Volume 17, No. 1, February 1983 CALTECH NEWS

Acid fog: Studies in the Braun Laboratories could lead to important insights into more lethal cancer, arthritis, infections, and autoimmune disease, President Gold­ than acid rain? berger told guests. "We expect research efforts in the Acid fog may cause damage more Braun Laboratories to do what uni­ serious than that produced by acid versities do best - long-term rain, according to six Cal tech en­ studies," Goldberger said. "In this vironmental engineers. The scientists case, we're talking about investiga­ performed the first detailed study of tions of the fundamental structure the composition of fog water in and mechanisms of life itself. polluted areas, and found it to be a "Caitech is fortunate. We have concentrated solution of chemicals some of the finest faculty and re­ acid enough to corrode metal, dam­ search personnel in the country and age vegetation, and perhaps threaten even in the world. We also have human health . Previous studies have some of the very best students. And shown acid rain to be about 100 we are loyally supported by many times less acidic than the fog. dedicated people who assist us in our In a recent report in Science, the decision to playa major part in environmental engineers reported on contributing to the recent dramatic measures of the pH and chemical progress in immunology and cell composition of fog from three sites in Guests at dedication of the Braun Laboratories hear Harry Gray describe some research goals for biology." Los Angeles and Bakersfield. They the new building. Goldberger noted that the building found the fog to be laden with high is the largest biological facility on concentrations of pollutants such as campus. He pointed out that Braun sulfates, nitrates, ammonia, lead, Court, where dedication was held, copper, nickel, iron, manganese, and Caltech formally welcomes has already been used extensively for organic chemicals. divisional events and student plays. The fog water samples possessed the Braun Laboratories to campus The Laboratories were made possi­ pH readings from 2.2 to 4.0, meaning ble by a gift from the Carl F Braun that they were highly acidic. (The pH Trust. Braun, a mechanical engineer, scale is a logarithmic measure of founded and headed C F Braun & acidity and alkalinity. A pH of 7 Co, one of the world's leading engi­ is neutral; higher than 7 is alkaline; The Cal tech community formally Divisions of Biology and of welcomed a major new biological Chemistry and Chemical Engi­ neering and construction companies. lower than 7 is acidic. The pH of In 1926, the Brauns were charter natural rainwater, due to the acidity research facility - the Braun Labora­ neering. Eight research groups in the members of The Cal tech Associates. of dissolved carbon dioxide, is about tories in Memory of Carl F and laboratory - four each from biology Winifred H Braun - in dedication and chemistry - will carry out In 1961, the Braun Trust presented 5.6.) Caltech with funds to construct (In December, the researchers ceremonies on December 13. research in molecular biology, im­ Braun House, a graduate student measured the most acidic fog ever Caltech President Marvin L. Gold­ munology, and cell-surface chemistry. berger greeted guests in Braun Court The building is the main facility for residence, and in 1973 the family recorded in southern California: the endowed the Carl F Braun Chair in fog, in Corona del Mar, reached a pH beside the building and introduced Caltech's Cancer Center - directed Engineering. level of 1.69 - about as acidic as a speakers: Harry B. Gray, chairman by Leroy E. Hood, the Ethel Wilson Carl Braun was a member of the toilet bowl cleaner and three times of the Division of Chemistry and Bowles and Robert Bowles Professor Cal tech Board of Trustees, and from more acidic than a lime.) Chemical Engineering; Leroy E. of Biology. The 8S,OOO-square-foot 1937 until his death in 1954, a direc­ Researchers collaborating on the Hood, chairman of the Division of structure, on the northwest corner of tor of The Associates. Mrs Braun, work are graduate student Jed M . Biology; and John G Braun, vice the campus on Wilson Avenue at San active in Cal tech and community Waldman, staff engineer J. William chairman of the Board of Trustees Pasqual, is connected to Church service activities, died in 1980. The Munger, graduate student Daniel J. of Caltech. Laboratory by a pedestrian tunnel on Continued on page 2 Jacob, Associate Professor of En­ The $lS-million, four-level , tile­ the basement level. vironmental Engineering Science roofed building will house some 180 In their work, the scientists will use Richard C. Flagan, Professor of researchers and support staff in the newly developed biotechnologies of Environmental Engineering Science recombinant DNA, monoclonal James J. Morgan, and Associate antibodies, and microchemical instru­ Professor of Environmental Engi­ mentation. The new building will neering Science Michael R. include a number of advanced re­ Hoffmann. sources to aid these techniques, Continued on page 2 including a microchemical facility, a computer facility, cell-sorting instru­ mentation, and animal facilities. Air pollution Caltech tops its aggravates record for private acid fog gifts: $22.8 million

Continued from page 1 Cal tech has set a record high for The sites used in the study in­ private gifts - $22.8 million for the cluded a residential area in Pasadena; fiscal year ending September 30. This a Los Angeles site near the Los figure represents an increase of 16 Angeles Airport, a major freeway, percent over last year's level of gifts two power plants and an oil refinery; from corporations, foundations, and and a Bakersfield site in an agri­ individuals. cultural region surrounded by sec­ In making the announcement, ondary oil recovery operations. Cal tech President Marvin L. Gold­ The scientists gathered the fog berger said that "this level of giving is samples using a rotating arm collec­ a tremendous encouragement to us tor consisting of a steel tube with - as a public recognition of the slots milled into it. The collector is importance of science and technol­ spun at high speeds and fog droplets ogy, and as an expression of confi­ are captured in the slots. Centrifugal dence in Caltech." force then slings them outward into Another record was broken when sample bottles at either end of the David S. Middlemas, graduate student in chemistry, leads guests at the Braun Laboratories dedi­ cation on a tour of one of the research labs. Middlemas is a member of the research group of Mi­ the alumni fund-raising effort result­ tube. The droplets gathered in this chael A. Raftery, professor of chemical biology. Guests are, from left: Ca ltech Trustee D r. La­ ed in a record 43 percent participa­ way are 10 to 20 millionths of a wrence Williams, Mrs John G Braun, Dr. Emrys Ross, Mrs. Nathaniel Paschall. tion by alumni. The successful funde meter in diameter, some 100 times raising year was characterized by a smaller than raindrops. heavy involvement of volunteers, Analysis of the samples revealed both alumni and friends of the that the fog was consistently acidic, Caltech honors donors Institute. and that the pH dropped precipi­ Notable gifts and pledges this year tously during periods of heavy air to Braun Laboratories included the R. Stanton Avery Pro­ pollution. This means that the fog fessorship of Distinguished Service, droplets may condense on smog established by R. Stanton Avery, ContinJ,led from Pcage 1 _--:_-:-_. __-: M,:;rs. Norman Chandler, particles, creating concentrated Brauns' son, John G Braun, has been the Coca-Cola Company, the James chairman of Cal tech's Board of solutions in which sulfur and nitric a member of the Board of Trustees Irvine Foundation, David Keaton, Trustees; a million dollar grant for a acids are produced from sulfate and since 1959. Miss Tracy Keaton, the Ambrose Fund for Special Programs provided nitrate pollutants. As the fog evapo­ The following donors also contrib- Monell Foundation, Mrs. Nathaniel by the Weingart Foundation of Los rates under the sun's heat, the acidity uted generously to support the build- Paschall, the Times-Mirror Founda- Angeles; a million dollar bequest of the droplets increases, and when it ing: Chandis Securities Company, tion, and the Weingart Foundation. from the estate of Josephine Halsell; finally disappears, smog particles are and pledges from the System Devel­ released back into the air, producing opment Foundation totaling over severe smog conditions. $2 million for research on the physics The fact that fog fo~m s close to the of computation and neural networks. ground may explain why it is so Alumni Fund telephone A major grant was also made by much more acidic than cloud or rain the Rockwell International Corpora­ water, said the scientists. In one set of program begins February 28 tion for research in engineering, and experiments, the Caltech scientists another by the Corporation for and a team from Meteorology Caltech's Alumni Fund telephone County. Barry R. Lieberman (BS '68) Public Broadcasting/The Annenberg Research, Inc., of Altadena, simulta­ program will get under way on Feb­ is responsible for Santa Clara, and School of Communications for the neously sampled fog and cloud water ruary 28 as Caltech graduates call Charles M. Davis (BS '45, MS '46) production of an educational TV at the same site. The Cal tech scien­ classmates throughout the country, for San Diego. program on physics called "The tists found the pH of the fog to be 2.8 seeking their support for the Calls will be made on these dates, Mechanical Universe." while MRI measurements of the top Institute. according to Harry J. Moore, Jr. of the cloud bank at 600 meters Most of the calls will emanate from (BS '48), National Alumni Fund registered 3.6. the Alumni House, where a bank of chairman: from the Alumni House - Preliminary evidence suggests that 16 newly installed telephones will be February 28; March 8, 16, 24, and Vol. 17, No.1 February 1983 acid fogs are a general phenomenon in use, along with seven existing 28; and April 5, 20, and 28; from and have produced damage in other phones. Calls also will be made from Varco - April 6 and 21; from Intel, Issued 6 times a year (Feb ., April, places. For example, the "killer fogs" Varco International in Orange, Intel March 14 and April 26; and from June, Aug., Oct., and Dec.) and that have periodically plagued Corporation in Santa Clara, and General Dynamics, March 9 and published by the California Institute London may owe much of their General Dynamics in San Diego, April 12, and from Dames & Moore, of Technology and the Alumni Asso­ damage to their acidity. and Dames & Moore in San Fran­ March 15 and April 25. Other dates ciation, 1201 East California Blvd., cisco. Phone nights are being planned are being arranged. Pasadena, California 91125. Second for the San Fernando Valley, West "We will be reaching out to alumni class postage paid at Pasadena, Los Angeles, New York City, and where they live or work," said California. Washington, D .C. Moore. He added that much of the EDITORIAL STAFF Andrew B. Campbell (BS '46) and success of the second phase of the Executive editor: Winifred Veronda :81) Alumni Fund will depend on the Ira Simon (BS are coordinating Staff associates: Phyllis Brewster, the phone program in Orange volunteers who help with the tele­ Diane Davis, and phone program. Kay Walker Caltech alumni who would like to Photographer: Robert Paz help in the program are invited to call the Alumni Fund office: USPC 085-640 213-356-6286. Sandra Loh ate, four as a graduate student. Sandra Loh is a senior majoring in Reminiscing, he said, 'The first thing physics. In her talk on Parents' Day, she bares the truth I learned when I got to Caltech was explain s what it is like to be a Caltech that I wasn't as smart as I thought I freshman. about Caltech freshmen was. The second thing I learned was harder to accept: I wasn't as dumb as I thought, either." By Sandra Loh A matter of great concern to His words express a common parents is the fear, often expressed by experience because one of the greatest struggles for students here is to be­ Ladies and gentlemen, welcome a son or daughter, of FAILING EVERYTHING . Hardened upper­ lieve in themselves. If you ask your to Caltech. You've heard lots of facts freshmen how they're dOing, the and statistics about the campus, but classmen have seen their share of 30 and 40 percents, but freshmen tend to response may suggest confusion: "I no doubt you're still in the dark as to got a C + on my chemistry midterm, what your son or daughter is actually be much more melodramatic about those things. Your freshman probably but I learned more in those five experiencing here, and I would like to weeks than ever before in my life . give you some of the inside scoop. I expended much time on Interhouse, and then felt guilty and annoyed Does that mean I'm doing well?" guarantee no statistics - or at least, Enough of schoolwork. It's if a few creep in, I promise you that because the math problems due the next morning weren't the snap that important to keep in mind that your I've made them up. freshman will be living at Caltech I hope you didn't make the math problems used to be. When you phoned to see how things were go­ between the ages of approximately 18 mistake of checking by unannounced and 22. A lot of things - many of at your son or daughter's room at 9 ing, you were told flatly that your freshman is FAILING EVERY­ them unscientific - are supposed to this morning for a quick hello. My happen to human beings during those freshman year, my parents came by THING! Don't panic. Your son or daugh­ years. It's your job to help make sure briefly before the day's events began. your son or daughter grows into Not only was I sound asleep, but I ter is trying to transfer frustration to you. Discovering how hard science someone other human beings will was lying fully clothed on the rug, want to live with. The most brilliant face down in a physics book, and can be, while simultaneously discov­ ering how much fun rowdy dorm life mind will shrivel up and go to waste there were two young men in the if not relaxed when necessary. Your corner, faces down on physics books is, is dreadful for a freshman. It's comforting to have parents feel alarm freshmen will get lots of tries at bearing the same title. understanding Maxwell's Equations, We had been pulling an "all­ because one is failing - and it's hard for parents not to feel alarm when but when will they be 18 again? nighter," which is not as exciting as it Chances are, your son or daugh­ sounds. It means you stay up all paying $10,000 in tuition and housing. ter will experience enough woe as a night to fini sh an assignment. One of freshman to fuel hours of potential the first things you have to realize If your son or daughter reports depression. One of the tricks of about all-nighters, which can be getting two out of five on a quiz, surviving Cal tech is to turn those defined as "borrowing from tomor­ don't panic; those two problems were hours when they can't deal with one row to pay for yesterday, today," is real doozies. Caltech is a tough place, more problem on boundary condi­ that often they don't actually last all and that's why some rational person tions into hours spent in some night. One's gilded carriage of put freshmen on a pass-fail basis. emotionally rewarding, culturally knowledge turns into a pumpkin at Professors here really want to see enriching, or at least physically tiring approximately 5:42 a.m., and it's every freshman pass everything (they activity. I'm a physics/literature curtains for Schroedinger's Equation. know they'll get them on grades as double major, and have played vol­ Often ignored is the fact that sophomores and juniors). A student leyball for four years; I also have a Caltech students realize not only has to actively miss classes and not work/ study job improvising on the their intellectual limits, but their son was trying to finish a math attempt homework to fail; just the piano for a modern dance class. physical ones as well . Long-distance assignment at 3 a.m. and gave it up fact that your freshman is anXiously What I'm telling you is that you runners speak of "hitting the wall" at 4 to ingest doughnuts, followed by listing every score earned all term will never need to worry that your when they reach the point of exhaus­ pepperoni pizza with extra cheese at indicates a level of effort that should son or daughter won't learn enough tion. Chances are that when your son 5, followed by one hour of troubled, assure solid "passes" in almost science here. But do make sure that or daughter was living at home and unexpected sleep at 6, followed by everything. they experience non-scientific things competing with "average" students in great confusion at 11. (At 11:30 If your freshman should fail a as well. Cal tech has teams in foot­ high school, exhaustion was never comes lunch.) class, it's not time to climb the Trans­ ball, basketball, water polo, men's much of an issue. You made sure The truth is that many america building and end it all; and women's soccer, swimming, your children got their share of leafy freshmen, trying to get too much students who fail are in the best of volleyball, and cross country. For the green vegetables and were in bed by work done too soon, run out of company. Some of the nicest people more eclectic, there is fencing, karate, 4 a.m. at the latest. hours to sleep. They realize there is you meet on campus have at least cricket, and modern dance. For the But here, there is a probability no solution for the sleep problem, failed a frosh humanities course. And cultured, there is drama, glee club, that last Thursday your daughter or and they interpret fatigue as hunger. the administration here has a fair This may help you to understand amount of wisdom and tolerance; Continued on page 4 why, over Christmas vacation, you they know the students here can be may be requested to let a piece or incomparably brilliant and therefore two of your freshman's clothing out often incomparably flaky. at the waist a little - "just to be Caltech students tend to be safe." overly self-critical, and one of the most important lessons for students to learn. on the campus is to reward themselves for something as small as half of a problem well done. Over the summer I met a tenured professor in high-energy physics from Prince­ ton University who spent eight years at Cal tech - four as an undergradu- 4

