CALTECH NEWS PUB LIS H E D FOR A L U M N I AND F R l EN D S 0 F THE CAL I FOR N I A INS TIT UTE OF T E C H N 0 LOG Y

VOLUME 3· NUMBER 3· APRIL 1969· PASADENA, CAL IFORNI A

Students Take Their Academic Enthusiasms Back to School

Last January a few Calteeh students parts of the blooming ASCIT Research decided to investigate the possibilities of Center cducation project base their teach­ teaching mathematics and science in ing on the idcas of William Johntz, a public schools. Mike Garet, a senior young Berkeley mathcmatician, whose mathematics major, suggested to faculty method has made it possiblc for children and administration at Woodrow Wilson to lcarn abstract math at nearly any Junior-Scnior High School in East Los grade lcvel. The California legislature Angeles that he and a few colleagues votcd funds for its inclusion in the cur­ bring some experimental math teaching riculum of elementary public schools, ideas to a group of seventh and eighth where it is known as the Miller Mathe­ graders; Garet received immedinte co­ matics Program. Johntz call s the process operation. At the same time senior Gregg the discovery method, since the children OClObcr 29, 1909 : Throop !-fall being bui/l-"Collllllon ancl goocl conslruclion lor ilS clay." Wright and junior Bob Brackenbury, learn through their own curiosity and Caltech biology studcn ts, got permission interest rather than th rough teacher-cen­ to start science classes for fifth and sixth tered, structured lessons. He gave an af­ graders at Cleveland Elcmcntary School ternoon of demonstrations at Cal tech last Throop Hall: OK For Now in Pasadena. The students at Wilson are fall to a large group of students and mostly Mexican-American; those at faculty, successfully working with some Something is going to be done to sider the building safe for occupancy for Clcveland are predominantly black. fourth-grade students he had never seen Throop Hall. When, what, and financed the time being. Throop's eventual fate is The students working on thcsc two before. by whom are unknowns. Caltech's ad­ being studied as part of a current overall Wright and Brackenbury agree with ministration building, olde~t structure on catnpus llti1iZ3liull and renewal study Johntz that the method is as successful the campus, is of questionable integrity being conducted by the Campus Archi­ with science as with mathematics. And in case of a large earthquake. A report tect. INS IDE the Caltech students teaching math and madc for the trustees' buildings and It would cost approximately $2.5 mil­ science point out in praise of Johntz' grounds committee by a team of struc­ lion (1969 dollars) to renovate the build­ ~ Eye's right for Palomar Page 2 method that remedial programs often fail tural engineers- including Cal tech's own ing and bring it up to current building ~The high school crowd because they emphasize areas where chil­ expert George Housner, professor of civil standards, says Campus Architect Royal checks out the Institute Page 3 dren have :t1ready done miserably. engineering and applied meehanics­ Tyson; a new building could be con­ Garet and a fellow senior math major, concluded that walls of the 59-year-old structed for about the same amount of ~ New facilities for talking Dan Nemzer, reported early what the building could be expected to crack and money. to yourself Page 4 other ARC student teachers have corrob­ shatter in the event of a major shock. But at a time when some Cal tech sup­ ~ Campus nightlife-something orated: that the young people they have However, it noted that Throop's struc­ port is being cut back (down $566,000 in for everyone Page 4 been teaching are amazingly insightful. ture is as sound as at any time during its federal research funds alone in the 12 They ask good questions and show 59 years of existence, during w hich it (, as months ending February 28, 1969) and ~ Big splash at George Williams Page 5 marked creative ability when they are in never experienced any damage in the costs arc increasing (up $407,000 for the a relaxed situation where ideas can flow numerous earthquakes which have taken first half of fiscal 1969), the trustees are ~ Alumnus in search of freely. The youngsters, mostly low place in California. natually reluctant to consider a $2.5 mil­ dark days Page 6 achievers, evince deep anxieties when The trustees deferred any immediate lion expenditure that would not provide ~ Group greets grapes. Great! Page 7 they think they are faced with tests, action on the report. According to Ted any significant upgrading of research or COntinued on page 3 Combs, secretary to the board, they con- instruction. Occupancy of Throop Hall is going to change, with about two-thirds of its pop­ Webbs and Dabney Men ulation scheduled to move out and into the new Business Services building this like Married RA Scheme summer. Remaining in Throop on the lower two floors will be offices of the To bring li fe in the C dtech monastery trustees, president, vice presidents, pro­ closer to the exterior world was one of vost, deans, registrar, alumni, industrial Robert Huttenback's goals ,1S Master of associatcs, public relations, placement, Student Houses. One real-world touch he and publications, and a costly telcphone visualized was a married couple living in central installation. It is possible that the an undergraduate student house and act­ upper twO floors will remain largely un­ ing as the Resident Associates. The RA, occupied after June. in timcs past often a bachelor professor, For a building of its age, Throop is now a gradlHlte student or postdoctoral in surprisingly good condition and, as fellow, wears a "housemother" cloak of pointed out, presents no hazard except vague outlines. Huttenback thought the under conditions of an earthquake very right woman as part of an RA team could much stronger than those it has already be a normalizing influence on house life. withstood in its 59 years. The building's In the spring of 1968 he finally pushed construction, says architect Tyson, was the idea through. The administration and common and good for its day. Ironically, the faculty committee on undergraduate standards for modern earthquake-resist­ student housing agreed to his suggestion ant construction, which Throop doesn't that an apartment be created in Dabney meet, derive in large part from work House Out of the RA's suite and an ad- done by Caltech's geologists and engi­ married couple to act as student house resident associates. Continued 011 page 4 neers over the last 35 years. 0 2 CAL TEC H NEWS April 1969

