ea by engineers. There will be corresponding oppor-

Sl ! a l wT!f C t , , r i n 9 l0°at iOns a l Chica9°' »'•: Kear"y. "-J.: Baltimore.

tunities for career building within research and engi­neering. Western Electric maintains its own full-time, all-expenses-paid engineering training program. And our tuition refund plan also helps you move ahead in your chosen field.

Western Electric's needs include electrical, mechanical, chemical, civil and industrial engineers, as well as men in the physical sciences. You can get more information about Western Electric — and its many current needs for technical people — by writing College Relations, Room 200C, Western Electric Company, 195 Broadway, New York City 7, N. Y.

Western Electric MANUFACTURING AND SUPPLY UNIT OF THE BELL SYSTEM

Buffalo. N C<"P., Chicago 14.

Md,; Indianapolis, Ind.; Allsntown and Laureldale. Pa.: Burlington, Greensboro and Winston-Salem, N. C ;

Neb.; Kansas City. Mo.; Columbus. Ohio; Oklahoma City, Okla,; Engineering Research Center, Princeton, N. J.; Teletype

no Little Rock. Ark. Also W. E. distribution centers in 32 cities and installation headquarters in 16 cities. General headquarters: 195 Broadway. New York 7, N.Y.

•Y.; North Andover. Mass.; Lincoln and Omaha

T

How is your class doing this year?

THE 13TH ROLL CALL BREAKDOWN THE 13TH ANNUAL ROLL CALL of the Georgia Tech Nation-al Alumni Association is As of February this. How is your

Class

1891

1892

1893 1894

1895

1896

1897

1898

1899 1900

1901

1902

1903

1904

1905 1906

1907

1908

1909

1910

1911 1912 1913

1914

1915 1916 1917

1918

1919

1920

1921 1922 1923

1924

Solicited

2

5

2

1

2

4

4

5

4

8

17

21

25

32

24

40

46

48

51

54

73

74

73

97

104

96

109

121

110

138

168 279

254

308

15, the now well past the halfway mark. breakdown by classes looks like

class doing in thi

Contribut

1

1

1

0

0

0 2

1

1

1

6

6

7

9

8

9

20

19

20

20

31

30

22 32

35

33 47

52

40

53

66 117

124

125

%

i year's Roll Call effort?

Total ors Contributors Amount

50% 20%

50%

0

0

0

50%

20%

25%

12.5%

35.3%

28.6%

28.0%

28.1%

33.3% 22.5%

43.5%

39.6%

39.2%

37.0%

42.5%

40.5%

30.1%

33.0%

33.7%

34.4%

43.1%

43.0%

36.4%

38.4%

39.3% 42.0%

48.8%

41.7%

$ 200.00

25.00

15.00

0

0

0

77.00

10.00

10.00

5.00 160.00

1,155.00

305.00

660.00

530.00

175.00

870.00

2,852.73

410.00

600.00

952.70

1,084.00

566.00

1,530.00

2,027.75

1,504.33

1,683.00

2,143.81

4,092.00

3,489.50

3,570.00 4,156.08

4,712.00

4,321.38

Average Gift

$200.00

25.00

15.00

0

0

0

38.50

10.00

10.00

5.00

26.66

192.50

43.57

73.33

66.25

19.44

43.50

150.14

20.50

30.00

30.73

36.13

25.73

47.81

57.94

45.58

35.81

41.23 102.30

65.84

54.09 35.52

38.00

34.57

Class

1925 1926 1927

1928 1929

1930

1931

1932

1933

1934

1935

1936 1937

1938 1939

1940 1941

1942

1943

1944 1945

1946

1947

1948

1949 1950

1951

1952

1953

1954

1955

1956 1957

1958

TOTAL

Solicited

242 368 313

368 367

413

395

475

492

472

401

318 326

422

428

475 534

581

658

382

444

637

755 883

1,181

1,495

1,135

1,027

809

730

751

833

1,048

1,198

23,757

% Totol Contributors Contributors Amount

121 142

99

130 142

149

136

161

160

164

125

116 102

126

126

128

146

156 176

72

80

86

203 267

365

519 444

342

308

263

297

293

343

290

7,716

50.0% 38.6%

31.6%

35.3% 38.7%

36.1%

34.4%

33.9% 32.5%

34.7%

31.2%

36.5%

31.3%

29.9%

29.4%

26.9%

27.3%

26.9%

26.7%

18.8%

18.0%

13.5%

26.9%

30.2%

30.9%

34.7%

39.1%

33.3%

38.1%

36.0%

39.5%

34.8%

32.7%

24.2%

32.0%

Unsolicited class contributions;

3,389.50

4,306.50

2,588.00 3,733.50

3,246.00

3,119.50 3,224.50 4,935.00

5,511.00 4,132.00 2,762.00

3,045.00

2,547.00 2,744.50 2,916.00

3,157.50 2,871.50 2,992.00 3,417.50

897.50

1,275.50 1,189.50

2,357.50 3,392.50

4,811.00 5,769.99

4,626.00

3,215.50

3,215.00

2,539.00

2,589.50

2,333.11

2,836.50

2,457.00

$152,535.88 1

Class of 1959: 50 contributors, total , Class of 1960: 7 contributors, total !

Avtrag, Gift

28.01

30.33

26.U

28.72

22.86

20.94

23.71

30.65

34.44

25.20

22.09

26.25

24.97

21.78

23.14

24.67

19.67

19.18

19.41

12.46

15.94

13.83

14.08

12.71

13.18

11.12

10.42

9.40

10.44

9.65

8.72

7.96

8.27

8.47

> 19.77

^446.00 \ 75.00

2 6 TECH A l

UMNU5

What's ahead for you... after you join Western Electric?

