The 1977 SGF Prize has been following architects from the Pro­ awarded to Kevin Cantley for his fession: James H. Finch FAIA, high achievement in architecture. Finch Alexander Barnes This year's project was the Rothschild and Paschal Ar­ redevelopment of the Memorial chitects; Joseph Amisano FAIA, Arts Center/MARTA Station area. Toombs Amisano and Wells Ar­ Sponsored by Southern GF chitects/ Planners; Thomas W. Company, the annual competition Ventulett, III AIA, Thompson Ven­ of fifth and sixth year architectural tulett & Stainback Architects; students is held in cooperation Pershing Wong AIA, I.M. Pei & with the College of Architecture, Partners, New York. Georgia Institute of Technology The SGF Prize Advisory Board and the Atlanta Chapter, Ameri­ includes: Jerome M. Cooper can Institute of Architects. FAIA, Cooper Carry Associates; Kiyokazu Hosokawa has Joseph N. Smith FAIA, Assistant been named runner-up in the Director, College of Architecture, competition. Georgia Institute of Technology; The SGF Prize Jury consists Herbert Cohen, President, of members of the Faculty and the Southern GF Company. An apex in architecture: The SGF Prize.

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SOUTHERN GF COMPRNY Atlanta, Georgia 30302 Supplier to the construction industry since 1912 Alumni President's Message Bob Rice lakes Over

Dear Fellow Alumni: As has been reported to you earlier, an active search has been taking place for a logical successor to Roane Beard. Roane, incidentally, will be retiring within a week after this article appears. As previously reported, our first thought in this endeavor was to seek the aid and advice of everyone with whom we could talk about the subject. After having finalized our criteria about the type person for whom we were looking, we immediately set the wheels in motion by placing an advertisement not only in TECH TOPICS, but also in THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER LEARN­ ING. In addition, we placed an ad in our own PLACEMENT BULLETIN. While the applications were coming in, the thought occurred to your Officers that we should, because this was obvi­ ously the most logcial time, undertake a study to see how our organization could be streamlined and if, in fact, it could be reorganized in such a way as to be more efficient. Assignments to make this study were made and the Bob Rice, '49, is busy reviewing alumni programs in his new role as Executive results did show that, by making certain Secretary of the National Alumni Association. reassignments of duties and realignment of responsibilities, we could, in effect, after a successful career in the military. his home during the Christmas season operate without the necessity of bring­ He now has a son attending Georgia when he was hosting a party for the ing someone else in at this time. Or, Tech, and another who is a recent staff personnel. I don't mind telling you, conversely, if we were to bring someone graduate. Bob has been with our Asso­ his home was Georgia Tech from the else in, we would have to logically let ciation now for seven years, and has, front mailbox to the rear porch steps — a them be a replacement of someone during that time, exercised a multitude silent indication of complete dedication. whom we already had on board. of the responsibilities connected with One of the final arrangements which Of necessity, this new set of facts the activity. He has, for all practical pur­ we have made with Roane is that he has tightened the parameters of our search. poses, been the back-up during Roane's been offered an emeritus status for two Our next step, therefore, was to review absence as well as being in charge of years. This would be a part-time ar­ all of the 70 plus applications which the programs of the Association. rangement as far as he and we are con­ had come in from outside sources and His day to day activities have put cerned and would accomplish several to compare them very carefully with him in contact with literally thousands things in our opinion. It will: the applicants we had from inside our of alumni across the country in work­ 1. Help bridge the gap over the next own organization. This was done and ing with the various clubs and also in two years, the net result is that we could find no scheduling and producing the "Tech 2. Provide Roane with supplemen­ one, taking everything into account, who Today" programs with which many of tary income, could better fill the job requirements you are familiar. 3. Permit Roane to continue doing than our own Bob Rice. He has had the faculty over the years those things which he does so well We compared each and every appli­ of staying in the background while sup­ in keeping the Association in close cant on all of the criteria that we felt to porting Roane in every way to accom­ contact with literally thousands of be important. After having done this, plish the objectives set forth not only Alumni, and Bob Rice stood tall and thereby made by the Staff, but by your Officers and 4. Permit your Officers to monitor our decision much easier than other­ Trustees. He has conducted his activi­ the situation and to make sure that wise it might have been. ties many times under less than ideal the organizational decisions which I don't mind telling you, also, that circumstances, but, to our knowledge, have been made are correct ones we had some first class applicants and has come through in every case. from everyone's standpoint. many of whom, under different circum­ From my own personal experience, I Your Officers believe that we can stances, would have been a welcome can tell you that anytime anything has now look forward to continued success­ addition to our group. The decision been asked of him, it has been done in ful Alumni activities. We are dedicated was not an easy one, it was not taken short order and done well. Anytime a to that end and, with your support, will lightly, but, we believe, the right one new program or new idea was needed, make it. has been made. these, too, were forthcoming in an ord­ There you have it, the King has re­ Let me tell you a little bit about Bob. erly, logical, and timely basis. tired — long live the King! A He is 52 years of age and joined us Finally, I had the privilege of visiting John E. Aderhold

APRIL 1977 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE 1 Employment Opportunities We are an established recruiting and consulting firm managed by a TECH engineer ('62). Our client companies have exceptional line managementand engineering staff positions for professionals with ChE, ME, EE, CE, IE, and Computer Science backgrounds. Most posi­ tions are for new or expanding divisions, plants, engineering/ consulting offices, edp systems depts, etc, with companies having impressive growth and profitability records within the oil, gas, chemi­ cal, fertilizer, power, fiber, elec­ tronics, and equip, mfg. industries. Each contact is made selectively (you are in control) and held in strict confidence. Our client companies assume all placement fees and re­ location expenses for both domestic and international loca­ (L-R) Roane Beard accepts a farewell gift presented by John Aderhold, on behalf of tions. Send resume or handwritten Georgia Tech alumni. The van was presented as a gift of gratitude and appreciation, experience outline in confidence expressing the esteem in which Roane is held. and our Houston director, J. L. Gresham, BChE, MBA—will con­ tact you at home to discuss your interests. Est. 1966, member Best Wishes, Roane AlChE.

SYSTEM ATI ON • A RESOLUTION BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE GEORGIA TECH CONSULTANTS, INC. NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 1410 Post Oak Tower Houston, Texas 77056 WHEREAS, Mr. William Roane clubs from New York to Puerto Rico (713)622-1370 Beard began his affiliation with the and from San Francisco to Norfolk Georgia Institute of Technology as a during his more than twenty-seven years freshman student in the fall of 1936, of service to the Georgia Tech National and Alumni Association and the Georgia WHEREAS, Mr. Beard graduated Institute of Technology, and Professional Growth from the Georgia Institute of Technol­ WHEREAS, Mr. Beard has seen the Positions with well recognized ogy in 1940 with a B.S. degree in In­ award-winning Roll Call go from National Clients dustrial Management, and 1,356 donors and $22,550 contributed We are a professional search firm WHEREAS, Mr. Beard has served in 1947 to 17,576 donors and $900,143 operating nationally out of a central midwest location. In this field since his country as an ROTC student while contributed in 1976, and 1969, our Company contacts are varied at Georgia Tech and in the United WHEREAS, Mr. Beard has also and, more important, our understanding of their organizations, operating States Army from September 1941 until served the religious community by be­ philosophies and recruiting needs, has he was discharged as a major in the ing a member and on the Board of become the basis for maximizing our services to them. In addition, prior to Coast Artillery in December 1945, and Directors of the Unitarian-Universalist becoming a business proprietor, all of WHEREAS, Mr. Beard joined the Congregation of Atlanta and the North­ my experience was in industry in both Georgia Tech National Alumni Asso­ west Unitarian Church, and small and large companies in varied staff and line management positions. ciation as assistant secretary in 1947 WHEREAS, he has served the civic The basis for our success has been and served until 1950 before moving community by being affiliated with the our ability to provide well qualified candidates for our position openings. to a position with Jefferson Mills, Inc., North DeKalb Little League and a The reason for bringing this information and charter member of the Cross Keys to your attention is that engineering backgrounds are frequently an excellent WHEREAS, in 1951 Mr. Beard re­ Kiwanis Club, part of a needed combination of job turned to the Georgia Institute of THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, requirements. Since I am also a Tech graduate (EE 1949), we have the Technology as executive secretary of that the Board of Trustees of the additional incentive of extending our*" the Alumni Association and has served Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc., does service to you. If you are planning a career change, feel free to contact me. in that capacity until his retirement on through this resolution commend and I would be glad to review your April 1, 1977, and congratulate Roane Beard for his out­ experience in relation to our current WHEREAS, Mr. Beard has served standing service to the Georgia Institute openings. Our fees are paid by Company clients and, therefore, the the American Alumni Council as chair­ of Technology, and Candidate incurrs no financial man of District III in 1957-58, and as BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, obligation. director of the annual giving programs that through this resolution, the Board and member of the Board of Directors of Trustees of the Georgia Tech Foun­ Joseph A. Torcassi, Director of the American Alumni Council 1965- dation, Inc., does wish for Roane, his Robert J. Bushee & Associates 66. In this capacity, he has participated wife Peggy, his daughter and three Suite 1001, Carew Tower in more than twenty programs dealing sons, continued health, happiness, and Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513/621-2015 with alumni organization, fund-raising, prosperity in the years ahead. A alumni administration and others, and WHEREAS, Mr. Beard has made Charles R. Yates, President more than 250 visits to Tech alumni March 1, 1977

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APRIL 1977/Volume 53, Number 2

ii Tech ALUMNI MAG/VZINE Although campus activities are more varied and sophisticated than in the past, the basic goals and characteristics of Tech students have not changed drastically. (L-R) Bill Propp, Student Government Presidential Candidate; Hamilton Barksdale, Vice President of Student Government; Teri Rogers, President of the Senior Class; Randy Poliner, Student Government Presidential Candidate; and Mark Beshears, President of the Student Center Governing Board pose in front of the fountain at the Price Gilbert Memorial Library.

STAFF Karen Buttermore, Editor Joseph H. Beach, Associate Editor John Stuart McKenzie, Design Consultant Richard K. Whitehead, Jr., Chair­ Bob Rice Takes Over 1 man, Publications Committee Roane Beard Retires 2

GEORGIA TECH NATIONAL Campus Life Today ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ATLANTA, GA. 30332 Traditions Make a Comeback 4 OFFICERS RESEARCH Has a Dynamic Role in Tech's Future 8 John E. Aderhold, '45 . . President 18 Yellow Jackets Preserved at Brittain 9 Wm. J. VanLandingham, '59 . . . Past President Doug Weaver's Unique Road to Georgia Tech 12 Richard K. Whitehead, Jr., '57 . . President-Elect Viewpoint Bernard Kroll '57 ... Vice President J. Frank Smith, '55 .... Treasurer Must Technology and the Social Environment Conflict? 14 Robert H. Rice, '49 Executive Director Ben Zinn: Man on the Move 20 Ewell Barnes: 30 Years of Service 22 TRUSTEES Ramblin Round Campus 23 Term Expires 1977 Richard B. Bell, '61; Henry F. McCamish, Jr., '50; David M. McKenney, '60; James D. Blitch, III, '53; Wade T. Mitchell, '57; William R. Ziegler, '41.

Term Expires 1978 O. Alvin Barge, Jr., '41; Carey H. Brown, '69; Talmage L. Dryman, '45; Robert E. Eskew, '49; Thomas H. Hail, III, 58; Alan E. Thomas, '49.