Palomar Gets Ready To Install a New Telescope

Palomar's newest telescope, a 60-inch photometric reflector, is expected to be fully operati onal by ea rl y 1970. The first major addition to equipment at Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories since installation in 1948 of the 200-inch Hale telescope, the new instrument, in tan­ dem with the 48-inch schmidt camera, will free the giant for more of the special far-ranging observations for which it was designed. T he telescope will be loca ted atop a knoll about one-half mile southeast of The building La house the 60-inch telescope is taking form the Hale telescope. The three-story at Palomar (right), although work was dela yed a few height of the structure provides desirable weeks by th e wet winter. Th e mirror (above, shown dur­ optical "seeing," placing the telescope ing early rough grinding in '1967) is being finished in th e axes' intersection 30 feet above ground Pa sa dena optical shop of the Obse rvaLaries . D level. The two floors below the observing Central Engi nee ring Services photo floor contain darkrooms for developing plates, mirror-handling facilities, instru­ shutter opening. T he slightly conical el osed steel tele­ the family of the late Oscar G. Mayer. mentation and control equipment, and a Rails for rotation of the steel dome are scope tube and mounting were tested tbe The building will be named for the Wis­ combination office-library-p hotographic in place and being finish -ground. Work last week in February at Cal tech. Me­ co nsin meat packer. assessmen t room. on the dome steel was completed in chanical performance was sa tisfactory, In addition to the gi ft to Caltech of Special concrete piers to hold th e mas­ March, and the rotating dome is now indica ting only such minor adjustments the Mayer building, funds for the new sive tube's supporting frames extend to being erected. as could be made at Palomar during final equipmen t came from several sources. foundation depth. Insulated double walls COnstruction of the building to house install ation of the eq uipment. Now dis­ A $590,000 grant for materials and con­ and an air co nditioning system will the new telescope is only one part of the mantled, the pieces of machinery arc struction of the telescope came from the maintain optimum temperature and hu­ $I-million job. Al so involved are the 60- under preparation for transportation to National Science Fou ndati on to the Car­ midity. inch mirror, and the telescope tube and the site, to be stored under cover until negie Institution of Washington, co-oper­ The sa me co nstruction and air co ndi ­ mounting with control and drive mech­ needed for erection. ator with Caltech of the Mount Wilson ti oning are included in th e building ex­ anisms and instrumentation. The new reflector will be used gener­ and Palomar Observatories. Preliminary tension for th e 20-foot hi gh coude in­ The fused-silica primary mirror blank ally for photoelectri c observations of design studies and purchase of th e mirror strument, used for spectroscopic studies has already been edge-ground and given brighter objects than those to be observed blank from Corning C lass Works were during moonlight periods too bright for rough-contour preparation in the Optical by the more ponderous 200-inch tele­ cleared by $125,000 from the National direct photography and critical ph oto­ Shop of the Mount Wilson and Palomar scope. Design attention was concentrated Aeronautics and Space Administration. electric work. Already install ed in the Observatories headquarters in Pasadena. on ways to permit rapid shifts from one Carnegie added $74,000, and Caltech coude room, the base of the separate Final figuring and polishing will con­ setting to another. One result was a $20,000. coude equipm=t was lifted into place tinue there until late this fa ll. short tube, only 13 feet long; mirrors All construction work is scheduled for by hydraulic cra ne before the roof was After it is coated with highly reflective extend its foca l length to tbat of a longer completion by July 1969. Check-out installed. All other telescopc machinery aluminum, the 60-inch primary mirror instrumen t. tests for mechanical adjustments will be will bc placed after completion of the will be ready for placement within the Costs of construction of the three-story done before placement of the mirror late dome structllre, by lifting through the mirror ce ll. building have been pledged to Ca ltech by in the year. 0 Visiting Commitees Go To Work CALTECH NEWS LETTER Vol. 3, NO. 3 April 1969 Editor: A new approach to communication members, nnd staff. Issued montWy except in August and Though I realize that this was a view among Ca ltech facu lty, trustees, and President Harold Brown, outlining th e September. Published by th e California that was merely reported by Caltech professional and business lea ders was goa ls of the committee program, sai d: Institute of Technology and the Alumni News (Vol. 3, No. 21, T couldn't let the launched at the In stitute this spring. Six "Our teaching and research acti vities Association, 1201 East California Blvd., statements "Excell ence, they claim, is an Pasadena, California 91109. Visiting Committces- one for each of must be reviewed continuously to ensure unknown word on black college cam­ Caltech's six divisions- have been ap­ that they keep pace with advances in sci­ Second class postage paid at Pasadena, puses. Intell ectual stimulation is virtually pointed to engage in frank, meaningful ence and engineering; with the changing California. nonexistent." pass without comment. discussions of th e In stitute's programs tastes, needs, and capacities of our stu­ Editor: Bruce Abell, '62 This is not the case at Morehouse Col­ lege, as anyone aware of the si tuation on and academic goa ls. dents; and with the changin g rcquire­ Associate Editor: Janet Lansburgh One group- the Visiting Committee ments of our society. our campus can tell yo u; unfortunately, for Biology- held its first meeting in "We believe the time has come when many people lump all predominantly March. D uring the meeting the division this process of continli OliS review at Black colleges togeth er, which makes cbairman, Robert Sinsheimer, reported Ca ltech ca n be enhanccd by seeking the vice presidcnt, assistant president, TRW about as much sen se as putting Caltech on current activities in the division in advice of outstanding individuals in in­ Inc., Redondo Beach; Wolfga ng K. H. and Berry Coll ege (which are both pre­ education, research, and adlninistratiotl, dustry, education, and government- in­ Panofsky, '42, director, Sta nford Univer­ dominantly white) in the same bag. Such plus any difficulties encountered in im­ dividuals who themselves cope with sity Linear Accelerator Center. inaccuracy, when circulated by the news plementing plans. Committee members major changes and, indeed, who have a Geological Sciences-Rollin Eckis, MS media, on ly helps to perpetuate the false­ expressed their views on these, offered hand in bringing them about." '30, executive vice president, international hood and to reinforce racist attitudes, information about experience elsewhere, Alumni members on committees in­ division, Atlantic Richfield Co.; H. W . conscious and unco nscious. I hope that and suggested areas or emphasis not in­ elude : M enard, '42, professor of geology, Uni­ your reporters and editors will be more cluded in present planning. Bio logy- Alfred G. Knudson Jr., '44, versity of California, Sa n Diego, Scripps careful and less indiscri minate in the Each committee co nsists of at least PhD '56, professor of medicin e, Sta te In stitution of Oceanography; John R. Ru­ future. nine members, including trustees, alum­ University of New York at Stony Brook; bel, '42, senior vice president, Litton In­ Alan Farley, '57, Cbairman ni, and non-a lumni. T rustee members arc Dean Nichols, MD, '37, co nsulting radi­ dustries, Beverly Hills. Department of Mathematics appoin ted by th e chairman of the board olog ist, Phoenix, Ariz.; and Armin Dale Humanities-Frank Capra, '18, Red of trustees, a nd a trustee serves as chai r­ Kaiser, PhD '55, professor of bi ochem­ Mountain Ranch Inc., Fallbrook, Calif.; man of the committee. Other members istry, Stanford University Medical School. r. Stanley Johnson , '33, Altadena. of tbe group- who serve three-year terms Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Engineering and Applied Scicnce­ -arc selected by the faculty, Provost, - John A. Lec rmakers, PhD '32, vice Louis T. Rader, PhD '38, vice president, ALUMNI SEMINAR and President on the basis of competence president, Eas tman Kodak Co., Rochester, General Electric Co., Charlottsville, Va.; in their professional fields. N.Y.; and William N. Lipscomb Jr. , PhD Simon Ramo, PhD '36, vice chairman of Normally, each committee will spend '46, professor of chemistry, Harvard Uni­ the board, TRW Inc., Redondo Beach ; PROGRAM ON one or two days a year in session on the versity. Edward E. Tuttle, '28, president, Essick campus. Additional meetings may be Physics, Mathematics and As tronomy Investment Co., Los Angeles; Abe M. arranged, and members are encouraged - John C. Case, '27, consu lting engi neer, Zarem, PhD '44, vice president, director PAGE 7 to visi t the Institute for personal discus­ John C . Case &. Associates, Beverly Hills; of corporate relations, Xerox Corp., Bev­ sions with division chairmen, faculty Ruben F. Mettler, '44, PhD '49, executive erly Hills. 0 April 1969 CALTECH NEWS 3 Back to School

Con tinned from page 1 grades, and the awful possibility of giv­ ing a wrong answer. Garet and Nemzer found it essential that their stud ents be physically and visually involved in whatever math situ­ ation was presented. Nemzer taught them the essentials of topology by having them make simple paper rings, which started them thinking about surfaces. When they cut the rings different ways, they could understand how surfaces can change. While Nemzer was introducing them to some topology, Garet dealt with simple concepts of logic. "The kids started realizing the impor­ tance of arithmetic as a basic le'lrning tool- but only after we took off the old STUDENTS' DAY pressures of 'right' answers, tests, and On Feb. 23 some 1,000 high school students accompanied by grades," Garet said. "Hardl y any of them 300 science teachers from southern California and western had any idea of the uses of arithmetic. Arizona gave Cal tech th e once-over at the annual Students' Hardly any of them can multiply." Day. The program, which included 60 exhibits, lOurs, talks by scien tists, music by th e glee club, and lunch , allows prospec­ tive students to see the campus, th e people w ho study and teach on it, and the kinds of work being done. 0 Hardly any of them had any idea of the uses of arithmetic

