August 1987

Caltech honors Thomas E. Everhart named Caltech president five graduates as distinguished ~h?ncello~ of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign IS fIrst chOIce of two selection committees alumni

Cal tech conferred its highest honor Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and -the Distinguished Alumni Award­ the Committee on Education and on five graduates at Alumni Seminar Technology of the National Associa­ Day. The awards are given in recog­ tion of State Universities and Land nition of achievement in science, Grant Colleges. engineering, business, or public serv­ "It is a great honor to have been ice, and are presented to graduates chosen as Cal tech's new president;' who have made significant accom­ said Everhart. "Cal tech is recognized plishments not common to alumni of as one of the world's finest teaching the Institute. and research institutions, and I look Those recognized were: forward to my new job with great -James E. Lu Valle (PhD '40), "You listen. You ask a lot of anticipation. I will try hard to live up director for many years of the Stan­ questions and you listen. to the sterling example set by my ford undergraduate chemistry teach­ predecessors:' ing program. You don't come in with a lot of preconceived ideas." Everhart was selected as Caltech's -Morris Muskat (phD '29), retired president after an extensive search technical advisor in the Gulf Oil Cor­ that began when Marvin L. Gold­ poration and highly regarded for his berger announced that he would technical contributions to the petro­ retire no later than June 1988. leum industry. 'There were two search commit­ -Stanley C. Pace (MS '49), chair­ tees," explained Mettler, "one com­ man and chief executive officer of posed of faculty members and one General Dynamics Corporation. composed of members of the Board -Alvin W. Trivelpiece (MS '55, of Trustees. Both committees worked PhD '58), executive officer of the Thomas E. Everhart, chancellor of and computer science. He was assist­ long and hard on this challenging and American Association for the sensitive task and I commend the Advancement of Science and former the University of Illinois at Urbana­ ant professor there from 1958-1962, associate professor from 1962-1967, members for their diligent efforts. director of the Office of Energy Champaign and a professor of electri­ cal engineering, has been named and professor from 1967-1978. He "I would also like to acknowledge Research, U.S. Department of president of Caltech, announced the debt of gratitude the entire Energy. served as chairman of that depart­ Ruben F. Mettler, chairman of Cal tech community owes to Dr. - John Waugh (PhD '53), the ment from 1972-1977. Caltech's Board of Trustees. Everhart did his undergraduate Goldberger. His outstanding leader­ Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of ship abilities took the Institute Chemistry at MIT, noted for his pio­ "Dr. Everhart comes to Caltech work at Harvard, where he earned with an outstanding record of scien­ through some of the most important neering nuclear magnetic resonance an AB in physics in 1953. He earned tific and engineering research and years in its history:' Goldberger, who techniques. an MSc in applied physics at UCLA teaching as well as academic adminis· in 1955 and a PhD in engineering at served as president since 1978, will be Said President Goldberger in pre· tration;' said Mettler. "His leadership Cambridge University in 1958. leaving Caltech to serve as director of senting the awards, "Our alumni and dedication to excellence will the Institute for Advanced Study in characteristically go on to distin­ He has gained international recog­ serve Cal tech well as it responds to nition for his work in the develop­ Princeton, New Jersey. guished careers. It is a special plea­ "Cal tech is a very special place and sure to honor these five who have new and exciting research and teach­ ment of electron microscopy. He also ing opportunities:' is known for his research on electron it deserves the very best;' said Gold­ achieved exceptional professional berger. "I've known Tom Everhart for accomplishments:' Everhart will assume his duties as beams as applied to the analysis and Cal tech's president on or about Sep­ several years as a scientist and as an In 1975, after a career in industry, fabrication of semiconductors. tember 1, 1987. He is married to the administrator. He is unusually well James E. Lu Valle came to Stanford as Among his many honors and former Doris Arleen Wentz and has qualified to lead Caltech:' director of the undergraduate chemis­ awards are a Guggenheim Fellow­ four children. try laboratories and continued in this ship, the Centennial Medal of the Before joining the University of role until his retirement in 1984. He is Institute of Electrical and Electronics Illinois as chancellor of its Urbana­ credited by colleagues with having Engineers (IEEE), and his election as a Champaign campus in 1984, Everhart made an "enormous impact on member of the National Academy had been dean of Cornell University's undergraduate education" at Stan­ of Engineering. ford. He also designed highly effec- College of Engineering. From 1958 to He has served as chairman of a 1978 he was at . tive summer programs for minority UC Berkeley in the number of important committees, department of electrical engineering including the Scientific and Educa­ Continued on page 3 tional Advisory Committee of the . "• j 2r ~

Scientific community: model for human relations? AT&T Foundation grant to initiate Scientists can help solve some of the emergence of the modern life sci­ - We are generating a "growing new research effort the grim problems facing humanity, ences has transformed medicine. One underclass of people gravely dam­ not only through research but side effect is the large number of aged for life:' The AT&T Foundation has given through their ideals and processes older people alive today. At least half Thus the innovations in science Caltech a three-year, $300,000 grant and through their participation in the the people who have ever lived to the and technology that can transform to help support a new program in international community of scientists, age of 65 are currently alive on the our society have come at a time when computation and neural systems. David A. Hamburg, president of the planet, Hamburg told his audience. we face grim challenges to our capac­ "This is one of the most exciting Carnegie Corporation of New York, The age composition of the U.S. ity to survive. The crisis that we as intellectual developments at Cal tech told members of the 1987 Caltech population today is thus an evolu­ humans are facing calls for" a during the nine years I've been here;' graduating class. Hamburg, who has tionary novelty, he observed, and strengthening of institutional capabil­ said Provost Barclay Kamb as he served as president and chairman of ity for objective, scholarly analysis of discussed the new program. "I'm the board of the American Associa­ critical issues based on a broad foun­ delighted that AT&T Foundation tion for the Advancement of Science, dation of knowledge and experience. has agreed to provide a large portion was at Caltech as a Sherman Fair­ "Colleges and universities, acade­ of the funds l"\eeded to initiate child Distinguished Scholar in 1974; mies, and free-standing institutes can this effort:' however, his time here was cut short mobilize a wide range of talent to According to AT&T vice president when Stanford University prevailed address the great issues of our time;' William C1ossey, neural systems on him to play an active role in Hamburg said. "One potential source research could lead to the creation of securing the release of four Stanford of strength lies in interaction between an all-new computer architecture. students who were being held hostage the scientific community and the pol­ "We hope to construct machines in Zaire. As commencement speaker, icy community over a wide range of that are able to recognize and remem­ he spoke on "New Wine in Old Bot­ economic and social questions:' ber by association-tasks that living tles: Can We Cope with Our Success?" Another great resource is the scien­ organisms now perform much faster "The scientific community is prob­ tific and scholarly community of the and more efficiently than computers;' ably the closest approximation we United States, and its links to the C10ssey said. ''This can be done now have to a truly international worldwide scientific and scholarly through experimental computer-chip community, sharing certain funda­ community. designs, called electronic neural net­ mental interests, values, and stand­ ''The scientific community is prob­ works, that mimic the way some ards, as well as certain fundamental ably the closest approximation we brain cells retrieve stored information curiosities about the nature of matter, have to a truly internationaj and solve problems:' life, behavior, and the universe .... one that poses unprecedented prob­ community.... Therefore, sCience The computation and neural sys­ So to some extent the scientific com­ lems in health, economics, social can contribute to a better future by tems program (CNS) will combine munity can provide a model for services, and human relationships at its ideals and its processes, as well as aspects of neurobiology, computa­ human relations that might transcend the same time that it enables us to by the specific content of its tion, information theory, very large the biases and dogmatisms that have take advantage of the experience, research;' Hamburg stressed. scale integration (VLSI) technology, torn the species apart throughout his­ knowledge, and wisdom of many He observed that the scientific out­ materials science, and studies of the tory;' Hamburg said. older people. look flows from some very old fea­ richness of complex systems. Such support is particularly critical Meanwhile, rapid changes in tures of human adaptation: Our Students and faculty from three of today because "we are challenged as health care have created many poten­ Cal tech's six divisions-the Division never before to find ways to use our tial health care interventions-surgi­ of Biology, the Division of Engineer­ unique capacities as humans to stop cal procedures, for example. The ing and Applied Science, and the killing ourselves:' proliferation of these options-which "The innovations in science and Division of PhySiCS, Mathematics Hamburg pointed out that we are can be damaging to the patient-cre­ technology that can transform our and Astronomy-will participate in living in a time when science and ates a need to strengthen clinical society have come at a time when this innovative, interdisciplinary pro­ science-based technologies have research and to extend it to include we face grim challenges to our gram. become the key to future well-being evaluation of health care-including capacity to survive." The goals are to develop com­ and when technological innovation is questions of safety, usefulness, cost, puters and computational schemes accelerating dramatically. organization, and financing, Ham­ patterned on neural networks such as "Science provides the basis for burg observed. A persistent dilemma, the human brain and to understand most of the requirements of modern he acknowledged, is the lack of hard the computational aspects of biologi­ living and much of its promise for the evidence available to experts seeking increasing capacity for learning, for cal brains. One of the world's leading future- not only in a material sense to make these judgments. communicating primarily through experts in this field is John Hopfield, but also in relation to social justice;' Even more critical is our growing speech, for complex problem solving the Roscoe G. Dickinson Professor of he said. "Scientific opportunities to prowess in nuclear weaponry-and and complex social organization, and Chemistry and Biology at Cal tech. deepen knowledge, and to use that at a time when the world is "awash in for advanced tool making and The funds from AT&T will be used knowledge for progress in such cru­ a sea of ethnocentrism, prejudice, tool using. to help set up a network simulation cial spheres as food, health, and and violent conflict. The worldwide "These attributes have gotten us laboratory, for equipment purchases, energy are exploding:' historical record is full of hateful and here by enormously enhanCing our for space renovations, and to enable "We have succeeded so well that destructive indulgences based on reli­ capabilities, but also by permitting us researchers to pursue new lines of the advance of knowledge has accel­ gious, racial, and other distinctions­ to modify our habitats profoundly in investigation not funded by tradi­ erated precipitously, giving us an holy wars of one sort or another. . .. ways that suit our human purposes;' tional research agencies. unprecedented base for technological To be blunt, we as a species have a he said. innovation;' said the speaker. The rapidly growing capacity to make life "Now we are challenged as never pace of such innovation is now the everywhere absolutely miserable before to find ways to use these most rapid in all history, but each and disastrous:' unique capacities to stop killing our­ advance carries with it some side As examples he pointed out that: selves. Doing that will make possible effects, he pointed out. -We are in danger of extinguish­ an effective search for a decent qual­ One of the most notable areas of ing ourselves in a nuclear war. ity of life for everyone on the planet. innovation is medical science, where -We live in a world where more If we have lost our sense of purpose than half the people survive in abject in the modern world, perhaps this poverty. perspective can help us regain it:' 3