Term Expires 1979 Robert S. Armstrong, '60; Donald L. Chapman, '61; Charles K. Cobb, Jr., '56; E. Rembert DuBose, '48; Joe T. LaBoon, The Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine is published twice yearly for active alumni by the Georgia '48; Albert N. (Bud; Parker, '58. Tech National Alumni Association, Atlanta, Georgia 30332

APRIL 1977 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE 3 Campus Life Today Traditions Make a Comeback

By KAREN BUTTERMORE

THE "T" IS MISSING from two sides of Dean Dull. "Students are interested in ately needed," he said. "Now, students the Tech tower. More than 200 students things that don't have a vestige of re­ will be able to participate in sports attended a birthday party for George P. sponsibility to one group. They prefer easily and conveniently. We are big on Burdell last month. Intramural programs one-time events or more casual activities non-varsity athletics already, and this are more popular than ever before, and which they can enjoy, then go home will increase competitiveness even more. a student energy team at Tech is hoping and forget about them." This facility will change the whole out­ to win a national competition on alterna­ Religious groups are especially active look of the campus, just as the opening tive energy sources. on campus in the last two years, accord­ of the Student Center did. Today's stu­ Life on the Georgia Tech campus has ing to the dean. "It seems that more dent would not believe how different not changed drastically over the years, students openly profess religious be­ student life was before the opening of but the quality and variety of student life liefs," Dean Dull said. the Student Center." programs has steadily improved. The "There is no end in sight, in terms of "Generally, I would characterize to­ opening of the Student Center in 1970 increasing female enrollment," said the day's student as creative, as one who brought a new dimension to campus life, dean who has seen the number of wants the opportunity to do things that and the opening of the Fuller E,. Calla­ women students increase from 11 in have relevance and show a final prod­ way III Student Athletic Complex this 1957 to 1,350 today. "I don't think that uct," Dean Dull concluded. spring will make Tech even more attrac­ the increase in women students will The Georgia Institute of Technology tive to current and prospective students. slack off in the foreseeable future. As Student Energy Team (GITSET) is a There are obvious changes: a woman we continue to have more women stu­ perfect example of the creativeness of is president of the senior class; a black dents, our outlook will become more today's Tech students. Nearly 70 stu­ is vice president of the Student Govern­ diversified." dents are working on four projects ment; a bus named "the Stinger" trans­ Like everyone else interviewed, Dean which will be entered in a national com­ ports students to class; and students sleep Dull is looking forward to the opening petition on alternative energy sources on "sky racks" in dormitory rooms. of the Student Athletic Complex this this summer. Dean of Students James Dull says spring. "This facility has been desper- They are seeking new solutions to the that "Tech students today are really no energy problem through the design and different than their predecessors through production of innovative energy hard­ the years. They have the same career ware capable of producing electric power concerns, they are pragmatic, and be­ for homes, farms and light industry. lieve that there is an 'on-paper formula The Tech entries approach the problem solution' to everything." Dean Dull con­ in four distinct ways: one system em­ tinued, "Tech students are still conserv­ ploys the wind; another is solar-thermal; ative, although not as much so as in the the third uses bioconversion (methane past. There is little difference in the conversion); and the final project uses counseling problems they present." photovoltaics (solar cells). "We are entering into an 'age of ele­ The students will transport their en­ gance' on campus," Dean Dull remark­ tries to Richland, Washington in June ed. "Students are dressing better and for the week-long national competition. wearing their hair much shorter. We see Tech has the largest number of entries in cycles repeating themselves. Current hair the competition, and expects to do well. lengths and styles are comparable to On the lighter side, Tech students those seen in 1964." went all out in their celebration of "Tech students have never gone to George P. Burdell's birthday last month. the extremes that: their counterparts on The "Great Pie Fight" between Coach liberal campuses did," Dean Dull ob­ Whack Hyder and Coach David Houser served. "However, today's Tech student was the highlight of the evening of seems to be much more aware of and indoor field competitions. Thirteen stu­ interested in national politics than his dents with a combined weight of 2,200 predecessors were. While interest in na­ pounds won the phone booth stuffing tional politics has increased, interest in competition. Winners in various events campus politics seems to have declined were selected on the basis of numbers, somewhat." weight, density, and other appropriate Back-to-nature groups, outdoor recre­ technical factors. A paper airplane fly­ ational programs, and activities which A phone booth stuffing was one of the ing contest, a cigar-smoking contest, and don't require a lot of commitment are events at George P. Burdell's 1977 birth­ a rootbeer-chugging competition were most popular right now, according to day party. featured attractions, in addition to sev-

4 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE eral relays. A slide show on the current printing. In addition, the Interfrater- registration system, how the student antics of the legendary Burdell, along nity Council officers go on an annual activity fee money is spent, and fund­ with birthday cake and ice cream for retreat." ing of faculty pay raises by the state the 300 students who attended the party, The pledgeship period has changed \ legislature. rounded out the evening. The 1977 bash considerably. Many fraternities now re­ , Currently, students pay a $24 per was the third annual Burdell Birthday fer to their newest members as "associ­ quarter student activity fee. The fee Party, sponsored by the Co-op Club. ate members" rather than "pledges." was formerly $18 per quarter, but a $6 Membership in fraternities at Tech There is less degradation during pledge- per quarter increase was implemented has been increasing since 1971, accord­ ship. It is viewed as a constructive time, fall quarter 1976, with the new funds ing to fraternity adviser Jerry Gallups. and brothers try to let the associate designated for the Student Athletic He thinks that there are several reasons members know that they are glad to Complex. The fee is administered by an for the increase. "Today's students are have them as potential brothers. There Institute committee composed of half more concerned with getting along in are some features of the former type of students and half faculty. Organizations society and learning to live with peo­ pledgeship, namely the pledge paddle submit budget proposals to the Stu­ ple," said Gallups. "They feel a frater­ and work projects. But "Hell Week" is dent Government's Finance Committee, nity can give them valuable interpersonal now called "Pre-Initiation Week." which forwards its recommendation to experiences. They are also very job- Traditional pranks, such as stealing the Student Council and Graduate conscious, and think they need more another fraternity's composite, or paint­ Senate for a vote. After approval by than grades to compete in today's job ing the SAE lion or the Kappa Sigma these bodies, budget allocations are market. Since there is no national rock, continue. There is still a high level submitted to the Institute's Student Ac­ trauma this year (such as Watergate or of competition, a healthy rivalry be­ tivity Fee Committee. Vietnam), they are enjoying fraternity tween the groups. Abrams feels that Student Govern­ life. There is a spirit of self-reappraisal, Teri Rogers, president of the senior ment is a very responsible organization, a feeling that they are not going to class, says that "Tech is a good place and is encouraged to be so by the posi­ change the world, so they concentrate to be if you are a girl. Now, you are tive attitude of the Institute's admin­ on expanding their own experiences." accepted for what you are, which might istrators. Sixteen Institute committees Gallups said that fraternities provide not have been the case in the past." have at least one student member, ap­ many services to charitable organiza­ Outdoor Recreation Georgia Tech pointed by the Student Body President. tions and needy individuals. Last year, (ORGT) programs such as back pack­ These committees are: Faculty Benefits, 38 different projects raised funds for ing, rock climbing, and white water Faculty Honors, Statutes, Academic charities. Some fraternities do repairs canoeing, were consistently listed as Services, Public Relations, Welfare and on homes or perform necessary services favorite pasttimes of students. Student Security, Undergraduate Curriculum, for elderly or infirm residents. Center programs, such as movies, lec­ Student Regulations, Student Academic "Fraternity members are also tures and the "Take A Professor To & Financial Affairs, Student Grievance leadership-oriented," Gallups remarked. Lunch" program are also very popular. and Appeal, Student Honors, Student "We conduct workshops throughout the Participation in intramural athletics Activities, Computer Advisory Board, year for members. We offer six week­ continues to increase each year. Radio Communications Board, Publica­ end seminars: finance, developing lead­ Student Body President Mitchell tions Board, the Student Athletic Com­ ership potential, rush, managing the Abrams lists the main issues on cam­ plex Board, and the Student Activity house kitchen, public relations, and pus as: lack of adequate parking, the Fee Committee. The Executive Branch of Student Government has 18 divisions, ranging from Academic Improvement and Ath­ letic Seating to Parking and Transporta­ tion or Campus Beautification. The Personal Welfare Department includes committees on general welfare, griev­ ance, legal assistance, and rules and regulations. During the past year, Stu­ dent Government has provided a ten­ ant's handbook for students who live in off-campus apartments, a legal man­ ual for students, free legal services one day a week, health clinics and an apartment locator service when dorms filled up last fall. Abrams said that there was great interest in the fall 1976 national and local elections. Student Government brought Fulton County registrars on campus and deputized student regis­ trars in a voter registration drive. More than 1,000 students registered to vote during the drive. "Campaign Day" fea­ tured speakers for all candidates, de­ bates between candidates were spon­ sored, and a presidential preference poll conducted (Jimmy Carter won). Abrams, who hopes to attend law The Georgia Tech Student Energy Team is preparing entries for a national competi­ school next year, calls his term as tion on alternative energy sources. (Continued on next page)

APRIL 1977 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE 5 Atlanta establishments. Jeff Lane, editor of the yearbook, the Campus Life Today Blueprint, characterizes the current stu­ dent body as "pretty serious and job- conscious." He says that most students (continued) spend their leisure time in outdoor rec­ reational activities, drinking beer, or sleeping. He has noticed an increased interest in crafts, such as pottery and photography. Lane's philosophy for this year's yearbook: "it should not only be an official history of what happened this year, but when students read it in the future, it should remind them of what it felt like here. We plan to em­ phasize Tech's personalities, in architec­ ture, faces, and other aspects of the campus." Placement Director Dr. Michael Don­ ahue confirms that today's students are more career-conscious. "This year's juniors and seniors entered Tech during a national economic and employment slump. I think they realized early that just because you have a degree, you aren't guaranteed a job. They seem to have a stronger sense of purpose, to realize that their career is a major part of what college is all about." Donahue says that the employment market is more comfortable now. "We have had more recruiters on campus this year than in any year since 1968. By the end of February 1977, we were already at 50 percent of last year's The root beer-chugging contest at Burdell's party was observed by several onlookers. total number of offers made, with several months of activity to go." James Strickland, director of the president "an excellent management ex­ as well as the salary level of Tech pro­ Counseling Center, hasn't noticed any perience. You learn to deal with prob­ fessors, compared to other colleges," significant changes in the types or lems, motivate students to take on Beshears points out. "We also need numbers of problems that Tech stu­ projects, and carry out programs." some new buildings on campus, namely dents experience. During fall quarter Student Center Governing Board for freshman chemistry, Industrial Man­ 1976, statistics show that 160 students President Mark Beshears says that agement, and Architecture. Beshears is used the Counseling Center's services movies, outdoor recreation, and lec­ a senior in Chemical Engineering, and because they were unsure of career tures are the most popular Student plans to attend graduate school at the goals or what major to pursue; 184 Center programs. Homecoming Week Technological University of Loughbo­ turned to the Center for help with per­ 1976 had the best attendance and par­ rough in England next year. sonal problems. Strickland said that ticipation level since 1972. Popular Steve Branscombe, editor of the stu­ currently, the main concerns of female lecturers during the past year have in­ dent newspaper, the Technique, says students are establishment of their iden­ cluded Eric Von Daniken, Dr. Buck- that he is concerned about getting a job tities on campus, and becoming more minster Fuller, Dr. Carl Sagan and after graduation, and about pay raises assertive. Women's counseling groups Shana Alexander. for faculty members. He says that there were established to deal with these The Student Center's Student/ Faculty has been a lack of major issues on cam­ concerns. Relations programs have met with great pus this year. Tech's dormitories have always had a success this year. During fall quarter, "We have tried to emphasize news- high occupancy rate, but this year they weekly "Wednesday Huddles" review feature articles, giving more in-depth were filled to capacity, with a waiting the past week's football game; during coverage to events, rather than just list of 500 students. Dean Dull thinks winter quarter, more than 100 students serving as a factual record of what has this is because students like the con­ took a professor to lunch; and the happened," the editor explains. "We venience and accessibility to campus spring quarter student/ faculty barbecue have published the largest weekly events. He also points out that those is well-attended. Beshears said that papers ever, running from 28 to 32 who live in dorms do better academic­ freshman orientation picnics in the sum­ pages per week. Today's staff not only ally than their counterparts who live mer are very popular, and the Tech writes the stories and takes photographs, in apartments or at home with their 200 go-kart race is a success each but is responsible for the entire pro­ families. Also, dormitory living is a lot spring. duction process, except for the run on less expensive than maintaining an Beshears is concerned about state the printing press. Students do the apartment. support of the University System and typesetting, screen pictures, do layouts Assistant Housing Director John the lack of pay raises for professors in and paste-ups." Branscombe said that Martone attributes the popularity of recent years. "There is a lack of parity they have expanded the editorial pages, dorm-living to several factors. "We have between industry and academic salaries, and do movie and dinner reviews for made the dorms more attractive with