Anywhere you look — in engineering and other profes­sional areas — the answer to that question is progress. For Western Electric is on a job of ever-increasing complexity, both as the manufacturing and supply unit of the Bell System and as a part of many defense communications and missile projects.

These two assignments mean you'll find yourself in the thick of things in such fast-breaking fields as micro­wave radio relay, electronic switching, miniaturization and automation. You may engineer installations, plan distribution of equipment and supplies. Western also has need for field engineers, whose world-wide assign­ments call for working with equipment we make for the Government. The opportunities are many - and tneij re waiting!

"toull find that Western Electric is career-minded . . . and i/ou-minded! Progress is as rapid as your own indi-i-nK -it P e r m i t W e estimate that 8,000 supervisory fill lT ° p e n i n t h e n e x t t e n yea r s - the majority to be «ea by engineers. There will be corresponding oppor-

Sl ! a l wT!f C t , , r i n 9 l0°at iOns a l Chica9°' »'•: Kear"y. "-J.: Baltimore.

tunities for career building within research and engi­neering. Western Electric maintains its own full-time, all-expenses-paid engineering training program. And our tuition refund plan also helps you move ahead in your chosen field.

Western Electric's needs include electrical, mechanical, chemical, civil and industrial engineers, as well as men in the physical sciences. You can get more information about Western Electric — and its many current needs for technical people — by writing College Relations, Room 200C, Western Electric Company, 195 Broadway, New York City 7, N. Y.

Western Electric MANUFACTURING AND SUPPLY UNIT OF THE BELL SYSTEM

Buffalo. N C<"P., Chicago 14.

Md,; Indianapolis, Ind.; Allsntown and Laureldale. Pa.: Burlington, Greensboro and Winston-Salem, N. C ;

Neb.; Kansas City. Mo.; Columbus. Ohio; Oklahoma City, Okla,; Engineering Research Center, Princeton, N. J.; Teletype

no Little Rock. Ark. Also W. E. distribution centers in 32 cities and installation headquarters in 16 cities. General headquarters: 195 Broadway. New York 7, N.Y.

•Y.; North Andover. Mass.; Lincoln and Omaha

T

W The death of H. M. Corse has been *J ' brought to our attention. His widow

lives at 1633 Riverside Avenue, Jackson­ville, Florida. No further information was available at this writing.

' 1 1 Herbert B. Beckwith, EE, of 409 Pearl Street, Michigan City, Indiana,

died December 21 after a long illness. From 1930 until his retirement in 1957 he was with the Indiana Public Utilities Corpora­tion. At the time of his retirement he was an efficiency engineer.

Robert F. Golden, ME, died December 19 at his home. His widow lives at 207 Elm Avenue. Riverton, New Jersey.

' 1 0 H. Norris Pye, EE, retired March 1 as secretary of the South-Eastern

Underwriters Association in Atlanta. He joined the company following graduation from Tech and was chief engineer from 1928 to 1956. Mr. Pye is a nationally known authority on fire prevention and fire protec­tion engineering.

Edward Young Holt, EE, secretary-' ** treasurer of the B. B. Burk Company,

Dallas, Texas, died of a heart attack De­cember 12. His widow lives at 5719 West Stanford, Dallas 9, Texas.

i John A. Wayt Ch. E., vice president in charge of production at the Merita

Division of American Bakeries Company in Atlanta, has retired after 38 years of serv­ice.

' 0 1 Thomas Daniel House, Sr., CE, died January 21 at his home, 176 Coven­

try Road, Decatur, Georgia. He had been with the State Highway Department for 30 years and was assistant planning engineer at the time of his death. His widow lives at the above address.

' O O O. J. Oosterhoudt hi& announced the • ^ formation of a partnership with Al­

len C. Oosterhoudt for the practice of public accounting. The firm, Oosterhoudt and Company, is located at 1008 Barnett Bank Building in Jacksonville, Florida.

' O O George H. Brodnax, Jr., EE, has ^ * ^ been elected first vice president of

the Better Business Bureau of Atlanta. Mr. Brodnax is vice president of the Georgia Power Company.

' O ^ Jack Sharp is now vice president of *~ ' Sharp-Horsey Hardware Company in

Atlanta.

' O Cj Sydney W. Chandler has been named ^*J president of the Mississippi State

Board of Registration for Professional En­gineers. He is a partner in the architectural and engineering firm of Biggs, Weir and Chandler, 336 Meadowbrook -Road, Jack­son, Mississippi.

Gordon F. Price, EE, assistant chief en­gineer with South-Eastern Underwriters As­sociation in Atlanta, has been named chief engineer. He has been with the company since 1925.

' O C John Henry Persons, EE, General ~ U Electric Corporation sales executive,

died February 8 in an Atlanta hospital. He had been manager of the component and intermediate sales for the Georgia-Alabama area since 1950. Mr. Person's widow lives at 1175 Beechhaven Road, N.E., Atlanta.

J. Ridley Reynolds, ME, sales supervisor of Georgia Power Company's Rome (Geor­gia) division, has been appointed sales re­search and rate engineer in the company's general office in Atlanta.

• O l J. Edward Dean, TE, has been made ^ ' advertising director for duPont in

Wilmington, N. C.

' 9 f t W' Stewart Boyle has been elected ^ 0 to the Board of Directors of the

Houston (Texas) Chamber of Commerce.

