California Institute of Technology
Volume 2., No.• ~emlMr1"2
B•• ed on d.t. from the 1975 Viking ml ••lon , the Explore". Guide to MoIr • .... pon Arden Albee'. w a ll will be In for . ome updating once Ma ,. Ob.erve r be g in. It ••urv e v of the planet late ne xt vear. Albee ke ep. a replica of the .pacecraft In Caltech'. Office of Graduate Studle., w" .. e In addition to hi. role a. Ob.e rver project .clentl.t, he'. been dean . lnce1984.
Opening a new chapter in the Martian Chronicles
BV Heidi Aapaturlan
Speaking this past August at a many Mars aficionados ever since the working in concert like an interplan "It's not cleat what sort of geologic NASA press conference called to herald Viking Lander's soil experimencs came etary one-man band, will monitor and dynamics might have produced this che upcoming launch of Mars Observer, up empty in 1975: has life ever map Mars with a sweep and precision dichotomy," says Albee, alchough he Cal tech Professor of Geology Arden evolved on Mars? Did the planet once that is expected to yield more informa suspects that the answer may start to Albee sounded ar rimes like a man who harbor a bacterial Atlantis that van tion abour the planer's composition, emerge once ic's determined whether had jusc been commissioned to write ished, along with its water, aeons ago? climate, geology, and evolutionary Mars, like Earth, has a magnetic field. the lyrics for the Marcian version of Although no one expects the Mars history than all previous miss ions co Currenc theory holds that a planet'S "America che Beauciful." "We know Observer, launched September 25 from Mars put together. This nonscop glo magnetic field is generated by an "in chat Mars has a volcano, Olympus Cape Canaveral, to fill in all the gaps, bal reconnaissance is similar in scope to cernal dynamo" deep within the plan Mons, shrouded in clouds, chat dwarfs rhere is every expectation that this Magellan's radar-mapping of Venus erary core--the same mechanis m that anyching in che Hawaiian Island mission will usher in a new era ofMar and ro L~nd sa r and Seasac sacellice Sur drives continental places, sculpts chain," he said. "We know it has mas tian exploration and just possibly-a veys of Earth. mountains, and engineers quakes. sive canyons, including one that on suggestion that the conjugation of the "To a certain exrent, we can explai n Mars's field, if it exiscs, must be very Earch would screcch from New York co daces 1492 and 1992 makes difficult ro many features of Mars now, but we weak si nee all previous missions have Los Angeles. Ic has sinuous valleys chat resi sr-a new frontier for human explo explain chern all with only one set of failed to decect it, but Observer is car suggest there was once abundant water ration as well. dara and cannot test our explanations rying a magnetomecer chat should be on che planec. We know thar during Mars has long been considered the against a second sec," Albee says. sensitive enough to do the job. If cercain seasons of the year rhere is a most Earrhlike of rhe sun's orher plan "With Mars Observer, we are going ro Observer's readings show there's no polar cap that waxes and wanes, and we ers. A primary aim of rhe Observer , get a consistent, long-term set of dara field at all, says Albee, chat should be know that in some years chere are dust mission, says Albee, will be to follow chat will allow us to understand whar's an indication that Mars's central heac scorms that envelop the enrire planer." up the many rantali2ing hinrs returned going on in extremely great derail." engine has shut down, Clues ro when However, continued Albee, who is ftom earlier Mars missions rhat rhe As a geologisr, Albee will be pat and why this might have happened will also the Mars Observer project scien planer went rhrough an even more ti cularly interested in finding out chen be soughc in che planet's surface risr, rhere's a lor we don'r know. From Earchlike period in irs past. "We know what's going on with Mars's surface geology. polar cap to polar cap rhere srrecches a from rhe Viking data thar Mars has a geology, whi ch is considerably more "It's also possible," says Albee, "that substantial terrain of unanswered ques vibrant past that seems in many re complex chan che popular image of the something is missing in our picture of rions about rhe Red Planet. Whar spects to resemble Earth's," he says. planet as an endless red tock desert what magnetic fi elds mean: Earth has happened to che wacer chac mosc ex "When and why this vibrancy ceased is under pink skies would suggest. Topo an active fi eld and varied topography, percs who have studied che Viking dara not clear. That's one of the ce ntral graphically speaking, Mars almosr while Mercury has a relacively scrong now believe once flowed copiously questions we're hoping to answer." seems [0 be not one planet, bu t two. field and a dead surface. Mars has both across che planet's surface? How does Observer will reach Mars next Au Its southern half is heavily cratered like dead and varied surface, and a weak or che Marcian climate, which both re gust and go into a polar orbit 250 the moon and appears [0 have been absent field." One intriguing possibil se mbles and differs radically from miles above rhe planet. Ic will ci rcle geologically dead for billions of years, ity is that the Marcian field goes Earth's, behave over the course of the Mars every rwo hours over che course of while its far more Earrhlike noerhero through periods of dormancy, whose entire Marcian year? Did Mars experi one Martian year-687 days. The hemisphere is marked by volcanic C ontinfl,d on page 5 ence a greenhouse effecr ar some earlier spacecraft carries a camera and six re ranges, deep canyons, and landslide period in irs hisrory? Then rhere's the mote-sensing devices. Beginning in basins.-all thought to be signs of question thar's been on the minds of December 1993, rhese instruments, more recent tectonic activity. 2