Goldberger to graduates: "Do what excites you" Caltech honors distinguished Cal tech President Marvin L. Gold­ alumni berger welcomed 176 new BS, 128 MS, Continued from page 1 and 147 PhD degree recipients-a total of 451- as he distributed diplo­ young people. mas at his last commencement before Lu Valle began his career as a win­ leaving the Institute. Of the BS ner of the bronze medal for the 400- degree recipients, Goldberger said meter run in the 1936 Berlin that 85, or 48 percent, were graduat­ Olympics. He went on to work in ing with honors, indicating a grade chemical research for several firms average of B + or better. including Eastman Kodak Company; Degrees were almost equally dis­ Technical Operations, Inc.; Fairchild tributed between engineering and the Camera and Instrument Company; sciences, with a few in the humanities Microstatics Laboratory of the SCM or social sciences. Corporation; and Palo Alto Research Goldberger presented the Frederic and Engineering Center of the SCM W. Hinrichs, Jr., Memorial Award to Corporation. . Jean Tang, who majored in applied He earned his BA and MA degrees physics. The award is given to the in chemistry from UCLA in 1936 and senior who has shown outstanding 1937. Based on the results of an qualities of leadership and character alumni survey, in 1985 the UCLA and has made the greatest undergrad­ Board of Regents named the graduate uate contributions to the welfare of For Kenton Noble and Chris Meisl, it's time to celebrate. student commons in his honor in rec­ the student body. ognition of his outstanding service to Tang was a student representative young people. on the Academic Policies Committee decisions" in her work on the board. Morris Muskat served as technical and the Academic Standards and Noting that this was the last time Zewail awarded advisor in the Gulf Oil Corporation. Honors Committee. She was vice he would distribute diplomas to Guggenheim Among petroleum engineers, he is president of Lloyd House and was a Caltech graduates, Goldberger said, regarded as the founder of the science leader in organizing the 1986 Student­ "1 like to think that if I had heard of Fellowship of petroleum reservoir engineering. Faculty Committee. Last year she it, I might have been able to get into He began his career with Gulf Oil in was the first recipient of the Mabel Cal tech and that I might have been Ahmed Zewail, professor of chemi­ 1929 as a research engineer with Gulf Beckman Prize. able to graduate:' . cal physics at Cal tech, has been Research and Development Company. Goldberger announced that the He admonished the graduates that awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship Much honored for his work in the Milton and Francis Clauser Doctoral "It is important to know something by the John Simon Guggenheim ' petroleum industry, he was the recipi­ Prize was being awarded to Gregory very well, to learn you can solve Foundation of New York City to sup­ ent in 1953 of the Anthony F. Lucas Voth for his chemistry thesis, "Theo­ . hard and specific problems. Then port his research on ultra-fast laser Gold Medal from the American Insti­ retical Studies of Intramolecular Dy­ you can go on to apply this knowl­ chemistry. He is one of 173 scientists, tute of Mining, Metallurgical, and namics and Energy Redistribution:' edge to more complex situations:' scholars, and artists selected from Petroleum Engineers for distinguished Announced at commencement, this He told the new alumni that "This among more than 3,000 candidates achievement in improving the under­ prize goes to the PhD candidate is a good time to pause and think for the fellowships, which are standing of methods of producing whose research exhibits the greatest about what you want to do. As you awarded annually on the basis of and finding petroleum, and was later degree of originality. Goldberger move along the track, the chances for outstanding performance and future made an honorary member. He said that in his work, Voth had dem­ change decrease:' potential. received the Lester C. Uren Award of onstrated "outstanding originality, He gave the graduates two related Zewail has pioneered the develop­ the Society of Petroleum Engineers in independence, and a strikingly principles for guidance: "Do what ment of ultra-fast laser techniques for 1969 for outstanding professional mature professional attitude:' The really excites you, and make deci­ recording the behavior of molecules accomplishment. He is a member of prize carries a stipend of $1,500. sions based on where and how you during chemical reactions. His work the National Academy of Engineering . . Pamela Feldman, a'graduating sen­ can do that thing best. Then, if you is yielding the first precise measure­ Muskat has authored more than ior majoring in electrical engineering, are good enough, the tenure, the mon­ ments of the rates at which molecular 100 research papers on fluid flow was recipient of the second annual ey, and everything else will follow:' bonds are forged and broken. through porous media, oil produc­ Mabel Beckman Prize. This honor is Goldberger raised the question, Zewail's research will also be applied tion, theoretical geophysics, and bestowed upon a woman student "What makes Caltech so good?" and to the development of laser selective lubrication. His book, Physical Prin­ completing her junior or senior year he answered by saying that Cal tech chemistry in which custom-designed, ciples of Oil Production, was for with excellent academic credentials, accepts only the best, does a few laser-made molecules may be created many years the standard text for stu­ outstanding character and leadership, things and does them well, and in the laboratory. dents of advanced petroleum engi­ and contributions to the Institute "doesn't play catch-up:' And because He will use the fellowship to neering. Muskat earned his BA and community. it intends to stay small, it seizes develop new laser techniques for MA degrees from Ohio State Univer­ Feldman has been active on the opportunities that allow it to make studying molecular activity that sity in 1926. Board of Control, which administers significant changes without growth. occurs within one quadrillionth of a Stanley Pace assumed his position Caltech's honor code, since her fresh­ Underneath all this, said Gold­ second, the amount of time it takes with General Dynamics in 1985. Pre­ man year, and has served as BOC berger, there is great warmth, nur­ for atoms to link up to form several viously he had been with TRW Inc. secretary and chairman. She was tured by the Institute's honor code, kinds of organic molecules. This for 31 years, serving as vice chairman lauded for making "cautious and fair which admonishes against taking research, aimed at producing the first of the board since 1985 and as unfair advantage of anyone in the recordings of the "birth" of molecules president and chief operating officer Cal tech community. in real time, is also expected to shed since 1977. He had been a director "1 can't tell you how terribly light on some of the most important since 1965 when he was also elected Mildred and I will miss you;' Gold­ and elusive reactions in organic executive vice president. berger concluded. "It's been a ball:' chemistry. He is the immediate past chairman And then the audience rose to give of the National Association of Manu­ him a standing ovation. facturers and chairman of the group's Continued on page 4 ".. 4