Garet and Nemzer started out with 30 students every Wednesday morning dur­ ing first and second periods. Fifteen other Calteeh students and Research Center Associates observed, and some of these have now started teaching classes too. Meanwhile, senior Garet has turned over the planning and leadership duties con­ nected wi th the ARC Wilson group to Eric Sc hiff, a sophomore. From their ex­ perience at Wilson, those polled agreed t-hat perhaps the old basic teaching ideas should be turned around. Based on what they have seen, they wonder if learning might not have come easier to many of the pupils if- from grades one through Six- they had started doing what inter­ ested them and had their creativity en­ couraged, instead of all being graded by standards they ca nnot, in many cases, meet. Mike Garet said the group has had excell ent rapport with the Wilson mathe­ matics teachers, who have many frustra­ tions regarding the present ed ucational system, especially as it applies to minor­ ity-group youngsters. They arc willing to try anything that might put some en­ thusiasm and motivation into the pupils. a-week proposltlon. They have made tion. We fcel it's important that more of Another said: "Maybe a look at cre­ water-drop microscopes that they use us have this experience." ativity before it gets squashed will help The third graders have been regularly. The third gra ders have been At a time when many thoughtful Cal­ us revive it at Cal tech." "reading" issues of Scien ti fic American. tech faculty membcrs and students arc Coming up on April 19 ancl 20 is a " reading" Scientific American When they see pictures that interest consid ering the quality of education on conference at Caltech to plan a proposed them, they are cncouraged to ask every the campus, the students working in the "In stitute of Educational Change" for question they can think of. From this ARC project stress the benefits th ey feel this summer. The ASCIT Research Cen­ "Some of them have told us," said generally comes a learning process that the Institute could derive from involve­ ter recently got a grant of $3,000 from Garet, "that although there is a lot of carries their intcrcst forward. ment in public ed ucation matters. th e Rosenberg Foundation of California research into new and improved teach­ Wright had few thoughts about child­ Gregg Wright would like to see Cal­ to put on the conference, which will ing methods, the research is useless to hood ed ucation until he read two books tech students teaching twice a week in have Dean Dwight Allen of the Univer­ them beca use there seems to be little or last summer: Dea th at an Early Age, an grade schools as a type of laboratory sity of Massachusetts' School of Educa­ no way to put it into the curriculum." account of the inferior educations black work. tion as keynote speaker. Allen is nation­ Garet added: "We aren't saying we children receive in Boston; and Why "All of us have learned a lot more ally known for his activities in discard­ have any definite answers, either, but Children Fail. These stimulated him to about education at Caltech since we've ing or revising many heretofore acccpted there's a critical need to explore different try some teaching methods of his own. been teaching elementary studcnts," he teaching concepts in favor of innovations methods." Although he plans to enter medical said. "There's a lot in the field of experi­ intended to make the learning process At the Cleveland sch ool the Caltech school next year, he now feels that teach­ men tal education that might find a place more dynamiC. Chairman of the April teaching group includes Dan McMahon, ing the young will be an important part at Caltech- so that there would ultimate­ conference is Betsy Oliver, student re­ an assistant professor of biology, and of any career he may choose. ly be less material passing from a teach­ search associate from the University of nine other students and research associ­ The broader purpose of the AS CIT er's notebook to a student's notebook Massachusetts. ates. They are, they hope, showing SO education project, says Garet, is to in­ without passing through the mind." The summer program bei ng considered third, fifth, and sixth graders that science vestigate the role of college students in Another student teacher says: "No­ may involve some SO college students can be exciting. They teach the third public education, "because the best body can tell me that people at Caltech and 15 public school teachers who will graders twice a week during schoo l hours, source of information concerning educa­ are over-trained to have anything to do work on educational experiments with the fifth and sixth graders twice a week tion is firsthand. The difference betwecn with elementary education. It took only 500 elementary and junior high school after school. The older children have reading about education and facing a an hour with those kids to show me students drawn from Pasadena area asked if the project could be a five-days- class of 30 children is beyond descrip- that!" schools. 0 4 CALTECH NEWS April 1969