6 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE physical improvements and with more house hours" during which members of popular service began operating in 1974. permissive, but reasonable, regulations. the opposite sex may visit in rooms. In The campus radio station, WREK, The large number of out-of-state stu­ the women's dorms, males cannot enter began broadcasting in 1968. The FM dents, and the variety of living condi­ the living area unless escorted by a 'station is one of Atlanta's most power­ tions which we offer are other factors. female resident. There are phones in ful (40,000 watts). Students describe Also, our rates are very reasonable." the lobby, which male students use to the programming as "the FM alterna­ "Students appear to be pleased with call women in their rooms to announce tive" to top-forty stations in the area. their housing," Martone said. "The re­ their arrival. Women's dorms include: WREK plays bluegrass, jazz, blues, turn rate for each dormitory is very Brown, Howell, Hopkins, Fitten, Ful- classical, or progressive rock. The sta­ high. Area I used to be designated as mer and Armstrong. There are no tion is 90 percent automated, with pro­ freshman housing, but so many students "coed" dorms at Tech. grams all on tapes. The station can have chosen to remain in their original Because dormitory life is thriving, operate with only one person in the rooms that this year there are more President J. M. Pettit has proposed a studio. There are no'deejays, or on-the- upperclassmen in Area I dorms than new dorm for Area III. He will seek air personalities. Students explain that freshmen. Freshmen are located in all funding from the Board of Regents they do not have time to work regular dorm areas." for a 500-bed facility which will cost on-the-air shifts, so they came up with about $1.2 million. The proposed dorm the idea of automated programming. "Our room personalization program would house both married and single What about the most famous of all is extremely successful," Martone con­ students. Dr. Pettit feels that the future Georgia Tech traditions, the rat hat? tinues. "We allow students to paint is bright for on-campus housing at Tech. Alumni will be glad to hear that it is their rooms and install sky racks, which "This year, we turned away 500 stu­ back in vogue. In the early 1970's, the can contain beds up close to the ceiling. dents who applied for dormitory space. rat hat was made optional. For a couple We supply the paint, drop cloths, and The type of degrees we offer at Tech of years, they were not as visible on construction materials. We also enforce will continue to be in demand. If our campus or at football games. But, they strict safety requirements, such as flame total enrollment should begin to level have made a strong comeback with the retardant wood and paint." off around 1985, we hope to close last two freshmen classes, which have Martone said that a number of phys­ Techwood Dorm." welcomed this traditional symbol. Teri ical improvements have been made in How do students get around campus Rogers says that current freshmen like the last five years. "All Area I dorms nowdays? They have it a lot easier than the sense of identity, and she knows now have fluorescent lighting so that their predecessors. The "Stinger" system many freshmen who proudly wear their area lamps are not necessary. We have provides four buses which transport stu­ rat hats everywhere. painted the hallways in bright colors dents from their dormitories to classes, The "whistle" still announces class and installed new draperies in all the or other functions on campus. The stu­ changes and sports victories. Campus rooms. All dorms have study lounges dents pay a "transportation" fee at reg­ police are trying to figure out who stole with carrels, and many have drafting istration, which funds the bus system. the "T" from two sides of the Tech tables." The "Stinger" operates from 7:05 a.m. tower during final exams last quarter. There are no curfews in dormitories. until shortly after midnight five days a So, maybe times haven't changed very Each dorm votes separately on "open week, and on Sunday evenings. The much after all. •

Coach "Whack" Hyder and Coach David Houser engaged in the "Great Pie Fight" at Burdell's party, after which Coach Hyder was declared the winner of the battle. J Has a Dynamic Role in Tech's Future

By KAREN BUTTERMORE

RESEARCH IS CURRENTLY the fastest and giving it to graduate programs," ing fields: solar energy, waste recycling, growing and most dynamic activity at Dr. Stelson said. "This is not true; there electronics, flammability and fire safe­ Georgia Tech. It is expected that the is no data to support these fears. On ty, textiles, high-temperature materials, trend will continue to bring even more the contrary, in many ways, the grad­ high-energy plasmas, material proper­ prestige to the Institute, with no adverse uate program helps carry the under­ ties, fertilizers, nuclear energy, and effect on the existing programs. Con­ graduate. When the graduate program environmental conditions. sider these facts: becomes stronger, the undergraduate Perhaps Tech's most significant and — 600 contracts bring $ 18 million curriculum and activities are strength­ unique research contribution is applied annually to Georgia Tech. ened with it." research that supports new and existing — Within one or two years, research Dr. Stelson went on to explain that industry. In Georgia alone, several thou­ contract income will be greater there is not a separate undergraduate sand new jobs are created and several than the State appropriation. and graduate faculty. "Typically, all of thousand old jobs saved each year by — About 400 of 1,000 faculty are our instructors teach both undergradu­ Tech research. fully financially supported by re­ ate and graduate classes, in addition to Half of Tech's research activities are search contract funds. In addition, research activities. Since 1971, we have carried out at the Engineering Experi­ 300 of 1,000 support _ staff are been hiring a different type of faculty ment Station. "The Station is very fully financially supported by re­ member. We feel that a professor's out­ healthy right now," Dr. Stelson reports. search contract funds. side research can bring new dimensions "It is operating with almost no state — About 600 of the 1,600 graduate to classroom teaching, and students can funds, and the volume of research has students at Tech are fully financed keep abreast of and sometimes have a enabled us to add 200 people to the by research contract funds. part in new discoveries. Student involve­ staff there since 1974." — About 400 of 7,400 undergradu­ ment in research makes them more val­ Dr. Stelson feels that research en­ ate students receive financial sup­ uable to potential employers." riches the educational programs at both port from research contract funds. "In private institutions, the relation­ the undergraduate and graduate levels. — Contract research funds provided ship between undergraduate programs Students are in contact with more and more than $1.4 million for new and graduate research programs might better faculty. They use more and better research equipment in FY 76. be a different story," Dr. Stelson con­ equipment. Their first-hand experiences — The $18 million annually that tinued. "Private colleges would have with new developments increase their Tech brings to Georgia has a limited financial resources, and might value as professionals. direct economic impact on the have to take an endowment away from Potential for future growth in this area State. Georgia Tech is the larg­ one program to continue another one." is excellent, according to Dr. Stelson. est center for technology in the "Since Georgia Tech is a publicly- He said that contract research funding Southeast. supported institution, we do not have of $50 million per year could develop How did these dramatic changes come that problem. Our graduate program is in five to ten years if modest additional about? Dr. Thomas E. Stelson, Vice intentionally funded by the State, and support is provided. President for Research, said that a if the money were used for any other Tech's research programs are most change in the leadership of Tech from purpose, we would lose the funding. similar to those at Illinois University or 1970-72 is largely responsible. During Graduate studies is designated as one Berkeley, according to this vice presi­ this two-year period, Dr. J. M. Pettit of the primary missions of the Institute, dent. "People tend to compare us to became president of Georgia Tech;" as is a high-quality undergraduate pro MIT," Dr. Stelson said, "but this is not Dr. Stelson was named Dean of the gram," Dr. Stelson pointed out. accurate. MIT is a private institution, College of Engineering; Dr. F. K. Levy Dr. Stelson was named Vice President and has become too research-oriented, was hired as Dean of the College of for Research in early 1974. "Formerly, when compared to our expectations Industrial Management; and Dr. H. S. we did not have a central administra­ here. We have a unique role to play, Valk became Dean of the College of tive office that looked after research since we are a state-supported institu­ Sciences and Liberal Studies. Each of activities. Our research activities vary tion. Other state-supported technological these men was more research-oriented so widely at Tech,that we might have a universities such as Purdue, Texas Tech than his predecessor. A new stage in the dozen different units working on solar and Auburn, have expanded their over­ development of Georgia Tech began, as research, for example. We need a cen­ all programs to the point where they are graduate programs received increased tral administration to' enable them to no longer predominantly technological." attention. work together, and be aware of each "This is one of Georgia Tech's assets: However, this new emphasis on re­ other's activities. In new research areas, because we have a more narrow mis­ search has not had a negative effect on institutional organization and commit­ sion, we can concentrate on what we undergraduate programs, according to ment are often vital in obtaining fund­ do well. As a result, we will achieve Dr. Stelson. "One of the great miscon­ ing from outside sources." even more national recognition for our ceptions is that we are taking money Georgia Tech is recognized nationally technological expertise," Dr. Stelson away from undergraduate programs, for its research leadership in the follow­ concluded. A

8 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE 18 Yellow Jackets Preserved at Britain

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How MANY THOUSANDS of hungry Tech- scholastic roots are universally recog­ men have entered Brittain Dining Hall nized; what is unique about the building oblivious to the yellow jackets above is the architectural details peculiar to their heads? Though students don't eat Georgia Tech and the history of tech­ in this dining hall as much today as in nology. The colonnade along the west­ ! the past, the yellow jackets are still ern facade has ten pairs of Gothic arches there, a distinctively Georgia Tech carrying busts of great men of science detail in a popular architectural style. and technology: Aristotle, Archimedes, Collegiate Gothic, English Collegiate, Darwin, daVinci, Delia Robia, Edison, or Gothic Revival, whatever the label, Lavoisier, Michelangelo, Newton, and the architectural style of red brick and Whitney. The President's Dining Room limestone, bay windows, pointed arches breaks the facade in the center of the and ivy-covered towers so often associ­ tower with a bay window, adorned ated with university campuses is well above by the official Georgia Tech seal represented at Georgia Tech. The Gothic in stone, and below by two shields bear­ style became fashionable on this campus ing eagles, probably representing the during the Roaring Twenties when Army and Navy ROTC programs. The Ramblin Wrecks won national respect great terra-cota emblem that lies in the in the Rose Bowl victory, as well as entrance to the dining hall is worn recognition for academic excellence. It nearly smooth and the granite steps are was a period of great aspirations and scooped out in two distinct footpaths. accomplishments. Marion Luther Brit­ Over the entrance arch, where fleurs-de- tain was the college president and he lis may adorn some more ancient edi- saw an average of one building per face, are eighteen yellow jackets, frozen year built on the campus, most of in the limestone like fossils. Inside the them Gothic. dining hall, at the south end, is the most The campus' finest example of this colorful and least noticed scene on style is Brittain Dining Hall, built in campus: the stained glass window. 1928. It is said that the architect, Harold Given to the school by the classes of Bush-Brown, modeled the building after 1927, '28, '29 and '30, and designed a church he had admired in England. by student competition, this window The structure's Oxford-Cambridge- colorfully depicts Georgia Tech's herit- (Continued on next page)

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age. The stained glass, though ancient in appearance, is modern in its symbol­ ism. Where else among the splendors of art and architecture can one find such images as mechanical tools and gears, electrical motors and lamps, civil engi­ neering transits, Army and Navy para­ phernalia, books, sports equipment and the Tech Tower gathered together in a comprehensive design? The days of romanticism and inspira­ tion in architecture, especially at a public college, have given way to func­ tion and efficiency. Today we can rarely afford such unique expressions of pride and thus we appreciate even more what artists and architects have created at Georgia Tech. •

Brittain Dining Hall is still used daily, although its unique architectural features often go un­ noticed by students.

Each panel of the magnificent stained glass window represents some aspect of Georgia Tech history.

The President's Dining Room is located behind this bay window on the center tower. The official Georgia Tech seal is carved in stone above the bay window. (L-R) Aristotle and Darwin are two famous scientists immortalized on the colonnade at Brittain.

Busts of (L-R) Michaclangelo and Thomas Edison are carved on two of Brittain's columns.