NIMH establishes CAMPUS campus Center for UPDATE Neuroscience Cal tech has received a $7.7 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to establish a Silvio Conte Center for Neuroscience Research at the Institute. The new Caltech meets NSF center will focus on the ways in which neurons send and receive information grand challenge in the brain and nervous system. "We are trying to understand the Nobel Laureate The National Science Foundation fundamental nature of the processes Rudy Mareu. and hi. wife, Laura, has announced the establishment of a that go on in the brain when we think," said Cal tech Professor of Biol we.. honored by $4 million Grand Challenge Applica the City of tion Group at Caltech. The group will ogy Henry Lester, who wiIJ serve as the Pa.adena In a ce nter's ditector. "We are interested in ceremony la.t study materials-design problems criti the molecules of thought." month. The cal to industry while emphasizing close couple, . hown Neuroscientists have identified and collaboration between university scien h ..e In front of described many proteins involved in City Ha ll, w ill be tists and leading industrial scientists the specialized communication that In Stoc kholm thl. and engineers. month--4or goes on within and among nerve cells. "We want to bridge the gap that ye t a noth.. These discoveries in turn are raising cer e mony. often remains between published important new questions, such as research results and industrial applica how signal pathways are organized tions," said WiIJiam Goddard III, the in different types of neurons, how work of some 29 scientists in eight Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of mood changes and learning alter these tesearch groups. In addition to Lester, Chemistry and Applied Physics at avenues, and what pathways may the research team leaders are Norman Cal tech and one of the group's princi remain to be discovered. Davidson, the Norman Chandlet Pro Work on Caltech pal investigators. The Cal tech group wiIJ be the fourth fessot of Chemical Biology, Emeritus; Toward that end, cooperating indus Silvio Conte Center for Neuroscience Scott Fraser, the Anna 1. Rosen Profes Women)s Center trial scientists and engineers will spend sor of Biology; Professor of Biology from twO weeks to a year doing re Research, named for the late Massachu setts Congressman Silvio Conte, who Mary Kennedy; Associate Professor of under way search in laboratories at Cal tech, ex introduced the resolution to the House Computation and Neural Systems plaining key industrial problems to of Representatives that proclaimed the Plans are under way to establish a university researchers and working Christof Koch; Assistant Professor of 1990s the "Decade of the Brain." Other women's center at Caltech, to be called with them to extend theoretical tech Biology and Computational and Neural the Cal tech Resource Center for niques to address these difficulties. Conte centers ate based at Stanfotd, Systems Gilles Laurent; Melvin Simon, Women and Center for Women in The participating scientists will Northwestern, and UC San Francisco. the Anne P. and Benjamin F. Biaggini Science and Engineering. A search build on recent breakrhroughs in quan The center, to be based entirely on Professor of Biological Sciences; and committee, headed by Judith Camp tum chemistry, molecular dynamics, the Cal tech campus, wiIJ support the Assistant Professor of Biology Kai Zinno bell, professor of chemistry, and Mary statistical mechanics, and parallel Kennedy , professor of biology, and supercomputing to develop the compu made up of faculty, students, and scaff, tational tools and strategies needed by has been named to conduct the search U .S. industry to develop materials for for the center coordi nator. the 21st century. The center's goals, accotding to The group wiIJ be centered at Institute Provost Paul Jennings, are Cal tech's Beckman Institute, in the twofold. "The primary purpose," he Materials and Molecular Simulations says, "is to help female undergraduates, Center. The collaborative industrial graduates, and research faculty embark projects will concentrate on biotechnol on successful careers in science and ogy, developing new polymers and engineering, which is also part of ceramics for high-temperature applica Cal tech's main mission. It benefits tions, developing imptoved catalysts, both the Women's Center and Cal tech and oi l field research. to have the center's focus tied directly In addition to Goddard, the project's to that of the Institute. But the center principal investigators wiIJ be Richard also has a more wide-tanging goal-to A . Friesner, professor of chemistry at offe t programs of interest to all women Columbia Universiry in New York; on campus. All of the center's activities Stephen Taylor, assistant professor of will be open to any member of the computer science at Caltech; Zhen Cal tech community." Gang W ang, assistant professor of Adds Kennedy, "I rhink it will be an chemical engineering at Cal tech; and extremely valuable and beneficial addi AbhinandanJain, staff engineer in tion to the Insritute to have a ce ntral robotics at JPL. place where women can interact and The five-year, $4 million program discuss a wide variety of issues that are will teceive $2.7 million from the NSF, of importance ro them." $300,000 from Caltech, and $1 miIJion Ca lte ch .el..".,logl. t Kate Hutton (right) brie fe d membe r. of the media and the Plans also call for the establishment from partners in U.S. industry. First campu. c ommunity during a tour Ia.t month of the . e l. mo lab'. ne w Ea rthquake of a committee to advise the coordina year industrial matchi ng money will Me dia and Exhibit C_t.. , .pacHleelly de.lgned for madla u.e during e arthquake •. The mo.t advanced facility of It. kind In the country, the c_t.. Include . a .tudl... tor on the center's goals and programs. come from BP America, Chevron like room for Interview., a mea_ring room for . e l.mlc p ...onn e l, a nd an operat. Corp., and B. F. Goodrich. Ing comput .. dl.play of the CUBE (Caltech-USGS Broadee.t of Earthqua ke.) . y.tem, de veloped by Caltech and USGS to mea.u .. quake. and pinpoint their e pl. c_te r. within minute•. The C_t.. wa. funded by the Time. Mirror Founda tion. 3