Captain James E. Minter, '31, has been appointed assistant chief of the Bureau of Naval Personnel for finance in Washington, D. C. Captain Minter has been assigned as Sixth Naval District Comp­troller with headquarters in Charleston, S. C. since 1955. Prior to this assignment, he was Ninth Naval District Comptroller. Captain Minter has been on active duty with the United States Navy since 1940.

28

' O Q Dave M. Heritage, Com., has been *- ** named warden of the Atlanta Federal

Penitentiary. He was formerly warden of th McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary in Wash ington.

I Captain James R. Carnes, USN v** Com., has been named Assistant

Judge Advocate General of the Navy f0r

International and Administrative Law. Cap­tain Carnes practiced law in Columbus Georgia prior to entering the Navy in 194i' He has served the Navy in various law capacities and is a member of the Georgia Bar Association, American Bar Association and the U. S. Court of Military appeals.

QQ Forrest T. Meiere, EE, died February •*•* 24 of a heart attack. He had been

with Westinghouse for 25 years and was an engineer with the company at the time of his death. Mr. Meiere's widow lives at 507 Pine Forest Drive, Marietta, Georgia.

John M. Miller is with the U. S. Navy in Memphis, Tennessee.

Grayson L. Stradley, Southwestern Divi­sion Manager for Thornton Sales Service, Inc., Dallas, Texas, has been transferred to the company's Greensboro, North Carolina office, where he will serve as vice president. His new home address is 1100 Rustic Road, Greensboro, North Carolina.

Charles E. Thwaite, Jr., Chairman of the Board, Trust Company of Georgia, has been elected a trustee of the Georgia Tech Foundation.

,riA Howard B. Johnson, Com., has been ^ ' elected second vice president of the

Better Business Bureau of Atlanta, He is president of the Atlantic Steel Company.

I Sam R. Phillips, TE, is now general manager of Latex Fiber Industries,

a subsidiary of U. S. Rubber, with offices at Beaver Falls, New York. He was formerly with the Textile Division of the U. S. Rub­ber Company in White Plaines, New York.

' 4 f l Robert Glenn Cushing, ME, died ™ February 18 in an Atlanta hospital.

He had been with the Atlanta Gas Light Company for 20 years and was a division engineer at the time of his death. Mr. Cushing is survived by his wife and two children, who live at 1831 McJenkin Drive, N. E., Atlanta, Georgia.

' J O Charles E. Burroughs, IM, former ^*- varsity end, died of a heart attack on

November 15. He is survived by his widow, who lives in Springfield, Illinois.

Born to : Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Kemp-

TECH AlUMNUS

IM, a son, William Avery, December l°n' Bob is a n e l e c t r o n ' c component manu-l8'rurers representative in New England, h ir home address is 38 Brentwood Drive,

JEmfield. Connecticut.

Meh'in S. Feder, ME, has been pro-' 4 3 moted to engineering section head for

uipment management in the Systems En­t e r i n g Department, .Marine Division, - ' . . sperry Gyroscope in Great Neck, New

I O. Harris, Jr., IM, has been promoted vice president-sales at Fulton Cotton

Mills in Atlanta. Prior to this appointment he was general sales manager.

. _ Dr, James E. Sellers, EE, assistant 4 / dean of the Divinity School and as­

sistant professor of Theology at Vanderbilt University, is the author of a book entitled "When Trouble Comes." Dr. Sellers receiv­ed his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt.

»A O Dakin B. Ferris, Jr., IM, has been I named manager of the Atlanta office

of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith, Inc. He has been manager of the Pensacola. Florida office since 1954.

W. L. Martin, EE, has been promoted to staff engineer in the Technical Division at Humble Oil and Refining Company's Bay-town, Texas refinery. His home address is 1503 East Fayle Street in Baytown.

'50 Born to: Mr. and Mrs. William J. Metzger, IM, a daughter, Susan

Elizabeth, February 21. Bill is assistant purchasing agent for the Savannah Electric and Power Company. Their address is 319 East 52nd Street, Savannah, Georgia.

Guy F. Spearman, ME, has been appoint­ed Division Engineer for the Atlanta Gas Light Company in Atlanta.

»C1 Donald A. Duke, Ch. E, has joined Monsanto Chemical Company's Lion

Oil Company Division at Texas City, Texas. He is in the manufacturing department.

Ardin G. Hartman, IM, has entered the management engineering field as an inde­pendent consultant serving small and med­ium size manufacturers in Georgia. His mailing address is Box 298, Lilburn, Geor­gia.

Engaged: James Marion Hunter, IM, to Miss Elizabeth Freeman. The wed­ding will take place March 19. Mr. Hunter is a civil engineer with the City of Atlanta.

DIGITAL PROCESSORS

Our Tactical Systems Laboratory applies advanced techniques to the design and development of airborne and ground-based digital data processing systems. If you have at least 2 years of design, system integration, testing or production experience in digital systems, your talents may f ind application in the solution of our technical problems. Write to Mr. S. L. Hirsch.

EB LITTON INDUSTRIES Electronic Equipments Division Beverly Hills, California

Clarence A. Sweets, IE, has been appoint­ed labor relations manager at Monsanto Chemical Company's William G. Krum-mrich Plant at Monsanto, Illinois.

H. H. Williamson, Arch, has been award­ed first prize in the 1960 Louisville Home Show Architectural Competition. He is part-time instructor of architecture at Clemson College, Clemson, South Carolina, and is al­so engaged in private practice. Mr. William­son worked on this project with George C. Means. Georgia Tech '55.