Rachel's mother .. . when she heard of her son-in-law's implied promotion told the social leaders of her city: "Rachel tells me that NASA real­ ized it needed some of its own men to be trained in celestial mechanics . . what holds the Sun in place, and James Michener's novels (Hawaii, wouldn't we be in a fix if it lost its The Source, Centennial) have generally encompassed time fram es place and dragged us around the universe in its fiery tail? ranging from hundreds to millions of years - and their actions have taken "Well, it's a relief to me, I can tell place in exotic settings throughout you, I mean Stanley, not the Sun. It's the world. In his most recent novel not pleasant to have to admit you M ichener deals w ith a time fram e ~f have a son-in-law who went to only 40 years - but on activities Georgia and Louisiana. But 1 do wish focused billions of miles beyond the he was taking his doctorate at a earth's surface into outer space. school of real distinction, like Har­ vard or MIT. Who ever heard of Called Space, the novel is based on Cal Tech?" the activities of NASA from 1944 th rough the 40 years that follow, and Caltech comes in for its share of mentions. For th ose w ho may not Sandra Loh read the book, we're reprinting this on Caltech freshmen excerpt:

A committee reviewed the entire Continued from page 3 personnel of the new agency and / instrumental ensembles, Baxter Art winnowed the possible candidates Gallery, piano instrumentation, and into two groups. The first were those top-quality events in Beckman Audi­ younger men who had already dem­ torium. As far as humanities goes, onstrated outstanding intellectual you can take some excellent liberal capabilities in getting their master's arts courses at Caltech. degrees in various good engineering In closing, 1 want to make a schools and who could be relied warm mention of an institution of upon to handle the advanced work which I am a member, The Cal tech Y. for a doctorate. High on this list was The Y is a non-profit, on-campus Stanley Mott: B.S., Georgia Tech; institution that exists solely to enrich M .S., Louisiana State, IQ 159, the students' lives. The Cal tech Y "Did they listen?" Desperately allowed to grapple with those secrets! lifetime grade average, 3.89. sponsors programs at little or no cost Mott wanted to spend a year at Cal To be one of the handful who com­ "We've talked with the men at Cal to the students - decompression, Tech, for in his advanced work at prehended the structure of a galaxy Tech," the older man in charge of the evening concerts, guitar workshops, Langley and Wallops Island, and or the behavior of atoms at the outer Program Doctor Rush informed Mott backpacking, skiing and sailing trips, especially during his studies of abla­ edges of space! when the latter came to Washington, speakers on stress, sexuality, tion in California, he had seen that ''I'd volunteer to spend the three "and they tell us that their program theology, politics and dreams, and much of the really powerful thinking years for that," he said quietly. normally takes three years." things like body relaxation and whale being done in these intriguing fields "Maybe there's no need." "Beyond the master's!" Mott watching. stemmed from this small, tight, "Oh, but I'd like to try!" gasped. We also have more mundane but distinguished center of learning in "We've had substantial discussions "This is the top school in the na­ quite useful things like a used book Pasadena. To share this high intellec­ with them and they're willing to tion, maybe the world. They don't exchange, a lost and found, a Xerox tion, to stand beside these brilliant make a concession . . . If you work throw doctorates around." machine, and rentable camping gear. men as they wrestled with the arcane hard and are able to maintain the "1 don't want to drop out for three Literally anything a student could new concepts, would be a privilege, level of studies you've already done years. In that ti"me we could be on need can be had at the Y - and if the and he would undergo any hardship with us . . ." Saturn." Y doesn't have it, the folks at the Y or embarrassment to get such an "I will." He was a learned man, "That's what we said. We showed are happy to find it for you. assignment. He would even plead for one of the best in his field, 41 years them your record. The nine research Finally, I wish parents of Cal tech a chance. old, but he was pleading like a Boy papers you've already done - on the freshmen good luck in the next four 'The difficulty is," the personnel Scout who wanted to attend summer upper atmosphere, ablation, bringing years, for you will need it. Though man said, "that what we want you to camp. "I can work, you know." a blunt-nosed body back through the Cal tech is undoubtedly challenging, specialize in is the most arduous field "They say that perhaps you can friction belt - satisfied them that strenuous, and uncompromising in they have, celestial mechanics, what handle the material in two years." you're well beyond the average quality, if you make it through, the holds the universe together and . . . Rachel was enchanted by the doctorate level right now." rewards are great. Thank you. makes it run." He stopped to allow news that her husband was going to this startling assignment to sink in, get his doctorate; she had often felt but as soon as he heard the phrase that he was far more learned than celestial mechanics Mott's heart most men who had the degree, but skipped a series of beats . . . To be her brief time at NACA had demon­ strated how even a good man could find himself at a disadvantage be­ cause he lacked a doctorate. The two boys were delighted at the prospect of living in California and studied maps to see how far Cal Tech was from the beach. They were not disappointed . . . half billion years of the moon's evolu­ tion: "We sit down and work with samples that are the most complica­ ted rocks in the collection, and try to identify specific clasts (inclusions) whose petrologic and chemical characteristics have the biggest chance of taking us back to the A decade ago last December the moon's early history. last precious sample of dusty gray­ "After that, there's the really de­ brown stone was lifted from the tailed work of clast extraction, crys­ sun-blasted surface of the moon. On tal extraction and mineral separa­ December 11, 1972, the Apollo 17 tions, and the isotopic analysis that lunar module Challenger had been will tell, in fact, whether the material expertly piloted to a landing at we are working with is old - Taurus-Littrow by Commander whether it's really preserved in a Eugene A. Cernan and by the first reasonably pristine condition so that and only scientist-astronaut to visit the isotopic relationships can be the moon - Harrison H. Schmitt really interpreted in a straightforward (BS '57). Schmitt and Cernan way to yield needed age information. gathered 243 pounds of lunar rock on "We may find that, although our their 76-hour stay, bringing the lunar In th e Lunatic Asylum on campus, Gerald /. Wasserburg uses a mass spectrometer to "co unt" the sample may have been nice and harvest from the Apollo program to atoms In a sample of lu nar rock. After preparation, the sample is placed into the spectrometer pristine some time ago, it has since slightly over 845 pounds. ~nd ~eated to 2,800 degrees Fahr~ nh eit in a vacuum to evaporate the atoms and convert them mto Ions. Th ese m turn are converted i"to ion beams which are recorded as computer signals. been so bashed or remelted that we Since then, scientists around the The ultImate goal - after a process that may take an entire day - is to define the age. cannot recognize its earliest begin­ world have picked their way pains­ nings. The analysis becomes much takingly through those samples, harder the farther back we try to go subjecting tiny particles of the mate­ in the moon's history. The preserved rial to an enormous range of chemi­ samples are much smaller and harder cal and physical tests. Among the to analyze. most notable of these analyses have "Nevertheless, our analytical been those by researchers at Cal tech's techniques have improved, so the famed Lunatic Asylum, led by Mac­ The last moon, rock by Dennis Meredith problems which require sample Arthur Professor of Geology and analysis on a micro-scale are doable, Geophysics Gerald]. Wasserburg. and they are going to be done. The By subjecting carefully chosen Besides their considerable scientific a half-dozen years ago as part of the problem is always to determine when grains of lunar rock to isotopic anal­ value, the moon rocks served to research in lunar samples. Now, they such projects are going to be phased yses using specially constructed mass bring together researchers from a have revitalized studies of the course in, and when the right person will spectrometers, Wasserburg and his variety of disciplines. Cal tech geo­ of terrestrial crustal evolution for the become available who has both the colleagues have revealed much about chemist Dimitri Papanastassiou, a last 3.8 billion years and how the desire and the technical skills to do the age and early history of the pioneer along with Wasserburg in the mantle of the earth has evolved. them." And ironically, says Papanas­ moon. For instance, they first Lunatic Asylum work, explains: Work with neodymium in the last tassiou, even though the moon rocks showed the moon to be about as old "Basically the lunar samples served as two or three years by Wasserburg were obtained in a massive effort, as the earth, 4.5 billion years. They a focus for research for people in and 'graduate student Donald Piep­ and even though valuable scientific did this by precisely measuring the many different disciplines, including gras has led to a method that can insights are still locked within them, decay.products of such radioactive planetary geophysics, geochemistry, distinguish between waters from the funds for their analysis have se­ elements as rubidium, uranium, and isotope specialization, geologists and Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by using riously eroded. This shriveling of samarium. many others. The net result of this isotope measurements. Thus, we can support affects more than just sala­ Although the moon rocks do not collaboration was bigger than what now study the evolution and mixing ries and equipment budgets, says contain diamonds or gems, they have would have happened if these people of the oceans in a precise way, using Papanastassiou. It also dampens the proved as beautiful as the most exotic were working by themselves. stable isotopes." spirit of the research effort. gem collection to the scientists study­ "This communication has remained Perhaps one of the most remark­ "When levels of support are re­ ing them. Their many facets have and a great many of these relation­ able tributes to the moon rocks - or duced it's hard to find students who told researchers a myriad fascinating ships are continuing now in meteorite more aptly to the scientists who will become interested in these prob­ stories, including: research. These studies are yielding study them - is that even after a lems," he says. "Most students are • how the moon's crust and interior insight into the very early formation decade of analysis, the lunar samples reasonably conservative in their formed and chemically differen­ of the solar system, and they're much are still revealing information about choice of research topics, certainly tiated from an immense ocean of the earth's closest companion. New more conservative than their profes­ magma, more inclusive than if individual disciplines were attacking the prob­ techniques and new ideas are contin­ sors. This is partly because they're in • how the moon form~d from mate­ ually refreshing the effort to study their formative years, and they rial depleted of water and other lem." And finally, said Papanastassiou, lunar samples. Chemical separation expect the scientific area they enter to volatile elements, the techniques used in analyzing methods and isotope analysis by be reasonably well supported, to • how its surface was splattered by mass spectrometry have steadily have lots of excitement, and maybe an intense bombardment by mete­ lunar samples have been applied directly to studies of the earth's evolved, enabling scientists to study even to last a few years after gradua­ orites 3.9 billion years ago, evolution and the study of oceano­ more subtle isotopic differences. tion. So, the prospect of working in • how volcanic lava flows spread But despite the promise of further what might appear as a slightly thin layers of molten rock across graphy. information, the rate of discoveries mature area of science such as lunar the lunar plains for only a short "A number of laboratories, includ­ from lunar sample analysis has sample analysis does present a prob­ period, terminating 3 billion years ing ours, are now using measure­ slowed, even at the Lunatic Asylum. lem to students." ago. ments of samarium and neodymium isotopes in terrestrial rocks to study The reasons for the slowing offer a Continued on page 9 the earth," he says. 'These measure­ good lesson in the vagaries of ment techniques were first developed science. Papanastassiou describes the difficulties in one particular area, that of finding evidence for the first one- Caltech's challenge to scientific illiteracy: Lots of summer, winter science for high schoolers