Ship honored Amos Throop tn 1942
Fifty years ago this month, almost a tors and a few were named for cities, year to the day after Pearl Harbor, the but J remember that one was named for 101st Liberty ship rolled off the assem Carole Lombard ." bly line in Los Angeles Harbot. It was According ro Coats, Liberty ships christened the S.S. Amos G. Throop were "the Model T's of shi ps. They during an afternoon ceremony on No were all identical so they could be built vember 28,1942, when Mrs. Robert on an assembly line. They were consid Millikan did the honors by striking a ered expendable, like bullet casings. If bottle of champagne across the ship's a ship made one trip it had done its bow. Also attending was Inga Howard, job, but many of them sailed for years." Millikan's secretary, who, accordi ng to In support of the Allied war effort,
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Caltech professors guide expansion of precollege science-education programs
Projecr SEED, esrablished in 1984 As a resu lt of a si milar effort, the entire with the support of two Cal tech profes Maui (Hawaii) school district is adopt sors to introduce grade-school children ing the SEED curriculum. co hands-on science, has mushroomed For older students, a new program into a far larger effort co bring the same called the Hughes High School Curri type of science educarion into all levels culum Development Project has been of precollege education. This new, started, under a grant from the Howard larger undertaking has been named the Hughes Medical Research Institute. Cal tech Precollege Science Initiative Cal tech faculty, research staff, and stu (CAPSI), which currently encompasses dents will be working with LA-area four major programs, according ro teachers to develop hands-on kits for SEED's Calrech cofounders Jim Bower, the higher grade levels. associate professor of biology, and Jerry CAPSJ is also collaborating with the Pine, professor of physics. Claremont Graduate School on a col CAPSI includes SEED (Science for lege science course for future teachers. Early Educational Development), the Called the Preservice Teacher Educa Hughes High School Curri culum tion Project, the cou rse is now being Development Project, the Preservice developed and will be implemented on Teacher Education Project, and Com a trial basis next summer. The course's puters in Science Education. originacors include Pine, Bower, and Professors Bower and Pine have Sunney Chan, Hoag Professor of Bio developed rhe SEED program in physical Chemistry. They have formed collaboration with the Pasadena Uni three development teams--with a Cal fied School District, the National Sci tech professor, a Pasadena grade-school ence Foundation, and a number of teacher, and a teacher-educator on each contributors in industry and business. team. The pilot course will be offered As part of SEED, Cal tech scientists co eight Claremont reacher-trainees and help teachets to utilize and apply the eight Pasadena grade-school teachers hands-on science kits that have been in summer '93. Then the program wi ll introduced into elementary-school be expanded in subsequent summers. classrooms throughout Pasadena. Pine Pine hopes the course will be used as "a explains that "teachers become facilita model for collaborative efforts by scien a local newspaper account, served as the Liberty ships, with a Merchant Marine tors of inquiry-learning," and students tists and educacors in many other uni "maid of honor." crew of only 35 members, carried car are encouraged to retain their natural versities." He adds that all of CAPS!'s The ship was built by the California goes such as gasoline, oil, ammunition, curiosity as they inctease their under programs are designed "co be used Shipbuilding Company, whose ship steel, and tanks to Europe. More than standing of scientific principles. everywhere, not just here." yard in Los Angeles Harbor was the 3000 were built nationwide, and Cal Working with Bower and Pine is Cal In the fourth of CAPS!'s current largest yard the U.S. activated for the Ship built 300 of them. tech liaison Leila Gonzalez, who has projects, Bower is working with Cal war. The Throop was the 10lst built The exact details of the Throop's recruited about 50 Cal tech volunteers, tech students and the UCLA Grad by Cal Ship, and the time of its years of service are not known, but ftom students to faculty. uate School of Library and Information completion, a mere 29 days, tied the Coats says that the ship was delivered The newest SEED project is the Science to integrate computers into record for the fastest construction. to the U .S. Lines Company, which development of a hands-on curriculum science education. With funding from "A committee at the company operated her until she was laid up in for seventh- and eighth-grade classes in the Sloan Foundation, student pro picked the names for the ships," re the Reserve Fleet at Benicia, California. Pasadena. In addition, a special effort grammers are developing sofrware to members 1. Roy Coats, a former em In February, 1968, the S.S. Amos G . has begun to encourage industries and help elementary-school children access ployee of Cal Ship and cofounder of the Throop was sold for scrap. schools to collaborate on hands-on, science books and other materials in Los Angeles Maritime Museum. "They ki ndergarten-through-sixth-grade sci school and public libraries. mQstly picked famous men and educa- ence education throughouc California. 4