Humanities Faculty Showing Their Stuff

The lives and works of Ii terary figures are deep concerns of a dozen scholars in Cal tech's humanities and social sciences division, But the research this represents is not always clear to those who deal pri­ marily with mathematical coneepts, chemical formulas, or electron micro­ seopes, To convey some idea of the depth and excitement in these studies r. Kent Clark, professor of English, has set up a series of Humanities Seminars on Wednesday mornings at 11 o'clock in CAMPUS NIGHTLIFE 206 Dabney Hall, At night Caltech often crawls oul from under Ihe day's academic loads So far about 100 students, faculty, and and takes on a new kind of vitalit y, as shown in th es e pictures taken in miscellaneous others have attended each March , Winnett Lounge is comfortably filled by those wanting to meet of the five lectures that were given dur­ poet William M erwin and hear him read (above), A rOom full of students ing the winter term, Six talks are planned in room "/"17 Mudd encounter actress Nina Foch and her ideas on creativ­ ity (left, ab ove), In Fl eming a committee of amateur talent scouts holds a for the spring, and the public is invited. preview 01 a new singing group, the Baker Stree t Irregulars, who will "The quali ty of each talk has been a appear in Beckman Auditorium April 79 (below), And every night about challenge to everyone who still has his 10 p ,m, Ihe coffee house wakes up (left, below); this is where student ahead of him; it's like trying to follow a activists percolate, and where people like David W ood, the acting ass o­ dog act," says Clark, speaking of the in­ ciate dean of slud nts, have th e best chan ce to rap with th em, D terest and enthusiasm with which each speaker has responded to the chance to expound publicly on his research inter­ ests, "The results have been eminently publishable, too, and that's another divi­ dend," During the winter term William Co­ zart spoke on "Narrative Irony in The Can terbury Tales"; Oscar Mandel on "The Nature of the Comic"; David Smith on "The Heart of Conrad's Darkness"; George Mayhew on "The Many Faces of Stephen Dedalus" i and Beach Langston on "Faulkner's Traditionalism and Th e Sound and the Fury." Subjects that will be covered in the six seminars planned for spring term are : literary theory al!d practice of T. S, RNs: I come home and find my wife entertaining a room full of men Eliot, by r. Kent Clark; Shakespeare and The Tempest, by Hallett Smith; literary Continued from page 1 But Sandy's imperturbability helped ment in Ruddock House, And five or six salvage, by David Goslee; two worlds­ jacent room, Dabney was chosen because make her eventual acceptance easier. She graduate couples have approached the opposing value systems in literary tradi­ thcre was an RA vacancy, the apartment didn't let being treated like the wallpaper Webbs asking how to become RA's, tion, by Charles Newton; Willa Cather, would have its own balcony and outside bother her, because she understood what John and Sandy will con tinue living in by John Zeigel; and uses of linguistics, entrance, and there were no remodeling it stemmed from, The turning point Dabney House next year. When John by Bozena Dostert. problems, The residents agreed to try seems to have come around the end of gets his PhD, their present thought is to Clark is hoping that the English sem­ having a married couple in their midst, Arst term, when Sandy made a great hit teach in '111 underdeveloped country, inars this year will encourage the faculty and requests for applicants were posted as the "elf" who traditionally passes Ollt "We feci," Sandy says, "that our own in history to provide a similar series next around campus, gifts at Dabney's Christm as party, Also, livcs have been so easy- Arst in Australia year. "There are a lot of experts in the There wasn't a flood of them, The few word got arollnd from the first ones who and then here at Caltech, We'd eventu­ division, and they're doing exciting couples who did apply were askcd to dine visited the Webbs' apartment that there ally like to give some of the chances things, We ought to have a chance to at Dabney to case the surroundings and was nothing to it- the welcome was we've had to other people," 0 hear about it from them," 0 residents, while the students made their there, and visiting John and Sa ndy was own judgments on the applicants, often more in teresting than sitting around The men chose John and Sandra Webb, talking to a male RA, "Now," John says, recently arrivcd from Sydney, Australia, "it seems as though I'm always coming John was beginning graduate work in home and findi ng my wife entertaining chemistry, and Sandy, with a master's a room full of men." degrce from Cambridge in physiology, John's idea of what an RA should be is was working as a research assistant in a person, possessing more maturity than biology, undergraduates, who is around to be an Although they knew they were the advisor and friend when it is requested, first married RAs they were surprised He thinks of himself as neither a father to discover what objects of in terest they figure nor a peer group pal. were, The Webbs were frequently asked "If there's any situation that seems to "What's it like?" questions: "Isn't it need my intervention- and they don't noisy?" "Isn't there a lot of loud music come up often- I'd rather li se friendly at all hours?" "What's it like being THE persuasion, About the only time I've woman in an undergraduate house?" done this is when I've felt that some Having a woman in the house wasn't house member is getting a rough time an easy transition at first for either side, from some of the others," There were islands of awkwardness as John "'ld Sandy sometimes split at­ students wondered how you treated a tendance at campus mectings where RA's young married woman under the same may be included, For instance, Sandy be ­ roof, She wasn't like a mother; she prob­ comcs the Dabney RA at the meetings a bly deserved a shade more deference held to pia n renovation of the old house, than a sister; and she wasn't potential Other duties are carried out by one or THE ELECTRIC TALKING MACHINE date material. Many of the students both as seems best and natural at the Caltech's langua ge laboratory has a new hom e, Th e austere but well-equipped room over which chose the simple way out of the discom­ time, Within the house, the joking rela­ lames Greenlee, ass istant professor of French , is pres iding used to be the dark and eerie lower fort. They ignored her. Jn addi tion, the tionship has Sandy THE RA and John level of th e humanities library in Dabney Hall, When the library moved into Millikan Memorial, students who had felt free to drop in on the House Mother. the upper level was conve rted to offices, th e lower to the lab, Ea ch of th e 29 cubicles has a tape a male RA at all sorts of odd hours were An indication of the Dabney experi ­ cleek Ih at plays pre-recorded cass ettes, and ea ch is connected to th e master console where th e hesitant to go knocking at the Webbs' ment's success is that planning studies in stru ctor monitors students' recilalions and talks to th em , The lab al.l o has a studio for record­ door. have been made for a married RA apart- ing master lessons, D April 1969 CALTECH NEWS 5

MP Wants Closer Europe-U.S. Ties