By Winifred Veronda week's worth of classwork per day, and are expected to complete at least three hours' homework, seven days a Paul Lee, a high school senior, is week. auditing freshman math, physics, and "Students who earn fJ\s or B's are chemistry, and Computer Science recommended to their high school for 112, at Caltech - in addition to 10 units of credit," Browne says. "We taking four courses at Arcadia High advise the ones who get C's to negoti­ School. ''I'm treated just like a regu­ ate with their schools about credit." lar student," he says of the Cal tech Browne also runs a monthly classes. "1 do all the homework science lecture series on Wednesday assignments and take a ll the tests." afternoons during the academic year He has applied for admission to for secondary students and teachers. Caltech next year and hopes, through James Roberts, a high school placement tests, to be given advanced senior living in Palos Verdes Estates, standing. has been taking courses in both the Lee wants to major in mathematics summer and winter programs for two and computer science, and earn a years, driving an hour each way to PhD. Eventually he would like to . reach the campus. become a professor, "perhaps at "The classes have given me an Caltech." enormous background," he says. Lee is bright and highly motivated, Byron Gutierrez tutors a computer science class, parI of Caltech 's Saturday program for high "One of the courses (physics/ cal­ but there is more than this behind his school students. culus) wouldn't have been available success. He enrolled in the sixth to me until late in college. I'm grade in Cal tech's Secondary School teachers, 12,000 certified chemistry enrolled in a physics course at my Science Project, and took courses teachers, and 10,000 certified physics high school this year and I'm virtu­ consistently during both the winter teachers. "Forty-three percent of our ally co-teaching it; the students come and the seven-week summer program states indicate a shortage of math and to me all the time for help with their - covering algebra, astronomy, physics teachers - and the percent­ problems. physics, chemistry, and advanced age is worse in schools with minority 'The classes at Caltech have geometry, among others. Last year he students predominating," he says. opened my eyes to how much scien­ tutored a Saturday high school To lure promising young people tific knowledge there is," he adds, course in computer science, and this into science and math, Cal tech, "and what it takes to make it in the year he is teaching a course in under Browne's direction, offers three big time. The average high school physics. programs. A Saturday series of science student has no idea of what Not all participants in Cal tech's courses during the academic year it's like out there. programs for high school students gives students in junior high and high "The summer program is an in­ have achieved such distinction, but school general background in 25 credible experience," he continues. "It Lee Browne believes the classes are different subjects - from electronics demands heart and soul - but it can making their contribution to lessen­ to medical science to physics/ trigo­ be very uplifting. What would I say ing scientific illiteracy in our country. nometry to human-powered vehicle to a student thinking about enrolling? Browne, who is director of secondary design. No credit for the work is I'd say, 'First make sure that you're school relations and special student given. Lee Browne heads Caltech 's Secondary committed to science and mathe­ programs, came to Caltech in 1969 School Science Project. "The Saturday program," says matics. If you are committed, you'll and, under his leadership, the courses Browne, "is 40 percent exploration, find out. And if you still want to have grown to enroll nearly 400 concerned," Browne says. To back up 50 percent enrichment, and 10 per­ keep going after you've completed students. Most of them are from his point, he notes that the Cal State cent remediation. We try to get the program, then you'll know you're southern California, but young Long Beach department of education seventh, eighth, and ninth graders to in the right fie ld .' " people arrive for the summer pro­ - known for its quality - has explore science and math by taking Bryon Gutierrez, a senior at Ken­ gram from all over the country. provided one certified high school one course a year. The tenth, nedy High School in Granada Hills, Given the state of science educa­ physics teacher during the last five eleventh, and twelfth graders are came to Cal tech for a summer pro­ tion in the United States, an enroll­ years. "Graduates in physics," he established. They come to do heavy gram in pre-engineering in the ninth ment of 400 is at least a contribution observes, "are going into industry stuff - physics, calculus, trigonome­ toward making a bad situation better. where they can make $7,000 a year try, applied chemistry." "We are at our worst level in modern more than they can make in The program accommodates times where science education is education." everyone who applies. "But," says Continuing to stress his point, Browne, "students quickly learn that Browne points out that there are if they're not into working hard at 16,000 school districts in the country science and math, this isn't a place to but only 16,000 certified mathematics hangout." The summer program runs six hours a day, four days a week for seven weeks. Taught by Cal tech students, it immerses its participants in rigorous work in such core sub­ jects as chemistry, physics, and physics/ calculus. Students do a grade. He earned an A, and stayed to take two winter and three more The day the cake exploded summer classes. This year he is tutoring a course in computer science and he plans to major in pre-medicine. He has applied to Cal tech, but may enroll at Cal State Northridge and transfer later; his father's job is threatened because of December 13, 1982, will be remem­ (Chip) Smith, Jr. (BS '70) came down the luncheon guests had arrived. recessionary cutbacks in his bered in the history of Cal tech's from San Francisco to participate, Rugs, furniture, fl oor, and ceiling profession. Athenaeum as The Day The Cake and Harry B. (the Horse) Gray, were splattered with sticky confec­ "In high school, the teachers expect Exploded. The day of infamy that chairman of the Division of tionary, which the Athenaeum staff you to learn the material," he says, would end with angry Cal tech offi­ Chemistry and Chemical Engi­ had to clean. "but here they expect you to know it. cials and a frosting-spa ttered room neering, gave the facu lty perspective. Undaunted, the NBC crew tried When I was in the ninth grade, my began when a crew of filmmakers But unknown to the Techers and again after the luncheon with a science teacher at Cal tech made me from Johnny Carson Productions set the Athenaeum management, the second cake, this time outside. Their feel like a college student, and I liked up to film in the Athenaeum main Carson crew had decided to turn the faces grew even redder when this that." lounge. The comedian was doing a tables by playing a prank, in the cake failed to explode at all. Lee, Gutierrez, and Roberts are television special on practical jokes, form of a cake rigged with small Carson Productions will be typical of the high school students and of course no such program explosive charges. When presented to charged for all cleaning costs, plus who enroll in the secondary school facilities rental, but the duel is far program, do well , and go on to from over. Observers say the Cal tech apply for admission to Caltech. "Last students left the Athenaeum that day year," says Browne, "about 15 from with a gleam in their eyes, talking of the program applied to Caltech. Eight revenge on the Carson staff. or nine of them are here now. This is In any case, the television special is about par for the course." set to air in the spring. Browne visits some 200 high schools each year, explaining Caltech and its programs and attempting to Parsons-Gates lure students into science and math. receives its The problem of scientific illiteracy among young people in the country first inhabitants is always on his mind. "The problem Administrative personnel now is not a function of race," he says. housed in the third fl oor of Millikan "You can get the same stupid answers Library - including President Mar­ to a science question in Brentwood L. that you'll get in Watts." vin Goldberger and his staff - will pack their belongings in mid­ "We talk of the haves and have nots," he adds. "What I don't want to March and move to the second floor see are "knows" and "know-nots." of the newly renovated Parsons-Ga­ And, at least among those 400 high tes Hall of Administration. Then, for the first time since the earthquake-da­ school students on the Cal tech Carson Productiorls fi lms a discussion on Caltech pranks. campus, "know-nots" are turning maged building was evacuated in into "knows." 1971, the campus's now oldest (1917) edifice will have a permanent popula­ would be complete without a seg­ the group as a token of appreciation, tion. ment on the brilliant pranksters at the cake was supposed to erupt in The administrative personnel Eugene Shoemaker Caltech. their faces. moving in March will be followed So the Cal tech News Bureau was It was a foolish plan conSidering during the spring and summer by the awarded Day Medal asked to round up students, faculty, the havoc it would wreak in the gradual migration of student services and alumni for a luncheon at which Athenaeum main lounge, but it went personnel from Dabney Hall to the Eugene M. Shoemaker (BS '47, they would talk about Cal tech's even further awry when the cake ground and first floors of Parsons­ MS '48), professor of geology and history of pranksterism. Adrian C. exploded prematurely, before any of Gates. planetary science, who is'with the U.S. Geological Survey as a member of the professional staff, has received Goals the Arthur L. Day Medal, one of the The Alumni Fund highest awards of the Geological $1.4 million 6,500 1,000 1982-83 Society of America, fo r "very special As of December 24, 1982 distinction in contributions to re­ 800 search in geology." 80%