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES· o.L1FO!\NIA
Three men and a college
By Betay Woodford
Angeles society, rubbing elbows with between 1894 and 1910. One, the both Spanish dons and wealthy eastern Pacific Light and Power Company, was emigres. He attended UC Berkeley, sold to Henry Hunti ngton (of rai lroad earned his law degree, and opened his and library fame), who in turn merged own law office in 1885. it with some other companies he owned Allan Balch, born in New York to form Southern California Edison. in 1864, attended Cornell University In 1905, the trio sold mos t of their where he earned his degree in mech holdings in the electric-power compa· anical and electrical engineering. nies and began looking into the natu· Balch then headed west and, after ral-gas industry. At that time there working at several power companies in was only one company supplyi ng natu the Pacific Northwest, arrived in Cali ral gas in Los Angeles. The gas was fornia in 1896. manufactured from coal through an The entrepreneur, the lawyer, and expensive process that yielded a poor the engineer met during Kerckhoff's quality product. effort to form a company to sell But Kerckhoff had an idea-to cap hydroelectric power produced from the ture the natural gas that was allowed to waters of the San Gabriel River, which escape from oil wells before the oil was at that time flowed freely from Azusa pumped out. The vast, newly devel to the ocean. O'Melveny was in charge oped oil fields of Kern County provided Henry O'Melveny William K erckhoff of the negotiations to obtain water more than enough suppl y, and they rights to the river, Balch oversaw the were located close enough ro Los Ange As The Campaign for Caltech enters its unafraid of risks and ready for opportu engineering aspects, and Kerckhoff, les to be economical. Kerckhoff and his final year, Caltech News takes a look nity. He started his first business in being president of the company, associates activated his plan, and their back at three men who were members of the 1879, at the age of 23, when, fresh off handled everything else. business, the Domesti c Gas Company, Institute's Board of Trustees in the 1920s, the train from Indiana, he walked into On June 29, 1898, nine years afrer fl ourished. Several years larer, rhe firm and who were friends and business associates the offices of a Los Angeles lumberyard Kerckhoff decided to gamble on a ven was opened to new i nves rors, and rhe for many years. Their entrepreneurship had and offered to buy 25 percent of the ture never tried before on such a large company's name was changed-to the a profound effect on southern California, company. A deal was soon made, and scale on the West Coast, the first uni t Sourhern California Gas Company. and their philanthropy helped transform Kerckhoff parlayed the single facility of the San Gabriel Power Company In 1927, Kerckhoff, Balch, and Caltech from a manual-arts training college into 11 lumberyards, timberlands in came on line and produced power- for O 'Meiveny retired from the gas co m into an international center for scientific Oregon, and a fleet of cargo ships. Los Angeles's red streetcars. pany-rich men-and turned their and engineering research. Henry O'Melveny moved to Los This successful company was the attention, full time, to philanthropy. Angeles in 1869 when he was ten years first of many for Kerckhoff, Balch, and Then as now, rich, influential bus William Kerckhoff was a savvy busi old. The son of a successful lawyer and O·Melveny. In all, they started or pur inessmen would cross paths with others nessman with an entrepreneurial spirit, judge, he grew up in upper-class Los chased 11 electric-utility corporations in their social circle, and it was inevi- 5
table, according to Caltech Archivist are passed on from parent to offspring spacecraft with a complement of Judith Goodstein, that the trio would through the interaction of genes. For mutually teinforcing instruments, be friends, business associates, or ac his work, Morgan was awarded the Observer "chosen," says Albee, "to be synergistic, quaintances of men who were serving 1933 Nobel Prize in Medici ne. to fit with one another. It's not that on Caltech's Board of Trustees. Balch Also in 1933, Balch started his ten one instrument will tell us evetything, Continued from page 1 and O'Melveny had become members year tenure as president of Cal tech's but that several, working together, in 1925. In 1927 they were helping Board of Trustees. He had already should greatly enhance the state of our the Institute search for donors to build served as first vice president, chairman timescales exceed the lifetime so far of knowledge." the new biology laboratories that had of the finance committee, and member the space age. But this theory, like a The mystery of Mars's missing water been promised to renowned geneticist of the executive council, and was serv host of other speculations about Mars, will, for example, be probed from Thomas Hunt Morgan when he came ing as a member of the Observatory awaits proof. "What we may really several directions. In the nearly two to Cal tech to starr the biology division. Council which was overseeing the con find at Mars," says Albee, "is that our decades they've spent studying the struction of the 200-inch telescope for theory of internal dynamos needs to be dried river channels, empty stream Palomar Observatory. revised." beds, and apparent flood plains that Balch and his wife, Janct, wh o were In addition to Albee, three other turned up in the Viking photos, Mars proud to say