\ By CHARLES STARRATT

DOUG WEAVER laughs easily and heart­ intercollegiate sports. They feel that tion but by their athletic success, then ily. Perhaps no other fact about the sports are important to the school and it becomes legitimate to ask just who man can describe him as well; he enjoys its students and want sports to be done Doug Weaver is. The answer is some­ life and seems to care about your hap­ with the same excellence that charac­ times surprising and always interesting. piness. While happiness and caring about terizes the rest of the school. There is Weaver had two distinct sections in others are important assets for anyone, no shame here about sports; it is an his childhood, one urban and one coun­ for an Athletic Director they are an integral part of the school. try. He spent the first twelve years of absolute necessity, especially in today's "Moreover, while alumni everywhere his life in Chicago. "I can still name world of intercollegiate athletics. Ath­ want to help their school, I have never the starting line-up for the White Sox letic departments across the country face been anyplace where the spirit of giving in the late thirties and early forties. The the traditional problems of winning and was based on so much love for the Bears had Sid Luckman and Bulldog keeping fans and alumni happy; but school. People are always telling me Turner and were coached by Papa Bear now they must do it in an atmosphere that they want to repay Tech for the George Halas. I have never forgotten of increased cost, questions about the wonderful years they spent here. It the thrill of entering a big stadium as a traditional role of college athletics, in­ makes my job pleasant and easier." youngster; the size, the noise, even the creased competition, and a state of con­ The Athletic Director's personality smell are special things. I still feel that fusion about the future of the standard sets the tone for the entire department. way at Grant Field. Sports should be organizing bodies and rules that colleges He deals with everyone, makes both enjoyed; they are in large measure a link have lived with for decades. short and long-range decisions, and can with our youth and that sense of awe Because the Athletic Director is the control staff contentedness by how much and wonder should never be entirely lost. one man who must deal with every­ or how little he guides the coaches and "Most of my early heroes were pro body — students, athletes, coaches, fans, other experts it takes to run a depart­ stars because of where I lived, but I alumni, administrators, contractors, and ment with a multi-million dollar budget. remember seeing the University of other schools — he must be someone Everything from tickets, uniforms and Chicago play football. In addition to who not only represents his school well publicity, to stadiums, concessions, and sports I was fascinated by music and, but enjoys doing it. Otherwise it could public relations comes within his pu rview. just like so many others at that time, be a miserable job. Doug Weaver is far When you add together the duties and Benny Goodman was one of my heroes. from miserable. "I feel as if I have been people he must supervise, the people he I played the clarinet and the baritone at Tech all my life," he says. "I seem to1 must deal with, throw in the people he sax. Today I play the guitar; the times have had a life and career that aimed must please, and consider the sum in have indeed changed." at this job, and I enjoy it. The people at light of the fact that often schools are It is often difficult to share experi­ Tech have the best attitude possible for judged not on their academic reputa­ ences, especially youthful ones, but

12 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE Weaver is an effective speaker. When He was successful enough in the his games — he hurt a knee cartilage. he talks about the pace of city life for classroom and on the playing field to be It required an operation and months of a young boy you can picture the scene accepted to Yale University after high- reconditioning to play again. The "Oil easily. "We really took advantage of school. "I was miserable there. It was a Can" was well-deserved. what Chicago had to offer, the muse­ good school, and I liked the people, but I One other thing happened at Michigan ums and concerts, the sports and the I was homesick. It was just not for me." State. He met Nancy Doty, soon to lake. I was in the choir and the glee He feels that he learned much from become Nancy Weaver. "I was taking a club at church and school; it was a his experience there. "I have always sophomore level course in my senior busy life. learned as much from adversity and year so I could fulfill all the require­ "Then we moved to the exact op­ failure as I have from success. I hope ments for my degree in English Litera­ posite, Goshen, Indiana. We were a I understand what our young players ture. Nancy was in the class and after few miles from South Bend in a small are going through when they come to working up my courage and older man's town and life became very different. Tech and are faced with the rigors of knowledge, I approached her with some For one thing I became involved in great line like 'Can I borrow a pencil?' organized sports for the first time." Fortunately, Nancy has always been Weaver's views of organized sports for able to cope with me and with our life." children are somewhat surprising con­ She certainly had the chance to ex­ sidering his position. hibit that ability during the next few "I never played on an adult-organized years. "I had taken ROTC and was team as a child. We would just find an waiting for my orders for six months. empty lot or sneak into a high school I worked as a delivery boy and played field and play. It was terrific fun. There semi-pro football for the Detroit Tires were no pressures, no fancy uniforms, for $50 a game. Finally, the Air Force and no interference. We got our dis­ assigned me to be a radar officer on cipline from home and school and the early warning line. We were sup­ athletics was just a part of being a child. posed to spot, track, and intercept It was no more important than music incoming enemy planes. The biggest or fishing. It would be nice if that ap­ problem was that all the stations for proach were more widespread today, that duty were in remote areas. I was but the kids need to do what their sent to Opheim, Montana, a town of peers are doing, so Little Leagues of all about 100 people. We were just below sorts are hard to avoid." the Canadian border, and the biggest town of any size was Glasgow, Montana. By the time high school years rolled It had 2,000 people. I was the happiest around though, Weaver was ready for man on earth when Nancy joined me. the challenge of sports on a highly It was difficult for her; we lived in a competitive level. For one thing, Notre one room hut between a bar and a jail. Dame was right down the road. "We It was possible to get snowed-in in June. used to try to sneak into the games or Our first baby was born in Glasgow talk someone into buying us tickets. We after we had traveled 50 miles." would drive all over the state to play academic work and the sport they play. ball and end up at Notre Dame to see It is a challenge for a young man, a When he was released from the serv­ Johnny Lujack. Lenny Ford was play­ challenge that can be a humbling and ice, football entered his life again. "I ing at Michigan and the Big Ten was exhilarating process at the same time." was offered a job as freshman coach strong. It was an exciting area for a Weaver left Yale after one semester at Michigan State. A year later I became sports fan. and visited some schools closer to home. an assistant varsity coach." A career in college coaching often involves many "I met Bill Walsh, who is an as­ But the more established schools like Purdue and Indiana did not appeal to moves and Weaver's career was no ex­ sistant with the Falcons now, when ception. In 1958 he became the first he played center at Notre Dame. I him. "Then I visited Michigan State. It had just entered the Big Ten and was assistant and head line coach for Dan wanted to be a center too, but I was a Devine at Missouri. Finally, he was quarterback my freshman year and a dedicated to being the best in every­ thing. I signed up the day I visited. It appointed as head coach at Kansas guard my sophomore season. I finally State, a position he held for seven years. was moved to center my junior year. I was an exciting place to be. I lived in also played more B-level basketball a quonset hut and worked in a cafeteria At the tender age of 36, with a wife games than anyone else in history. I that was also in a quonset hut. Biggie and three children, Weaver entered law was a starter for about five games in Munn was the head coach and Duffy school at the University of Kansas. It my senior year, but all the rest of the Daugherty was an assistant. I got to was a family decision, one that he feels time I just didn't have the talent. It play a lot and we were national cham­ helped the family to draw even closer seems odd, but you can go further with pions my senior year." He won't men­ together. "Everyone had to work at it; less talent in football than any other tion it, but among other honors he was it was not easy, but it was fun and sport at that level — as long as you twice awarded the "Oil Can" award as taught me how valuable, capable, and have good coaching and a great deal the most spirited player by his team­ wonderful my family is." It also taught of desire. mates. Talent alone can be an inherited him to understand the new generation attribute, but talent and spirit have to of students better. "I feel that I am "Sports still did not occupy all my come from within. His teammates recog­ more liberal now, more able to under­ time though. The glee club, swimming nized Weaver's real abilities. His college stand the students we see today. It was and fishing, and studies were still im­ career also included an event that is the middle of the sixties and schools portant." Even this early, Weaver was indicative of his determination and were in turmoil all over the country. I not afraid to be different. "I was the which makes him sympathetic to the was right in the middle of it." only boy in the Spanish club; I liked it plight of many athletes. He was injured. Another thing happened at Kansas. and the thought of being different from In the Notre Dame game his sophomore To help keep bread on the table he took the other boys never entered my mind." year — he can quote the scores of all (Continued on page 19)

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Dr. Melvin Kranzberg has been the Callaway Professor of the History of Technology at Georgia Tech since 1972. He is the founder of the Society for the History of Technology and editor of its quarterly journal. A nationally-known lecturer, he is the author of several books and numerous articles. Viewpoint is a continuing feature of this magazine. Opinions expressed in Viewpoint are not necessarily shared by the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association or the editor. Your opinions and comments are invited. Must Technology and the Social Environment Conflict?

THE MODERN NOVEL, the contemporary turned against their creators because Luddites to stampede us into unthinking drama, and today's poetry have as one there is something wrong with technol­ criticism of technology by literary allu­ of their most insistent themes the fear ogy. If they would remain true to the sions that are incorrect. that technology is taking over from man. letter and spirit of their metaphors, they Yet there is something even more And, in this current literature of anti- would discover that it was man himself disturbing about such literary swipes at technology, two metaphors constantly who was responsible for turning these technology, which have become almost appear: Frankenstein's monster, from the technical creations against humanity. a ritual among today's bleeding-heart 19th-century thriller by Mary Wollstone- The Monster of Frankenstein — and humanists. For they posit some sort of craft Shelley, and the robots from Karel I am speaking here about the original conflict between man and his technol­ Capek's play of the 1920s, R.U.R. Both novel — sought only warmth, under­ ogy, as if the two were somehow op­ these metaphors engulf us in the blood- standing, and sympathy. Yet his grue­ posed to each other and locked in chilling speculation that man has created some form and appearance turned mortal combat. the mechanical means of his own anni­ people against him, until finally, out of I find this somewhat strange because hilation, either literally or figuratively. despair, he turned against mankind. the historical facts indicate quite the These metaphors are more apt than In the case of Frankenstein's mon­ opposite: that man and his technology the critics who use them realize. For ster, it was not the machine which are inextricably intertwined, that tech­ one thing, the Monster of Frankenstein failed, but human beings, including Dr. nology has served as one of man's and Rossum's Universal Robots were Frankenstein himself. By indicating the chief tools as he sought to achieve his created by men who sought to do good monster's responsiveness to music and goals, both glorious and ignoble. In­ for mankind. To quote Dr. Frankenstein, human friendship, Mel Brooks' comic deed, man and his technology form part "I thought that if I could bestow anima­ masterpiece, "Young Frankenstein," is of a dynamic ecological system. tion upon lifeless matter, I might in truer to Ms. Shelley's novel than was Although some people think of ecol­ process of time . . . renew life where Boris Karloff in the older movie version ogy in narrow terms of the physical death had apparently devoted the body which you can see on the late, late environment, it is much broader in to corruption." Frankenstein thus con­ movies on television. its scope than that. According to its ceives of himself as man's benefactor, In the play R.U.R. it is also a human Greek root, ecology means the study pf as one who will "pour a torrent of light rather than a technological defect which "houses," so that Xenophon entitled into our dark world." creates problems. The trouble is caused, his study of the management of house­ The engineers who manufactured we learn, by Dr. Gall, Head of the holds the Oeconomicus. Since the house­ Rossum's Universal Robots were also Physiological and Experimental Depart­ hold is regarded as a "living environ­ motivated by altruism. As Harry Domin, ment of R.U.R., who changed the com­ ment," ecology gradually came to mean General Manager of the robot plant, position of the robots and sought to "the study of the structure and function states, "In ten: years time Rossum's make them more human — by making of nature," with the further understand­ Robots will produce so much corn, so them more irritable. Only when the ing that "nature" includes man and the much cloth, so much everything, that robots ceased to be machines and be­ entire living world. Ecology thus be­ things will cost practically nothing. came more human did they become came a science concerned with the There will be no poverty. All work will dangerous. dynamics of interrelationships in the be done by living machines. Everybody The story of Frankenstein is a psy­ physical environment. Here I extend will be free from worry and liberated chological thriller; the fault is not in the ecology to include the social environ­ from the degradation of labor. Every­ monster created by man but in man ment, for man with the aid of tech­ body will live only to perfect himself." himself. R.U.R. is a modern parable, nology has created his own physical and At this point, our anti-technologists an indictment of selfish materialism, not social environment which has thus be­ go off track. While willing to admit of the machine. It is important that we come part of the larger ecological system. that technologists are motivated by remember this distinction, and that we Our ecologists and environmenfalists altruism, they imply that the creations do not allow our modern literary think only of the natural environment,