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DOLLARS DONORS VOLUNTEERS "Caltech voices" reach the Soviet Union and the Rudins find a new home

By Winifred Veronda tures of generosity, and after six and as "parasites," they were subject refuseniks) immigration invitations months, they were permitted to leave to regular harassment from Soviet from Israel or the United States. Each "Our Voices Were Heard," read the the country. Both arrived in Boston officials. Consequences could have refusal necessitated additional docu­ invitation to a reception at the home where they had friends, and they been banishment from their home in ments. The Rudins had acquired six of Cal tech Professor Aron Kupper­ enrolled in graduate studies - Lenny Odessa to a small town, or to Sibe­ immigration invitations by the time mann for Berta and Yakov Rudin - at the University of Massachusetts ria, or even imprisonment, according they were permitted to leave, includ­ Jewish residents of the Soviet Union and Sergey at Brandeis University. to Lenny Rudin. ing an official invitation from the who for five years were denied the Lenny studied English in a special After periodic visits from officials, U.S. government. right to emigrate from the Soviet summer program at Harvard, dip­ Mrs. Rudin would carefully search Meanwhile, in the United States, Union. ping deep into a large Slavic lan­ their apartment, concerned about the the support group at Caltech contin­ The invitation came from the guages department section in the ued to write letters, some individuals Soviet Jewry Support Group at Harvard library and reading books writing as many as 100. Lenny Rudin Caltech's Hillel Foundation, and it by Solzhenitzsyn and other writers to attributes much of the eventual represented the fruition of five years whom he had not had access in the success of the group to the "tireless of effort in behalf of the parents of Soviet Union. He saw Solzhenitzsyn work" of research associate John Leonid Rudin, a Caltech graduate in person when the author delivered Zipkins. The members contacted student in computer science. During his famous lecture on the Harvard colleagues at Cal tech, and letters those years, members of the support campus. went to the Soviet Union from Presi­ group, their friends, colleagues, and "I love the United States," Lenny dent Goldberger, faculty members, family members, sent some 400 says, " . .. the freedom! Here, for the postdoctoral fellows, and students. letters to persons in the Soviet Union, first time, I could feel myself to be a Because Cal tech is an international petitioning for the Rudins' freedom. normal human being, and not an community, letters went to Russia The 'Ietters were part of a untouchable because I am Jewish." from family members in several worldwide effort in behalf of the Lenny came to study at Cal tech foreign countries. while his brother remained on the The group became skilled in the The worldwide effort on behalf East Coast in a PhD program in techniques of conducting such a of the Rudins called forth more physics at Brandeis University. Lenny letter-writing campaign. They wrote than a thousand letters. had heard of Caltech in Russia. He , had seen Feynman's Lectures in The group wrote not only to top Rudins that called forth more than a Physics, translated into Russian, and officials but to rniddle- and thousand letters - including ones he' knew of Cal tech's reputation as a lower-level individuals including from such public figures as Caltech "world science center." persons with no direct President Marvin L. Goldberger, When Lenny and Sergey applied to connection to the Rudin's entrepreneur Armand Hammer, and come to the United States, they Lenny Rudin has been reunited with his par­ situation. Party members at these Congressman Robert Dornan. hoped their parents would soon be ents after a six-year separation - thanks to a levels are 'not supposed to know The journey that eventually able to follow. But internal policies massive letter-writing campaign that origi­ brought all four members of the on emigration tightened, and Berta nated at Caltech. about the refuseniks. Rudin family together in the United and Yakov Rudin were consistently States began with the decision of denied requests to leave. Meanwhile, practice, sometimes used in cases not only to top officials, but to mid­ Lenny Rudin and his brother, Sergey, both were fired from professional such as theirs, of planting subversive dle and lower-level individuals in the to petition for exit visas to leave positions of long duration - Berta as material and returning later to bureaucracy, including persons with Russia. Graduates of universities in a medical doctor and Yakov as a "find" it. no direct connection to the Rudins' the Soviet Union, they were blocked, marine engineer. Perhaps even more painful than situation. "We would have written as Jews, from opportunities to go on But losing their professional status the harassment was the isolation the director of the local shoe store," to graduate school or to work in jobs and incomes was only the beginning inflicted on the Rudins for their says Lenny, "but we didn't have his equal to their training. of difficulties for the senior Rudins. decision to emigrate. Friends and address." Party members at these Their applications to emigrate Mrs. Rudin, who suffers from a relatives avoided them for fear of levels are not supposed to know brought the usual response in such serious heart condition, was denied reprisals, their landlord threatened to anything about the refusenik's situa­ situations: They were fired . But the access to medical care at the hospital evict them, and the Rudins found tion, and the KGB prefers to keep it Rudin brothers were lucky. The where she had worked, and was put themselves virtually alone. For a that way, according to specialists in political climate was right for ges- on mock trial in front of 200 of her time, Mrs. Rudin was bedridden. the field. former co-workers, accused of being Their sons wrote regularly, but an They also wrote to public figures "the mother of two enemies of the estimated five out of six letters were who function officially as good-will state." waylaid. The Rudins spent their time emissaries for Russia, and who, in a Now without jobs, the Rudins studying English and coping with controlled society, may have limited were in violation of a rule that citi­ continuing demands for documenta­ insight into the plight of people like zens of the Soviet Union must work tion to support their requests for the Rudins. or be deemed "parasites of the state," departure. They learned that the use of dupli­ Potential emigrants from the cating machines is controlled in the Soviet Union must collect several Soviet Union, and that, to a Soviet documents, including permission of parents - no matter what one's age. Yakov Rudin would have needed "permission" of his 90-year-old mother; she died before his emigration. Approval from one's employer and landlord, and paper from one's re­ public, are necessary - as are (for bureaucrat, a Xeroxed copy looks more official and impressive than in How two great oceans mix The last moon rock the U.S. They perceived that, in Continued from page 5 Russia, policies require that letters In the storm-tossed Drake Passage Atlantic and Pacific Oceans supports However, Papanastassiou and his from outside the country - particu­ between South America and Antarc­ previous findings by two Cal tech colleagues are hoping for a continu­ larly when typewritten or duplicated tica, two great oceans come together. scientists - Tsaihwa Chow (now at ing lunar study program, with fund­ - must be translated and read. "In In this region, named after its discov­ Scripps Institution of Oceanography) ing for studying already gathered Russia," says Lenny, "there is no junk erer, Sir Francis Drake, the waters of and Clair Patterson (senior research lunar samples, as well as for launch­ maiL" the Atlantic and Pacific are sucked associate). These scientists studied the ing new probes. These new un­ Perhaps the absence of junk mail into the great Antarctic Circumpolar ratio of lead-206 to lead-204 in manned missions might include lunar in the Soviet Union is why the senior Current, a clockwise swirl of water marine sediments, and found that polar orbiters and sample-return Rudins are now in the United States. that circles the continent of Antarc­ lead in Atlantic waters reflects an missions from the poles and the far Lenny Rudin reasons that it may tica. Until now, scientists have had older continental source than lead in side of the moon. They would all have been easier - and less expen­ no quantitative way of determining the Pacific. produce surprises, if the past is any sive - for the Soviets to allow his how their waters mix when the But industrial lead contamination guide, says Papanastassiou. parents to leave than to continue to oceans come together. in the last century has made the use "Every Apollo mission had its own monitor and translate a deluge of But now, two Cal tech scientists, of lead isotopes somewhat ineffective little surprise. Besides the local geo­ letters. He says that his father, when Donald J. Piepgras and Gerald J. as a tracer to distinguish between the logy that prompted a landing site to informed that permission to leave Wasserburg, have developed a waters of the two oceans. be chosen, each site had some mate­ had been granted, was shown a file method of obtaining an isotopic Normally, ocean mixing might be rial that was thrown in from some containing perhaps a thousand let­ signature that distinguishes Atlantic expected to homogenize the neody­ distance, so that inferences could be ters, and was told that they were the from Pacific ocean water. In a recent mium in the two bodies of water. But made about a much wider area of the reason why the departure would be article in Science, they describe the the Cal tech geochemists found that moon." On Apollo 11, which landed permitted. application of their technique to the neodymium stays in ocean waters in a low-lying mare, astronauts After years of waiting, emigration discovery of how the two oceans only a short time before settling onto found a few fragments of anorthositic permission for the Rudins came merge. (Piepgras is a graduate stu­ the bottom. The neodymium in the materials from which geologists abruptly last July when they were dent; Wasserburg is the John D. water is constantly being replenished inferred that there was an ancient given seven days' notice to leave the MacArthur Professor of Geology and by runoff from the continents. anorthosite or a plagioclase-rich crust country. Initially they were told they Geophysics.) To apply their technique to the on the moon. In later landings, this would be given plane tickets to Their study is based on their dis­ waters of the Drake Passage, Piep­ was found to be correct. Vienna, but at the last minute they covery in 1979 that the waters of the gras embarked in the fall of 1980 on a "On Apollo 12, the astronauts were informed they would go by Atlantic and Pacific are distinctly cruise with the research vessel Atlan­ returned this unique rock that was train. They stood during most of the different in measures of the ratios of tis II, which is operated by the very rich in radioactive elements and journey, which took them from two isotopes of the element neody­ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institu­ from which, along with the samples Odessa through Moscow to Czech­ mium - those with atomic weights tion. He collected samples from four from Apollo 11, we inferred that oslovakia and Vienna, and finally to of 143 and 144. (Isotopes are ele­ spots within the Drake Passage and there was an early differentiation of Rome. There Mrs. Rudin was hospi­ ments with the same chemical prop­ the southeast Pacific. To extend their the moon which resulted in the for­ talized more than a week before erties, but slightly differing weights data base, the scientists also used mation of crustal materials very rich flying to the United States. because of a difference in the number samples collected in the central in all the incompatible elements, Finally, in September, they were of neutrons in their nuclei.) Pacific by UC Santa Cruz scientist elements like potassium, uranium, reunited with their sons in Los The key to the difference between Kenneth Bruland. rubidium, and others, that could be Angeles. Here they were welcomed the two oceans lies in the different Then they measured the isotopic used for dating. This inference was into the community of friends who kinds of terrain through which their composition of the samples using a strongly substantiated by samples had worked so hard to make their feedwaters flow. Ancient continental mass spectrometer, which separates from the Apollo 14 landing site." arrival a reality. Said Mrs. Rudin at terrains are characterized by lower elements according to their atomic "On Apollo 15, there were some the reception, "I feel as if I have abundances of neodymium-143 than weights. The analysis was done at green glass balls found that were always lived here." are younger volcanic terrains, such as Cal tech's Lunatic Asylum, well particularly magnesium-rich and Meanwhile, the Soviet Jewry those surrounding the Pacific. known for its studies of lunar which appear to be materials that Support Group continues its efforts In general, since some 70 percent samples. originate from deep inside the mantle on behalf of other Russian Jews, of the world's continental drainage "Because of the eastward transport of the moon. On Apollo 17, there forging ahead with campaigns in flows into the Atlantic, its waters through the Drake Passage, we was a lot of excitement about the behalf of Boris Chernobilski and extract material from older geological expected to find Pacific signatures in orange glass spherules that were Gannady Khassin. Rabbi Michael formations than do the waters of the the neodymium isotopic composition found. The material when first seen Perelmuter, advisor to Hillel, under­ Pacific. Thus, the ratio of neody­ of water flowing through this re­ was thought to be very young mate­ scores the value of their efforts. He mium-143 to neodymium-144 is gion," wrote the scientists. rial from recent volcanic eruptions, says, "An attitude exists that the Iron lower in Atlantic than in But instead, Piepgras and Wasser­ but it turned out to be 3 Vz billion Curtain is too tight [for Americans] Pacific wa ters. burg found the Drake Passage sam­ years old. Yet its lead isotopes had to do anything [about refuseniks]. Using an isotopic signature to ples to have neodymium ratios indi­ characteristics that were totally This attitude can be paralyzing." The distinguish between waters from the cating that about 70 percent of the different from anything else on the experience of the Rudin family seems water in the Antarctic Circumpolar moon." to prove that - when this paralysis Current originated in the Atlantic Eventually, lunar researchers hope is broken - concerned citizens here - Ocean. Thus, the scientists concluded to see permanent, manned bases on can do a great deal, indeed. that the giant whirlpool acts mainly the moon, which would allow, along to draw water from the Atlantic, with a huge number of research and which it then spreads to other ocean development efforts, extensive long­ basins and recirculates back into the term lunar studies. Perhaps then such Atlantic. major questions as the moon's origin The scientists calculated that the - Was it formed independently, overall rate of exchange between the captured, or torn from earth? - Pacific Ocean and southern oceans could be answered. was as much as 33 million cubic But until then, the decade-old meters per second. At this rate, it cargo of moon rocks will have to be would take at least 800 years for the ingeniously analyzed for the tantaliz­ two oceans to completely exchange. ing hints it contains. 10...