Distinguished Verdict on Seminar Day: "Smashing!" alumni honored Continued from page 3 Research seminars, programs and "What I will miss most about this The Red Door Cafe offered refresh­ executive committee. He was chair­ exhibits, a picnic luncheon served to place is the people;' said Goldberger. ments for visitors not satiated by man of the Greater Cleveland the music of the Cal tech Brass Quin­ "Cal tech is unique, and it is made so lunch. Many members of the class of Roundtable, a group of community tet, wine and cheese, a barbecue din­ by the interrelationship of all the 1962 had lunch in Dabney Garden leaders committed to creating jobs ner, and a concert by the Cal tech components in the community:' after their 25th reunion dinner the and improving housing and educa­ Glee Club packed the day for some Clarence Allen emerged as a popu­ evening before. tion. He has long been active in the 1,400 alurrmi and guests who lar favorite for his seminar on "Fault­ Several high school students admit­ Boy Scouts of America. returned to campus on May 16 for Finding in Tibet;' along with Al ted to next year's freshman class A World War II B-24 pilot with 39 the 50th Seminar Day. Hibbs, who talked about "JPL in came to Seminar Day bringing combat missions, he earned a BS At the morning general session, Space: Past, Present, and Future:' friends, in the hopes of broadening degree in engineering from the U.S. 1986-87 Alumni Association Presi­ Perhaps most controversial was Jeni­ their perspective on what Cal tech is Military Academy in 1943. dent Paul Winter recognized several joy La Belle, whose talk on "Face to all about. Previously he was corporate vice faculty members who had spoken at Face : Women, Mirrors, and Identity" Alumni and students mingled in president of Science Applications, the first Seminar Day in 1938: physi­ drew many raves and also the com­ line for a barbecue and some gradu­ Inc., and vice president for engineer­ cist and Nobel laureate William A. ment that "this is a trivial subject of ates took time out for visits to their ing and research <\t Maxwell Labora­ Fowler, who had led a physics semi­ interest only to women:' old houses. The barbecue followed tories, as well as assistant director in nar; business economist Horace Gil­ "SURFers! Inspiringl" commented wine and cheese in the Alumni the division of controlled thermonu­ bert, who had spoken on 'This another visitor about members of the ' House, and a Glee Club concert in clear research at the Atomic Energy World and Its Troubles"; and engi­ Summer Undergraduate Research Fel­ Beckman Auditorium put the finish­ Commission. neer Frederick C. Lindvall, who had lowships program who described ing touch on the day. "Smashing!" Alvin W. Trivelpiece left his post as described 'The Cancer Problem:' their projects. concluded one graduate about the director of the Office of Energy Not present to be recognized were In the Athenaeum, a series of 11 program, and that seemed an apt Research, the U.S. Department of Nobel laureate Carl Anderson, who portraits of distinguished Cal tech fac­ summary of the visitors' feelings. Energy (DOE), in April to become had talked on "New Particles in ulty members by Sylvia Posner were executive officer of the AAAS. He Physics"; Nobel laureate Linus Paul­ on public display for the first time. was confirmed by the Senate in the ing, who had led a chemistry semi­ There, on the patio and outside Vol. 21, No.4 DOE position in 1981. There he nar; and Frederick Converse, who tinder trees, alumni ate their box August 1987 had led a civil engineering seminar. lunches as the Cal tech brass quintet served as science adviser to the secre­ Issued six times a year (Feb., April, President Marvin L. Goldberger, performed on the Olive Walk. tary of energy, and managed DOE's June, Aug., Oct., and Dec.) and who presented the Distinguished programs for basic energy research, A newly developed backpack published by the California Institute Alumni Awards, said his goodbyes to health and environmental research, instrument for geologists, a space of Technology and the Alumni the audience. Goldberger, who high energy and nuclear physics, and exhibit from JPL, and a showing of Association, 1201 East California left to become director of the episodes of Caltech's award-winning nuclear fusion, and was responsible Blvd., Pasadena, California 91125. Institute for Advanced Study in course in physics, "Beyond the for the DOE's non-weapons national Second class postage paid at Princeton, praised the alumni body laboratories. Mechanical Universe;' filled breaks Pasadena, California. Postmaster: for its dedication, noting that "you and lunchtime with rich offerings. Prior to that, he was professor of Please send address changes to are small in numbers but mighty In Dabney Garden, alumni could engineering at UC Berkeley and pro­ Caltech News, 1-71, California in spirit:' ' fessor of physics at the University of purchase newly designed limited­ Institute of Technology, Pasadena, In return, "in lieu of an 'endowed Maryland. He received a BS degree edition Cal tech sweatshirts and mugs CA 91125. (818) 356-4692 from California State Polytechnic chair;' Winter presented the Cal tech bearing the likeness of Albert Ein­ University in 1953. He is the author president with a birch arm chair stein. The bookstore was open all David Harper: President of Principles of Plasma Physics, bearing the Institute logo. day and drew throngs of customers. Alumni Association coauthored by N. A. Krall. Theodore P. Hurwitz: Vice President for In stitute Relations John S. Waugh did work at MIT Robert L. O'Rourke: Director of that was instrumental in opening up Public Relations matter in the solid state to nuclear Paula S. DiConti: magnetic ~esonance (NMR) examina­ Director of Publications tion. His MIT laboratory became one Winifred J. Veronda: Executive Editor of the leading NMR spectroscopy Barbara Wirick: centers in the world. Techniques Production artist developed there are now in wide­ Robert Paz: Photographer spread use. Many ideas originating Phyllis Brewster, Heidi Aspaturian: from his work are finding use in Contributors fields such as laser spectroscopy. He USPS 085-640 has also done important research in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. He joined the MIT faculty in 1953 after one year as a Caltech research fellow. Among his honors are the Hazel­ tine Chemistry-Physics Prize, the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, the Linus Pauling Medal, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and membership in the National Academy of Sciences and Herman Englander (BS '39) and Ernest Gustafson (MS '74) reg ister for Seminar Day, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He earned his AB degree from Dartmouth in 1949, summa cum laude. 5

Wendell Miller (BS '37), George Mann (BS '36, MS '38), Munson Dowd (BS '38, MS '46), and Richard Ridgway (BS '37) are ready for the first annual Caltech golf tournament, at len. Center: Martin Poggi (BS '37) and Janet Poggi are among guests at the reunion dinner for the class of 1937. RighI: George Mann (BS '37, MS '38), Dorr Kimball (BS '37), and Paul Schaffner (BS '37) reminisce at the Half Century Club luncheon. Golf, tours, dining, memories mark 50-year reunion