that they did everyrhing Cal tech researchers are involved in the scientists have had plenty of time to together, were founding members of Observer's scientific investigations: develop an intricate picture of how The Associates. They donated rhe Member of the Professional Staff Ed these features might have arisen on funds ro srart a graduate program in ward Danielson and Professors of Plan Mats and to devise appropriate meth geology- the Balch Graduate School of etary Science Duane Muhleman and ods of testing their theories. One Geological Sciences at Cal tech. Bur Andrew Ingersoll. They are parr of a widely held scenario is that Mars's perhaps their best-known donation was group of more than 100 scientists from atmosphere at one time contained rhe one that built the Athenaeum. the United States, France, Russia, Ger enough carbon dioxide to produce a According to Goodstein, the tale many, Austria, and England who have greenhouse effect, warming the planet surrounding the gift has entered into come togethet in an international col and freeing water to flow across its the realm of Caltech legends. "The laboration that-if all works out at surface. If, as it's suspected, that era Balches gave the funds to the Institute Mars this time--- should set the course ended when the bulk of the CO 2 leaked in 1929 in the form of stocks and for Martian exploration throughout the out of the atmosphere and became tied bonds. Caltech's elders, in their wis 1990s. Observer is currently set to up in Mars's rocks, mementos from dom, immediately converted these play an importanr role in a Russian that period might exist in the form of assets to cash. Several months later, the mission, scheduled for 1994, that will abundant carbonate minerals. Two of stock market crashed, and rhe school land two surveillance stations on the Observer's specrrometers--one work found itself in the enviable planet. The information rhey collect ing at gamma-ray, the other at inftated, position of having close to half-a about the Marrian surface will be re wavelengths-will seatch for evidence million dollars, in hand, earmarked layed to a French-designed radio sys of these compounds, as well as for other exclusively for one building." tem aboard Observer, and will then be water-related minerals, such as nitrates In 1941, the Athenaeum was the transmitted back to Earth by the space and sulfates, that might have been left site of Mr. and Mrs. Balch's golden craft. A similar NASA mission is in behind as Martian lakes and rivers wedding anniversary celebration. More the works to put a permanent moni tor evaporated. than 3,000 people showed up to wi sh ing network of at least a dozen small As for the ancient Martian water Allan and Janet Balch them well . The Balches died in 1943, landers on Mars before the end of the itself, it's generally believed that at within four months of each othet, and, century. Known as the Mars Environ least some of it is frozen under the Balch pledged $1 million toward having no children, willed almost half mental Survey Mission, the project planet's surface in permafrost, a type of the lab, and, when other sources of of their esrate---one million dollars-to now awaits final approval and funding. icebound soil found in Siberia and funds fell through, he asked his old Caltech. Observer's studies will provide a Alaska. On Earth, permafrost is associ friend Kerckhoff for the final $1 O'Melveny gave large amounts of series of "road maps" to guide these ated with specific surface charactetis million needed to fund the project. his time and legal expertise to the In future missions, says Albee, adding, tics, and Observer's camera, which is Kerckhoff was a willing coinvestor. stitute. He served on the Board of "the observations that we will carry out capable of reso lving features down to a In addition to his longtime friendship Trustees from 1925 until his death in will create a database of information size of about 10 meters, is expected to with Balch, Kerckhoffhad another 1940. He patticipated in the discus about Mars that will be made freely reveal a similar signature on Mars, if association with the Institute---he had sions for the acquisition of To urn a available to the global community of permafrost is indeed present. The been a neighbor of Cal tech trustee ment Park and the land for Palomar planetary scientists." spacecraft's neutron spectrometer will Norman Bridge for many years. Observatory. O'Melveny also drafted Albee first became interested in also scour the planet for evidence of Kerckhoff said, "I have been watching the rules incorporating The Associates. Martian research back in 1975 when as hydtogen, which on terrestrial planets how, through the research output of His law firm handied all of the JPL's chief scientist-and heavily in is largely tied up with oxygen, and thus Institute's legal work relating to the the Norman Bridge Laboratory, Dr. volved at the time in lunar studies-he serves as a highly reliable tracer of H 20 Bridge's name and fame are now war effort during World War II . And, helped ro coordinate the closing stages abundances. "These results," notes spreading through the world, and I last but not least, O'Melveny was, ac of the Viking program. In the after Albee, "will only be useful if the per want to do the same thing for biology co rding to Robert Millikan, olle of four glow of rhat immensely successful ef mafrost is telatively near the surface, that he has done for physics." influential local men who persuaded fort, Albee served on several NASA since the spectrometer cannot ptobe too Kerckhoffwas willing to donate the him to come to Caltech full time and committees that put together an ambi deeply underground." $1 million-as long as the buildi ng accept the responsibiliries of president tious agenda of future missions to