Dabney rest of humanity. They function as a tionally wins the Discobolus and Twenty years ago, Darbs had a single organism, and that organism is Interhouse trophies. Unfortunately, reputation for being gentlemen. determined to win, there is not a whole lot more to say Perhaps this is because this was only This view of Fleming is prevalent, about the Page boys. Fleming hates the beginning of the sixties, and and in some ways accurate, if a little them, but only because they beat the Darbs had not discovered a more unkind. Whether they want it that F1ems in a lot of sports. There really Two decades ago, Engineering & uninhibited lifestyle. Today, they are way or not, Flems are members of a isn't much to like or dislike about Science ran an article, commemorat­ anything but gentlemen. This is not house apart, since theirs is the only Page House, Page has a few house ing the construction of three new to say that they aren't polite; it's one that other houses are united in traditions, like the Greased Frosh student houses, about the original simply that they have no cultivated despising. In reality, most Flems are races and the ride at Interhouse, but four houses and their characteristics. social behavior. Dabney is far and We liked the idea, and asked Julian away the most laid-back and relaxed West, editor of the California Tech, of the houses, and is relatively care­ to provide alumni with a student's­ ful not to impose any of its feelings eye view of the seven undergraduate on its house members or the outside houses in their current state of evolu­ world. Not a generally popular house tion. West, a member of Ruddock, at rotation, Dabney attracts a partic­ has graciously agreed to take all ular species of Techer who seems to the flak. belong there. By Julian West Fleming The houses are in many ways the The Flems are the obnoxious ones. center of student life on campus. Flems wear red shirts with white F's House rivalries extend from athletic on them, and they look down on the