14 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE and then only in terms of a static state human mind, but also because it product, and from work itself. Mass of nature. But that is scientifically inac­ affects the course of human and society provides bread, circuses, and curate, as any climatologist or geologist societal development. technology. But the material plenty, can attest. It is also historically inaccur­ It is, of course, this impact of tech­ according to Marcuse, yields no spirit- ate. The natural habitat of civilized man nology upon the social ecology that ' ual gratification and leads to social is the city. The physical environment of makes many sensitive individuals fear 1 oppression. Marcuse holds these prin­ civilized man includes his own artifacts that this very human activity — tech­ ciples to be self-evident in both capital­ as well as the handiwork of nature. nology — has grown so large and has ist and communist societies. They char­ The environment of 20th-century presented mankind with such awful acterize industrial civilization no matter Homo Americanus includes elevators, byproducts that it threatens to engulf what the socio-political arrangements telephones, electric ovens, air- man, making life uninhabitable on this might be. conditioners, TV sets, automobiles, planet. Technology, it has been said, Is technology really responsible for vacuum cleaners, central heating, re­ might be a good thing — but it might all these problems? Social thinkers like frigerators and umpteen other objects. be too much of a good thing. Look at Mumford, Marcuse, and Ellul think so, If we are concerned about protecting the inhuman uses to which it has been as do the adherents of the counter­ our environment — and I think we put. What about the devastation culture, such as Theodore Roszak and should be — it is equally important that wrought by wars during the 20th cen­ the late Paul Goodman. Theirs is a we protect our civilized, man-made tury, and the present possibility of de­ naive technological determinism, the environment as well as our natural en­ stroying the human race through nu­ notion that technology determines the vironment. Indeed, a good portion of clear warfare? What about the pattern for our lives, actions, values, our social environment has come about deterioration of the environment, and institutions. because we used our technology to pro­ created by air and water pollution, the This is an old complaint. Over a tect us against a natural environment spoliation of the countryside, and the century ago, Ralph Waldo Emerson which, except on the island of Tonga- rot of our cities? Technology, it is made the same complaint when he Tonga or a few other remote spots, is claimed, has destroyed the ecological said, "Things are in the saddle and ride mankind." Not all scholars would accept this version of technological omnipotence. Lynn White, the great medievalist and Man's material progress throughout the ages has been bound up president of the American Historical with his technology. Association, has said: "Technology opens doors, it does not compel one to enter." In this view, technology is an enabling mechanism, a means which pretty inhospitable and cruel to man — balance between man and nature; not man is free to employ as he sees fit. But and let's not forget it. only that, but we are robbing future the question then arises as to whether From savagery to barbarism to civili­ generations of their inheritance by we can distinguish between ends and zation, man's material progress through­ plundering the earth of irreplaceable means, and if the means do not some­ out the ages has been bound up with natural resources. Furthermore, tech­ times determine the ends. True, man is his technology. The story of how man nology has helped create the popula­ not compelled to enter Professor has utilized technology in order to tion explosion, and thereby produce a White's open door, but an open door master his environment is part of the situation where the planet will soon is an invitation. Besides, who decides great drama of man fighting against the become uninhabitable. which doors to open — and once men have entered the room, are not their unknown; this is the continuation of Is technology to blame for all the future actions and directions perhaps the struggle of Prometheus who stole problems which beset us? Yes, say guided by the contours of the cham­ fire from the gods in order to bring it some of the most influential humanists bers and corridors into which they to mankind. Ever since that time, man of our time. Though willing to admit have stepped? More importantly, once has sought to use nature to his own that technology has "raised the ceiling we have crossed the threshold, can we ends, to control nature, and to master of human achievement," Lewis Mum- turn back? and establish his own environment. ford claims that modern technology This is a very human activity — this has become authoritarian and is "trans­ Frankly, we historians of technology is technology. ferring the attributes of life to the ma­ do not know the answer to this ques­ Technology is inseparable from men chine and the mechanical collective." tion of technological determinism; ours and communities. The technologist is Jacques Ellul, the French legal philos­ is a new discipline, and we are still concerned with the applications of opher, has a similar apocalyptic view, working on the problem — and we science and other forms of knowledge feeling that technology has become the might never reach agreement upon an to the needs of man in society; he is end of human life. answer. Yet, there are several things up to his neck in human problems Fusing ideas borrowed from both which we do know. One is that tech­ whether he likes it or not. When our Freud and Marx, Herbert Marcuse, the nology's interaction with the social en­ Peace Corps built a road in tropical guru of the new left and the mentor vironment is such that technical de­ Africa, that road was more than an of Angela Davis, attacks industrial velopments frequently have social and exercise in civil engineering. It was, in civilization on the grounds that it has human consequences which go far be­ fact, a major experiment in social an­ flattened man into a "one-dimensional" yond the immediate purposes of the thropology, for it affected the primitive being. Even admitting that more men technical devices and practices them­ villages up-country and acted as a com­ may be happier today than ever before, selves. munication link which stimulated the their happiness, he claims, is "a state of Rather than retracing all history to acculturation of those people to modern anesthesia." Though technology has make this point, I shall focus on two Western society. Every technological done away with scarcities, it forces men, developments in the 20th century activity has social consequences. Tech­ says Marcuse, to "exhausting, stupefy­ which have had — and continue to nology is thus of humanistic interest, ing, inhuman slavery," alienating the have — profound repercussions upon not only because it is a product of the workers from each other, from their (Continued on next page)

APRIL 1977 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZLNE 15 ciety; the intolerance, "racism," or just now, with the aid of machines, the same (Continued) plain indifference of the white com­ work is done with as little as 13!A hours Viewpoint munity; the lack of foresight and of labor. In the Mississippi Delta, some sensitivity on the part of the public 30,510 workers were employed in the American society and which manifest officials; the failure of effective law back-breaking task of picking cotton in my statement that technology has so­ enforcement; the presence of outside 1960; by 1967 the introduction of cial ramifications which do not nec­ agitators, and so on and on. Yet the cotton-picking machinery had caused essarily seem inherent in the tech­ deeper causes of the Black Revolt have that number to dwindle to 7,225 to pick nology itself. technological foundations. Let me the same amount of cotton. There was Take women's rights, for instance. show you. no longer place or need for unskilled The emancipation of women is a recent Many historians claim that Negro labor in the South. So, on or off relief, phenomenon within Western society, slavery was languishing in this country Blacks either died of malnutrition — dating back only some 50 years, and it near the close of the 18th century, the polite American term for starvation can scarcely be said that engineers con­ when an ingenious innovation, Eli — or moved out. More moved than sciously sought to advance that cause. Whitney's cotton gin of 1793, lowered died because another marvel of tech­ When we see old newsreels showing the price of upland cotton in the United nology emerged. The automobile gave suffragettes marching down Fifth Ave­ States. The obvious economic advan­ mobility to the entire population of the nue demanding equal rights for women, tages of this invention fastened the United States, including even poverty- we assume that the pressures exerted by plantation system and the institution of stricken Negroes and Whites in battered Susan B. Anthony and her followers slavery upon the American South. jalopies. were responsible for the freedom of Within another half century, however, The urban industrial centers beck­ women in the modern world. Don't you some historians claim, slave labor had oned like promised lands flowing with believe it! proved itself so inefficient as to be machines and jobs which, unfortunately, Except at a few colleges, female technologically obsolete. This view has were in the hands of the Canaanites and emancipation never really moved for­ recently been challenged, but no mat­ Philistines. Possessing mobility and no ward until Charles Kettering came ter. The fact is that slavery was both longer having even a minuscule eco­ along with the self-starter for the auto­ morally reprehensible and ideologically nomic stake in southern rural regions, mobile. Now the hand that rocked the indefensible in a democratic society. a vast migration of Negroes flowed cradle but could not turn a crank had The movement toward its abolition from southern farms to northern cities. only to turn a key. The cradle itself cost us a civil war, and the South, being Between 1940 and 1970, some 4.4 mil­ gave way to the kiddy-seat 'beside technologically underdeveloped, lost to lion blacks left the south, flooding the Mom, with both Mom and kiddy hell­ the more industrialized North. Al­ north with "unemployables," a term bent on seeing the world. The suf­ though the slaves were emancipated, perhaps invented by those who wished fragettes won women the right to vote, they remained in economic poverty, to avoid doing anything about the problem. This technologically-powered flight of the rural poor to the big cities had far-reaching consequences, none of True emancipation of women came with the auto and techno­ which was avoidable by the invention logical devices which freed them from household chores. of more new words like "in-migrant," "underprivileged," and "disadvantaged." These words, however, helped explain away the next cruel technological blow which fell upon the poor Southern but women were far too smart to use social bondage, and political disen- Black migrating to the promised land, that club. Engineers were handing franchisement for nearly another cen­ where the streets are paved with gold. them much better ones. The true eman­ tury. In the end, however, it was The Black migrant could find no place cipation of women came when the auto technological advance in the 20th cen­ in today's sophisticated technology. Per­ gave them mobility and when tech­ tury which finally delivered the Negro haps for the first time in Western his­ nological devices within the home freed from southern to northern peonage. tory we saw in the 1950s and 1960s them from onerous household chores. In this connection, three advances are the spectacle of large-scale unemploy­ When frozen foods came in, every of special note. First was the industrial­ ment while thousands of jobs went woman became a great cook. Auto­ ization of the South. Machines are begging. There was no match between mated machines and detergents made color-blind; they do not know or care the openings, requiring highly skilled her a great laundress. Supermarkets whether the hands which guide them workmen, and the available labor sup­ converted her into a canny purchasing are white, black, blue, purple, yellow, ply. agent. The pill allows her to have chil­ or green. And for this, among other Compounding the frustration was dren, if, as, and when she wants them. reasons, the South resisted machines far another miracle of modern technology, The upshot is that, while we men still into the 20th century. It was a hopeless the television set. As a revolutionary decide the really important questions cause. instrument, TV must rank alongside the of the world like stemming Communism Second was the development of new Declaration of Independence and the in Angola, the women make all those agricultural techniques and products. Rights of Man. Into the shabby living unimportant decisions having to do with They ended the reign of King Cotton room of the Negro relief client were money, food, shelter, clothing, and the and the dependence of the South on piped the dreams and sugarcoated real­ good life. one crop. ities of an affluent society. He was in­ Let me take another example —• the Third was the development of the vited to spend hours watching how Black Revolution, manifested through mechanical cottonpicker which deprived good life was for everybody else and violence, destruction, and death. We the Negro field-hand of his livelihood. hearing about products which everyone attribute this, perhaps rightly, to many Only a quarter of a century ago it took seemed able to buy, except him. For different socio-cultural factors: the a man with a mule 160 hours to plant, the first time in history, the disinherited frustration of the Negro in white so- cultivate, and pick an acre of cotton; could see the affluence of the wealthy