J ( " 0 Married: Fuller E. Callaway, III, IM, JC to Miss Jennie Ann Lindstrom Feb­

ruary 21 at Elko, Nevada. Mr. Callaway is

Charles R. Yates, GS '35, has been named finan­cial representative for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and the Louisville and Nashville Rail­road. Yates, a past president of the National Alumni Association and a member of the Georgia Tech Foundation Board of Trustees, will have his headquarters in New York City. He will be named a vice president of the two companies in April. Since 1947, Yates has been with Joshua L. Bailey and Co., Inc. as vice president.

business manager of the Watkins-Johnson Company, an electronics firm in Palo Alto, California.

Jerome M. Cooper, Arch, has opened architectural offices at 1447 Peachtree St., N. E.. Atlanta. After graduating from Tech, Mr. Cooper studied for a year in Rome, Italy on a Fulbright scholarship.

Charles H. Carrie, EE, has been elected vice president-manufacturing of Scientific-Atlanta. Inc., manufacturer of electronic test instruments. He has been with the com­pany since 1955. Mr. Currie lives at 737 W. Howard Avenue, Decatur, Georgia.

Glen M. Swicegood, Arch, has joined the staff of the Baptist Sunday School Board in Nashville, Tennessee. He is in the Board's Church Architecture Department.

'53 R. L. Seldomridge, Ch. E, has been promoted to chemical engineer in the

lubes section of the Technical Division at Humble Oil and Refining Company's Bay-town, Texas refinery. His home address is 705 Pamela Drive in Baytown.

'54

Marth, 1960

Married: Robert Lee Ruff in, Jr., IE, to Miss Joye Wooten February 14.

Mr. Ruffin is with Lockheed Aircraft in Marietta, Georgia.

More News on page 30

29

W The death of H. M. Corse has been *J ' brought to our attention. His widow

lives at 1633 Riverside Avenue, Jackson­ville, Florida. No further information was available at this writing.

' 1 1 Herbert B. Beckwith, EE, of 409 Pearl Street, Michigan City, Indiana,

died December 21 after a long illness. From 1930 until his retirement in 1957 he was with the Indiana Public Utilities Corpora­tion. At the time of his retirement he was an efficiency engineer.

Robert F. Golden, ME, died December 19 at his home. His widow lives at 207 Elm Avenue. Riverton, New Jersey.

' 1 0 H. Norris Pye, EE, retired March 1 as secretary of the South-Eastern

Underwriters Association in Atlanta. He joined the company following graduation from Tech and was chief engineer from 1928 to 1956. Mr. Pye is a nationally known authority on fire prevention and fire protec­tion engineering.

Edward Young Holt, EE, secretary-' ** treasurer of the B. B. Burk Company,

Dallas, Texas, died of a heart attack De­cember 12. His widow lives at 5719 West Stanford, Dallas 9, Texas.

i John A. Wayt Ch. E., vice president in charge of production at the Merita

Division of American Bakeries Company in Atlanta, has retired after 38 years of serv­ice.

' 0 1 Thomas Daniel House, Sr., CE, died January 21 at his home, 176 Coven­

try Road, Decatur, Georgia. He had been with the State Highway Department for 30 years and was assistant planning engineer at the time of his death. His widow lives at the above address.

' O O O. J. Oosterhoudt hi& announced the • ^ formation of a partnership with Al­

len C. Oosterhoudt for the practice of public accounting. The firm, Oosterhoudt and Company, is located at 1008 Barnett Bank Building in Jacksonville, Florida.

' O O George H. Brodnax, Jr., EE, has ^ * ^ been elected first vice president of

the Better Business Bureau of Atlanta. Mr. Brodnax is vice president of the Georgia Power Company.

' O ^ Jack Sharp is now vice president of *~ ' Sharp-Horsey Hardware Company in

Atlanta.

' O Cj Sydney W. Chandler has been named ^*J president of the Mississippi State

Board of Registration for Professional En­gineers. He is a partner in the architectural and engineering firm of Biggs, Weir and Chandler, 336 Meadowbrook -Road, Jack­son, Mississippi.

Gordon F. Price, EE, assistant chief en­gineer with South-Eastern Underwriters As­sociation in Atlanta, has been named chief engineer. He has been with the company since 1925.

' O C John Henry Persons, EE, General ~ U Electric Corporation sales executive,

died February 8 in an Atlanta hospital. He had been manager of the component and intermediate sales for the Georgia-Alabama area since 1950. Mr. Person's widow lives at 1175 Beechhaven Road, N.E., Atlanta.

J. Ridley Reynolds, ME, sales supervisor of Georgia Power Company's Rome (Geor­gia) division, has been appointed sales re­search and rate engineer in the company's general office in Atlanta.

• O l J. Edward Dean, TE, has been made ^ ' advertising director for duPont in

Wilmington, N. C.

' 9 f t W' Stewart Boyle has been elected ^ 0 to the Board of Directors of the

Houston (Texas) Chamber of Commerce.

Captain James E. Minter, '31, has been appointed assistant chief of the Bureau of Naval Personnel for finance in Washington, D. C. Captain Minter has been assigned as Sixth Naval District Comp­troller with headquarters in Charleston, S. C. since 1955. Prior to this assignment, he was Ninth Naval District Comptroller. Captain Minter has been on active duty with the United States Navy since 1940.

28

' O Q Dave M. Heritage, Com., has been *- ** named warden of the Atlanta Federal

Penitentiary. He was formerly warden of th McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary in Wash ington.

I Captain James R. Carnes, USN v** Com., has been named Assistant

Judge Advocate General of the Navy f0r

International and Administrative Law. Cap­tain Carnes practiced law in Columbus Georgia prior to entering the Navy in 194i' He has served the Navy in various law capacities and is a member of the Georgia Bar Association, American Bar Association and the U. S. Court of Military appeals.