A guide to the student houses Ricketts Rowdies, Rudds, Big Reds . .. California Tech editor Julian West casts a sardonic eye on all of them. • Page House pulls together 10 offer Inlerhouse patrons a boat ride down a jungle stream. competitions to the annuli I In­ terhouse party to showering wars perfectly reasonable, and it is only these appear to be simply things to and shouting contests. Most of it is when a group of troublemakers gets do rather than manifestations of taken in good fun, although occa­ together that the perceived Fleming house spirit as a whole, sionally house allegiances are so mentality takes over, Despite their athletic superiority, strong that tempers begin to flare. For all their unpopularity, their the Page boys are sportsmen, And, . Each house maintains a separate persistence pays off. Big Red trades although they are competitive, they identity, but the stereotypes asso­ off with Page to dominate campus are much more easy going about ciated with a house are not always as athletics, and the unified front pro­ house rivalries than are the Flems. accurate as they appear. Neverthe­ vides healthy support for house Ricketts less, houses can be characterized, and members. Fleming is one house never This is a strange house. Some I shall attempt to do so here. accused of lacking a spirit and iden­ people can't stand Ricketts, while tity, In some ways, Flems are Blacker others like it a lot. These reactions superior. In some ways, Blacker is a bad can, for the most part, be attributed house to start with, because there Lloyd to the house's fundamental charac­ really isn't a lot to say about it. Lloyd, on the other hand, is a teristic, one that has remained virtu­ Attempts to classify Moles have house that has been accused of lack­ ally unchanged for 40 years: rowdi­ included calling them trolls/ worka­ ing an identity. Other houses have ness. While nearly every other house holics, tunnelers, and lockpicks, but been hard put to pin a label on seems to have either a dearth or a none of these descriptions really Lloyd, and attempts by the Lloydies super-abundance of house spirit, captures the spirit of the house. Now, to find one for themselves have Ricketts oscillates year to year, and as in 1960, Blacker is a house of ranged from "the house of spaz­ sometimes day to day, between non-conformity. It provides an en­ moids" to "wizards and compunerds" apathy and bloody screaming and vironment unique in its lack of social to the perennial "Lloyd sucks." pressures. Nevertheless, it maintains Lloydies have had trouble finding a a group identity and spirit within its group identity partly because the loose framework. house has been wracked over the past several years by internal dissent. Today, most of the problems lie below the surface, but the house is still divided into separate groups with In 1959, Darbs were known on campus as little interaction. genllemen. Lloyd is at peace, however, and is still as good a place as ever to sit and have a conversation on almost any topic imaginable. Page The House of White Horses and Railroads is the dominant force in campus athletics. This house tradi- obnoxious hilarity. There is no delib­ [The Way It Was] erate pressure put on any member of the house to conform in any way, and likewise, nearly any sort of behavior is tolerated in the house. 1931 So had to call it an engineer. can. The five-year survey on the There is some peer pressure from the "Southern California inevitably It surely was a glorious day origins of American scientists was environment, however. has become the world's most suitable We brought our books and came to conducted by two members of the Many people see the Scurves as and famous center for astronomical stay. faculty of Wesleyan University in merely a bunch of drunken, obnox­ studies, and similarly is be(:oming But multiply that job by eight Middletown, Connecticut; the index ious boors, but the truth is that there well known fcir researches into Up on the day we graduate. by which they gauged performance are many more reasonable people in mathematics, physics, chemistry, Caltech will erect 18 buildings in was the number of men who were the house than the other variety, geology, and biology, according to a ten years; seven are under construc­ graduated from college between age although one sometimes wonders. In vision projected by Robert A. Milli­ tion, and two more will start in two 24 and 34 who were listed as PhD's in any case, there are an awful lot of kan before the California Institute months, William B. Munro, a mem­ the 1944 edition of American Men of Scurves and Ghosts (grad-turkeys Associates," reports the Pasadena ber of the executive council, an­ Science. and other alumni) around the house, Star-News on January 31 . Millikan nounces, according to the Star-News A Cal tech professor casts a scien­ making it an interesting place to live. tells The Associates that the ten new on September 7. Munro says that the . tific eye on the Tournament of Roses buildings planned to begin construc­ crowd estimates and comes to the Ruddock student body will be limited to 160 tion within a few months have al­ conclusion that it can't be, notes the In some ways, Ruddock is an new students a year; the total under­ ready been financed: three astro­ Star-News. Estimates range from emergent house. But then, it's been graduate body to 500. Munro notes physics, two geology; and one bio­ 1,500,000 to 1,750,000. Mathemati­ that way for years. Ruddock is the that no student is admitted except by logy unit; the Athenaeum and cian Albert Tyler asserts, "Just to third power in athletics, but always rigid examination, and that Caltech is three dormitories. have a million people at the parade, far behind Page and Fleming. The the only college west of the Missis­ "Having been roundly scored by sippi River to enforce this provision. it would be necessary to have 40 no less an authority than Hugo rows of people on each side, all the Kirchhofer (a well-known song 1951 way along the parade route." leader) for lack of singing ability, the The Chemical Science Division of Five civic groups file a formal student body at Cal tech is looking the USSR Academy of Sciences protest with Caltech, charging that for a song worth singing," according attacks the theory of chemical bonds operations of the Jet Propulsion to the Star-News on February 24. developed by Linus Pauling as Laboratory are devaluing property; "The existing school song cannot be "pseudo-scientific," "vicious," and and urging that the lab be moved out pepped up enough for the day when "an example of 'world outlooks of the urban area, according to the - as some people believe - the hostile to the Marxist view.' " accord­ Independent on April 1. Administra­ school contributes the "West" to the ing to a Caltech News Bureau release. tor Val Larson estimates that moving East-West annual footba ll classic at Four Soviet chemists who cham­ the lab would cost between 30 and 40 the Rose Bowl. The student body is pioned the theory are censured by million dollars and that by relocating offering a $75 prize for the best lyric more than 400 Russian scientific in an isolated area, it would lose for which a "well-known composer" workers in a recent conference, between 50 and 70 percent of its will fit a tune for nothing," relates according to a Pravda article trans­ present personnel. the Star-News. lated and released in this country by One submission (in part): the Current Digest of the Soviet 1971 We are the dirty engineers Press. In a survey of graduate schools of The engineers that have no fears Caltech leads all technological 130 U.S. universities, the ACE ranks This hitchhiker from Lloyd House, Paul But after all, we're proud to be an institutions in the nation in produc­ Cal tech first in the nation in effective­ Stankus, is on his way to the Restaurant at Engineer of CIT tion of scientists and "occupies a class ness of graduate educational pro­ the End of the Universe. Location: grams in astronomy, geology, Interhouse. Old Noah built a mighty ark, by itself," according to a survey Laid the keel in Tournament Park. sponsored by the Carnegie Corpora­ physics, and developmental biology. Rudds have more active house spirit, Didn't know how to make it steer tion and reported in Scientific Ameri- The new $1.6 million Earle M . geared at getting out and doing Jorgensen Laboratory of Information things together, than do most of the Science is dedicated on one of the other houses. This is an accomplish­ New Associates Executive Committee warmest September 13's in Pasadena ment for the largest of the seven history - 109 degrees. houses, because achieving a common The Independent Study Program, sense of purpose for more than 100 thoroughly debated for three years, people is no mean feat. If only the finds its way into the Cal tech catalog Rudds would decide what they as a new academic option. The pro­ wanted to do once they got together, gram is designed to take maximum they would begin to go somewhere. advantage of the intelligence and Until then, Ruddock will remain a curiosity of Caltech students by house of untapped potential. allowing them to combine existing courses wi th self-scheduled studies to meet personal educational goals, according to the October Engineering & Science.

New members of The Caltech Associates' Executive Committee: Standing - Richard L. Hayman (EX '36), secretary; Robert L. Zurbach, president; and Charles F. Thomas (BS '35), vice presi­ dent. Seated: Ralph IN. Jones (BS '38), treasurer; arid Berneice Anglea , vice preSident. 12

It's a low-budget football program Just in case you missed it ("If we can save a couple dollars by leaving the stripe off the side of the football pants, we'll do it"), but By Scott Ostler One reserve linebacker is a patient, I don't get mad and scream Parker and his staff scout opponents 46-year-old Cal tech professor with a and yell." and study game films. They run Copyright 1982, Los Angeles Times. PhD in biology. Parker has five assistants, includ­ well-organized, though necessarily Reprinted from the November 23 The school dropped football for ing a former Stanford class valedic­ short, practices. They take the sport issue by permission. one year (1975) when only 12 stu­ torian, a real estate appraiser and a seriously, but keep it in perspective. dents tried out, but now as many as professor of Asian studies at USc. "We're here for the students," 40 hopefuls turn out each spring. There are two PhD's on the squad Parker says. "They're not here for us, While UCLA and USC were bat­ Everyone plays. - the 46-year-old linebacker and a to earn money for the program or tling before 95,763 fans and a TV Winning is not exactly a school 27-year-old chemistry professor the school. As long as there is student audience in the zillions Saturday tradition. Last year's team had the (since it is a club team, faculty and interest, we'll have a football team." afternoon, another college football first winning season at Caltech in grad students are allowed to play). Bearcat Parker loves his job. classic was taking place a few miles 51 years. And when Parker sits down for "You're dealing with great kids, " he across town. Football, however, is a school coffee in the school cafeteria, he says. "You walk into the huddle, all In their traditional season-ending tradition. The season just completed might find himself chatting with one the kids have IQs between 120 and Beer Bowl, the California Institute of was Caltech's 89th. of the faculty's nine Nobel Prize 160, and you call the wrong forma­ Technology's battling Beavers were It was the third Cal tech season for winners. tion, two gua~ds and a tackle will defeating the Valley Nomads, a head Coach Boyd Church Linton Yet Parker is not intellectually correct you before the quarterback can. semipro club, 21-7 . Parker III. His friends call him Lin. intimidated. He considers himself as "The kids who turn out for foot­ ball here really have their lives or­ ganized, to be able to study as much as they have to and play football. When they enter industry, big busi­ ness, government, they're going to be the leaders of the nation, you can just see that." One way or another, the battling Beavers will be heard from.