Forty-seven members of the class Memories of pranks and other of the noise proved to be a cement ket ignited by a cigarette of 1937 returned in June to celebrate adventures of student days prolifer­ mixer- pouring out cement. Edward Horkey (BS '37, MS '38) a 50-year reunion so vigorous that ated as classmates received their Half James R. Seaman (BS '37) remem­ said his most impressive memory was 1986-87 Alumni Association Presi­ Century Club certificates. Le Van bered the time his stool toppled over getting a job in the middle of the dent Paul Winter remarked they'd all Griffis (BS '37, MS '38, PhD '41) in a classroom on the top floor of depression for $150 a month. And find life membership in the Alumni remembered watching the blank from Throop. The Long Beach earthquake William Wetmore (BS '37, MS '39, Association a sound investment. which the ZOO-inch Palomar mirror was in process and cornices were fall­ PhD '41) said he has learned over the Under the leadership of reunion would be ground as it was pulled on ing when Seaman reached the first years that Cal tech graduates can committee chairman Paul C. Schaff­ a flatbed truck across the campus. A floor. Among those milling about on become productive at new jobs much ner (BS '37), members of the class swath of axle grease painted on the the Olive Walk was Albert Einstein, more rapidly than those from other met for a dinner at the Annandale walk with a broom enabled the truck who was a visiting faculty member at schools because they have mastered Country Club on Friday, JPL tours to maneuver around a tricky corner. the time. fundamentals. and the Half Century Club luncheon "I had visions of calculus and linear Dorr Kimball (BS '37) reminisced Cal tech's oldest living alumnus, at the Athenaeum on Saturday, algebra doing the job;' said Griffis, about the student who left his room Virgil Morse (BS '14), who is 101 and a golf tournament with "but they went back to the funda­ unlocked and his keys in the room. years old, was introduced, as was alumni from other classes mentals:' When the student came back the Robert Allen (BS '16) . Other mem­ at the San Dimas Country Club Donald Hyers (PhD '37) recalled door was locked, and even after bers of classes that graduated more on Sunday. (The golf tournament the power shovel on campus on much effort with master keys and than 50 years ago were recognized. was so successful that it is which someone had painted "Jesus locksmith techniques, neither the stu­ Then Frank Pine (Ex 'Z4) concluded slated to become an annual eve,nt.) saves" - and to which someone had dent" nor the supervisor could unlock luncheon by leading everyone in Wendell Miller (BS '37) won the added "But Millikan gets credit:' the door. Neither noticed that the singing the alma mater, "Hail C.I.T:' second flight in the men's division of Owen Johnson (BS '37) talked door bore the wrong number; it had the golf tournament with a score of about the professor who wandered been switched with the door to 78. Hunt Holladay (BS '56) won the into Throop Club during finals week" another room. second flight with a score of 7l, for a cup of coffee and asked a stu­ Wilbur Snelling (BS '37, MS '38) Wasserburg receives while Mark Cohen (RhD '87) won the dent there how many cups he had remembered the dinners hosted by third flight; his score was 73. Janet consumed. "Twenty-five;' answered the Robert Millikans, and that Mrs. honorary degree (Mrs. Hunt) Holladay won the wom­ the student. "Oh, my;' responded the Millikan insisted there was a right Gerald J. Wasserburg has received en's section with a net score of 74. professor. "Doesn't that keep you way and a wrong way to pronounce an honorary doctor of science degree Schaffner was assisted in reunion awake?" "No;' said the student, "but research. from Arizona State University, his efforts by committee members Tom it helps:' Shao W. Yuan (MS '37, PhD '4Z) third in three years and his first from Davis (BS '38, MS '47, Eng '48), Carl Martin Poggi (BS '37) remembered remembered waiting for two hours a U.S. institution. At the presentation Johnson (BS '37, MS '44, Eng '46), that engineering students concocted for Theodore von Karman to evalu­ ceremony, he was described as a George Mann (BS '37, MS '38), smelly compounds in chemistry lab ate his thesis, and then walking with "fearless and demanding academi­ Joseph Peterson (BS '37), and Richard and rubbed them on bed springs in him to the famous aeronautical scien­ cian, a premier geophysicist of our Ridgway (BS '37). Fleming House- creating mystery tist's car-to find the keys in the igni­ time, whose laboratory work has Irving L. Ashkenas (BS '37, scents that sometimes lingered tion, the engine turned on, and the refined the time scale for events in MS '38, MS '39), chairman of the for weeks. automobile out of gas. Yuan reme­ the early history of our solar system:' reunion gift committee, presented a Walton Wickett (Ex '37) reminisced died the situation by walking to Lake Wasserburg is the John D. Mac­ check for $4Z,805 to the Institute and about being tossed into the liquid air Avenue for a refill for the gas tank. Arthur Professor of Geology and hefore the luncheon was over, that pond in Bridge Laboratory after he John Rinehart (MS '37) recalled Geophysics, chairman of the Division amount had swelled to $50,000. enticed a pretty young woman at a working as the assistant to Carl of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Mario Capozzoli, assistant director of Fleming House party over to Dabney Anderson, who had just discovered and executive officer for geochemis­ the Alumni Fund, accepted the gift House for some conversation. the positron and who would soon try. His other honorary doctorates and noted that 68 percent of the class Jack C. Kinley (BS '37) related that win the Nobel Prize-and who are from the Free University of Brus­ alumni had contributed to it. he once returned to his house from would sometimes extinguish at the sels and the Universite Pierre and vacation and heard a terrible racket laboratory sink a flaming wastebas- in a room down the hall. The source Marie Curie in Paris. 6

Gilloon, Maloney Houses dedicated

Gilloon House and Maloney House, two portions of the new Catalina II graduate student resi­ dences, were dedicated recently in honor of couples who are long-time Cal tech supporters: Frank and Eliza­ beth Gilloon and Fred V. and Marvi5 Maloney. Gilloon, 92, came to Caltech in 1919 as an instructor in civil engi­ neering. He returned to New York City but later came back to Califor­ nia, where he purchased an orange and avacado grove near the city of Fred and Marvis Maloney with President Goldberger at the dedication of the Maloney House, at left. Right: Gilloon family members at the Del Mar. He joined The Associates in dedication of the Gilloon House - In the center, Frank Gilloon, in whose honor the graduate residence is named; to his right, his brother, James, and his sister, Sister Maria Theresa; to his left, Mrs. James Gilloon, and his sister, Virginia. 1966 and is a member of the Presi­ dent's Circle. Maloney (BS '35, MS '36) is a retired Texaco executive. The student residences are on Del Braun gift endows Goldberger Professorship Mar Boulevard at Catalina Avenue; each contains 15 apartments. Rustic Cal tech has established the Marvin Braun Trust and the Braun Founda­ appointed professor of environmental in exterior design, they are of plaster L. Goldberger Professorship with a tion, has presented to Cal tech during engineering science in 1969. with rough-hewn wood trim and gift of $1.5 million from John G the last three decades. His research at the Institute was shingle roofs, and are clustered Braun, trustee of the Carl F Braun Goldberger, a theoretical physicist, focused on the development of new around a central recreation building. Trust of Pasadena. The first Gold­ became Cal tech's president after 21 techniques for water treatment, for berger Professor will b~_James J. controlling pollution in coastal Morgan, professor of environmental waters, and on acid rain. He is a engineering science and vice presiden t member of the National Academy of Patterson elected for student affairs. Engineering and in 1980 received the to NAS The new chair is named for Mar­ American Chemical Society Award vin L. Goldberger, who became for creative advances in environmen­ Cal tech geochemist Clair Patter­ Cal tech's fourth chief executive tal science and technology. son, who established the age of the officer in 1978 and who recently James J. For many years Morgan has also earth and alerted the modern world accepted the post of director of the Morgan played a major role in the administra­ to the dangers of industrial lead pol­ Institute for Advanced Study in tion of student affairs on the campus. lution, has been elected to the Na­ Princeton, New Jersey. He was dean of stu'dents from 1972 to tional Academy of Sciences (NAS). The chair's donor, John G Braun, is 1975, acting dean of graduate studies Patterson is a senior research asso­ the former president, chairman, and years on the faculty of Princeton Uni­ from 1981 to 1984, and has been ciate in geochemistry at Caltech. chief executive officer of C F Braun versity. Cal tech's vice president for student Election to the NAS is one of the and Company, and a Life Member of Morgan, a specialist in aquatic pol­ affairs since 1980. From 1974 to 1980, highest honors that can be bestowed the Caltech Board of Trustees. The lutants and water purification, joined he was executive officer for environ­ upon a scientist or engineer. endowment for the Goldberger chair Cal tech's faculty as associate profes­ mental engineering science in the Dr. Patterson's election brings to is the most recent of numerous gifts sor in 1965. He received his doctorate Division of Engineering and Applied 59 the number of NAS members cur­ that the Braun family, through the from Harvard in 1964. He was Science. rently on the Cal tech faculty.

President's Circle members are honored

j L_ Alumni practice their gold· panning techniques at the Crow Creek Mine in Girdwood, Alaska, on the recent Alumni Association trip to the south-central portion of the state: From left - Paul Armstrong (BS '51, MS '55), Joan Armstrong, Barbara Rawn, and Stanley R. Rawn, Jr. IBS '52, MS '53), a Caltech trustee. Robert Sharp IBS '34, MS '35), the Sharp Professor of Marvin L. Goldberger shares information with Mrs. Robert Henigson in June at a dinner for Geology, Emeritus, and Leon Silver, the W. M. Keck Professor for Resource Geology, led members of the President's Circle at the Goldbergers' home. Mrs. Arnold O. Beckman is at the trip. left. Robert Henigson is president of The Associates. 7