A Briton's opinion of the best ways to Griffiths also refers to Europe's in­ expand mutually benencial relations be­ ability to react to the Soviet occupation tween Western Europe and the United of Czechoslovakia as a measure of its Sta tes during the next ten years was pre­ present impotence. sented in Dabney Lounge on March 5. Griffiths' opinion of the Common Under sponsorship of Cal tech's faculty Market, of which Britain is not a mem­ committee on programs, the Hon. Eldon ber, is that it "is in shambles." He Griffiths, Member of Parliament and one stressed the desirability of strong pan­ of England's leadi ng young statesmen and European agencies that arc open to full journalists, gave a ringi ng exhibition of Western European participation, not tight House of Commons rh etoric. little customers' unions of six members. Griffiths, now Foreign Affairs Secre­ In Griffiths' opinion, Europe should tary of Britain's Conservative Party, took be closely linked to the United States­ an MA at Cambridge before studying at in the interests of both parties. America, Yale on a fellowship, where he earned a of course, has a terrinc stake in Europe's Master's degree in history. Later he was economic development. Since World War managing editor of Newsweek and cor­ II Europe has received $40 billion from respondent for Time and Life. Elected to the Marshall Plan, as well as continued Parliament in 1964 (representing the dis­ American military expenditures for trict of Bury St. Edmunds), he represents European safety. During the early part of a constituency that includes the largest this period America was clearly the supe­ Ca ltech's competitors in the NA/A national championships: Wright, Tyson, Sheffield, Kalisvaart. American Air Force installation in rior international force, thanks to its military might, air force, strong economy, and financial power. Today the gap has NAIA National Championships: Swimmers Place narrowed. America has suffered a drop in her balance of payments, and Europe Tenth, Set Seven Records; Wrestler Takes Sixth fears a nuclear war. Better relations be­ tween the United States and the Soviet Swimming yard freestyle rclay, where the same four Union would all ay many of Europe's men swam in a time of 7:52.7. fears. 0 Let there be little doubt about it; SCIAC swimming competition is getting Wrestling fierce. Th ree of the conference's teams Alan Beagle, fresh off first places in placed in the top ten in this year's NAIA both the SCIAC and NAIA District 3 Two Memorials Set Up National Championships on March 20-22. 191-pound wrestling championships, fin­ Cal tech, with one of its nnest teams ever, A memorial lectureship honoring the ished sixth out of a Acid of 45 at the was tenth. late Albert Tyler, professor of biology, has NAIA national championships in Omaha. The four swimmers who went to the been endowed at Calteeh. Tyler, who died That excellent performance closed out meet at George Williams College near last November at the age of 62, had served Caltech's most successful ever wrestling Ch icago set seven new Caltech records Eldon Griffiths on the Cal tech faculty for 40 years; he was season. With only two seniors on this there, bringing to ten the number of new also a Caltech alumnus, having earned the year's team (Beagle is a junior), prospects school marks this season. Freshman Steve Britain. He is considered to be a leading Institute's nrst PhD in biology in 1929. He for next year look very good. According Sheffield (butterfly and distance) had a Tory candidate for future Prime Minister. was well known for his resea rch in embry­ to coach Tom Gutman (who also coached hand in seven of those ten. His team­ Griffiths' premise is that today Europe ology, population problems, and marine the Ca ltech football team to its best sea­ mates at the nationals were seni ors Gregg is faltering. In his opinion, some of its biology. son in four yea rs-one win), Beagle has Wright (backstroke) ,md Maartcn Kalis­ political leaders arc pessimistic over an The lectureship will bring a leading an excell ent chance to win the NAIA vaart (relays), and junior Mabry Tyson increase of feuding nationalism, whieh scientist in biology or a related neld to national championship in his class next (breaststroke). has splintered the progressive unity of Ca ltech each year for a visit up to fo u r year. only a few years ago. days long. Each lecturer will make at The 400-yard medley relay led off the o He is particularly concerned with least one major address in Beckman Audi­ national competition, with the quartet Europe's seeming dependence on the torium for the beneAt of students, facu lty, taking sixth place with a school record ALADAR HOLLANDER non-European powers. An example, staff, and members of the surrounding time of 3 :46.9. The 400-yard freestyle re­ 1883-1969 he says, is that for centuries, Western community. lay time was a record 3:2.1.7, good for Europeans have considered the Mediter­ A memorial fund honoring Jean-Jacques ninth place. Aladar Hollander, professor emeritus ranean to be "our sea." On any day Weigle- a Swiss scientist who did much Wright placed nfth in the 100-ya rd of mechanical engineering at Calteeh, more than 2,000 merchant ships are of his research at Cal tech- has becn es­ backstroke, with a record time in the pre­ died on March 13 of heart failure at his crossing it to trade. Now Soviet naval tablished at th c Institute. Weigle, who liminary heat of 57.4. He then took ninth home in Los Angeles. He was 85, and ships are among them, a new develop­ died la st December at the age of 67, wa s in the 200-yard back. Tyson set two would have been 86 on March IS. ment that is under constant surveillance he,jd of the department of physics at the school records with a seventh place in the Hollander, a native of Janoshalma, by the Royal Air Force. Yet, if contain­ University of Geneva, Switzerland, for 17 100-yard breaststroke in I :03.6 and an Hunga ry, served on th e Caltech faculty ment becomes necessary, England, once years, and had bee n a research associate eighth place in the 200-yard breaststroke from 1940 to 1951, when he retired. He the great naval power, will have to de­ in biophysics at Ca ltech since 1949. in 2:21.1. Sheffield took seventh in the began teachi ng at the Institute as a lec­ pend on the United States Sixth Fleet. The memorial fund was established to 200-yard butterfly with a Ca ltech record turer in centrifugal pump deSign, a field That realization, he claims, will result bring persons of outstanding ability to time of 2:04.4, and tenth in the 100-yard in which he held some 75 patents. shortly in the return of the British Navy Ca lteeh to speak, work, or study in the butterny with a record time of 55.3. Hollander received his master's degree to the Mediterranean. Griffiths also pre­ division of biology. Recipients will include The other three records this seasoll at Joseph Royal University in Budapest, dicted that when his party regains power scholars and students who will bring new came in the I ,OOO-yard and SOD-yard free­ Hungary, in 1904 and did further post­ a British aircraft carrier will return to ideas and concepts, new teaching meth­ style, in which Sheffield swam 10:59.2 graduate work at the Technical Univer­ Singapore. ods, and high potential to Caltech. 0 and 5 :22 .8, respectively, and in the 800- sity in Zurich, Switzerland. 0