16 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE intimately, with immediate perception rate from 750,000 to 1500 a year. Is it away with the dangerous exhaust. In of what they were missing. They wanted surprising that Indians might view DDT other words, we rely upon the "tech­ to partake of the great outpouring of in a somewhat different light than nological fix," that is, remedying mat- goods which engineers had made pos­ Americans? \ ters by the application of more or sible, yet they were denied all legal Let me take a case which is even i better technology rather than our own and socially acceptable means to obtain closer to home and which shows how forbearance. We favor our own in­ them. problems of scale can alter the bene­ human use of technology in order to And so we packaged wealth and ficial aspects of technology. This is the suit our own comfort and convenience privilege for television. We displayed case of the automobile. — and we ignore the health and safety it publicly to the poor and nonpriv- At the turn of this century, auto­ of the community at large. If and when ileged whom we barred from the sys­ mobiles were regarded as a solution to gasoline rationing comes upon us, we tem. Then wc wondered why they the pollution, congestion, and safety will blame the government, industry, rioted and looted. problems created by horse-drawn trans­ oil potentates, and what have you — The sad history, whose social reper­ portation. That was a time when in everybody but ourselves and our ma­ cussions are still working themselves New York City alone horses deposited terialist values — and we will look to a out, illustrates the wide-ranging inter­ some 2Vi million pounds of manure technological fix to relieve us of the actions of technology with many differ­ and 60,000 gallons of urine in one day. consequences of our own selfishness. ent elements of our social environment. The automobile promised cleaner, Technology sometimes obeys our Yet we take our technology for quieter, and more rapid transportation commands, and when our successful granted. Our daily lives have been so — but as we know, pollution, conges­ technology brings problems in its wake, inextricably bound up with our tech­ tion, and safety problems have returned we ameliorate the situation by still more nology, that we fail to realize how in altered form as a result of the large- technology, which brings us again to unique and significant it is, until we scale use of the automobile. catastrophe. are faced with altering the patterns of This is because pollution of the But catastrophe can be averted, if our lives by a sudden energy crisis. I atmosphere by automobiles is what is we use our technology with humane and reminded of the ninety-year-old known as a threshold phenomenon. compassion and with some understand­ woman who flinched from taking a That is, a small number of automobiles ing and comprehension of the social ride in an airplane, one of the technical have little effect upon the salubrity of ecology in which our technology will marvels of our time: "No siree," she the air; however, when a sufficient be employed. For one thing, we must said, "not for me. I'm going to sit right number of automobiles emit noxious understand that while technology has here at home and watch television, just fumes, these reach a point where they provided us with goods and services, the way the good Lord intended I can no longer be dissipated into the food, shelter, and clothing, a better should." atmosphere and where they pose a world has not yet come into being Many of our technology-related problems arise because of the unfore­ seen consequences when apparently benign technologies are employed on a massive scale. Hence many technical We displayed wealth and privilege to the poor and wondered why applications which seemed a boon to mankind when first introduced became they rioted and looted. threats when their use became wide­ spread. For example, DDT was em­ ployed to raise agricultural productivity and to eliminate disease-carrying pests. Then we discovered that DDT not only threat to the health of the entire com­ largely because we have not had the did that but also threatened ecological munity. For purpose of illustration, let social innovations to accompany our systems, including man himself. So, we us say that 100,000 automobiles can technological advancement. Instead we and many other industrialized nations operate in Philadelphia without creating have utilized our technical achieve­ banned it. We in the United States a health hazard, but the 100,001st auto­ ments in the service of values and in­ could afford to do so, because our high mobile's exhaust fumes push the amount stitutions belonging to an earlier, more technological level enables us to use of noxious emissions beyond the thres­ competitive society based on scarcity. alternative means of pest control to hold of safety. Now, who is responsible We have allowed many of the benefits achieve the same results at a slightly for the dangers created by the automo­ of an advancing technology to be ap­ higher cost. bile smog? The 100,001st car or the propriated by narrow interest groups, Other nations, however, are not so other 100,000? Are any of us willing and we have ignored our own con­ well placed: they must use any and to forgo the convenience and pleasure sciences and our own ideals. What every technological advance which they of having our own individual trans­ should we do about it? And do we have can afford in order to subsist, even if portation in order to reduce the smog enough time? that technology might have harmful level? No, it is always the other fellow Within the past few years we have side effects. For example, India must who should leave his car at home and begun to develop mechanisms for di­ have the insecticidal benefits from DDT walk or use public transportation, not recting our technology to serve the despite its harmful effects, because it us. We are willing to accept the risks common weal rather than the interest would not be economically feasible for of a smog-laden atmosphere for the of narrow interest groups. These new- India to change to an insecticide less sake of our own comfort and con­ socio-political mechanisms go under the persistent than DDT which would re­ venience. We place the blame not on general heading of Technology Assess­ quire spraying every few weeks instead ourselves, and our own selfishness, but ment, which attempts to evaluate the of twice a year. According to the World on Detroit for seducing us to buy social and human consequences of the Health Organization, the use of DDT vehicles which give off dangerous applications of science and technology in India cut down the incidence of emissions. We continue to drive our — before these are applied. Man has al­ malaria from 100 million cases a year cars and angrily demand that Detroit ways assessed the effectiveness of his to only 15,000 cases, and the death change the engine design in order to do (Continued on next page)

APRIL 1977 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE 17 (Continued) problems created by technology, there­ past half-dozen years, and in 1970 there Viewpoint by contradicting the gloomy predictions was 50% more sunshine than ten years of our contemporary doomsayers. For earlier. Today some seventy species of technology, but his past assessments example, our limited historical ex­ fish are swimming in the Thames, and were confined to seeing if it would perience with environmental legislation, commercial fishing fleets are working murder his enemies more effectively or demonstrates that the environment can the estuary. Birds have returned, in­ bring him greater profits. Now we are be cleaned up without sacrificing the cluding some thousands of ducks and trying to extend this assessment to economy or standard of living, and wading birds from Russia and Northern second-order and third-order social and without bringing the last judgment one Europe wintering along the Thames human consequences. day closer. River — some of them not seen in You are already familiar with some Many technological impacts which England in the 20th century. The of the manifestations of this technology were considered irreversible a few years Thames is now said to be the cleanest assessment movement, which was an­ ago have lately been reversed. Part of river in Europe. alyzed so brilliantly by Carroll Pursell it is due to the toughness and adapta­ The history of the Thames shows us in his Mellon Lectures of last year. bility of nature itself. But it has been several things: how man created pollu­ These manifestations go under the head­ nature aided by technology — and by tion long before industrialization began; ings of environmentalism, consumerism, protective legislation — which has re­ how technology added to the pollution and accountability. For example, the versed past damage to the environment. to create a dead river; how technology public is beginning to demand that An example of how environmental was called upon to cleanse the sewage scientists, engineers, business corpora­ pollution can give way to determined before it reached the river; and how tions, and government officials be held attack is provided by London and the the public's will to establish laws and accountable for the environmental, hu­ Thames River. enforce them helped restore the Thames man, and social consequences of their Since the beginnings of the Indus­ to a purity which it has not had for actions. The passage of the Environ­ trial Revolution, London has probably some 500 years. Amazingly, this task mental Quality Control Act and the been subjected to more pollution than was accomplished within some 15 establishment of the Environmental any other city in the world, but the years. And the same thing is happen­ Protection Agency were demonstrations pollution of the Thames antedated the ing with the Rhine River, where the of the public's concern, as was the re­ Industrial Revolution. When Henry VI simple imposition of an effluent tax is cent institution of the Office of Tech­ died in 1471 and his coffin was brought already producing a cleaner river. nology Assessment by the Congress. to Windsor Castle from the Tower of Although this is very recent, it is The simple fact is that the public has London, the attending monks on the still history nonetheless. It shows us been aroused by the spectre of damage funeral barge held their nostrils be­ how by better use of existing technology to the ecology and environment, it is cause of the stench from the river's we can, if we possess the strength of frightened by the possibility of lowering sewage. Because the river reeked so will, undo the ecological consequences our current standard of living, and it is much at ebb tide, James I, some 150 of our heedless applications of tech­ furious about the shoddiness and in­ years later, threatened to move his nology in the past and can avoid the adequacy of the consumer products of­ court to Windsor, and a century later doomsday outcome of the systems ana­ fered by American industry. Queen Anne toyed with the idea of lysts who are so enamored of their As Betty Furness, former consumer transferring Parliament to Oxford. In computerized projections that they for­ adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson the 19th century, when the situation had get to look at what is actually happen­ and later chairman of the New York worsened due to industrial and urban ing in the world. State Consumer Protection Board, said in Washington at a Congressional hear­ ing— and I quote — "If American industry continues to sow contempt for Autos were once regarded as the solution to the pollution, con­ the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer. And from Congress gestion, and safety problems created by horse-drawn transporta­ it will reap statutes. This could be the tion. most spectacular case of statutory reap in history." The point I am trying to make is that technology is not the sole cause of our growth, porters hung sheets dipped in Yet such limited victories should not troubles, nor is it the only solution to chlorine from the tall windows of the lull us into the false belief that all our our problems. Technological applica­ Houses of Parliament in order to keep troubles are behind us and that we tions are determined only partly by the out the smell of the river. can therefore ignore the warnings of technology itself; they are also de­ These dreadful conditions prevailed doomsday. There is still much to be termined by businessmen, government until little more than a decade ago. done, but we can take heart by seeing officials, soldiers, and others whose how so-called "irreversible" impacts of : By that time the tidal reaches of the chief concerns rhight be self-serving Thames were so polluted that no fish, technology upon the physical environ­ rather than conformity with a demo­ except eels, could survive in them. ment can be reversed. If we can do that cratic social ethic. Furthermore, there Birds had deserted the banks, and in with the physical environment, can we are social technologies as well as physi­ the dry summer months scientists failed not attempt the same with the social cal technologies. Whenever a technolog­ to detect any dissolved oxygen in the environment? ical change is introduced, we must also river water. To all intents and purposes, After all, if ours is a man-made develop appropriate software — a social the Thames was a dead river. world, cannot man remake it? Tech­ technology — in order to use it most Within the past decade the passage nology Assessment might provide us effectively. and strict enforcement of antipollution with a powerful tool to that end. I am Some recent history demonstrates laws and the application of environ­ in favor of Technology Assessment be­ how a combination of social and physi­ mental technologies have changed the cause it reaffirms my faith in man and cal technologies can be extremely ef­ situation remarkably. London's pea- in democracy. Let me explain. fective in undoing some of the past soup fogs have been absent for the At a time when many nay-sayers

18 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE deprecate American culture, saying that tem, is where those decisions belong. dence if we set ourselves to the task we have become a nation of hedonistic Democracy allows us the privilege of of educating our future citizens to un­ materialists and that we have allowed making mistakes. Technology Assess­ derstand the social forces accompany­ technology to rule our lives, Technology ment merely tells us the options open ing technological change and to play a Assessment insists that man is still in to us and their possible and probably meaningful part in the social process control of his destiny. Technology As­ consequences. So, even if we have itself. sessment says that man can control the highly skilled Technology Assessment, If we professors do our jobs proper­ use of his own technology; that human we are still likely to make mistakes in ly, I think students will be able to do skill, imagination, and creativity can our use of technology. But we will theirs. I think they can solve the prob­ help bring man a better life; that we make our mistakes through choice, not lems of our social environment. I am are not the playthings of a mindless through ignorance of the consequences. technology which crunches us under­ Ours is a society of so-called "high" sure that, in so doing, their success will foot; and that man can use his ma­ technology. We may be no more happy be only partial. They;will create more chines to serve all mankind rather than nor more secure than our ancestors, but problems for their successors even as the narrow interests of a special few. ours is an exciting age in which to live, my generation has done. I think their Technology Assessment is also demo­ and we must prepare students to successors will also solve those prob­ cratic. It does not mean that a group live in a world of continuous and rapid lems, and in turn create new ones and of technocrats, or a scientific and tech­ change. "It is the business of the fu­ so history will be made. And, as a his­ nological elite, will make decisions for ture," said Alfred North Whitehead, torian of technology, let me conclude us. These will be made by the political "to be dangerous." But we can accept by reminding you that the lesson of that process, and that, in a democratic sys­ the risks with composure and confi­ history is hope: H-O-P-E. A