. Caltech says "good·bye" to the Goldbergers Schmidt named Moseley Professor

The Cal tech community bid two Maarten Schmidt, whose discovery fond farewells to its first family of of the red shift of quasars ranks as almost a decade as Marvin and one of the premier achievements of Mildred Goldberger prepared to modern astronomy, has been named leave the Institute in July. the Francis L. Moseley Professor of Faculty, staff, and students gath­ Astronomy at Caltech. Schmidt, who ered at the Athenaeum for good-byes has been the Institute Professor of at a reception under a banner reading Astronomy at Cal tech since 1981, "Farewell Murph and Mildred;' and will be the first holder of the even the Cal tech Beaver mascot endowed chair, established last year showed up for the festivities. At a with a grant from the Flintridge second event, the faculty reminisced Foundation. with the Goldbergers at dinner in the Francis L. Moseley, who died in Athenaeum. 1984, was a pioneering electronics ''Time has passed extraordinarily engineer and founder of the F. L. rapidly. It's hard to believe we've Moseley Company, now the San been here nine years. You have been Diego division of Hewlett-Packard. very kind and we're going to miss In 1964, he founded Servo Products you;' Goldberger told guests at Company, a manufacturer of numeri­ the reception. cally controlled tools and related Barclay Kamb, vice president and products. With his wife, Louisa, he provost, said he had searched for a was a lifetime member of The way of presenting Goldberger with a Cal tech Associates. 10-year pin for the president's nine Schmidt was born and educated in years of service. To solve the prob­ the Netherlands and received his doc­ lem, Kamb said, he had considered torate from the University of Leiden The Caltech beaver joins in the good-byes at a reception for the Goldbergers. various time warp theories, including in 1956. He joined Cal tech three those in which electrons move for­ years later. In 1972 he was named ward in time while other particles move backward. A bolo tie designed by a prize­ James J. Morgan, vice president for As going-away gifts, each of the winning Indian craftsman also went student affairs, talked about Gold­ Goldbergers received a limited edi­ to Goldberger, and Mrs. Goldberger berger and the students, and provost tion Halcyon Days box-his with a received a benitoite gemstone, the Barclay Kamb showed slides of the design featuring Parsons-Gates Hall state stone of California. A portrait­ president on a river rafting trip with of Administration and hers with the sized photograph of the Goldbergers members of the geology faculty. Athenaeum. and an album featuring shots of the Goldberger will begin his new two around campus and at the presi­ assignment as director of the Institute AS CIT president Jeff Tekanic Maarten spoke for Cal tech students and pre­ dent's home, along with a faculty for Advanced Study in Princeton, Schmidt sented Goldberger with a photograph retirement medal, were other gifts. New Jersey, in September, after a few album beginning with a shot of the In a musical program four students weeks'vacation. president being tossed into the Pacific reminisced to the tune of lyrics from when he first attended freshman ''The Pirates of Penzance" about camp. Goldberger as a teacher of under­ executive officer for astronomy and Among the other pictures were graduate physics: "He is the very 1987 SU RF program was appointed chairman of Cal tech's shots of the 1984 Rose Bowl score­ model of a theoretic physicist,/To Division of Physics, Mathematics board (which student~ rigged to read physics frosh without a doubt the attracts 142 and Astronomy in 1976. From 1978 "Caltech 38, MIT 9") and the Holly­ devil's own inquisicist!/The home­ summer students to 1980, he was director of the Hale wood sign, temporarily renovated work he assigned was full of integrals Observatories. this May to read "Caltech:' . elliptical,iwith outside readings so A total of 148 students, including William Thomson, vice mayor of obscure and references so 16 from other campuses, and 92 fac­ Much honored for his professional Pasadena, thanked the Goldbergers cryptical!" . . . John J. Hopfield, the ulty and JPL sponosrs are enrolled in achievements, Schmidt has received for "binding together the city of Pasa­ Roscoe G. Dickinson Professor of the 1987 SURF (Summer Undergradu­ the Helen B. Warner Prize and the dena with Cal tech to a degree that Chemistry, humorously recalled ate Research Fellowships) program, Henry Norris Russel Lectureship of had not existed before:' Goldberger's days as a Princeton now in its 12th year. The highly suc­ the American Astronomical Society, Gifts proliferated at the faculty physics professor, reminiscing about cessful program gives undergraduates the Rumford Premium of the Ameri­ dinner, which had as its master of his love of tennis, his penchant for the opportunity to pursue 10 weeks can Academy of Arts and Sciences, ceremonies B. Vincent McKoy, chair­ making smoked gourmet delicacies, of independent research in coopera­ and the Gold Medal of the Royal man of the faculty. Samuel Epstein, and his friendly competition with fel­ tion with a senior researcher. Astronomical Society. the William E. Leonhard Professor of low physicist Murray Gell-Mann Three students are doing off­ In 1965 he was named (with Geology, gave the toast. about everything from trips to China campus research this summer under Caltech astronomer Jesse Greenstein) to finding obscure mushrooms the program's auspices: one at Har­ California Scientist of the Year, the in Aspen. vard in biology; one in Italy for a state's highes t civilian honor, by the On behalf of the faculty, the presi­ firsthand look at the setting of the California Museum of Science and dent was given a Questar telescope, controversial Cantos of poet Ezra Industry. He was elected a foreign something insiders learned he had Pound; and one in China for a his­ associate of the National Academy of coveted since he almost bought one tory project involving demographic Sciences in 1978 and is a Fellow of 30 years ago with the money from a measurement of the fertility, mor­ the American Academy of Arts physics prize. tality, and nuptial patterns of the and Sciences. Chinese population between 1750 and 1950. 8

Men's tennis team strongest in recent Tech history

Baseball tational and at the conference tourna­ Raleigh Chiu, playing number two lead the starting lineup. Several ment. John is a three-year golf singles, had big wins against Occi­ incoming freshmen have had consid­ letterman who has also been a foot­ dental in league play and upset erable experience in high school. The 1987 Cal tech baseball team ball letterman for four years. He will Pomona-Pitzer's number two player With luck, the playing quality of this concluded a frustrating season, win­ be missed by both teams next year. in the league tournament. Together year's team may be duplicated ning only 2 of 29 attempts. Despite Dan Bikle, also a three-year letter­ Holdsworth and Chiu won eight next season. its overall record, however, the team man, deserves special recognition for times this year at number members posted several noteworthy his play in the SCIAC Tournament. accomplishments and provided one doubles. His 86 was the best single round by a Fine performances were realized by strong indications that the future of Women's Tennis Cal tech golfer. number three singles player Steve the Tech baseball program is on Because three seniors are leaving Roskowski and number five singles the upswing. The Cal tech women's tennis team the team this year, hopes for the player David Garza (with a 10-win Jim Coykendall, a sophomore experienced a frustrating season. The future lie with incoming students and 6-loss record) throughout the catcher, led the team in total hits (20) team lost Tammy Choy, who had who may have played golf in and batting average (.274) and was season. Tom Nolan teamed up with ably anchored the number one posi­ high school. second in RBIs with 11. Junior out­ Roskowski to form a strong number tion for the previous three years. But In SCIAC competition, University two doubles and Garza teamed with fielder Doug Roberts broke the all­ Tech was strengthened by two fresh­ of Redlands continues to dominate; time school record for stolen bases in Gene Pottenger, Mark Berman, and men, Laura Hernandez at number this year, Redlands won all its dual a season with 20. Sophomore third­ Khanh Nguyen at third doubles. Pot­ one and Jennifer Low at the fourth matches and the conference tourna­ tenger and Berman shared number baseman Jim Burleigh led the team in spot, and by the return of Linda ment. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps extra base hits. Pitching duties were six singles. Schlueter at number six. replaced Pomona-Pitzer as runnerup primarily divided between sopho­ In conference play, Cal tech fin­ The team lost several close matches with Occidental, La Verne, and Whit­ ished in fifth place, ahead of La Verne more Brian Colder and senior Brett 4-5, and ended at the bottom of the tier following in that order. and Whittier. Conference champion Bush. Team awards went to Bush, league this year. However, the . this year for the second straight time who won the Alumni Trophy for SCIAC tournament went well as was Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, fol­ most valuable player; Colder, who three players advanced to the second lowed by Redlands, Occidental, and won as outstanding competitor; Coy­ Men's Tennis round in singles-Jennifer Low, Carol Pomona-Pitzer. Claremont finished kendall, who received the coaches' Mullenax, and Linda Schlueter-and the year ranking sixth nationally in award for outstanding accomplish­ The 1987 men's tennis team turned the women scored a good win over Division III tennis; Redlands finished ment; and second baseman Dwight out to be the strongest in recent Christ College in non-league play. Berg, who was awarded the Peterson Cal tech history. Although the team ninth. Claremont will compete for Next year the team should improve the Division III title in a tournament Trophy for outstanding freshman. won only 6 of 20 matches, the men because only one player left and at La Verne won the SCIAC confer­ played well in a number of close 5-4 comprised of the best eight teams in least two new and experienced play­ ence this year with a perfect 18-0 losses to teams that used to dominate the nation. ers will be joining the Tech contingent. record. La Verne was followed by them. The number one player, Mark Prospects for next year may be good, as the team's number one and Redlands (14-4), Claremont (10-8), Holdsworth, won over excellent Occidental (9-9), Whittier (7-11), players from Christ College and two players will be returning, along Pomona-Pitzer (5-13), and Caltech Occidental, giving Tech points not with Pottenger and Berman. Junior Caltech students (0-18). attained from the top of the ladder in varsity students Anh Tuan Le and The 1987 Caltech baseball team many years. Tung Yin have improved and may grade their teachers was one of the largest squads in recent years, with 23 players on the After months of being graded by roster. The fact that 20 of these play­ their teachers, Caltech students have ers expect to return to the program their opportunity once a year when next year indicates that the 1988 team they rank faculty members for the will have talent and experience on Hollywood and Vine moves to a new location Teaching Quality Feedback Report. which to build. These 20 returning Based on these ratings, the ASCIT players- along with some talented Board of Directors names six faculty newcomers-are sure to make members as recipients of awards for Cal tech baseball much more competi­ teaching excellence on the basis of tive. clarity of presentation, course mate­ rial, and personal interest in students, among other factors. This year the faculty members Golf honored were Donald S. Cohen, pro­ fessor of applied mathematics; Den- Four Tech golfers gave their best . nis A. Dougherty, associate professor efforts this year, but without the nec­ of chemistry; Valentina A . Lindholm, essary fifth player they were unable lecturer in Russian; Thomas A. to score in conference matches. The Prince, associate professor of physics; team was composed of seniors Dan Jean-Paul Revel, Albert Billings Rud­ Bikle, John Mann, and Scott Virgil, dock Professor of Biology; and and sophomore Chris Habecker. Thomas A. Tombrello, professor The J. Ben Earl trophy for the most of physics. valuable golfer was won by John According to ASClT president Jeff Mann, who had the best individual Tekanic, the awards emphasize the score for the season and led the team high value that undergraduates place at both the Southern California Invi- on outstanding teaching. Shortly after the Hollywood sign was altered to read "Caltech," unknown persons . temporarily changed names on street signs at California and Hill to Hollywood and Vme - and gave the Institute a new name as well. 9