QQ Forrest T. Meiere, EE, died February •*•* 24 of a heart attack. He had been

with Westinghouse for 25 years and was an engineer with the company at the time of his death. Mr. Meiere's widow lives at 507 Pine Forest Drive, Marietta, Georgia.

John M. Miller is with the U. S. Navy in Memphis, Tennessee.

Grayson L. Stradley, Southwestern Divi­sion Manager for Thornton Sales Service, Inc., Dallas, Texas, has been transferred to the company's Greensboro, North Carolina office, where he will serve as vice president. His new home address is 1100 Rustic Road, Greensboro, North Carolina.

Charles E. Thwaite, Jr., Chairman of the Board, Trust Company of Georgia, has been elected a trustee of the Georgia Tech Foundation.

,riA Howard B. Johnson, Com., has been ^ ' elected second vice president of the

Better Business Bureau of Atlanta, He is president of the Atlantic Steel Company.

I Sam R. Phillips, TE, is now general manager of Latex Fiber Industries,

a subsidiary of U. S. Rubber, with offices at Beaver Falls, New York. He was formerly with the Textile Division of the U. S. Rub­ber Company in White Plaines, New York.

' 4 f l Robert Glenn Cushing, ME, died ™ February 18 in an Atlanta hospital.

He had been with the Atlanta Gas Light Company for 20 years and was a division engineer at the time of his death. Mr. Cushing is survived by his wife and two children, who live at 1831 McJenkin Drive, N. E., Atlanta, Georgia.

' J O Charles E. Burroughs, IM, former ^*- varsity end, died of a heart attack on

November 15. He is survived by his widow, who lives in Springfield, Illinois.

Born to : Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Kemp-

TECH AlUMNUS

IM, a son, William Avery, December l°n' Bob is a n e l e c t r o n ' c component manu-l8'rurers representative in New England, h ir home address is 38 Brentwood Drive,

JEmfield. Connecticut.

Meh'in S. Feder, ME, has been pro-' 4 3 moted to engineering section head for

uipment management in the Systems En­t e r i n g Department, .Marine Division, - ' . . sperry Gyroscope in Great Neck, New

I O. Harris, Jr., IM, has been promoted vice president-sales at Fulton Cotton

Mills in Atlanta. Prior to this appointment he was general sales manager.

. _ Dr, James E. Sellers, EE, assistant 4 / dean of the Divinity School and as­

sistant professor of Theology at Vanderbilt University, is the author of a book entitled "When Trouble Comes." Dr. Sellers receiv­ed his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt.

»A O Dakin B. Ferris, Jr., IM, has been I named manager of the Atlanta office

of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith, Inc. He has been manager of the Pensacola. Florida office since 1954.

W. L. Martin, EE, has been promoted to staff engineer in the Technical Division at Humble Oil and Refining Company's Bay-town, Texas refinery. His home address is 1503 East Fayle Street in Baytown.

'50 Born to: Mr. and Mrs. William J. Metzger, IM, a daughter, Susan

Elizabeth, February 21. Bill is assistant purchasing agent for the Savannah Electric and Power Company. Their address is 319 East 52nd Street, Savannah, Georgia.

Guy F. Spearman, ME, has been appoint­ed Division Engineer for the Atlanta Gas Light Company in Atlanta.

»C1 Donald A. Duke, Ch. E, has joined Monsanto Chemical Company's Lion

Oil Company Division at Texas City, Texas. He is in the manufacturing department.

Ardin G. Hartman, IM, has entered the management engineering field as an inde­pendent consultant serving small and med­ium size manufacturers in Georgia. His mailing address is Box 298, Lilburn, Geor­gia.

Engaged: James Marion Hunter, IM, to Miss Elizabeth Freeman. The wed­ding will take place March 19. Mr. Hunter is a civil engineer with the City of Atlanta.

DIGITAL PROCESSORS

Our Tactical Systems Laboratory applies advanced techniques to the design and development of airborne and ground-based digital data processing systems. If you have at least 2 years of design, system integration, testing or production experience in digital systems, your talents may f ind application in the solution of our technical problems. Write to Mr. S. L. Hirsch.

EB LITTON INDUSTRIES Electronic Equipments Division Beverly Hills, California

Clarence A. Sweets, IE, has been appoint­ed labor relations manager at Monsanto Chemical Company's William G. Krum-mrich Plant at Monsanto, Illinois.

H. H. Williamson, Arch, has been award­ed first prize in the 1960 Louisville Home Show Architectural Competition. He is part-time instructor of architecture at Clemson College, Clemson, South Carolina, and is al­so engaged in private practice. Mr. William­son worked on this project with George C. Means. Georgia Tech '55.

J ( " 0 Married: Fuller E. Callaway, III, IM, JC to Miss Jennie Ann Lindstrom Feb­

ruary 21 at Elko, Nevada. Mr. Callaway is

Charles R. Yates, GS '35, has been named finan­cial representative for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and the Louisville and Nashville Rail­road. Yates, a past president of the National Alumni Association and a member of the Georgia Tech Foundation Board of Trustees, will have his headquarters in New York City. He will be named a vice president of the two companies in April. Since 1947, Yates has been with Joshua L. Bailey and Co., Inc. as vice president.

business manager of the Watkins-Johnson Company, an electronics firm in Palo Alto, California.

Jerome M. Cooper, Arch, has opened architectural offices at 1447 Peachtree St., N. E.. Atlanta. After graduating from Tech, Mr. Cooper studied for a year in Rome, Italy on a Fulbright scholarship.