An evening of psychodrama, the third program in the Caltech YMCA's is helped by another group member (on her right! portraying the pro­ PSYCHODRAMATICS current series, " Journey Into Sell," brings this volunteer to th e stage to tagonist in th at experience and by leader Bill McGaw 01 the Western "act out" a range of emotions engendered by a real-life experience. She Behavioral Sciences Institute (on her Icft!. 0 6 CAlTECH NEWS April 1969

ALUMNI CALENDAR April 12, Swiss Park, Duarte. Sun Takes Alumnus Far Afield BARN DANCE.

May 10, all day, campus. Warren Arnquist IPhD '30) is the kind atmosphere), was so successful that at the ANNUAL ALUMNI SEMINAR. of man who would travel to Siberia to next total eclipse, two years later, four observe an event lasting 42 seconds, planes were used. In one of them, NASA's June 11. which is what sometimes happens when Ames Research Center outfitted a Con­ ASSOCIATION ANNUAL DINNER you specialize in total solar eclipses. vair 990 for a 580-seeond look >It the MEETING. As a research scientist in astrophysics eclipse. In this expedition Arnquist and Advance notice only. Details of eaclI at the McDonnell Douglas Advanced Re­ his Douglas coll eagues were responsible event- including ticket information- · search Laboratories, Arnquist's pursuit of for the navigation strategy, for safety will be mailed by tlw Alumni A ssocia- the total eclipse has taken him to Siberia, testing of special windows, >lnd for the tion. the wilds of Peru, the mid-PaciAc, and installation of all the experimental o northwestern Canada. Next year comes equipment. On the 1965 expedition, Arn­ southern Mexico. His particular interest quist took his first polarization photo­ is the chromosphere and corona with re­ gr>lp hs of the corona. Coming Caltech Events gard to structure related to potentially Arnquist's trips became increasingly Monday, April 14, 8:30 p.m. Beckman damaging radiation accompanying some exotic. The next year he headed a four­ IN DEFENSE OF FREE SPEECH. Abra­ solar flares. His goal? To help And some m>ln expedition into the mountains ncar ham Kaplan. Caltech Lecture Series. way to forecast the "weather" in space. Arequipa, Peru, to continue his polariza­ Free. Arnquist, 64, came to Calteeh in 1927 tion photography and study the corona from Whitman College to work under with a photoelectric photometer. They Friday, April 18, 8 :00 p.m. Beckman Robert A. Millikan on electron scattering arrived in Arequipa ten days before the THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS in gases. Then he joined the physics de­ schedul ed eclipse and, after observing presented by the Associated Students partment of what is now Auburn Univer­ the cloud formations, started climbing of Cal tech. "Folksy-Pop Concert" with sity in Alabama. He was a physicist for the mountains. They chose a site on the Barbara Smith, Ron Kickasola, Mike the Gulf Research and Developmen t western slopes 10,000 feet up, even Smith. General admission price to Company in Pittsburgh when Charles though they had planned to push closer Caltech family: $1. Lauritsen asked him to return to Caltech to the umbra cen ter at 14,000 feet. "But Sunday, April 20, 8:15 p.m. Dabney at the st>trt of World War 11 and head if we had," Arnquist recalls, "we would GOLDMAN-BROWN DUO. Program: research operations for a rocket project. have been completely clouded out­ Beethoven (Sonata in F major, Op. 24); After the war he did research for the which just shows how chancy these Brahms ISonata in A major, Op. 100); Army, Navy, and industry on range in­ things ca n be." Warrcn Arnquist, PhD '30 Bartok (Sonata No.2). Free. strumentation, rocket flight testing, and Last year was his Siberian year. The Monday, April 21, 8 :30 p.m. Beckman research support, because of the cost of infrared applications to missiles. one total solar eclipse of 1968 was due on REBIRTH OP POLITICAL EXTREM­ the Vietnam War, demand a hard look He joined Douglas Aircraft in 1961, September 22. Arnquist headed a group of ISM IN GERMANY! Eberhard K. a t expenses. where he coordinated and helped develop four from his company, and joined more Jobst. Caltech Lecture Series. Free. the company's advanced research pro­ than 50 Soviet and foreign scientists who Next year he takes a mobile laboratory gram . It was in 1963 that h e became ac­ had converged on the village of Yurga­ to the southernmost part of Mexico for Friday, April 25, 8:30 p.m. Beckman tively interested in solar physics and got mysh, about 800 miles cast of Moscow. the total eclipse of March 7, 1970. That ALI AKBAR KNAN, sarodist, in a pro­ involved in his Arst total eclipse, when He described the Siberian eclipse as one eclipse comes during the sun's period of gram of Indian cbs ieal music. $5-4-3. Douglas and the National Geographic of those chancy things again-a 70-per­ greatest activity during its U -ycar cycle. Monday, April 28,8:30 p.m. Beckman Society decided to outAt a DC-8 as a fly ­ cent cloud prediction and a low after­ Correlation of data from his years of SMOG: A MODEST PROPOSAL. Shel­ ing observatory to study an impending noon sun only 18 degrees abovc the observing will complete his current goal don K. Friedlander. Cal tech Lecture total eclipse over northwestern C>lnada. horizon at the best observing site ,dong of observing the sun from minimum Series. Free. Arnquist was made di rector of the proj­ the path of tOtality. But positive thinkin~ Iback around 1964) to maximum activity. Friday, May 2, 8:30 p.m. Beckman ect, in which academic, governmental, prevailed, and the eclipse had its day. " And thell maybe," he says with a West coast premiere of two Alms from and commercial scientiAc groups partici­ For Arnquist, the flying laboratories hopeful grin, "we'll wind up with enough The Kinetic Art division of Universal pated. It was the first time a four-engine don't fit in his current plans. He says information to convincc us we need to Education &. Visual Arts: "PRAGUE: jet plane had been used as an observatory, he can now do his own research on continue the program into th e next part SUMMER OF TANKS" and " TN E and the first international airborne eclipse polarization of the visible corona almost of the cycle." 0 RIGHT TO SPEAK: THE PARIS expedition in history. as well, and at far less cost, from the STUDENT REVOLUTION." The Aim The flight, which prolonged the view­ ground. Right now, he finds it almost a makers must remain anonymous. GA: ing time by chasing the eclipse at 40,000 "must" to find cheaper ways to do things. $2; students: $1. feet labove 85 percent of th e earth's General reductions in government basic Glee Club Annual Home ------Sunday, May 4, 8 :15 p.m. Dabney Conce rt Will Be May 9 PACIFIC WOODWIND QUINTET performing music by Nielsen, Bozza, The Caltech Glee Club will give its Persichetti, ViIla-Lobos. Fiual concert in annual home concert in Beckman Audi­ the series. Free. torium on Friday, May 9, at 8:00 p.m. Monday, May 5, 8:30 p.m. Beckman The men, directed by Olaf Frodsham, SPERMATAZOA. Charles Brokaw. will be joi ned by the Women's G lee Club Caltech Lecture Series. Free. of Long Beach City College. The pro­ gram will include sacred and secular Tuesday, May 6, Winnett Lounge. 8 p.m. music, including songs from Broadway POETESS DIANE WAKOWSKI reading shows, spirituals, a selection from Bach's from her own work. Free. Peasant Cantata, the "Gloria" from Missa Friday, May 9, 8:00 p.m. Beckman Mater Patris by des Prez, and selections CALTECH GLEE CLUB. Annual from Brahms' Nell e Liebeslieder. 0 Home Concert. Guest artists: Long Beach City College Women's Glee Club. Free. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Monday, May 12,8:30 p.m. Beckman ANNUAL DINNER MEETI NG MARINER AT THE MARS FRON­ TIER. H. M. Schurmeier, Mariner RODGER YOUNG Mars 1969 Project Manager, IPL. Final lecture in the Caltech Lecture Series. AUDITORIUM Free. LOS ANGELES Friday and Saturday, May 23, 24, 8:30 p.m. Beckman WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1969 THE THREEPENNY OPERA, pro­ duced, directed, and performed by the REUN IONS--CLASSES OF students of the California Institute of 1964-59-54-49-44-39 Technology. Annual musical presenta­ STUDENT BARN DANCE, CIRCA 1950 tion. Book by Bertolt Brecht, music by Beer, crew races, music, and remembrances of things pa st will be offered to (ldven lurous alumni 34-29-24-19-14 Kurt Weill, English adaptation by Marc on Saturday evening, April 72, at th e Ailimni Association's barn dance at Swiss Park, Dliartc. 0 Blitzstein. 0 April 1969 CALTECH NEWS 7

