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The GEORGIA TECH ALUMNUS The GEORGIA TECH ALUMNUS JANUARY FEBRUARY 1946 Campus view of "Old Knowles" dormitory VOL. XXIV No. 3 Entrance to new Civil Engineering Building January-February, 1946 THE GEORGIA TECH ALUMNUS 51 "Student Pride" THE Under date of December 19, last, letters on the GEORGIA TECH ALUMNUS subject of contacting Georgia Legislators were Published every other month during the college year by mailed to all Georgia Tech Alumni, in the state, the National Alumni Association of the Georgia whose present address plates were on file; a list of School of Technology the members of the House and the Senate was en­ closed, along with a very able editorial under the R. J. THIESEN, Editor W. L. JERNIGAN, Atst. Editor heading, "Student Pride" that appeared in the De­ H. F. TIGHE, Bus. Mgr. J. B. SOTOMAYOR. Staff Asit. cember 15 issue of the TECHNIQUE, the student's weekly publication at Georgia Tech. OFFICE OF PUBLICATION The purpose of the letter was to secure full sup­ Ga. Tech Y. M. C. A. Building port for an urgently needed $5,000,000 from the state, GEORGIA SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY during the January session of the General Assembly ATLANTA, GA. for new buildings at Georgia Tech, as approved in November by the Board of Regents of the University ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER MARCH 22, 1923 System. at the Post Office at Atlanta, Ga., under the Considerably more funds for expansions are defi­ Act of March 8, 1879 nitely needed, so the appropriation from the State of Georgia is of utmost importance. Vol. XXIV JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1946 No. 3 The excellent editorial in the TECHNIQUE gives a NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION comprehensive outline of Georgia Tech's achieve­ EXECUTIVE BOARD ments and needs, and the article is really a reading F. A. HOOPER, JR., '16 President "must" for all alumni, students, faculty members, LAWRENCE WILLET, '18 Vice-President and other friends of the college; it is, as follows: JOHN L. DAVIDSON, '15 Vice-President BAXTER MADDOX, '22 Treasurer "STUDENT PRIDE" R. J. THIESEN, '10 Exec. Secretary O. A. Barge, '12 L. F. Kent, '20 "We, the students of Georgia Tech and younger C. L. Emerson, '08 W. K. Jenkins, '13 citizens of the State of Georgia, are proud of the M. A. Ferst, '11 J. J. Westbrook, '30 College and its achievements in engineering, science, J. C. Harris, '08 R. H. White, Jr., '14 research, and patriotism. Established in 1888 by the General Assembly as the engineering and scientific GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI FOUNDATION, Inc. institution of the State, Georgia Tech has grown OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES with the years: in size, from one building and five FRANK H. NEELY, '04 President CHARLES A. SWEET, '08 Vice-President acres to 40 buildings and 140 acres; in enrollment, W. A. PARKER, '19 Secretary-Treasurer from a handful of students studying mechanical en­ F. E. Callaway, Jr., '26 F. A. Hooper, Jr., '16 gineering to more than 2,800 taking courses in 16 Thos. Fuller, '06 Chas. F. Stone, '03 fields of engineering and allied sciences; and in pres­ W. H. Hightower, '09 R. B. Wilby, '08 Geo. T. Marchmont, '07 C. L. Emerson, '08 tige, from a good state college to one of the out­ F. M. Spratlin, '06 Robt. Gregg, '05 standing engineering and research institutions in the J. F. Towers, '01 Geo. W. McCarty, '08 world. No wonder that all Georgia citizens, whether J. E. Davenport, '08 Jno. A. Simmons, '15 or not they or their sons have gone to Georgia Tech, Y. F. Freeman, '10 A. D. Kennedy, '03 Geo. S. Jones, Jr., '12 G. W. Woodruff. '17 are also proud of our school. "We are proud of Georgia Tech because through its education of engineering it has been able to do GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ALUMNI MEMBERS its part in the industrial and technological develop­ W. A. PARKER, '19 L. W. ROBERT, JR., '08 ment of Georgia and the South. Every field of en­ ROBT. B. WILBY, '08 deavor in this great State of ours agriculture; min­ eral industries; lumbering; textiles; manufacturing; ALUMNI STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL rail, water and air transportation; wholesale and By Districts retail distribution; architecture; and even local and 1. E. Geo. Butler, Savannah 6. W. E. Dnnwoodr, Jr., Macon 2. R. A. Puekett, Tifton 7. R. A. Morgan, Rome state government—has been greatly stimulated by 3. W. C. Peaie, Colombo* 8. I. M. Aiken, Brunswick the leadership, administration and engineering 4. W. H. Hightower, Thomaaton 9. W. H. Slack, Gainearille technique of Georgia Tech men. More than 60 per 5. Forrest Adair, Jr., Atlanta 10. Wm. D. Ere, Aug-u*ta cent of Georgia's industries, small and large, includ­ ing the local organizations of such national corpora­ THIS ISSUE tions as General Electric, Babcock and Wilcox, West- inghouse, and many others, are headed, managed or Student Editorial staffed with Georgia Tech men. Alumni Placement Services "We are proud of Georgia Tech because it has Admiral Towers Commands Pacific Fleet so many times been first in the Southeast in the Georgia Tech Librarian Receives High Award many fields of engineering and research, such as WGST to Be Located on the Campus aviation, electronics, textiles, public health, cera­ mics, industrial management, safety, and develop­ Prominently Mentioned and Armed Forces ment of natural resources of the South. Many of Missing in Action, "Gold Star" Alumni the engineering and industrial processes first worked Service Citations, Sports out at Georgia Tech or by Georgia Tech men for use in the South are now being utilized in the North (Continued on next page) 52 THE GEORGIA TECH ALUMNUS January-February, 1946 Student Pride—(Cont'd) Admr. Towers Commands Pacific Fleet and the other parts of the United States. Research carried out at the school generously fostered the In accordance with the progressive plans of Sec­ rapid industrial development and growth of Georgia. retary of the Navy, James Forrestal, orders were This growth coupled with other factors has resulted announced on December 28 that put all Pacific Fleet in increasing the annual dollar value of industrial forces under the command of Navy's ranking avia­ products in just a few years from $500,000,000 to tor, Admiral John H. "Jack" Towers, of Rome, Ga. more than one billion dollars. This industrial de­ Admiral Towers attended Georgia Tech in 1901- velopment in turn has created bigger and better mar­ '02; he did excellent work and was appointed to the kets for the products of Georgia farmers and thereby Naval Academy in 1902 and graduated in the class of increased their annual income by more than $100,- 1906 at the academy. The admiral was the pioneer 000,000. Machinery developed for industry made aviator for the Navy, having taken his flight train­ possible the utilization of millions of dollars worth ing as early as 1911 under Glen H. Curtiss. of flaxseed, peanuts, soybeans, cottonseed, and dairy He succeeds Admiral Raymond A. Spruance who products. is now president of the Navy's War College at New­ "We are proud of Georgia Tech because it has port, Rhode Island. produced and is producing leaders, men inculcated In World War I, Admiral Towers was in charge with the great attributes of engineering—integrity, of naval aviation in the office of Chief of Naval Op­ character, logical thinking, habits of industry, and erations, among other important duties; and, during patriotism. World War II found Georgia Tech and World War II he served, respectively, it was further its men ready and willing to help their country on announced, as Chief of the Bureau of Naval Aero­ all fronts—industrial, educational, scientific, military nautics, Commander of the Pacific Fleet Air Forces, and naval. More than 20,000 mechanics, technicians, Deputy Commander of Pacific Fleet Forces, and and engineers were trained by the School during more recently, Chief of the Fifth Pacific Fleet of the war years for the industries of the South. the U. S. Navy. "After Pearl Harbor, Georgia Tech was one of the first schools in the United States to install both the army and navy accelerated training programs. At Alumni Placements Most Encouraging the Radar Laboratories of Cambridge, at the Oak Ridge Atomic Bomb Plant, at the Air Corps Develop­ Right now, the alumni office has more positions ment Laboratory in Dayton, and even here in the available than men to fill the jobs; and it is fortunate School's Engineering Experiment Stations, hundreds that the services of Commander George Griffin have of Georgia Tech men were laboring day and night on been secured by the Alumni Association to help the many scientific developments which brought an the alumni secretary with this most important end to the war and victory to our colors. The Geor­ activity. gia Tech Honor Roll of students and alumni lists the Since the end of the war, the association has been names of 4,000 army officers and men, and more compiling long lists of positions available—along than 2,500 naval officers and men. Recent statistics with the names, addresses and qualifications of indicate that Georgia Tech contributed more ord­ alumni now ready for placements; and it is a source nance officers to the U. S. Army than any other edu­ of much gratification to announce that scores of cational institution and was surpassed only by the Georgia Tech men have been placed in various U. S. Naval Academy in the number of officers con­ openings and that, so far, every single applicant has tributed to the U. S. Navy. been referred to a number of worth while positions. The alumni office in the Tech Y, and Comdr.
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