Charles H. Carrie, EE, has been elected vice president-manufacturing of Scientific-Atlanta. Inc., manufacturer of electronic test instruments. He has been with the com­pany since 1955. Mr. Currie lives at 737 W. Howard Avenue, Decatur, Georgia.

Glen M. Swicegood, Arch, has joined the staff of the Baptist Sunday School Board in Nashville, Tennessee. He is in the Board's Church Architecture Department.

'53 R. L. Seldomridge, Ch. E, has been promoted to chemical engineer in the

lubes section of the Technical Division at Humble Oil and Refining Company's Bay-town, Texas refinery. His home address is 705 Pamela Drive in Baytown.

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Married: Robert Lee Ruff in, Jr., IE, to Miss Joye Wooten February 14.

Mr. Ruffin is with Lockheed Aircraft in Marietta, Georgia.

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I J. H. Elsinger, IM '49, has been appointed dis­trict manager of a new sales district for Signode Steel Strapping Co. Elsinger's headquarters will be at Jacksonville, Florida, and the new district is made up of Florida and the southeast portions of Georgia and South Carolina. Elsinger joined Sig­node in 1949 as a sales engineer. He has had extensive and diversified experience since that time in materials handling, packaging and car-loading methods.

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Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Douglas W. West-rope, Jr., ME, a son, Jeffrey Clayton, De­cember 18. Mr. Westrope is with American Brake Shoe Corporation, Kellogg Division. Their home address is 60 Howard Avenue, Rochester 10. New York.

' C C / . Franklin Crawford, IE, is an in-J J dustrial engineer with the U. S. Nav­

al Ordnance Plant in Macon, Georgia. His home address is 3440 Travis Boulevard, Macon, Georgia.

Engaged: James Sharp Davis, IE, to Miss Gerry Buchanan. The wedding will take place April 30. Mr. Davis is with IBM in Montgomery, Alabama.

Hansell P. Enloe, EE, has been elected councilor for the Georgia Engineering Soci­ety. He is an associate with Aeck Associates, Atlanta architects.

George C. Means, Jr., Arch, associate professor of architecture at Clemson Col­lege, Clemson, South Carolina, has been awarded first prize in the 1960 Louisville Home Show Architectural Competition. He worked on this project with H. H. William­son, Georgia Tech '51.

A. R. "Bill" White, Jr., CE, has been elected councilor for the Georgia Engineer­ing Society. He is with Robert and Com­pany in Atlanta.

' E C Married: Lt. H. Gary Satterwhite, 3 D USCG, IE, to Miss Patricia Margu­

erite Henley. The wedding took place at Pearl Harbor.

• C I Engaged: Alec Benson, ME, to Miss v I Terry Lynn Grant. Mr. Benson is

with the Union Bag-Camp Paper Corpora­tion. His home address is 9610 White Bluff Road, Savannah, Georgia.

Patrick E. Bolger, EE, is serving with the 720th AC and W Squadron in Alaska.

Engaged: Paul Lamar Dorn, Jr., IM, to Miss Elberta Watson. Mr. Dorn is associat­ed with Crown Food Products, Inc. in At­lanta.

Married: Philip Windsor Frick, Math, to Miss Marion Ellis, February 13. Mr. Frick is a mathematician at Lockheed Aircraft in Marietta, Georgia.

Engaged: Thomas Hendricks Haskins, Jr. IE, to Miss Grace Carolyn Wellborn. The wedding will take place April 10. Mr. Has­kins is an industrial engineer at Robins AFB, Warner Robins, Georgia.

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James P. Locklear, AE, was recently commissioned a second lieutenant in the Regular Army in Germany. He is assistant supply officer in Headquarters Detachment of the 24th Infantry Division's Medical Bat­talion. ,

Engaged: LeRoy Bow Chong Yuen, IE, to Miss Eva York Yew Tarn. Mr. Yuen is with the Public Utilities Commission in Honolulu. His address is 1005 Sixth Ave­nue, Honolulu 16, Hawaii.

'58 Lt. Jerry E. Clark, USA, ME, is a platoon leader in the 523rd Engi­

neer Company, 46th Artillery Group in Germany.

Private Leonard H. Filler, USA, ME, has completed the equipment maintenance course at The Engineer School, Fort Bel-voir, Virginia.

Married: Philip Larry Galloway, TE, to Miss Patricia Ann Pope, March 19. Mr. Galloway is with the Oxford Manufactur­ing Company in Atlanta.

Lt. Samuel M. Griffin, Jr., USN, IM, re­cently earned his wings after training at Pensacola, Florida. He is the son of form­er Georgia Governor Marvin Griffin.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Leonard, IE, a son, Charles Leonard, Jr., January 18. Mr. Leonard is on the General Electric Manufacturing Training Program. Their home address is 281 Washington, Marble-head, Massachusetts.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Gene Mori, ME, a daughter, Elizabeth Jeanne, February 8. Their home address is 2520 Roxbury Drive, San Bernandino, California.

Married: Ronald W. Ridgeway, CE, to Miss Linda Rowena Haddock, December 28. Their address is 2132-A Virginia Place, N. E., Atlanta 5, Georgia.

Engaged: Lt. Ray C. Ruark, Jr., USN, TE, to Miss Kay Lamb. The wedding will

take place in April. Lt. Ruark is C U r r

stationed in Dunedin, New Zealand. e n " y

J G O Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Rober. „ OU Balcerak, EE, a daughter, Di a n

Marie, last June. Mr. Balcerak is with / craft Armaments, Inc. Their address *" Dawson Street, Cockeysville, Maryland

Married: O. B. Barker, III, ME, to M-

Betty Jean Vaughn of Atlanta. The' weddilT took place March 18. They reside in Phji 8

delphia where Mr. Barker is with the Baile* Meter Company.