the This search for water carries implica was named for him. Balch and the of the Institute. (Millikan never ac terrestrial planets and looked forward tions beyond those relating to Mars's other donor, the Rockefeller Founda cepted the title of president. H e pre to returning, early and often, to Earrh's climatic history. Life--of the human tion, had no objection, and so the first fetted being called chairman of the nearest neighbor. The budget reduc variety-may be in Mars's future, but unit of the William G. Kerckhoff executive council.) tions and ptogram retrenchment that many scientists have not ruled out the Laboratories of the Biological Sciences This trio of men, whose forrunes wracked NASA in the 1980s cut those possibility that the planet embarked on was dedicated in 1928. were made as a fledgling community plans shorr. Instead, says Albee with a biology experiment of its own in its Kerckhoff died the followi ng year grew to the stature of a ci ty, helped feeling, "We spent the next seventeen distant aqueous past. "If life did ever and saw very little of the gtound-break Cal tech at a time when it too was years just trying to get back to Mars." starr on Mars," says Albee, "the planet's ing science that was done in the expanding its horizons. Kerckhoff, The new cost-conscious atmosphete ancient lake beds would be one likely Kerckhoff Laboratory under the Balch, and O 'Melveny helped bring at NASA has meant that Albee, as place to search for evidence." Although direction of Thomas Hunt Motgan. world-class biology to campus, enlist Observer's project scientist, has had Observer won't be in a position to scru Morgan continued the pioneering the services of a visionary president, to devote considerable attention to tinize these sites, they should come in research with fruit flies that he had and build a faculty club that hosts balancing the often-competing priori for close investigation latet this decade started at Columbia University, where scientific luminaries from around ties of doing good science and savi ng when Russian, and possibly American, he had discovered the chromosomal the world. money. The approach adopted by the landers explote selected portions of the mechanism by which character traits Observer team has been to equip the Martian surface. 8
FRIENDS
Beach, California, received support to sor of mathematics and master of stu continue his investigations of Chinese, dent houses. Wales and Gary Lorden, Durfee Foundation and in particular Tibetan, approaches vice ptesident fot student affairs, will ro mental illness. Stanford, who is a ove rsee the fund wirh rhe help of a launches China III graduate student at UC Berkeley, will small committee composed mainly of reavel to the National Lantern Riddle students. The fund, which should Information Exchange Center in Liao operate fot five to ten years, will sup Six Caltechers have received grants ning Province, where he will learn port small group discussions between to pursue travel and study in China about traditional Chinese games and students and faculty, visiting alumni, from the Durfee Foundation, under puzzles. scientists, and community leaders, Phase III of the foundation's American/ The Durfee Foundation was estab possibly combined with special house Chinese Adventure Capital Program. lished by the family of Cal tech Life dinners, concerts, or plays. The six, all of whom have previously Trustee and Chairman of the Board Vic Veysey earned his BS in civil visited China with foundation support, Emeritus R. Stanton Avety, who setved engineering in 1936 from Caltech, are former Cal tech Research Fellow on Caltech's Board of Trustees from where he belonged to Fleming H ouse, William Bleisch; Robert "Stu" Jamie 1971 ro 1985. The foundarion initi served as senior class president, and son, who recenrly retired from Caltech's ated the American/Chinese Adventure worked as editor of The California Tech. Office of Patents and Technology Utili Capital Ptogram in 1985 to encourage In 1938 he received an MBA from zation; Tom Lehman, associate manager cteative interaction between individual Harvard and returned ro Cal tech as an of technical operations in Caltech's Americans and people in mainland instructor in economics and account Office of Public Events; and alumni About 60 .tud.nt. Int.r•• t.d In China and to offer the opportunity for ing. After teaching at Stanford for a "Entr.pren.ur.hlp" heard about the Pamela Logan '81, MS '82; Mark participants to pursue a personal inter year, he again returned to Caltech as an topic flr.thand thl. f.1I from P.ul Ragins '79; and Theron Stanford '87. est in China. The goals are Avecy's assistant professor of economics and Ort.l.a, found.r and pre.ld.nt of the Bleisch, who was previously an International Klnko'. Copy C.nter the result of his own experience in industrial relations from 1941 to 1948. ch.ln. Ort.I_, who .t.rt.d Klnko'. Institute postdoc in biology, received a China in 1929, when he took a year's H e married Janet Donaldson in 1941; ••• email .ohool.eupplybu.ln••• grant to travel up the Yangtze River leave from college to explore Chi na and they have four children. that off.red copying ..",Ic•• to UC and compile a filmed record of the Santa Barba... tudent. out of • taco a host of interests that it inspired. Following terms as a California .t.nd, continued to t.lk .hop with the natural environment and historic sites Assemblyman and U.S. Representative, Calt.ch undergr.d. long after flnl.h. that will be destroyed when the con Veysey served as assistant sectetary of Ing hi. formal pr••• ntatlon In the struction of a giant dam exposes the . Ath.na.um. HI. app.... nc. w •• the army for civil works, where he was Jointly epon.ored by C.It_h'. Offlc. region to severe flooding. Jamieson, responsible for the Army Corps of En of Annual