ODOR, T ASH, TOUCH . . . I he Alumni Association's annua l wine tJ stin gs arc guaranteed successes. This year more than 440 lucky people sampled some of Ca lifornia's finest wines at the events on March 7 and 74 in the Athenaeum. Highlight of the March 74 tasting (for experi­ enced imbibers) was th e presence of some of the vintners themselves, answering questions as par! of the lecture. Winners of the drawings for free cases of wine were David Allen, '63, of Marina del Rey, anel Ray 8erbower, '45, of Long Beach. D

Frosh Profile 32nd ANNUAL ALUMNI SEMINAR LECTURES

To acquaint prospective applicants with The annual alumni seminar, to be held A VIEW OF THE EARTH'S INTERIOR PULSARS- STELLAR DEATH RATTLES some of the qualities of the kind of stu­ on campus May 10, will feature 12 lec­ Don l. Anderson Peter Goldreich dent likely to do well at Calteeh, the tures (described here) representing all six Professor of Geophysics Associate Professor of Planetary Office of Admissions each year publishes academic divisions, the faculty, and the Knowledge of the int erior of the earth is a Science and Astronomy a profile of the most recent freshman class students. It will also be the first chance fa Sci nating revelation . Seismological investiga­ Pulsars arc sources of periodic, broadband enrolled. Tn 1968 the report said, among for many a lumni to hear Caltech Presi­ tions are providing us with an in creas ingly radio emission. Those discovered to date have other things, what seems obvious: that dent Harold Brown, who will speak at the refi ned picture of its makeup. The evolution periods between 0.03 and 3 seconds. It is of the earth to its present state and the con­ outstanding scholastic ability is desirable; general after-lunch session in Beckman now generally believed that pulsars are ro­ nection between th e internal stru cture of the tating neutron sta rs which formed during the of the total of applicants ranked Auditorium. The dinner speaker will be 800 1,104 earth and se ismi c activity in so uthern Califor­ announced in April. ex plosive deaths of ordinary stars. This lecture in the top fifth in their secondary schools. nia is of specia l interest to those living here. Alumni and tbeir families can attend as will describe th e di scovery of pulsa rs and their To no one's surprise, 44 percent of the observational characteristics. An elementary m any as five of the twelve lectures in SEARCH FOR LIFE ON MARS 306 who were accepted had made all A's discussion of current theoretica l attempts to addition to the general session and eve­ in mathematics and science subjects, but Norm an H. Horowitz understand th e physics of th ese unusual ob­ 59 percent of them had A grades in all ning talk. Reservation forms will be Professor of Biology jects will also be presented. subjects taken in high school. mailed to alumni in southern California. The question of life on Mars is one of the The College Board Scholastic Aptitude Other alumni interested in attending mos t engagin g scientific problems of our time. AFTER VIETNAM-ANOTHER Tests and three achievement tests arc re­ should write to Jim Black, Executive A review of current thinking abou t Mars and RECESSION? quired of each applicant, and of those who Director, Alumni Association, Cal tech. a discussion of instruments being developed Roger G. Noll by the Mars Project will be presented. This scored in the 750-800 range (highest SMOG ALERT! progress report is particularly tim ely in view Ass ista nt Professor of Eco nomics group) in each test, more than SO percent of th e experim ents currently under way by Peace in Vietnam cou ld seriously chall enge were accepted. Scores were predictably Joh n H. Se infeld our present prosperity. In the past, the transi­ Assistant Professor of Chemica l means of Mariner spacecraft, which are now high in all the science and math tests, and enroutc to Mars. tion from war to peace has inevitably brought 181 of the 201 who enrolled in September Engineering a recession. Can the hi stori ca l precedent be scored above 750 on the Level 11 Math The ability to forecas t smog would be a OF BROKEN RIBS, ROCKS, broken? Analysis of past mistakes and present conditions indicates it can-with carefully test. The verbal aptitude and English great step toward effectively combating and AND ROCKETS controllin g th e effects of smog. Research has planned and executed readjustment policies. achievement test scores for most enrollees Wolfgang G. Knauss been carri ed out at Ca ltech to develop an Productive resources freed by peace can be were also generally high, but they were analy ti cal model of th e dynamic formation Assistant Professor of Aeronautics squandered or redirected toward so lving below 450 for five m en on the verbal test and spread of smog over an urban area. Pre­ The fracture of many materials is governed domestic problems and improving living stan­ and for two in English. dictions of this model will be compared to an by basically the same laws. Thi s makes it pos­ dards. Federal government policies will deter­ The 201 freshmen who registered in actual southern Califo rnia smog attack, whose sible to exa mine the breakup of airplane mine which alternative prevails. September came from 176 schools- I 56 various stages will be dynamically illustrated. components, bones, concrete, and the earth's crust from a common viewpoint. The talk public and 20 private-and most of them DEAR COMPUTER - - - illustrates what ca n or cannot be done with were located in the western and north­ CALTECH- THE PRESIDENTIAL Frederick B. Thompson SEARCH this understanding to prevent sma ll and large western area of the United States. An im­ disasters. Professor of Applied Science pressive 76 percent of the class got scholar­ Rob ert P. Sharp and Phi losophy ships from Caltech or other sources. The Professor of Geology THE FAR REACH OF BIOLOGY The Rapidly Extensible language System average amount was $1,778. Selecti on of the president of an academic James F. Bonner provides the capabi lity to converse in every­ For the benefit of those contemplating institution is not a democratic process, (or the Professor of Biology day language with computers. A unique fea ­ applying for admission to Caltech, the power of appointment li es solely with th e We know that the earth's elements were ture of REl is that th e co mpute r's vocabulary ca n be rapidly ex panded. This system wi ll be profile contained some information Board of Truste s. The Caltech Board invited crea ted circa 4.8 x 10' years ago. By circa a fac ulty commillee to advise in the sea rch 9 avai lable as a research and instru ctiona l tool gained from earlier classes. For instance, 1 x 10 years later, li ving creaturcs simil ar to for and selection of the president. The hi story bacteria and algae were rampant upon our to th e campus by the fall term. It will be dem­ on the Wechsler Adult Tntelligence Scale of the 18-mon th procedure and the eventual planet and engaged in crea ting our oxygen­ onstrated at thi s lecture. 52 percent of the Cal tech student body in volvement of large segments of the Caltech con taining atmosphere. Until salnc 1 x 109 score in the 130-139, or very bright, range, community demonstrate th e vi rtues of such years before the present, a span of almost THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN' and 11 percent are above 140, which partiCipation. three billion years, evolution appears to ha ve Robert A. Rosensto ne places them in the category of geniuses. stood still, until, in a burst of creativity, our STUDENT REVOLUTION AT CAL TECH Assistant Professor of History Nonetheless, 2 percent scored below 120; new kind of creatures appeared. What was th e Once a medi um of vapid love lyrics, popu­ they're undoubtedly hard workers. ASC IT Research Center hang-up; in what way are we so special ? lar music in the 1960's has take n on a new The Kuder Preference Record indicates Jim Beck, Director SUNSPOTS AND THE SOLAR CYClE seriousness. In th e words of their songs young that the typical Caltech student is high in The ASC IT Research Project involved 70 musicians have expressed th eir alienation from Robert B. Leighton scientific, computational, literary, and students from 15 colleges at Caltech last and disdain for American institutions and Professor of Physics musical abilities; he is low in social ser­ summer. They participated in a program with mores. Helpin g to define and codify the stan­ a unique approach to academic resea rch. The One of the best known phenomena of so lar dards of the youth subculture, th e songs have vice, persuasive, clerical, and mechanical approach was to allack a releva nt problem, astronomy is th e periodic appearance of sun­ also echoed cri tiqu es of American life made interests. The Strong Vocations Interest air pollution, in a program directed and spots on th e face of th e su n. For more than by th e intellectual community. At th e same Test suggests that Cal tech students are manned by students. Participants in the sum ­ a century it has been known that th e number tim e they have affirmed th e belief th at the unlikely to become life insurance or real mer project will talk of goals, research find ­ of sunspots va ri es cycl ica ll y with a period of individual should be free to "do hi s own estate salesmen, bankers, veterinarians, ings, administrative problems, and impact of about 11 years. The physical factors respon­ thing." This talk will be illustrated with selec­ artists, or morticians. 0 the project on Caltech. sible for th e solar ycle will be described. tions from recent music. D 8 CAlTECH NEWS April 1969