John E. Caldwell, Jr., IE, is a trainee with Kurt Salmon Associates, Inc., Consultin Management Engineers, Washington, D r His permanent mailing address is 310 Dixie Avenue, Madison. Georgia.

Engaged: James Leroy DuBard, EE, to Miss Mary Clayton Bryan. The wedding will take place in June. Mr. DuBard is attending Graduate School at MIT in Cambridge Massachusetts.

Engaged: Harris Giannello, IE, to Miss Maryann Mazie. Mr. Giannello lives at 15 Pleasant Court, Maywood, New Jersey.

Engaged: Gerald Lawrence Graves, Ch. E, to Miss Ann Tarver. The wedding will take place May 28. Mr. Graves is a develop­ment engineer with Union Carbide Nuclear Company of Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Married: Lt. Frank Cooper Littleton, Jr., USA, AE, to Miss Carolyn W. Mobleyj February 6. Lt. Cooper is serving with the Ordnance Corps at Fort Riley, Kansas.

Engaged: David Armstrong McNeill, IM, to Miss Eleanor Lee. The wedding will take place March 26.

Married: Lt. Walter E. Mooney, Jr., USA, ME, to Miss Jo Ann Campbell, January 2. Lt. Mooney is currently undergoing training at the U. S. Army Signal School at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.

'60 Married: James L. Davidson, Jr., ME, to Miss Edna Hill. Mr. David­

son is serving as Ensing at the Naval Weap­ons Laboratories, Dahlgren, Virginia. Their address is 614 Gilmore Road in Dahlgren.

Engaged: Thomas David Eskew, CP, to Miss Anne Ezzard. The wedding will take place in June. Mr. Eskew is attending Graduate School at Georgia Tech and is associated with Hill and Adley Associates, Planning Consultants in Atlanta.

Married: William Reubin Moore, Jr. to Miss Linda Baker, February 13. Mr. Moore is with Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in LaGrange, Georgia.

Riley O. Etheridge, EE '51, has been appointed manager of the Southeastern District for Distribu­tor tube sales of the Radio Corporation of Amer­ica's Electron Tube Division. His headquarters will be in Atlanta. The Southeastern District con­sists of the Tampa, Atlanta, Birmingham and Charlotte areas. Etheridge joined RCA in 1951 as an engineer at the Tube Division plant in Lan­caster, Pennsylvania. He has recently been serving the company as a sales engineer.

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2 All forms of life, including plants, can develop cancer.

3 Cancer is not contagious.

4 More men than women die of cancer.

5 Pain is a late cancer symptom.

6 Cancer can strike anyone at any age.

7 A biopsy (examination of suspected tissue removed from the body) is the only method of proving whether cancer is present.

8 Surgery or irradiation, or both, are the only means of curing cancer.

9 An annual health checkup is one of the most effective weapons against cancer.

lO Over one million Americans are alive today, cured of cancer.

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I J. H. Elsinger, IM '49, has been appointed dis­trict manager of a new sales district for Signode Steel Strapping Co. Elsinger's headquarters will be at Jacksonville, Florida, and the new district is made up of Florida and the southeast portions of Georgia and South Carolina. Elsinger joined Sig­node in 1949 as a sales engineer. He has had extensive and diversified experience since that time in materials handling, packaging and car-loading methods.

NEWS BY CLASSES-conr/n uec/

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Douglas W. West-rope, Jr., ME, a son, Jeffrey Clayton, De­cember 18. Mr. Westrope is with American Brake Shoe Corporation, Kellogg Division. Their home address is 60 Howard Avenue, Rochester 10. New York.

' C C / . Franklin Crawford, IE, is an in-J J dustrial engineer with the U. S. Nav­

al Ordnance Plant in Macon, Georgia. His home address is 3440 Travis Boulevard, Macon, Georgia.

Engaged: James Sharp Davis, IE, to Miss Gerry Buchanan. The wedding will take place April 30. Mr. Davis is with IBM in Montgomery, Alabama.

Hansell P. Enloe, EE, has been elected councilor for the Georgia Engineering Soci­ety. He is an associate with Aeck Associates, Atlanta architects.

George C. Means, Jr., Arch, associate professor of architecture at Clemson Col­lege, Clemson, South Carolina, has been awarded first prize in the 1960 Louisville Home Show Architectural Competition. He worked on this project with H. H. William­son, Georgia Tech '51.

A. R. "Bill" White, Jr., CE, has been elected councilor for the Georgia Engineer­ing Society. He is with Robert and Com­pany in Atlanta.

' E C Married: Lt. H. Gary Satterwhite, 3 D USCG, IE, to Miss Patricia Margu­

erite Henley. The wedding took place at Pearl Harbor.

• C I Engaged: Alec Benson, ME, to Miss v I Terry Lynn Grant. Mr. Benson is

with the Union Bag-Camp Paper Corpora­tion. His home address is 9610 White Bluff Road, Savannah, Georgia.

Patrick E. Bolger, EE, is serving with the 720th AC and W Squadron in Alaska.

Engaged: Paul Lamar Dorn, Jr., IM, to Miss Elberta Watson. Mr. Dorn is associat­ed with Crown Food Products, Inc. in At­lanta.

Married: Philip Windsor Frick, Math, to Miss Marion Ellis, February 13. Mr. Frick is a mathematician at Lockheed Aircraft in Marietta, Georgia.

Engaged: Thomas Hendricks Haskins, Jr. IE, to Miss Grace Carolyn Wellborn. The wedding will take place April 10. Mr. Has­kins is an industrial engineer at Robins AFB, Warner Robins, Georgia.