Olvlng.nd the Caltech Y. who fi rst went to China under a Durfee g; neers and rhe Panama Canal. In grant in 1986 to retrace the sreps of his Veysey Student Life 1977 he returned to Cal tech once again missionary grandfather, received sup as director of the Industrial Relations port to return to rural Gansu provi nce Fund established Center, where he remained until his for a "family reunion." (An arricle retitement in 1983. Veysey remains about his first Durfee-sponsored expe Victor and Janet Veysey have acrive in the Cal tech communi ty, serv Kingsley Astrophysics dition appeared in the February 1988 founded the Veysey Student Life Dis ing last year on the Alumni Association Caltech News.) Lehman was awarded cretionary Fund at Caltech with a Board of Directors, and currently on and Space Sdence funding ro visit the large "extended $28,000 gift aimed at enhancing un the boards of SURF and the Caltech Y. family" he now has in China, as the dergraduate life through interactions Fund established tesult of three previous visits, one un between students and faculty, alumni, der foundation sponsorship, ro study and leaders in business, politics, and Cal tech has received a $100,000 the Chinese performing arts, particu science. The grant will be matched by gift from the Lewis A. Kingsley Foun larly circuses and acrobatic companies. funds from the Cal tech Centennial dation of Garden Grove, California, to Logan, who is currenrly writing a Challenge, sponsored by the late Hugh Gifts by will establish the Merle Kingsley Endowed book on her travels that will incorpo Colvin BS '36. Fund for Astrophysics and Space Sci rate her first Durfee-supported adven "It's a wonderful opportunity to T Nuts and bequests prwide welcome ence. The fund will provide discretion· ture in China, will be learning about help srudents get acquainted with fac support to Caltech's Operating and ary support to Cal tech faculty and social workers in Chinese rural areas. ulty as people, not just as instructors or Endowed Funds. R«ent gifts rectified by students involved in the teaching, re Ragins, now a psychiatrist in Long researchers," said David Wales, profes- the Imtitule include: search, and study of issues at the fore front of astrophysics and space science. Douglas Norman Schneider- The The fund is named for Merle Kings sum of $218,594 has been distrib ley Elkus, who with her late husband, uted to Cal tech for unrestricted pur Lewis Kingsley, established the Lewis poses from Mr. Schneider's estate. A. Kingsley Foundation in 1963. He was a friend of the Institute. Through the foundation, as well as through personal awards, she has pro· John NaflaJ-$I,058,743 has been vided major support for graduate fel received by the Institute from Mr. lowships and undergraduate scholar· Navas's estate. The funds are unre ships to encourage Caltech students stricred. He was a longtime friend in the study of space science and of the Institute. astronomy, fields in which she has a longstanding interest. She is also a Ygnacio Bonillas-$1 ,297,377 for member of the ARCS Foundation unrestricted purposes has been re (Achievement Rewards for College ceived from Mr. Bonillas's estate. Scientists), another generous supporter He received BS and MS degrees in of Cal tech students, as well as a long geological and planetary sciences in time member of the Caltech Associates. 1933 and 1935 from Calrech. He The primary funding area of the was a life member of rhe Calrech Lewis A. Kingsley Foundation is higher Associates and a member of the and secondary education in the fotm of Provost's Circle. scholarship funds to pre-selected orga Joining Pre.ld.nt Ev.rhart for a group portrait at the Nov.mb.r ARCS (Achl.v•. nizations in the Los Angeles area. ment R.ward. for Colleg. Scl.ntl.t., Luncheon w.r. 13 und.rgraduat. and grad. For information about wording Kingsley, who died in 1979, was the uat ••tud.nt. who .ttend C.ltech with .upport from ARCS .cholar.hlp. and for bequests to rhe Institute, call the f.llowehlp.. From I.ft, front row, Br.tt Wamek., Aaron Hawkln., Dawn Com.l· founder and president of the Kingsley I.on, Pr•• ldent I!v.rhart, Dorl L.v.nonl, M.rvln Hailing. S.cond row: Todd Rop., Office of Gift and Estate Planning, Machine Company. O.org. Fox, Erik BI.rw.gen. Third row: Emil Kureln.kl, John Thomp.on, Eug.n. (818) 356-2927. Llpov.t.ky. Back rowl Rog.r Ander.on, J.m•• M•• on. Not plctur.d. Su•• n Sheu. 7
Hughes CEO speaks to Associates
At the Associates' annual Black Tie Dinner held October 16 in the Ath enaeum, 268 guests heard C. Michael Armstrong, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Hughes Air craft Company, address the challenges of the changing work environment in California. Armstrong, who as Hughes CEO heads the single largest industrial employer in the state, discussed the current exodus of industry and jobs from California and presented a thoughtful, vigorous appraisal of how best to stem and reverse this trend.
Dlnn.r ap.ak.. C. Mlcha.1 Ann.trong, Ann. Ann.trong, Dorl. P.nkow, Prof••• or of Chemical ling In_ring Dorl. Everhart, Caltech Pr•• ldent Tom Ev.rhart, .nd O.orge Smith. Emerltu. Nick T.choegl; hi. wH., Sophie; and th.'r .on Chrl • •
Archlvl.t and Regl.tra, .Judith Good.t.'n, a.m.'c. Angl•• , and Vic. Provo.t and phy.'c. prof... ot' David Oood.t.ln. Bob Henlg.on, 'ng.'or. Bonn.. , Prof••• or of Biology EIIz.b.th Bam•• , Su.. n Davl., Harkn••• Prof••• or of Emerltu • .Jam•• Bonn.. , Phyl". Henlg.on, and .Joanna Muir. Social Scl.nc. Lane. Davl., Ann. Ann.trong, and C. Mlcha.1 Ann.trong.
D.vld Oood.teln, L.w AII.n, and Terry Col••
Channlan Robln.on, .Judg. Cynthia H.II, Ann. Ann.trong and C. Mlcha.1 Ann.trong with C. Michael Ann.trong, and Ann. Arm.trong. O.n.. al Coun ••1 Harry Yohal.m and Martha Yohal.m.
Rlch.rd Elku., M.rl. Klng.l.y Elku., .nd O.org. P.ge.