From the president James Olson: Rodman Paul new Caltech dies on May 15 A column of alumni news trustee by Alumni Association President David Harper Rodman W. Paul, the Edward S. Harkness Professor of History, Emer­ James E. Olson, chairman and itus, and a research scholar of the The Cal tech Alumni Association is has served on the board since 1982. chief executive officer of American Huntington Library, died May 15. He beginning a new year, and I'm proud Charles H. Holland, Jr. (BS '64), Telephone & Telegraph, has been was 74. to serve as your 1987-88 association vice president, is vice president, Cit i­ named to the Cal tech Board A member of the Caltech faculty president. First, we should all thank corp Technology Office, and is of Trustees. for the past 40 years, Paul was an Paul Winter (BS '44) for his outstand­ responsible for the effective use of Olson, 61, is a native of Devils authority on the history of the Amer­ ing leadership during the past year. technology in the delivery of finan­ Lake, North Dakota. He has worked ican West. In addition to teaching We will continue to work to accom­ cial services worldwide. He has in the telephone and telecommunica­ and research, he was instrumental in plish the goals he set, and also to served on the board since 1984. tions business since 1943 when he helping to develop the Huntington expand in several areas. Rhonda L. MacDonald (BS '74), was hired as a splicer's helper with Library's western history collection. Our main goals for the coming treasurer, is a project structural engi- the Northwestern Bell Telephone Twice he received the ASCIT Award year include the development of new Company in Grand Forks, for Teaching Excellence from chapters to provide more service and North Dakota. Caltech students. support to alumni living in areas Twenty-three years later, he had A Fellow of the California Histori­ remote from southern California. We moved up through the ranks of the cal Society since 1980, Paul received are also seeking to expand our net­ company to become vice president the Society's Henry R. Wagner work of alumni throughout the coun­ and general manager in its Iowa area. Memorial Award in 1984 honoring try who support admissions work David Harper He was transferred to Indiana Bell in his authorship of eight books on Cal­ through visits to high schools and 1970 as vice president, operations, ifornia history. The best known of college nights. If you are interested in and became president of that com­ these are California Gold: The Begin­ representing Caltech at local college pany two years later.' ning of Mining in the Far West, and nights or visiting high schools to meet Mining Frontiers of the Far West, with prospective students, please 1848-1880. His latest book, The Far complete the form below and return neer for TRW Inc. in Redondo Beach West and the Great Plains in Transi­ it to the Alumni Association office, and has served on the board since tion, 1859-1900, will be published in 1-97, Pasadena, California 91125. 1984. Mike Boughton (BS '55), secre­ March 1988. Another priority is to facilitate tary, is a program manager for TRW Paul was president of both the greater student/ alumni interaction Inc. in the Systems Development Western History Association through the house activity program. Division, working on large-scale James Olson (1977-78) and the Pacific Coast This is an ongoing program to sup­ computer-based communication sys­ Branch of the American Historical port student activities and programs tems. Mike has served on the board Association (1980-81). He was a that enhance the quality of life at since 1985. member of the boards of directors of Caltech. We need the backing of all I've been on the board since 1983 both the Pasadena and the Santa Bar­ alumni through their association after serving as general chairman for bara historical societies. membership to help provide Seminar Day that year. I received my In 1974 Olson assumed the presi­ From 1966-77, he was a member of expanded sports programs, music MS degree from Caltech in civil engi­ dency of Illinois Bell and in 1977 the National Archives Advisory and drama opportunities, Freshman neering in 1977, and am vice presi­ became executive vice president of Council in Washington, D.C., and Camp, and assistance for many dent, finance, for James M. AT&T headquarters in New York served as its chairman in 1977. Paul campus clubs. Montgomery, Consulting Engineers, City. He was made vice president and was born November 6, 1912, in Phil­ In this column during the year, I'll Inc., in Pasadena. chief operating officer in June 1985, adelphia. He received three degrees be informing you about progress of We invite you to join us as we help after serving as vice chairman of the (AB 1936, AM 1937, and PhD 1943) the projects that the board is pursu­ to create a more dynamic Alumni board since 1979. He assumed his from Harvard University and was ing on your behalf, and about new Association to keep alumni in touch current position in September 1986. instructor and tutor in history there, directions in which we are moving. with the Institute and with Olson is a graduate of the Univer­ as well as assistant dean of Harvard We want you to know the people each other. sity of North Dakota. College before he came to Cal tech involved in accomplishing these in 1947. tasks, and we hope to share with you Alumni Fund gifts total $1.85 million a little about them in this column. The board's agenda is set by the The Alumni Fund concluded its gains that the Irvine Challenge helped executive committee, which consists 1986-87 year with total contributions us make;' he said. Three on faculty of the board's officers. Paul H. Win­ of approximately $1.85 million (final Grinthal added that this year there ter (BS '44) is our immediate past tabulations were still being made was no special challenge program as retire as emeritus president and is vice president, John­ when the publication went to press). additional motivation for donors and professors son & Nielsen Associates. Paul does The amount raised was about the that donor participation decreased. 'Thankfully, we have a solid core of structural design of buildings, includ­ same as that for the previous year. Three Caltech faculty members ing seismic design and analysis. He annual supporters; those who gave During the campaign year, 44 per­ retired this summer, all with emeritus only because of the Irvine Challenge cent of alumni made contributions, status. They are: Richard Dean dropped off this year. We hope ADMISSIONS VOLUNTEER raising approximately the same (BS '45). professor of mathematics, to have them back in the future. NETWORK amount of money as the 50 percent who joined the Caltech faculty in Fifty percent is a milestone in who contributed in 1985-86. 1954 as Harry Bateman Research Fel­ Name ______participation:' Campaign chairman E. Ted Grin­ low and was named professor in Grinthal added that he is optimistic Class Year __ thai (PhD '69) noted that the Fund is 1966; James P. Quirk, professor of about 1987-88. Address ______still well ahead of where it would economics, who joined the faculty in have been without the Irvine Chal­ "Although I can't discuss it yet, it 1971; and David F. Welch (Eng '43), ____ Phone _____ looks as if we will have a very special lenge, which concluded in 1984-85. who became an instructor in indus­ opportunity in 1987-88 to make the Business Phone ______The year before the first of three trial design and engineering drafting year the most successful ever;' he Irvine Challenge years, contributions in 1947 and professor of engineering (Return to: Alumni Association, concluded. were at $1,167,000 with participation design in 1984. 1-97, Pasadena, CA 91125) at 43 percent. "We have retained the 10