Winter sports warm in memories of coaches, players

Because admission was free and so His players often call him Bearcat, a competent in his specialty as they in Cross Country was the beer, pop and candy, the Beer nickname he brought with him from theirs. Bowl drew upwards of 270 specta­ his prior coaching jobs at high "I don't give an inch to (Terry) The Caltech men's and women's tors, more than double Cal tech's schools in Antelope Valley, Boron, Donahue or (John) Robinson," he cross country teams enjoyed a average crowd. Kingman (Arizona) and says. "If we were to sit down, draw successful campaign in 1982. The The folks on hand saw their boys Bullhead City. Xs and Os, make decisions and Orange and White raced to third complete a successful 4-4-1 season. Bearcat Parker knew he wasn't halftime adjustments, I feel I'm as place in the SCIAC men's division ConSidering the obstacles to winning . invited to Pasadena to build a dy­ good a coach as any of them." and fifth place in the women's. Two football at Cal tech, 4-4-1 is one of nasty. He knew that the football team He certainly faces challenges un­ weeks later, Caltech surprised all by the most impressive records in college wasn't in a conference; didn't even known to the Donahues and Robin­ taking fourth place in the NAIA football. [Ed. note: the actual record play under NCAA sanction. For sons. Parker had a 6-6, 238-pound District 3 championship, both in the was 3-4-1.} several years the Beavers have been a tackle this year. He also had a 5-11, men's and women's divisions. This Consider, for instance: club team. 140-pound center. was the highest finish ever for a Nobody ever got an athletic schol­ Parker found out about recruiting Scheduling can be a problem. Caltech cross country team. arship to Caltech. Students are ad­ when he persuaded his former Parker and Athletic Director Warren Starting slowly and then rapidly mitted on the basis of their brilliance Bullhead City star quarterback to Emery make and remake the schedule progressing, the men's team ended in mathematics or science. apply to Caltech. The lad had a as they go along. Last year the with a record of 5 wins and 4 losses The majority of the players never straight-A average, high college La Verne University JVs had to cancel overall, and a 3 and 3 dual meet played football, even pee wee foot­ entrance exam scores and had been a due to a shortage of players, after record in the SCIAC. The women's ball, before coming to Caltech. One four-sport standout. Caltech turned trying unsuccessfully to borrow team was forced to forfeit several of the starting guards, for instance, is him down because he had not done seven linemen from another college. races due to circumstances beyond its a freshman who was involved last enough outside science projects. He is This year the Tijuana Tech Grey­ control - including a storm that year in the football program at Taft now a physics major at Arizona. hounds canceled due to financial prevented five of the runners from High - as a statistician. "I came here with my eyes open," problems. One year the Greyhound departing from Catalina Island, and Parker says. '·1 played semipro foot­ bus broke down on the way to ball for nine seasons and we played Pasadena. Cal tech , so I knew what kind of This season Caltech played five program they had. I'm relaxed and semipro teams, two small college JV teams, an Air Force base team and the Mexicali Tech Spartans, in Mexicali. Plans fell through for games against the El Toro Marines and a team from the Tehachapi Youth Prison. , leaving the team with less than the capped a successful year. Coach Lin after breaking a 1-1 tie with less than Water polo mandatory five runners. Thus the Parker highlighted the season by ten minutes left to play. Doug Shors dual meet record was 2 and 6 overall, taking his Tech footballers into Mex­ played a brilliant game in goal The water polo team completed and 1 and 5 in the SClAC. ico and emerging with a 44-18 win in against La Verne when he had a another impressive year, finishing Sophomore Jennifer Haase and the International Friendship Bowl. shut-out. . fourth in the SClAC conference with senior Karen Close led the women. The host school, University of Baja Peter Orr was voted Most Valuable a 9-13 record. Coach Clint Dodd Three newcomers instrumental in the California, in Mexicali, treated the Player, and was selected second team reports, "The Tech team did ex­ team's fortunes were freshmen Marit team to a victory feast of carne asada All-Conference. John Krehbiel was tremely well considering that eight of Jentoft-Nilsen, Diane Creveling, and following the contest. Included in the named team captain for next season. our losses were to opponents on the Joy Watanabe. season's contests was a 14-14 tie with national coach's poll of Top 20 Super-seniors Vince Cammarata the Valley Stars to give Caltech a Teams." Out of the 25 young men and Karl Clausing led the men. Cam­ 3-4-1 record. Volleyball who participated in water polo this marata was the number one runner Of the 36 men who began Caltech's year, only one player had any pre­ The 1982 Caltech volleyball season vious experience before coming to in all but two races. The highlight of 89th season, 31 celebrated its conclu­ was the culmination of four years of Caltech. the season was his performance in sion with a barbeque dinner at the liard work, sincere determination, the SClAC championship when he Alumni House. Winning football Led by senior Chris McKinnon and and a genuine desire to win. It was captain Bill Polson and outstanding took sixth place, only five seconds awards were four-year lettermen the team's most successful season in goalie Reed Burkhart, the Techers behind the front runner from Occi­ Scott Bloom and John Humphrey. four years of e~istence . With nine dental. Clausing finished only 29 Co-captains David Brinza and John rallied from early season losses to players returning to the squad this Loyola (11-10) and UC Riverside (4-3 seconds behind Cammarata for 11th Humphrey were awarded plaques for year, experience was an invaluable in overtime) to post a five-game place; another 39 seconds back found their leadership. Newcomers Tom contributor to a 10-5 win-loss record. Steve Stahl in 16th . • DiChristina and Rick Roberts were winning streak. Aiding these victories Throughout the past four years, were Brent Stuart, Bjorn Matthias, Two weeks later, at the NAIA selected as the 1982 Rookie of the one of the goals of Cal tech volleyball Dave Huff, Jim Labrenz, and Steve district meet, Clausing and Cam­ Year and Best First-Year Player, has been to beat Occidental College. Chin. These players, along with a marata led the team to a fourth-place respectively. • The team never quite managed it - finish, turning in the second and Junior Tim Magee was named the newcomer to water polo, Bob not until this year. A combination of Golden, made up the core of starters. fourth fastest times ever for Cal tech ' Most Improved Player while Pat ace serves, perfect passing, strategi­ Wins included a 10-5 victory over a athletes on that course. Clausing's Harrison won the Coaches Award cally placed hits, and intense concen­ eighth place individual finish quali­ and Daren Casey was awarded the tough alumni team and a 9-8 upset tration resulted in a victory, as over Whittier, when three Cal tech fied him for the national champion­ "Battling Beaver" trophy as the most Caltech won the match in two ship at Kenosha, Wisconsin. A fam­ spirited Techer. Vincent Riley, who goals were scored in the final two straight games by scores of 15-6 and minutes of the game. ily emergency took Cammarata out led the nation in interceptions with 15-12. Later in the season, Caltech of the area; otherwise "he un­ 11, earned All-American recognition Hurt by the graduation last year of faced a strong Pomona varsity team, five starters, including three AlI­ doubtedly would have qualified too," from the National Collegiate Football and, although losing the match, according to Coach Leroy Neal. Association, and the Best Defender Americans, much was asked from played a fantastic 'game with a de­ Eric Grannan, Dave Watkins, Paul Cammarata still ran a personal best trophy from his teammates. fense that refused to let the ball land time, and the fourth fastest ever for a The Max West Trophy for Out­ Graven, goalie Stan Berman, and on its court. Steve Loyola. Caltech runner, to take 11th place. standing Lineman went to Daren Although it had the opportunity to Jennifer Haase was honored as the Casey, and the Irv Noren Trophy for The last part of the season was a compete against some varsity squads, roller coaster ride of fabulous victo­ outstanding women's team runner at Outstanding Back was given to Scott the team continued in club competi­ the awards dinner at the Alumni Bloom. The coveted Wheaton ries and miserable defeats. Victories tion. The efforts and determination included a 14-13 overtime revenge House. Vince Cammarata was voted Trophy was awarded to David of 12 women combined in a strong the Barthel Award as the men's out­ Brinza. over Loyola and a 19-9 washing of contingent, as Sue Fuhs, Sandra Loh, Redlands. Narrow two- and three­ standing runner, as well as being Elsewhere in the SCIAC, La Verne and Lynmarie Thompson returned recogniz~d for his scho?l record on and Whittier shared the conference goal losses to Whittier and Pomona­ for their fourth year as starters, each Pitzer ended the team's chance to the home course and as most im­ championship with identical 4-1 of them carrying different responsi­ proved runner. records. move up in the final standings. bilities. Fuhs quarterbacked the Post-season SCIAC honors went to team's multiple offense as setter-hitter Chris McKinnon, first team; goalie while Sandra was stable and effective Football Soccer Reed Burkhart, second team; and Bill as a middle hitter and center back Polson, honorable mention. This The 1982 football season ended on After a slow start, the Caltech defensive player. Thompson was a year the Coach's Cup Trophy was a positive note. With back-to-back soccer team came on strong, winning mainstay on defense, playing the . presented to Chris McKinnon and the victories over Edwards Air Force three and tying one of the last five power angle position. Most Improved Trophy went to Brent Other defensive specialists included · Base and the San Fernando Valley games. The team's overall record was Stuart. Nomads, the "Battling Beavers" 5-8-3. Eliza Sutton, Julie Kornfield, and In conference play, Tech defeated newcomers Leslie Lippard and Nancy La Verne and Occidental and was Liu . defeated by Claremont, Pomona, Graduate student Ann Rosenthal Redlands, and Whittier. An unde­ returned after an injury and was feated Claremont won the con­ effective as a strong hitter and excel­ ference. Claremont beat Caltech 2-1 lent defensive passer. Sophomore Chris Tiller started as a setter-hitter and provided the team with its most effective floating serve. Graduate student Lynn Hildemann returned to Cal tech volleyball as a left-handed hitter while Lucy France and Sue Hunts completed the squad. The conference varsity results this year left La Verne University as champion with Occidental placing second. This was the first time in three years that the two teams had not shared a co-championship. His premature obituary brought some surprises Letters:

Mike O'Haver and Mark Twain Dear Editor: could have shared interesting insights In addition to being ranked num­ if they had been contemporaries. ber one officially in physics, Both lived to verify that the reports chemistry, and geoscience, it is uni­ of their deaths had been greatly versally admitted by all professional exaggera ted. astronomers (who were not surveyed O'Haver dropped into the Caltech by the report discussed in your De­ News office recently on a project to cember issue) that Caltech has the make Industrial Relations Center best program in astrophysics in the programs better known to alumni, world. and he reminisced about the time, in DIMITRI MIHALAS (PHD '64) 1969, when Caltech News published his obituary. Twain is not around to Dear Caltech News Editor: comment, but O'Haver terms his I have given the December 1982 own premature death notice "one of issue of your excellent Caltech News the most wonderful and interesting the study it deserves and I notice that experiences of my life." on page 11, Myron Polycove (BS '42) O'Haver had just retired as sales and Clifford Truesdell (BS '41, manager for the Southern California MS '42) are weanng togas and wrist Gas Company, and he informed the watches in the Greek or Roman Alumni Associati on of his change in Mike O 'Haver points out 11is obituary rlOtiee, w ll iell rail ill Caltech News ill 1969. comedy "Curculio." I suppose that status. But the notice crept into the the ancient Greeks or Romans had obituary file , and ended up in the communicate friendship through • Kirk (BS '58) is spearheading efforts analog wrist watches but not digital. death notices for the June issue. kidding and insults, not compli­ of the class of 1958 for $30,000 in As fo r karate at Caltech, I have The error was detected just before ments. I would have been sorry to unrestricted funds, and Max J. Kay long thought that judo should be the issue was mailed, and Alumni miss the expressions of affection that (BS '73) and Jan Waluk (BS '73) are encouraged at Tech. Unlike karate, Association Director James B. Black only came because friends thought I co-chairmen for the class of 1973 gift which involves a form of shadow­ ca lled to warn O'Haver of what was dead." committee. boxing, judo is competitive. One might lie in store. Soon the telephone O'Haver's death notice led to more throws his opponent in a tournament calls began to come in . stringent safeguards on information leading to notices in the obituary or gets thrown. Judo does not make a O'Haver's youngest son responded Alumni Activities - great time demand and one can to some of them by informing callers column. But O'Haver suggests that an occasional mistake might not be a develop his or her own skill at his that "Mike's still around ... he March 24-31 - Hawaii Volcanoes bad idea - to give other alumni the own pace. One-and-a-half-hour changed his mind!" Subsequently, Expedition with Robert Sharp and opportunity to reap tributes of affec­ practices twice a week are enough. O'Haver' became known as "the man Dan Dzurisin. who decided not to go." His appear­ tion from friends while still around to NAOMI KASH IWABARA (BS '49) ance at an Alumni Association meet­ enj oy them. March 4 and.11 ~ Annual wine ing shortly aft.erward caused quite tasting programs, Cal tech a stir. Athenaeum. One ca ll , taken by O'Haver, came Chairmen named May 21 - Alumni Seminar Day, and from a friend in the Northwest who 25-year reunion for the class of 1958, Obituaries asked to speak to the widow, saying, for class Caltech campus. "I was a good friend of Mike's reunion gifts Jun e 4 - 50-year reunion, class of for years and I'd just like to talk 1933. about it." 1923 Several classes holding reunions in Jun e 19-26 - Yellowstone and Grand LAURANCE G. SOUTH on October 8. He "AI , are you sitting down?" re­ was retired as a self-employed contractor sponded O'Haver. "If you're not, the spring are planning to make gifts Tetons Expedition with Lee Silver and Robert Sharp. and had been living in Laguna Beach, you'd better be. It was all a mistake, to the Institute, and have appointed California, with his wife, Gertrude, since and you're talking to Mike." His chairmen to coordinate fund-raising 1959. He was active in the Emerald Bay friend began to cry. efforts. Volunteer Fire Department, during later . years as secretary-treasurer. Also surviving "I learned how many friends I Trent R. Dames (BS '33, MS '34) heads a committee to seek gifts for Expeditions planned him are two daughters, eight grandchildren, had," said O 'Haver. "It's hard for and four great grandchildren. most men in the United States to the class of 1933, which plans an to Mt. St. Helens express their feelings. We're reluctant unrestricted gift of $75,000 for the 1924 to voice affection, and we generally Institute. Edward P. Fleisher (BS '43) Mt. St. Helens will be the destina­ FRANK LOVERING . He was retired as is gift committee chairman for the tion for two groups of alumni during chief of operations fo r Shell Oil Company class of 1943, with a goal of $70,000 August and September. Robert P. in Midland, Texas. in unrestricted funds. Richard L. Van Sharp (the Sharp Professor of 1926 Geology, Emeritus) will be the guide STUART L. SEYMOUR on October 13. on both. The owner of S. L. Seymour, Contractor, A two-day trip for alumni in the Inc., in Covina, California, he had lived Oregon and Washington areas is since 1939 in San Marino with his wife, Edwarda, who survives him . He also leaves planned August 20 and 21, with a daughter, a son, and fo ur grandchildren. fli ghts over the volcano scheduled for Donati ons can be sent to the Stuart Lewis either August 19 or August 22. Seymour Memorial Fund, Office of Memo­ A four-day trip is scheduled Sep­ rial Gifts, Caltech. tember 22-25 for alumni from out of the area. Al umni will spend the first two days in the Columbia River Gorge and the Hood River Valley and the last two days - September 24-25 - in the Mt. St. Helens area. 1935 1935 ment as chairman of the Government 1973 KURT R. OSMAN, Ex, in April 1982. He WILLIAM G. COX writes, "I shall be General Advisory Committee on Arms THOMAS GREENLEE, MS, PhD '78, was retired as a consultant in aerospace and retiring the end of this month (September) Control and Disarmament, and was con- reports that he is an associate professor of had been living in Santa Monica, after more than 46 years of service with the • firmed by the U.S. Senate to this position in physics at Bethel College in Arden Hills, California. General Electric Company. . . the last September 1982. Minnesota, and that he and his wife are twenty involving international business expecting a child in February. 1936 development and including business trips to 1961 GARY W. ZIEVE writes, "In the fall I ARTHUR A. SIMPKINSON in May 1982. many foreign countries. We will stay in ALEXANDER F. H. GOETZ, MS '62, started as an assistant professor in the He was a retired building inspector with the Kentucky for awhile, adjusting to a slower PhD '67, writes, "Married Rosa Cyrus of medical school at Stony Brook. After all city of Los Angeles. pace and developing plans for the next Hehlen, West Germany, in August. Still this work it is only the start of the second thirty to forty years." senior research scientist' and manager of period." 1938 geological applications research at JPL. In WALDON R. RHOADS in June 1982. He 1939 addition will become professor-in-residence 1974 was retired as public relations consultant in MELVIN LEVET. MS '40, has retired from at dept. of earth and space sciences, UCLA, ERIK HORSLEY reports that he is doing his Escondido, California, firm, W. R. Standard Oil of California, Chevron, as in January to teach and research remote well with his new business, Computer Craft Rhoads & Associates. His wife survives manager of staff services, after 35 years of sensing for non-renewable resources." Corporation, which he started in 1981 in him. service. His travels have taken him to Seattle. Egypt, the Holy Land, Germany, Scotland, 1963 ROBERT STANDLEY writes, "Since getting ALAN LIPPERT, MS, engineer and support 1939 Canada, and the South Pacific - so far. my PhD in physics from Univ. of Illinois in consultant at IBM in White Plains, New JOHN R. GRIFFITHS in June 1982. He was May 1980, I have been working in the York, reports, "My wife, Margaret, and I a consulting geologist with his own firr,) in 1940 corporate research division of Standard Oil had a baby gi rl on February 25, 1982. We Pasadena. RAYMOND CLINTON reports, "I am in Co. (Indiana) in the Chicago area. Greet­ named her Jocelyn." my second year of a three-year term in the ings to PGR denizens everywhere." 1942 elective office of president (i.e., mayor) of ROBERT F. HALL in summer of 1982. He our small community here in Green Valley, 1964 LUC O. BAUER, MS, PhD '68, reports that 1975 retired as a member of the technical staff in Arizona. The job does take a big piece out WILLIAM SHARMAN reports, "After in January 1981. along with Dr. Jean A. Autonetics at Rockwell International in of my retirement time, but I do enjoy it finishing business school I've settled in Hoerni, he founded Telmos Inc. , a semicon­ Anaheim, California. very much." Tucson and am working for Hughes in the ductor company with headquarters in Phoenix Missile Program office. It's a far Sunnyvale, California. 1946 1942 cry from Harvard Square but I love it here JOHN McCURDY, MS, in August 1982. JOHN w. MILES, MS '43, PhD '44, profes­ RICHARD R. BURGESS, professor of and will finally stay put for a few years Retired from the United States Air Force, he sor of applied mechanics and geophysics oncology at the University of Wisconsin, before heading back to the West Coas!." had also retired from his subsequent posi­ and vice chancellor of academic affairs at has received the] 982 Pfizer Award for tion as assistant manager, staff research, ft.r the University of California, San Diego, is Outstanding Contributions in Enzyme 1976 ARO Inc. in Tullahoma, Tennessee. the 1982 recipient of the American Society Chemistry from the biological division of SHAWN HALL, MS, PhD '81 , research of Mechanical Engineers' Timoshenko the American Chemical Society. staff member at IBM in Yorktown Heights, 1948 Medal. The prestigious award was given for New York, reports that on September 4, LAWRENCE DAHM in September, of an "outstanding contributions to a wide range 1965 1982, he married Jennifer Ann Moro, a apparent heart attack. He was a rancher in of areas of fluid dynamics, particularly to JOHN H. BEAMER sends this update: "I friend from high school, in a ceremony at Brawley, California, and had been active supersonic aerodynamics and panel flutter, received my PhD in chemical engineering at Princeton University Chapel. assisting youth organizations. Surviving oceanography and geophysical fluid Stanford in 1970 and taught chemical him are his wife, Joan, three sons, and five dynamics, generation of water waves by engineering at Clarkson College for two 1977 daughters. wind, stability of heterogeneous shear flows years. Received my MD degree from the JOHN L. GUSTAFSON and his wife, and solitary wave interactions." U. of Miami in 1974 and completed my formerly Denise Hayward, received their 1949 residency in psychiatry in 1977 and cur­ respective degrees in the same ceremony at MURRAY S. BORNSTEIN, MS, in June 1944 rently practice psychiatry in Potsdam, New Iowa State University: John his PhD in 1982 of coronary heart disease. He was JOSEPH M. PHELPS, MS '47, retired York. I have a son, Matt, 11, a daughter, applied mathematics and Denise her BS in project manager with Parsons Brinckerhoff / chairman of Phelps/ ABC Civil Engineers, Jennifer, 10. materials science engineering. John now Tudor in Atlanta, Georgia. He is survived writes that he is busy developing a 20-acre works as a senior applications specialist for by his wife, Manuela, and two sons. ranch in Temecula, California, and expects 1966 Floating Point Systems in Portland, to show a farm profit in the year 2024, at DOUGLAS w. GAGE, a physicist with the Oregon. which time, he says, he will be 100. Naval Ocean Systems Center in San Diego, WILLIAM J. RAMSEY, PhD '53, in Octo­ writes, "Adam Frederick Gage (first child) CHRIS E. JENSEN and Linda A. Taylan ber. A chemist with Lawrence Livermore 1947 was born May 8, 1982. Mother (and father) report the birth of a baby girl, Heather Laboratory, he was a "founding father" of EDWARD FLANDERS, retired Army and child all having a great time." Victoria, on September 26, 1982, in Salinas, the plutonium facility there and was highly colonel. now living at Lake Tahoe in California, where Chris works for J. M. regarded during his 29 years with the Zephyr Cove, Nevada, informs us that he 1969 Electric Co. Laboratory. He is survived by his wife, has Parkinson's disease and "would enjoy a DALE PAYNTER writes, "My wife, Patti Carolyn, and two sons. correspondence with any of my peers so Pjerrou, and I would like to announce the 1978 afflicted." birth of our second daughter, Erin Eliza­ JAMES B. McBEATH reports, "After beth, born August 5,1982. Our first spending a very enjoyable and worthwhile 1951 year in Heidelberg, West Germany, earning EDWIN E. PYATT in June 1982. He was 1950 daughter, Kristen Emily, is 2'/2 years old. I DWIGHT SCHROEDER, MS '63, vice am currently a project manager for the a Master of International Management professor of environmental engineering (M.I.M.) at Schiller International Univer­ science at the University of Florida in president of engineering at Boyle Engi­ space and communications group at Hughes neering in Newport Beach, California, Aircraft Company in El Segundo, ~ity, I am back in the States and working Gainesville. for Technical Magic, Inc. , in my little received the 1982 Engineer of the Year California." Award from the Orange County branch of one-man Santa Clara branch office (some­ 1969 the ASCE . times referred to as the Santa Clara 'twig RICHARD K. FRANZ in July 1982. He was 1970 THOMAS R. DAVIS reports, "After office). My fiancee, Michelle Dicklich, who a systems engineer with EDS in Dallas, I met two years ago while touring Europe, Texas. His wife survives him. 1953 graduating from Stanford with a PhD in HENRY R. JEX, MS, in his 24th year at mathematics in 1980, I worked as a re­ is a first year student at the University of Systems Technology Inc. , Hawthorne, search associate in EE at Stanford for two Santa Clara Law School. We are engaged to California, where he is principal research years and have just joined a start-up marry in January." engineer, was awarded the 1981 Franklin V company named Silicon Graphics Inc. in Taylor Award in Engineering Psychology Mountain View, California." Personals from the American Psychological Associa­ tion. Jex, who is the first engineer to win 1971 the award in its 20-year history, was hon­ WILSON WONG, MS , engineer and ored for his work in measuring mental scientist specialist with McDonnell Douglas 1929 workload. Astronautics in Huntington Beach, Califor­ JAMES DUNHAM, retired coastal w. nia, writes, ''Two bits of very good news in engineering consultant, has won ASCE's 1959 1982 Moffatt & Nichol Harbor and 'Coastal 1982. We got Solar 1, world's largest solar WILLIAM R. GRAHAM, who is with thermal electrical power plant, into opera­ Engineering Award. Dunham lives in Los R&D Associates in Marina del Rey, tion in April. It achieved electrical output Alamitos, California. California, received a Presidential appoint- power of ten megawatts in October. On September 25, 1982, I married Karen Ann Berg. We met on a sailing trip to Catalina on Memorial Day 1981." CALTECH NEWS

Research programs in the new Carl F and Winifred H Braun Laboratories focus on molecular biology, cell surface chemistry, and immunology.

CALTECH Senior Sandra Loh demonstrates an all-nighter.

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