Finally, thus far, Pepper Rodgers are the real Tech. I am important only offered his name for consideration when as I can help to maintain that tradition Tech was looking for a new athletic and style. To be sure, time necessitates director. His qualifications were ob­ some changes, but the spirit of Tech vious. A former player, head coach, must be preserved. (Continued from page 13) and lawyer, he could deal with dif­ "We need some physical renovation. ferent functions and problems with a A new athletic building and new locker a job as "the oldest graduate assistant in great reserve of knowledge and experi­ rooms, for instance. We joined the the country." He became an assistant ence. As Pepper says, "If I were to Metro-7 last year and I think that it football coach for head coach Pepper leave Tech tomorrow, my greatest has already paid dividends in fan inter­ Rodgers. During those three years, accomplishment would be that I helped est and in building our basketball team. Kansas won a Big Eight title and a trip bring Doug Weaver here." We experimented with night football to the Orange Bowl. Weaver spent a Now the future is what concerns and will play at night once next year. year practicing law in Lawrence, Kansas Doug Weaver. Both his future and We need to increase attendance at all before football and Pepper Rodgers Tech's. He cares deeply about the our sports. But most of all, we want called him back. He became assistant school and his players. "I have spent our fans and alumni to be proud of us." head coach at UCLA. most of my life with young men. I have Weaver seems especially able to In 1973, he was appointed Athletic taught, coached, . and ordered them. impart his excitement about Tech and Director at Southern Illinois University. They are always challenging; they are sports. It is probably because he has One year later he also became head so full of life that their spirit is infec­ never lost the excitement he felt as a football coach. He had turned down an tious. I respect them and their inno­ child. "I like the changing seasons and offer to be an athletic director at a cence, talent, and ambition. The students the sports they bring. I love each sport Big Eight school while working for here at Tech are producers. They have as it is renewed each year. If I ever lose Pepper in Los Angeles, but had decided a certain style that comes from talent that love, I'll probably go somewhere that he was needed at Southern Illinois. and confidence. I know that they and and open a bait shop; I'll sit and fish He directed the drive to build a new the other students who came before and reminisce. But I think I love Tech football stadium while he was there. them and who will come in the future too much for that to be anytime soon."A

APRIL 1977 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE 19 BEN ZINN:

Research," "Combustion Science and Technology," and "Progress in Energy and Combustion." This month, Dr. Zinn is in Brazil serving as a consultant to the Brazilian government as they set up a National Combustion Lab. In 1971, he toured several European countries, on a NATO Advisory Group for Aerospace Re­ search and Development (AGARD) speaking tour. He is chairman and a member of the Board of Directors of the Eastern Section (U.S. and Canada) of the Combustion Institute. In 1976, he was the recipient of Georgia Tech's Sigma Xi Sustained Research Award. Dr. Zinn heads a Tech research team which is studying the properties of the smoke produced during the burning and smoldering of building materials and furnishings, especially new materials, such as plastics. This project, which could save lives and reduce property losses due to smoke produced during fires, is funded by both governmental and industrial sponsors. This research program is currently sponsored by the National Bureau of Standards, the Prod­ ucts Research Committee (which is financially supported by the plastics industry) and the Olin Corporation. According to Dr. Zinn, available data indicates that fires result in annual property losses valued in the billions "MY WORK IS MY HOBBY," explains a U.S. National Soccer team. After mov­ and in 12,000 deaths. The latter statis­ Georgia Tech Regents' Professor who ing to Atlanta, he was approached by tic is even more tragic when one realizes is currently responsible for eight re­ the Atlanta Chiefs professional soccer that the 12,000 lives represent a higher search projects totalling $362,000 an­ team, but declined because of his aca­ per capita fire death rate than any other nually in addition to his teaching, lec­ demic responsibilities. nation on earth. More than half of turing, and consulting responsibilities. "I have been very happy at Georgia these deaths can be attributed to causes Dr. Ben T. Zinn, Regents' Professor Tech," Zinn commented. "I have had other than burns; namely, smoke, heat, of Aerospace Engineering, concentrates offers from other prestigious schools, poisonous gases, or oxygen deficiency. on three main research areas: fire safe­ but I prefer to stay here." Zinn says that Smoke and toxic gases produced in ty, combustion instability and acoustics. he likes the freedom and variety of his building fires often result in the in­ In addition, he is an internationally- work, in addition to the opportunity to capacitation of the occupants who are known lecturer and serves on the edi­ meet people and solve contemporary later burned by the spreading flames. torial board of several professional problems through research. In other instances, smoke obscures the journals. He is the author of 85 publi­ Dr. Zinn came to Tech in 1965 after vision of the occupants, preventing them cations and has participated in more receiving his undergraduate degree from finding and using available escape than 100 seminars or technical pres­ from New York University, masters routes. These victims soon succumb to entations. degrees from Stanford and Princeton either toxic effects of the combustion When asked how he finds time to Universities, and his doctorate from products, heat, oxygen deficiency or teach, travel for 'speaking engagements, Princeton. He spent a minimal amount the ensuing flames. and conduct several research projects of time at each academic rank at Tech, In addition to being a critical factor on campus, Dr. Zinn concedes that his becoming a full professor at 33 and a in fatal fires in homes, dormitories, work consumes most of the time that Regents' Professor at 36. apartments, hopitals, nursing homes, others spend on hobbies. The former Zinn is currently editing two vol­ prisons, offices, stores and aircraft, international soccer star does find time umes to be published by the American smoke also interferes with firemen in for daily exercise, however. He jogs or Institute of Aeronautics and Astronau­ rescue operations, in pinpointing the plays tennis. tics under the title Diagnostics In Com­ location of fire, and in extinguishing the A native of Israel, Zinn played on bustion Systems. It is a collection of fire. Thus, smoke results in greater Israel's national soccer team, then' papers presented a year ago at an In­ overall fire damage. Smoke can also moved to America where he was an ternational Colloquim on Combustion cause direct physical damage to parts All-American soccer player at New Diagnosis. He serves on the editorial of the building not actually involved in York University and played for the boards of the following journals: "Fire the fire.

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According to Dr. Zinn, the smoke Data generated in these tests will hope­ Dr. Zinn's group is one of the few hazard is related to the fact that during fully be used by governments, building university research groups that are con­ the initial phases of most fires, the rate code officials, and aircraft manufac­ cerned with the problem of combustion of spread of smoke and toxic gases turers in the determination of what instability in propulsive , devices. Over from the fire site to nearby locations is materials will or will not be allowed the years, this research has been sup­ considerably faster than the spread of in the construction of buildings, furn­ ported by NASA and: the Air Force. the fire itself. Hence, the hazards as­ ishings, and aircrafts. Hopefully, such Currently Dr. Zinn has three sponsors: sociated with exposure to combustion restrictions will eliminate the future use namely, a $100,000 contract from the products are ever increasing as new of materials that have been shown to Air Force Rocket Propulsion Labora­ materials, such as plastics, with un­ produce highly toxic smoke. tory for development of theoretical ap­ known combustion products, are com­ Much of the data and know-how proaches for predicting the stability of ing into use as building and furnishing developed in the course of the present solid propellant rocket motors; $53,000 materials. research is directly applicable to air grant from the Air Force Office of Another significant factor in the in­ pollution studies where scientists and Scientific Research for the experimental creased smoke hazard is the ever in­ engineers are concerned with the re­ determination of the "capabilities" of creasing numbers of highrise buildings. duction of the amount of particulates different solid propellants to drive com­ Smoke produced by fire in a localized generated by various stationary and bustion instabilities; and a $55,000 area of a multi-story building is often moving power generating devices that grant, provided by NASA, for the in­ transported by natural and fire-induced are polluting our environment. vestigation of the driving of combus­ air currents as well as heating, ventilat­ Over the past several years Dr. Zinn tion instabilities by various gaseous ing, and air-conditioning systems, to has been heavily engaged in research in rocket injectors. parts of the building remote from the the area of combustion instability in pro­ A portion of Dr. Zinn's research fire. Victims become trapped when pulsion systems. The problem of com­ activities over the years has been de­ stairwells and elevator shafts fill with bustion instability has plagued many voted to acoustics. In this area, he has smoke. Thus, means for keeping these propulsion systems, such as airbreath- developed theoretical models to describe vertical shafts smoke-free during fires ing engines and liquid and solid rocket the behavior of sound-absorbing devices must be developed and incorporated motors, that have been developed to when they are exposed to high intensity into multi-story building designs. date. Combustion instability manifests noise. He has also developed experi­ Smoke consists of a complex mixture itself as organized, periodic, high am­ mental facilities for the evaluation of of solid and liquid particles such as plitude pressure oscillations that are the performance of sound-absorbing soot, tar droplets, mists, etc. in addi­ supported by energy derived from the devices under conditions similar to tion to the gaseous combustion prod­ combustion process. In most instances, those experienced in rocket motors and ucts. Dr. Zinn's group is currently con­ the presence of combustion instability jet engines. cerned with the determination of both leads to the destruction of the propul­ Currently, Dr. Zinn is the principal the physical and chemical properties sive device and failure of the mission. researcher for two acoustics projects. of the smoke produced by burning dif­ Hence, there is considerable incentive One, supported by the Air Force Office ferent natural and synthetic materials for developing design procedures that of Scientific Research, is investigating under different conditions simulating will result in stable engine operation. sound propagation within and outside real fire situations. To be able to per­ The attainment of this goal is the pri­ practical geometries found in engines. form the needed measurements, a mary objective of Dr. Zinn' research in Results of this study will be used to unique research facility has been devel­ this area. predict the characteristics of the pres­ oped by Dr. Zinn's group on the One phase of Dr. Zinn's combustion sure oscillations inside unstable solid Georgia Tech campus. Materials cur­ instability research activities is the de­ propellant rocket motors having com­ rently under study in this facility in­ velopment of theoretical approaches plex geometries, as well as predict the clude wood, various polyvinyl chlorides, that would enable engine designers to pattern of the sound radiated from jet polyurethanes and so on. Since most of apriori determine whether a proposed engines. these smoke particles are as small as engine design would be stable or un­ The second grant, supported by one micron (a millionth of a meter) in stable. It involves the solution of the NASA, will develop analytical means diameter and some consist of more than complex system of equations that de­ that could be used by acousticians in two hundred chemical compounds, one scribe the flow and combustion dy­ optimizing the acoustic treatments that can appreciate the complexities and namics inside rocket motors. To date, are used to quiet turbofan engines. In difficulties associated with the measure­ novel approaches for the solution of the absence of such techniques, current ments performed. these equations have been developed by engine development programs must re­ This fire safety research facility is Dr. Zinn's group, and some of these sort to the use of costly and cut-and-try unique in the sense that it can test the approaches are currently being used by methods in an effort to quiet jet en­ "smoking capabilities" of materials un­ various government agencies in their gines. Hopefully, Zinn's research results der a variety of real fire situations and evaluation of the stability of rocket will reduce the cost of quieting jet it can simultaneously measure more motors. The experimental phase of the engines. properties than any other facility in combustion instability research program As far as future research plans are existence. Research plans for the near is concerned with the evaluation of the concerned, Dr. Zinn hopes to find time future call for the use of this facility contribution of various rocket motor to do research on energy-related prob­ as a screening device that will be used processes and components to the ampli­ lems. He also would like to use results to determine the relative hazards of the fication and damping of the pressure of his past and current research to smoke produced by different materials oscillations generated during combus­ solve air pollution problems associated currently in use by various industries. tion instability. with power generating devices. •

APRIL 1977 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE 21 Ewell Barnes & Georgia Tech:' 0 Years of ! rvice By JOSEPH BEACH

FOR 30 YEARS, Ewell Barnes has served But Tech has grown in more than just dents, we have a faculty with a good Georgia Tech, and on July 1, 1977 will size. "We have fine new buildings, labs work attitude. That is what makes Tech retire as vice-president of business and and classrooms which are well equipped a quality institution in my opinion," finance. for their purposes. This is a great bene­ he says. As a student, teacher and adminis­ fit for both students and faculty." Although the student body hasn't trator, Barnes has spent his entire life Another area in which Tech has ex­ changed much over the years, Barnes in the academic world. panded is its graduate school. When feels that the direction of the school has Upon graduation from Berry College, Barnes came to Tech in 1947, the under­ changed somewhat. "Back then, the Barnes began his career as an edu­ graduate program was very good, but school was more practically oriented. cator, teaching accounting at his alma there was practically no graduate pro­ Now it is more theoretical, much more mater. After teaching at Berry College, gram. The graduate program, and with complex. The demands of society are it was on to Georgia Southwestern, the it the research program, have both been different now than they were 30 years University of Georgia and the Univer­ developed during his tenure, mainly in ago. Tech has changed to meet the sity of Tampa before he joined the staff the past few years. Barnes feels that the needs of a changing society," he says. of Georgia Tech in 1947. dedication of Tech's current president, How have things changed at Georgia One of the best things to happen to Dr. Joseph M. Pettit, is the main factor Georgia Tech since he arrived, Barnes Tech in that time? "The biggest change, behind this positive growth. and the most noticeable, is the size of feels, is the admission of women. the campus," he says. "It's been a long In his 30 years at Tech, Barnes has "Having women on campus helps Tech growth process. We have bought up lots seen the school grow from a pre-war provide a well balanced education adjacent to campus one at a time. It is size of 2,000 to the current enrollment for everyone." certainly a slow way to build a campus." of over 9,000. Although the campus Much of the change which has taken Barnes explained that some of Tech's, and student body have grown dramat­ place at Tech in the last 30 years has growth came in two plots of ground ically, there has been little change in been because of strong leadership, ac­ from urban renewal. "If we weren't able ' the student body, says Barnes. "We have cording to Barnes. "In my years at to grow in acreage, the only other alter­ and always have had a work-oriented Tech, I have served under four presi­ native was to grow up into the air," student body. That is the heart of this dents and four acting presidents. We've he says. whole institution. Along with the stu­ been going through a continuous chang-