ALUMNI ACTIVITIES Association welcomes new San Diego-area alums make plans September 12: PALOMAR officers, honorary alumnus OBSERVATORY TOUR for Los for new chapter Angeles and Orange County alumni, featuring the 200-inch and 48-inch Robert W. Oliver, professor of eco­ Elected as board members were Ten San Diego-area alumni met telescopes. Sign-up information has nomics and new master of student George C. Barber (BS '40), Dale R. together on May 29 to plan for the been mailed to alumni. Contact the houses, was welcomed as an honor­ Burger (BS '56), Mark R. Johnson (BS development of an Alumni Associa­ alumni office for additional ary alumnus at the annual dinner of '74), LeVal Lund, Jr., (BS '47), and tion chapter. They evaluated results information. the Cal tech Alumni Association. Peter V. Serrell (BS '36, MS '39). of a survey mailed to alumni earlier September 20: PASADENA PLAY­ Elected as officers for 1987-88 Paul H. Winter (BS '44), 1986-87 this year and began planning events HOUSE, featuring dinner and an eve­ were: David J. D. Harper (MS '77), preSident, was presented with a birch of interest to Cal tech graduates. ning at the theater enjoying the president; Charles H. Holland, Jr. arm chair with the Institute logo and Frank Davis (BS '36) and AI comedy Room Service. Sign-up (BS '64), vice president; Rhonda L. a plaque bearing the presidential Kellner (BS '79) are co-chairmen of information has been mailed to Los Mac Donald (BS '74), treasurer; gavel. A short business meeting pre­ the chapter, supported by Pierre Angeles and Orange County alumni. Edward M. Boughton (BS '55), ceded festivities. Baldi (PhD '86), Leendert de Witte December 4: SEATTLE CHAPTER secretary. (MS '47), Bob Foss (BS '32), Doug MEETING at Triples Restaurant on Gage (BS '66), Olly Gardner (BS '51), Lake Union. Dan Schwartz (BS '85), Wally Swan­ January 1, 1988: ROSE PARADE son (BS '36), and Rod Thompson VIEWING. Information will be (BS '85). The group plans to meet mailed to most California alumni in again early in September to make November. Alumni living outside plans for the coming year, and ideas California who want ticket informa­ from other alumni in the area are tion should contact the alumni office. David Harper Rhonda welcome. The group is looking for­ May 21: FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL MacDonald ward to providing ways for Cal tech SEMINAR DAY on the campus. alumni to keep in touch with the • June 16: ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Institute and with each other. ANNUAL MEETING in the Athenaeum. Seattle-area Chester Carlson alumni plan posth umously several events honored Cal tech alumni in the Seattle area Charles Edward M. gathered for a spring outing on June The late Chester F. Carlson (BS '30) Holland, Jr. Boughton 13 when they toured Tillicum Village has been posthumously inducted into at Blake Island Marine State Park. A the National Inventors Hall of Fame salmon dinner was served in an for his invention of xerography, the Indian longhouse and the group process that revolutionized paper watched traditional Indian dances copying. He is the second Caltech during dinner. alumnus to be so honored. About 30 alumni and guests took In receiving this honor, he joined the four-hour tour. The evening was 67 inventors-among them Thomas a warm and friendly one as people Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Eli shared conversation and watched the Whitney, Guglielmo Marconi, festivities. Rudolf Diesel, Charles Kettering, and Reunion classes contribute The Seattle chapter, headed by Gil Arnold O. Beckman (PhD '28). The Peppin (BS '53), is planning several award announcement appears in the $176,600 to Institute opportunities to bring alumni National Inventors Hall o(Fame together-including the annual annual publication. Christmas dinner on December 4, The five classes holding reunions gifts, and a comparison with gifts for when a Cal tech faculty member will this year contributed more than the previous year, appear below: be guest speaker. $176,600 in unrestricted funds to the At the year's conclusion, Tway Harry Gray Institute. Chairmen of the campaign Andrews (BS '44), chairman of the committees for reunion gifts were: reunion gifts committee, thanked the twice honored Irving L. Ashkenas (BS '37), Hugh A. volunteers and said, "One of the Insti­ Greenstein honored Baird (BS '42), William J. Rihn tute's greatest strengths is its alumni. Harry Gray, Arnold O. Beckman (BS '52), Wilfred P. Charette (BS '62), They are a dynamic group who pull for contributions Professor of Chemistry and director and Steve Mitchell (BS '77). The together to support Caltech, particu­ of the Beckman Institute, received an The scientific contributions of Jesse committees worked closely with the larly during their reunion years. Greenstein, Lee A. DuBridge Profes­ honorary doctor of science degree Alumni Fund in their efforts. The Their generosity is appreciated:' from the University of Rochester and sor of Astrophysics, Emeritus, were totals, including corporate matching twice honored this summer in two a second honorary doctorate from symposia that the International the University of Chicago this spring. DOLLARS DOLLARS NUMBER OF He was cited at Rochester's com­ Astronomical Union (IAU) dedicated CLASS THIS YEAR LAST YEAR VOLUNTEERS to him. The first, "Faint Blue Stars;' mencement ceremony as a "research 1937 $50,006 $ 8,620 14 scientist of high achievement and a was held at the University of Arizona 1942 55,077 35,533 14 in Tucson, where Greenstein received leading statesman in his profession:' 1952 32,626 23,720 13 an honorary doctor of science degree; 1962 20,359 12,164 16 the second, on stellar spectroscopy, 1977 18,540 8,740 1 was in Paris. 11