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James P. Locklear, AE, was recently commissioned a second lieutenant in the Regular Army in Germany. He is assistant supply officer in Headquarters Detachment of the 24th Infantry Division's Medical Bat­talion. ,

Engaged: LeRoy Bow Chong Yuen, IE, to Miss Eva York Yew Tarn. Mr. Yuen is with the Public Utilities Commission in Honolulu. His address is 1005 Sixth Ave­nue, Honolulu 16, Hawaii.

'58 Lt. Jerry E. Clark, USA, ME, is a platoon leader in the 523rd Engi­

neer Company, 46th Artillery Group in Germany.

Private Leonard H. Filler, USA, ME, has completed the equipment maintenance course at The Engineer School, Fort Bel-voir, Virginia.

Married: Philip Larry Galloway, TE, to Miss Patricia Ann Pope, March 19. Mr. Galloway is with the Oxford Manufactur­ing Company in Atlanta.

Lt. Samuel M. Griffin, Jr., USN, IM, re­cently earned his wings after training at Pensacola, Florida. He is the son of form­er Georgia Governor Marvin Griffin.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Leonard, IE, a son, Charles Leonard, Jr., January 18. Mr. Leonard is on the General Electric Manufacturing Training Program. Their home address is 281 Washington, Marble-head, Massachusetts.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Gene Mori, ME, a daughter, Elizabeth Jeanne, February 8. Their home address is 2520 Roxbury Drive, San Bernandino, California.

Married: Ronald W. Ridgeway, CE, to Miss Linda Rowena Haddock, December 28. Their address is 2132-A Virginia Place, N. E., Atlanta 5, Georgia.

Engaged: Lt. Ray C. Ruark, Jr., USN, TE, to Miss Kay Lamb. The wedding will

take place in April. Lt. Ruark is C U r r

stationed in Dunedin, New Zealand. e n " y

J G O Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Rober. „ OU Balcerak, EE, a daughter, Di a n

Marie, last June. Mr. Balcerak is with / craft Armaments, Inc. Their address *" Dawson Street, Cockeysville, Maryland

Married: O. B. Barker, III, ME, to M-

Betty Jean Vaughn of Atlanta. The' weddilT took place March 18. They reside in Phji 8

delphia where Mr. Barker is with the Baile* Meter Company.

John E. Caldwell, Jr., IE, is a trainee with Kurt Salmon Associates, Inc., Consultin Management Engineers, Washington, D r His permanent mailing address is 310 Dixie Avenue, Madison. Georgia.

Engaged: James Leroy DuBard, EE, to Miss Mary Clayton Bryan. The wedding will take place in June. Mr. DuBard is attending Graduate School at MIT in Cambridge Massachusetts.

Engaged: Harris Giannello, IE, to Miss Maryann Mazie. Mr. Giannello lives at 15 Pleasant Court, Maywood, New Jersey.

Engaged: Gerald Lawrence Graves, Ch. E, to Miss Ann Tarver. The wedding will take place May 28. Mr. Graves is a develop­ment engineer with Union Carbide Nuclear Company of Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Married: Lt. Frank Cooper Littleton, Jr., USA, AE, to Miss Carolyn W. Mobleyj February 6. Lt. Cooper is serving with the Ordnance Corps at Fort Riley, Kansas.

Engaged: David Armstrong McNeill, IM, to Miss Eleanor Lee. The wedding will take place March 26.

Married: Lt. Walter E. Mooney, Jr., USA, ME, to Miss Jo Ann Campbell, January 2. Lt. Mooney is currently undergoing training at the U. S. Army Signal School at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.

'60 Married: James L. Davidson, Jr., ME, to Miss Edna Hill. Mr. David­

son is serving as Ensing at the Naval Weap­ons Laboratories, Dahlgren, Virginia. Their address is 614 Gilmore Road in Dahlgren.

Engaged: Thomas David Eskew, CP, to Miss Anne Ezzard. The wedding will take place in June. Mr. Eskew is attending Graduate School at Georgia Tech and is associated with Hill and Adley Associates, Planning Consultants in Atlanta.

Married: William Reubin Moore, Jr. to Miss Linda Baker, February 13. Mr. Moore is with Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in LaGrange, Georgia.

Riley O. Etheridge, EE '51, has been appointed manager of the Southeastern District for Distribu­tor tube sales of the Radio Corporation of Amer­ica's Electron Tube Division. His headquarters will be in Atlanta. The Southeastern District con­sists of the Tampa, Atlanta, Birmingham and Charlotte areas. Etheridge joined RCA in 1951 as an engineer at the Tube Division plant in Lan­caster, Pennsylvania. He has recently been serving the company as a sales engineer.

TECH ALUMNUS

WHAT'S YOUR C.I.Q.?* TAKE THIS SIMPLE TFST TO FIND OUT

THE CORRECT ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ABOUT CANCER COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE

1 Leukemia is cancer of the blood-forming tissues.

2 All forms of life, including plants, can develop cancer.

3 Cancer is not contagious.

4 More men than women die of cancer.

5 Pain is a late cancer symptom.

6 Cancer can strike anyone at any age.

7 A biopsy (examination of suspected tissue removed from the body) is the only method of proving whether cancer is present.

8 Surgery or irradiation, or both, are the only means of curing cancer.

9 An annual health checkup is one of the most effective weapons against cancer.

lO Over one million Americans are alive today, cured of cancer.

SCORING: 10: Excellent 6 to 9: Fair 5 or less: Danger! Foryourown protection, learn more about cancer. Write to "Cancer" -c /o your local post office.

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