1960 KENNETH P. SCHOLTZ and his wife have PERSONALS moved to London, England, where Scholtz will work for one o r two years as all attor­ ney for the firm of Lucos & Co. 1922 director of Varian Associates, has been HOWARD G. VESPER, retired director and awarded the David Richardson Medal, an 1962 annual presentation of the Optical Society vice president of the Standard Oil ompany RONALD K. LlNDE, MS, PhD '64, is direc­ of America. The medal was established in of California and a Caltech trustee, has been tor of physical sciences at tbe Stanford Re­ 1966 and recognizes the ach ievemen ts of elected chairman of the General Advisory search Institute in Menlo Park, Calif. Committee to the Atomic Energy Commis­ scientists who work in strictly applied areas sion . of optics. WILFRED P. CHARETTE, MS '64, PhD '68, is co-founder and president of SYSTO­ Goldsmith , '44 Murphy, '45 1925 1934 NETICS, Inc., Al1ahei m, Calif., a new com­ LINUS PAULING, PhD, professor of chem­ Nl K T. UGRIN , a corporate vice president puter systems company he and his classmate activities of the five Southern California istry at the University of California at San with Union Oil Co., was recently appointed at Cal tech Charles Schaffner formed in counties of San Di ego, Imperial, Riverside, Diego for the last two years, has accepted a to fill out the term of a retiring member of March. San Bernardino, and Orange. Kuck has spent position on the faculty of Stanford Univer­ the San Marino, Calif., school board. His th e last two yea rs in Cooperstown, N.Y., as sity as of luly 1969. term expires in lune 1971. 1963 director of the Bell System's School for Ad­ DAVID OLLIS completed his doctorate in v~ln ce d Communicatio ns Systems Training. chemical engineering "t Stanford University 1926 1935 He is now in Sa n Diego. in January and is now in N ancy, France, at NORWOOD L. SIMMONS, manager of 10HN L. FAHS has retired from the devel­ the Centre de C initique Physico- himique opment department of E. I. duPont de Ne­ product planning for the motion picture 1947 o n a postdoctoral fellowship. mours & Company in Wihllington/ Del., and education rnnrkcts division o f Eastman RI C HARD C. GERKE, MS, is chief engineer after 38 years with the company. He waS a Kodak Company, has been promoted to gen­ in the Oceans Operations Division of the 1964 chemist with the Roess ler & Hasslacher eral manager of the division. Simmons Dillingham Corporation in San Diego. He BOB L. S. CHING is on the staff of The Bos­ Chemical Company in Niagara Falls whcn joined Kodak in 1937 in Rochester, N.Y., was formerly a consulting e ngi neer in La ton Consul ti ng Group in Boston, a profes­ the firm WaS acquired by DuPont in 1930, and from 1941 to 1965 served in the West )olla, ali£. sional management consulting organization. and he has served in various technical and oast Division of the m oti on picture film managenlent posi tions. department in Hollywood. He has been in FELIX A. KALINSKI, M S, president of the RALPH YOUNG has accepted a position as his present position since 1966. CBS-Comtec group, has been elected a di­ assistant professor of chemistry at Jackson rector of Colu mbia Broadcasting System, 1929 State Coll ege, Ja ckson, Miss. He received his Inc., in New York. KARL A. GANSSLE retired recently as vice 1944 ph D from Stanford University in September. president of engineering for Southwestern EDWARD A. GOLDSMITH was recently ROBERT S. MacA LI STER was recently pro­ Bell Telephone Company in St. Louis, Mo. named m3J1:1 gc f, engineerin g, PWR systems moted to vice president and o perations He began his career in the telephone indus­ division, W es tinghouse Electri c Corp orati on. manager for Occidental of Libya, headquar­ try in 1929 with Pacific Telephone Company Headquartered in Pittsburgh, he will be re­ tered in Tri poli. in Los Angeles. After 14 years there he sponsible for nuclear service department engineering and se rvi ce activities. Gold­ joined AT&T in New York and came to 1948 Southwestern Bell in 1950. He was named smith joined Westinghouse in 1955 and was JAM ES R. I A VIS, MS '49, vice president of vi ce president-engineering in January, 1968. manager, engin eering programs, engi neering dcpartlnent, PWR system s division, Nuclear Converse, Davis & Associates, is the 1969 Energy Sys tems, prior to this appointmen t. vice president of the Consulting Engineers 1930 Association of Cali fornia. HOWARD CARY, co-founder and chairman of Cary Instruments, Monrovia, Calif., and 1945 BRUCE D. GAVRIL recently received an W . LEE MURPHY, division superintendent Outstanding Contri butio n Award from the Surber, '68 Sta rrett, '68 of the alloy and tool steel division of Beth- data processing division of IBM for his role 1chc I11 Steel Corporation, Bcthlchern, Pa., in the development of the IBM 2903 special 1968 has been promoted to division superinten­ control unit. He is a staff member at the GREGORY J. BREWER was married Novem­ dent of the service division. Murphy came to Computcr Sciences Dep'lI'tment of !13M 's ber ao to Yvonne Harrington and is now Bethlehem in 1947 through a college-gradu­ Thomas J. Watson Research Center, York­ doi ng graduate work in biochemistry :It the ate training program . He served in several town Heights, N.Y. University of Cal ifornia at San Diego. positions in th e SOllth San Fran cisco plant Yvonne was formerl y a secretary in the before transferring to Bethlehem in 1965. LEROY C. LA ND, MS, ME, a colonel in the bi ology division at Caltech . U.S. Army, received the Air Medal in Janu­ 1946 ary nea r Phu Bai , Vi etn am, for meritori ous PHILIP R. PERRY, MS, has been commis­ RICI-IARD G. KUCK recently became gen­ service in aerial Ai ght. He is the assistant sioned a second Ii cutenant in the U .S. Air eral sales manager for the Southern Coun­ chief of staff for civil aITairs, Headquarters, Force following graduation from Officer Ga nssle, '29 Si mm ons, '35 ties portion of Pacific Telephone and Tele­ XXIV Corps, in Vi etnam. Training School at La ckland AFll, Tex. graph, a position that covers th e marketing 1950 CHARLES A. SCHAFFNER, PhD, is co­ Placemen t Assistance DONALD PAUL MERRIFIELD, S.J., is the foundcr and vice president of SYSTO­ new president of Loyola University of Los NETI CS, Tn c., a new computer systems com­ To Ca /tech Alumni Membership in the Cal tech A lumni Angeles, effective lune 1969. Merrifield is pany in Anaheim , Calif. The Caltech Placement Service may Association ($10 a year) brings: currently a facuity member at the Univer­ be of assistance to you in one of the sity o f San Franc isco and a consultant in ROBERT E. STARRETT has completed 11 ~ Engineering and Scien ce magazine following ways: theoretical chemistry at Caltech's Jet Pro­ weeks of training in San Jose, C~dir. , in nine times a year (1) Help you when you become un­ pulsion Laboratory. He has also taugh t at preparation for his assignment to the Phil­ Santa Clara University and at Loyoh ippines 'IS a Pea ce Corps Volunteer. He will employed or need to change em­ ~ A lll mni Directory, to be issued p loyment. leach at the secondary and university le vels this year 1952 (2) Inform you of possible opportuni- and in tC;lcher training colleges. MARVIN H. HYMAN, se nior engineer with ties from time to time. ~ Athenaellm m e mbership privilege Phillips Petrol eum, reGe ntly accepted a posi­ FRANK T. SURBER, MS, recently gradu­ This service is provided to alumni by tion tiS technical director with Frederiksen ated from Officer Training School at Lack­ the Institute. A fee or charge is not ARTIC LES IN THE MARCH Engineering Co., In c., Oakland, Calif., con­ land AFIl, Tex., and has been commiss ioned involved. ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE su lting e ngineers. a second Ii c u te n ~lIlt in the U .S. Air Force. If you wish to avail yourself of this MAGAZINE He now goes to Vance AFB, Okla., for pilot service, fi ll in and mail the following 1954 training. form : ~ Califo rni a's Gr0l1lld-Moving Weath­ WALTER C. IIA MILTON, PhD, se nior er, by Rich a rd H. Ja h ns. An evalua­ chcmist tit Brookhaven Nntionn l Laboratory, To: Caltech Placement Service tion of the relationship between Upton, N. Y., has been elected president of California Institute of Technology weather and undesirable ground the Americ'lll Crystall ogra phic Association, Pasadena, California 9 1109 movem e nts revea ls an ominous his­ a m ember socicty of th e American In stitute OBITUARIES Please send me: (Check one) torical correlation. of Ph ysics. 1942 o An application for placement THO MAS D. ELLIOTT died in June 1968. assistance ~ The Ear ly Days of Harold Brown. 1959 M. GRANT GROSS JR ., MS, PhD '64, is I Ie had becn with the Long Beach, Cali f., A form indicating a desire to Picture story of his first few weeks o currently at the Marine Sc iences Research Unified School District si nce 1950, and w as keep watch of opportunities al­ in office. Center at the State University of New York its chief engineer. I Ie is survived by h is though I am not contemplating ~ Confessjons of a Genial A bbott- II , at Stony Ilrook, 1.1. He was formerly in th e wife and three children. a change. by Robert A. Huttenback. The new division of sedimentology at the U .S. Na­ Name ...... Dean of Students continues his look ti onal Muscum in Washington, D.C. 1946 C LYDE L. WERTS, S.). , MS, professor of Degree(s) . . . . Year(s) ... . back at a colorful ll-year career as JAMES H. HARVEY IR., a captain in the electri ca l engi neering at Loyola University Address ...... Master of Student Houses. U.S. Air Force, has completed combat crew of Los Angeles, died in February from a training at Davis-Monthan AFIl, Ariz., and hea rt attack. Werts had been a professor at ~ A/lImni Board Nominations. is on duty at Oa N:lIlg AB , Vi e tnam. Loyola since 1946.