22 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE c ing process since I've been here. There Rpmblin Ttynd Gampus have been no sudden changes, though, it is more like a healthy evolution, the kind of change that alumni like to see." "The presidents I have served under have all been good, strong men who EES Designs have used their resources very well. The fact that we've had more hard times Radiometer for NASA than good times in the last 30 years, and Tech has still grown, indicates that ONE OF THE MOST ADVANCED millimeter "As far as we know," commented we've had good leadership," he says. wave radiometers in the country, de­ EES Senior Research Engineer James "Any organization is only as good as signed by Georgia Tech's Engineering Schuchardt, "this is the first experi­ the man in charge, and I wouldn't have Experiment Station (EES), is ready for mental flight of a radiometer system changed a single one of them," he says. high altitude atmospheric measurements designed to measure water vapor con­ During his tenure at Georgia Tech, aboard a NASA Convair 990 jet air­ centrations simultaneously at different Ewell Barnes has seen the Institute's craft. altitudes." budget grow with its enrollment. "A The radiometer was developed for The radiometer, designed to fit into technological education by nature costs NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center a passenger window of the Convair more to provide than a liberal arts edu­ for use in testing atmospheric water jet, will be tested at a flying altitude cation, simply because of the scientific vapor concentrations and collecting of 30,000 to 35,000 feet. "This will equipment and laboratories which are storm research data. allow us to fly above most weather necessary," he says. "But we've had a In mid-February the radiometer was formations and give us better data on fair cut of the state allocation since I've installed aboard the Convair 990 by the atmosphere," said Jim Stratigos, been at Tech." According to Barnes, EES engineers, John Langley and Jim assistant research engineer. Stratigos the state allocations to the University Stratigos. A total of 15 six-hour non­ will be responsible for equipment main­ System have reflected the economy of stop flights have been scheduled by tenance and operation during the the state. "In 1947 it was a different NASA over a four-week period. flight tests. world, Atlanta was a different city then. The testing will be conducted over When the atmospheric storm en­ The economy of the state has developed the Pacific Ocean and over land, with vironment tests are completed in late tremendously since those days," he says. flights originating from San Francisco, March, the radiometer equipment will "The state of Georgia has always done Seattle and Anchorage. be returned to Tech's Engineering Ex­ the best it could do in regard to the Designed by the Electromagnetics periment Station. "We can expect to University System," says Barnes. Laboratory of the Engineering Experi­ see this type of measuring equipment But Barnes feels that things are look­ ment Station, the radiometer is a highly used on future meteorological satellites ing bright for the future of the Institute. sensitive receiver used to measure emis­ in the 1980's," Schuchardt said. A "The economic situation we have now sions from the atmosphere and the just can't continue," he says. "There earth's surface. It operates at a fre­ has been a definite improvement in the quency of 183.3 GHz. economy. The state revenues are in­ Through precise on-board calibra­ creasing and the allocation to the Uni­ tion, it is capable of measuring the versity System will increase, too. But extremely small amounts of electro­ Tech Team Captures there will be no big change in a short magnetic energy radiated by any object period of time," according to Barnes, with a temperature above absolute zero. College Bowl who forsees no drastic change in student The radiometer has an antenna with fees or other costs in the near future. a beam that can be moved to view Competition In addition to financial support from certain ground or cloud scenes, or ref­ the state, Barnes points out that the erence temperature structures used for THE GEORGIA TECH TEAM captured support the institute receives from the calibration. In effect, it can measure first place honors at the Southeastern Georgia Tech Foundation is invaluable. the temperature of objects seen by its Region College Bowl competition held "The Foundation is vital. If the institu­ antenna from great distances. February 11-12 at Berry College. The tion didn't have support from the Signals received by the radiometer's Tech students finished undefeated, 13 Foundation, including the annual Roll antenna are amplified and processed by wins and no losses. Call, Tech could not be what it is an on-board microcomputer with the Emory University was runner-up. today," he says. data stored on tape. In addition, This was Tech's fourth year of partici­ "The Georgia Tech Foundation helps measurements of air flow, precipitation, pation, with two first place finishes, one out with things we cannot spend state water vapor, cloud temperatures and second and one third. Because of Tech's money for, such as paying a professor's atmospheric pressure readings are si­ victory this year, Tech will host the salary supplement or moving expenses multaneously recorded. event next year. to Atlanta. Salary supplements are espe­ The radiometer utilizes two inter­ Although engineering, science and cially important in bringing in and keep­ mediate frequencies forming a dual- management are emphasized at Tech, ing the top bright young people. I'd channel receiver. This allows detailed questions for the competition are se­ hate to think of getting along without examination of the atmospheric radia­ lected from the areas of history, litera­ the Georgia Tech Foundation," he says. tions. "The two frequency bands in ture, philosophy and mythology. A After 30 years of dedicated service our measurements give simultaneous well-rounded educational background to Georgia Tech and a lifetime spent in indications of water vapor concentra­ is essential. service to education in Georgia, Ewell tion at various altitudes while the air­ The team members, under the faculty Barnes is retiring. He will take with him craft is flying a constant but much advisor Dr. Robert Meredith of the the best wishes of the entire Tech com­ higher altitude," said John Langley, English Department, are Joe Owens, munity that he has served so long and project director and research engineer captain; Kili Gastfriend, John Cook, so well. A with the Electromagnetics Laboratory. John Flynn and Mark Crawford. A

APRIL 1977 GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI MAGAZINE 23 c Tournament Wins Finish Rmnblhi Successful B-Ball Season THE YELLOW JACKETS basketball team finished its best season since 1971 with an impressive showing in the Metro- Seven Tournament in Memphis March 3-5. The Jackets beat Florida State 72-67 in the opening round by playing con­ trolled, come-from-behind ball. This Ceramic Engineering Has More Jobs Than Graduates victory pitted Tech against top-seeded DR. JOSEPH L. PENTECOST has a prob­ for their use in almost every industry, and rested Louisville in the second lem that is unique in today's economy. we could probably use that ratio of round. Tech shocked ninth-ranked As the director of Georgia Tech's graduates right now and need more in Louisville with an exciting 56-55 vic­ School of Ceramic Engineering, Dr. the future. Tech has one of the larger tory. The Jackets faced Cincinnati in Pentecost is involved in job placement ceramic engineering departments in the the tournament championship game. for his graduates. Unlike the difficulties country with only 55 students. We need Foul troubles early in the game led to a that many schools are experiencing, his to increase that." 74-61 defeat for Tech. problem is that there are too many jobs What uses of ceramics are there in Tech players Jim Wood and Tico for too few available graduates. He the future? Dr. Pentecost mentions Brown were named to the All- describes the problem this way. "ceramic bones for medical use, or Tournament team, Wood for the sec­ "There are simply not enough ce­ ceramic car engines, glass so strong it ond time. Brown and Wood were second ramic engineers, for now or for the can be used to hammer nails, or ce­ and third in scoring at the tournament. future. The profession has too low a ramic houses that never wear out and Wood, Brown, and Randy Foster were profile among students to attract use solar energy for heat and light. We two, three and four in rebounds. enough candidates. There are only 225 can make ceramics that are stronger In other sports news, Tech will play ceramic engineering graduates per year than steel. And that's just a brief over­ only one football game at night this in the United States for entrance into view of the possibilities." fall. The home opener against Miami a $15 billion industry, and that money Dr. Pentecost says that his situation on Sept. 17 will be played under lights. estimate is conservative." is not unique. "We need engineers in Remaining games against Clemson, Air How many potential jobs are there? petroleum, mining, and minerals. Un­ Force, Auburn, Duke and Georgia will Dr. Pentecost uses Japan as an example fortunately some of these are not be played at 1:30 p.m. at Grant Field. of an industrialized nation like the glamorous jobs to students looking for The Tech-Navy game will be played in United States. "Japan graduates five a career, but they are areas that offer Annapolis on Nov. 12, although some times as many ceramic engineers, per almost unlimited opportunities. We just published schedules have shown incor­ capita, as we do. Considering the ad­ need to make the students aware of rectly that it is to be played in Atlanta. vances being made in ceramics that America's future needs and how they Last year, Tech played four home lead to a constantly increasing potential can help meet them. "A games at night and one at twilight. A Letter to the Editor

To the Editors: the 3.6 simply looks better than the 3.1 •— tically this reasoning is incorrect also). At end of analysis — and the student from the any rate, few law school admissions I take issue with Dr. Frederick W. Schutz' college with low grades loses. officers ever bother to evaluate a college's statements as reported in the article "No Furthermore, most law schools calculate grading standard in the first place, and Grade Inflation" in the "Ramblin" section an "admissions index" — a predictor of the therefore low grading does nothing to of the November 1976 Alumni Magazine. applicant's performance at law school based affect a school's reputation one way or Although Dr. Schutz believes that Tech's on his Law School Aptitude Test (LSAT) the other. As discussed earlier, the only low grades do not keep students from score and his undergraduate GPA — and effect of having attended a college that getting into graduate schools, my experience the index usually plays an important part gives low grades is to make it tougher to with law schools indicated just the opposite. in the selection process. To my knowledge compete against applicants from colleges As research assistant to the director of there is only one law school in the country that give higher grades. admissions at Georgetown University Law that bothers to first adjust the GPA to This whole problem could be solved if Center (and before that as an applicant to reflect the college's grading standard before Tech's faculty would agree to raise their several law schools), I was not surprised to calculating the index. (Georgetown Uni­ grading curve. True, there would be a few learn that law schools give greaj. weight to versity is that school, and under their sys­ more students at the 4.0 level, and thus it undergraduate grade-point averages (GPAs) tem the GPAs from Tech get one of the would be slightly less prestigious to be at in selecting their entering classes. What did largest upward adjustments of any school the very top of the class. But these aren't surprise me waV the discovery that most in the country.) the students now being hurt by Tech's low law schools — especially the larger ones —• Dr. Schutz also said in the article that grades, and for the rest of the student body do not take into consideration the grading harder grading increases Tech's credibility higher grading could mean the difference standard of the college at which the grades with graduate schools. Once again I take between acceptance and rejection at the were earned. The reason is volume: faced issue; my research indicated that there is graduate schools of their choice. Whatever with literally thousands of applications, no correlation between a college's grades the "cost" of raising grades may be, it admissions officers simply don't take the and the reputation it enjoys. To illustrate, undoubtedly would be small in relationship time to figure out whether the undergrad­ Tech's average GPA is more than 0.4 to the benefit that would accrue to a sub­ uate college in question gives out high, below the average at M.I.T., yet I'm sure stantial number of Tech graduates. And medium, or low grades. Consider the stu­ most people will agree that M.I.T. has just serving the interests of its alumni is a dent with a 3.1 in the top 10% of his class as fine a reputation as Georgia Tech. In large part of what Georgia Tech is all about; at College X, and the student with a 3.6 fact, some people will argue that M.I.T.'s Sincerely, but in only the top 20% of his class at higher grades show that M.I.T.'s students Richard Loftin College Y. To the busy admissions officer, are better than those at Tech (but statis­ IM '64

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