ogy in the Sierra, oil geology in New also nominated president-elect of the ASCE, Professor of Biology since 1976. He is a Orleans, and space geology in Newport and will serve from 1987-88. He will member of the Indiana Academy of Science OBITUARIES Beach. He was the foremost authority on assume the presidency from 1988-89. He is and the American Society of Microbiology. small geological faults in the Newport­ chairman of the board of James M. Mont­ ROBl'RT HICKLING, PhD, was named a Costa Mesa area and traveled widely, look­ gome~y, Consulting Engineers, Inc., of Fellow of the ASME. He is a senior staff 1926 ing for geothermal energy sources. He was Pasadena. research engineer in the engineering JAMES F. P. THOMSON, on April 25, in a Life Member of the Alumni Association HARRY LASS, PhD, of Altadena, recently mechanics department of General Motors Monrovia. He was 84. A retired engineer and is survived by his wife, Patricia; sons graduated with a degree in law from Glen­ research labs in Warren, Michigan. with the Southern California Gas Com­ Bradley and Ronald; and three grand­ dale University's College of Law. So did his CHIANG C. MEl, PhD, professor of civil pany, he had been Past Master of Arcadia children. daughter, Leslie- she at the top of her class engineering at MIT, received the 1986 Masonic Lodge and a member of Pasadena and he as the oldest graduating student. He Rosenstiel Award in Oceanographic Science Scottish Rite and the Al Malaikah Shrine. 1950 worked for 30 years at JPL researching rela­ at the University of Miami for "a number of He is survived by his wife, Ruth; sons ROBERT N. CURTIS, of Bellevue, Wash­ tivity and probability and statistics, and has important contributions to the understand­ Bruce and Richard; daughter Anne; and ten ington. He is survived by his wife, Anne. taught math at several universities, includ­ ing of the dynamics of ocean surface grandchildren. ing UCLA and USc. Leslie's reaction to waves:' He is a member of the NAE. CHARLES F. HUMPHREY, of La Cres­ having her father in classes with her? "A centa, on April 29. In 1982 he presented the few times he really embarrassed me. During 1967 Grandmother clock to the Alumni House. my first year, in a contracts class, he J. BRENT HOERNER, PhD '71, is president He is survived by two daughters, Dorothy PERSONALS offered $5,000 to any guy who would of J. Brent Hoerner and Associates, an and Susan. marry me!" earthquake and structural engineering firm BENOIT B. MANDELBROT, MS, ENG '49, in Montrose, California. 1928 1918 of Cambridge, Massachusetts, received the CYRUS G. MINKLER, on January 30, in FRANK CAPRA, Oscar-winning film direc­ 1986 Franklin Medal for Signal and Emi­ 1969 nent Service in Science "for outstanding Royal Oak, Michigan. He had worked for tor, celebrated his 90th birthday in May in MARTIN ISRAEL, PhD, has been named contributions to mathematics and the crea­ the law firm of Harness Dickey & Pierce as La Quinta, California, with his family. acting dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sci­ tion of the field of fractal geometry and a patent lawyer since 1935. He is survived ences at Washington University in St. Louis. important and illuminating applications of by his wife, Edna; daughters Christina and He is a professor of physics and associate 1922 this new concept to many fi elds of science:' Joanna; five grandchildren and three great­ FRANCIS L. HOPPER, of Kernersville, director of the McDonnell Center for the grandchildren. Mandelbrot is an IBM Fellow at the T. J. Space Sciences. His area of research is cos­ North Carolina, recently reminisced on his Watson Research Center and Professor of mic ray astrophysics . He and his wife, Mar­ long career at Western Electric for the Win­ the Practice of Mathematics at Harvard garet, have two children and reside in 1934 stall-Salem Journal, detailing the birth of University. He is a Fellow of the American Ladue, Missouri. DAVID W. LUTES, of Boise, Idaho, on sound in motion pictures and his time spent Geophysical Society. May 1. He spent his career as a civil engi­ on studio lots in Hollywood, where he met neer with the firm of Morrison-Knudsen such luminaries as Mae West, Garbo, Bob 1970 Co., Inc., working on such projects as the Hope, and Bing Crosby. He helped design 1951 ROBERT J. GRAY writes from All-American Canal in Arizona and Cali­ sound equipment and was a pioneer in EDWARD A. STERN, PhD '55, professor Framingham, Massachusetts: "For the past fornia; the San Vicente Dam in San Diego; developing stereophonic sound. When of physics at the University of Washington few years I've been director of the Men's the Dale Hollow Dam and Power House in Western Electric shut down its movie-sound '~ Seattle, has been elected a Fellow of the Rights Parental Leave Project, which pro­ Tennessee; Big Creek Dam in the California business in 1950, Hopper transferred to AAAS. His specialty is solid-state physics, motes parental leave legislation and aids Sierras; and Lookout Point Dam near work on defense projects until his retire­ and he is an authority in the field of X-ray fathers in obtaining paternity leave. Career­ Eugene, Oregon. He retired as assistant ment in 1965. "I spent about half my life absorption. He is also a long-time activist wise, I'm happily working at Prime Com­ chief engineer for Morrison-Knudsen in doing things to entertain people and the on behalf of Soviet Jewry. He joined the puter as a principal software engineer in an 1976. Survivors include his wife, Margaret; next half doing things to get rid of them:' University of Washington faculty in 1965. AI group:' He and his wife, Robin, have daughter Catherine; and two grandsons. two children. MARSTON C. SARGENT, PhD, of San 1937 1952 Diego, in 1986. He is survived by his wife. JOE M. SMITH, of Davis, California, won HENRY L. RICHTER, Jr., PhD '56, of 1972 Arcadia, gave the Oscar Schmidt Memo­ G. SIDNEY SMITH, of St. Louis, Missouri, the 1987 Phillips Lecture Award, given C. JOHN WEBB, PhD, is "still enjoying life at in March. He was a retired plant manager annually by the Oklahoma State University rial Lecture on free enterprise at the Rose­ Murdoch University, Perth [Australia). for Indian Head, Inc., in Woodland, Cali­ school of chemical engineering and the Phil­ Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre even without the America's Cup being Haute, Indiana, on April 15. He also fornia. He is survived by two daughters, lips Petroleum Company. He received the down the road in Fremantle. My research Dana and Mimi. award in recognition of his extensive contri­ received the Chauncey Rose Medal, pre­ group continues in bioinorganic chemistry butions to chemical engineering education. sented annually to the Schmidt lecturer. He and biomineralization. For the past few 1940 He is a professor of chemical engineering at is president of the Richter Group, a consult­ years I have also coordinated a regional WALTER RAMEY LARSON, of Hamp­ UC Davis. In 1960 he won the William ing firm involved in the public safety com­ network in chemistry for UNESCO. The munications field, engaged in designing stead, New Hampshire, in January. He was Walker Award for research publications; in network provides assistance in research and microwave, computer-aided dispatch and a Life Member of the Alumni Association 1970, the American Society for Engineering training for analytical and inorganic chem­ mobile radio systems. and very active in fund-raising at Caltech. Education Award for chemical engineering ists:' He and his wife, Sandy, have two He is survived by his wife, Harriet, a research; in 1977, the R. H. Wilhelm Award daughters. daughter, and grandchild. for research in chemical reaction engineer­ 1955 WILLIAM R. V. MARRIOTT, MS '42, of ing; and in 1983 the Warren K. Lewis SIGMUND M. REDELSHEIMER, MS, has 1977 Everett, Washington, on April 16, of pan­ retired from McDonnell-Douglas Astro­ Award for chemical engineering education. CHRISTOPHER HENLEY, assistant profes­ nautics Company in St. Louis, Missouri. He creatic cancer. He spent much of his life as He was elected to the NAE in 1975. sor of physics at the Boston University Col­ an Air Force medical officer, stationed was director of space programs and spent lege of Liberal Arts, received a $25,000 everywhere from Turkey to Viet Nam to 32 years with the corporation, during which 1942 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred Germany. After retirement from the Air time he was involved with the conceptual CAROL M. VERONDA, of Annandale, P. Sloan Foundation in New York . His Force, he taught at Oregon State University, design of the Mercury spacecraft. He Virginia, was elected a Fellow of the AAAS research lies in the field of theoretical con­ becoming professor emeritus in 1980. He is resides in St. Louis and will continue to for "novel contributions to microwave elec­ densed-matter physics. pursue his hobbies of golf and sailing. survived by his wife, Asako. tron tubes, and for management and leader­ JOHN M. WILD, of Rancho Sante Fe, Cali­ ship of aerospace and military electronic fornia, on March 14. He was a key figure in systems design and development:' He is cur­ 1962 Northrop Aircraft's aerodynamics section rently head of the identifications systems PHILIP R. KENNICOTT, PhD, an informa­ and in the design of the P-61 series, the Posters ($4.50) and postcards branch in the radar division of the Naval tion scientist at the General Electric XP-56, XB-35, and YB-49. He was a profes­ (four for $1, minimum order) of Research Laboratory. Research and Development Center in sor in the graduate school of aeronautical Schenectady, New York. received the Jac­ the Hollywood sign trans­ engineering at Cornell University until 1950 1947 quard Memorial Award of the Association formed to read "Cal tech" are and later became chief engineer and director for Integrated Manufacturing Technology DONALD STEWART, Jr., and his wife, available by contacting Dwight of engineering of ARO, Inc. In 1959 he for his work in developing the Initial Evelyn, of Upland, California, recently Berg, 1-53, Page House, Pasa­ joined General Dynamics in San Diego, Graphics Exchange Specification, a stand­ completed a three-week tour of the People's where he was involved with Project Orion. ard for exchanging design data between dif­ dena, California, 91125. T-shirts Republic of China as culture students in He retired in 1976. He was an Associate ferent computer systems. He is a member of ($12 or less) may be available if the spring. Fellow of the AlAA. He is survived by the Association for Computing Machinery there is sufficient demand. his wife. and a Fellow of the AAAS. Please add $2 for shipping costs 1948 for the first 10 posters and $1 1943 WILLIAM J. CARROLL, MS '49, oHa 1963 for postcards. For more infor­ GEORGE P. ZEBAL, MS, of Laguna Hills, Canada, was elected a member of the NAE THOMAS A. COLE, PhD, of Crawfords­ on February 28, of arteriosclerosis. Before for "outstanding contributions to the ville, Indiana, was recently honored with a mation call Berg at 301-345- starting his own geothermal consulting advancement of water supply and waste­ 25-year service award by Wabash College, 4318 before September 15. business in 1979, he worked in mining geol- water system planning and design:' He was where he has been the Norman E. Treves CALTECH NEWS

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"I've been wanting to do this ever since I got here, but today is the only day I can do it without security catching me," said Erik Hille after he rappelled Millikan Library on Ditch Day to retrieve a clue taped half way up the g-story structure. An experienced climber from Seattle, Hille stopped in midair and took pictures of the crowd below and the students holding ropes above.

CALTECH Caltech students jOin the ranks of alumni, above. RECEIVED Thomas E. Everhart, chancellor ot the University of Illinois at CALTECH AUS 5 1987 Urbana-Champaign, is named the new president of Caltech. See page 1. NEWS ALUMNI OFFICE August 1987 Published for Alumni and Friends of the California Institute of Technology Volume 21, No.4, August 1987