Ru•• Fauc.tt, Dorl. Everhart, and Carol Ann M.ry .John.on and Cheml.try prof••• or B.rbara F.uc.tt. C. Mlcha.1 Ann.trong. Imp.rlall, and S.nlor R ••••rch Fellow In Ch.ml.try Lawrenc. Sita. 8
Ted Combs J27 has livet
neers when he graduated, but Combs wasn't alarmed. He simply put his ingenuity to work, and went on to become a publisher of college year books, chief usher at the Los Angeles Coliseum, high-school algebra teacher, building inspector and assistant city engineer for the city of Upland, creator of research and education programs on earthquake-resisrant structures, pioneer in timber-fabrication processes, and motion picture consultanc for MGM srudios-all by the time he was 32. By this time, he had also become a member of the Alumni Association Board of Directors, and editor of the Foury_ra of Alumni Review, forerunner of Engineering C.He oh. In 0 .... • nd on the & Science magazine . V .... HytNOk At 32, Combs, now married and the Entering a writing contest in the ... u.d.... v. father of two little girls, had become Te d Comb•• Women's Home Companion as a second now 86. hi. well established in the lumber indus grader seems a bit audacious, but flr. t t ••te of try. In 1940, as the defense effort was Theodore C. Combs (BS '27) has never going the shifring inco high gear, rhe governmenc dl.t.noe. been put off by a novel challenge. He The tNokt_ m noted his experrise in the field and won a gunmetal pocket watch for his w on the retlll_1 tapped him for service. Combs, who efforts, although he doesn't recall the oonfer_oe had accepted a commission as second oMmplonahlp subject of his entry. during Comb.'. lieurenant in rhe reserves after complet That confidence and readiness to Junior y_r. 1.26. ing his Cal tech ROTC, was given the tackle the obvious and the unlikely task of serting prioriries to bring order have characterized Combs's whole His currenr efforts focus on developing recalled, and, fortified with his reporr out of chaos in the lumber industry. career. And, because of his close, life new scholarships for Caltech students. card from Chaffey, he climbed aboard He accepred aaive duty as a reserve long commitment to Caltech, the Bur all of rhis is getting ahead of and the two headed west for Pasadena. officer in rhe U.S. Army, and within a Instirute has been a major beneficiary how Combs, whose association with the On campus they met Professor few months he had been assigned to rhe of his abilities. Institute spans nearly 70 years, hap Harry C. Van Buskirk, registrar and undersecretary of war, in Washington. The alumnus, who worked with pened to arrive on campus in the first mathematics professor, who glanced "Combs," he recalls being told, "the many Caltech leaders during rhis long place. He reminisced about this as he over Combs's report card and remarked , construction equipment siruation in association, was its first director of cor sat in the lanai of the Georgian home "You'll do. Get a catalog, and J'll see this country is in a state of disaster. porate relations and its first director of in San Marino, where he has lived for you in September." That, at least, is You've got 90 days to straighten it alumni giving. He conceived a srudy 43 years. Outside a window stretched a how Combs recalls the beginning of out." By his accounr, Combs suc group whose efforts led to the hiring of garden, where Combs loves to work. "one of the great expetiences of my ceeded, and went on to equally com the first full-time Alumni Association Tall and lean, his face at 86 almost life." Initially he lived in a 7 by 12- plex assignments involving srream director and to the creation of Caltech unlined, Combs described a 1922 jour foot "aparrment" in rhe garage of Clyde lining procedures for wartime construc News as a publication for all alumni. ney with his family from Denver to Wolfe, assistanr professor of mathemat rion concracrs, and for training engi Combs went on to serve for almost Ontario, California-travel that would ics. Rent was free, if he did some gar neers for wartime assignmenr. six years as secretary to the Board of eventually lead to Cal tech. In Ontario, dening. The war years were busy ones for Trusrees, secrerary to the Caltech Cor his father worked in real estate, and The engineering srudenr's interests Combs, who was heavily involved in porarion, and executive direcror of The Combs graduated from Chaffey Union quickly expanded beyond classrooms consrruction effores to meer a chal Associates of Caltech. In this capaciry, High School at age 16. and laboratories. Combs became a yell lenge: boosting productivity to exceed he negoriated rhe Associates' move to He accepted admission to Pomona leader, won a letter in track, earned a that of any other nation in history. He Caltech's Office of Developmenr as an College, but fate changed his direction part in a Pasadena Playhouse produc traveled widely on varied assignmencs, entity with its own executive director. when a friend on a motorcycle an tion, developed his skill as a debator, was promoted to colonel, and got his After tetiring, he volunteered fot sev nounced he was on his way to Caltech, became Gnome Club president, and own unit for duty in Europe. eral years as representative on the and wouldn't Combs like to ride along? was elected editor of the Big T. He also Accompanying him on the crossi ng boards of directors of small corpora "What's Caltech?" Combs inquired, served on rhe Board of Control, which was an old friend, his violin. An avid rions in which Caltech-through be and was told that it was a technical supervises the Cal tech H onor System. violinist, Combs entertained himself quests--held rhe controlli ng interest. school. "It sounded like my dish," he There were few jobs open for engi- regularly by seeking out the ship's un- 9
receivi ng line for Brown at a Cal tech reception, a line Brown wouldn't stand ~ong and prospered in. Instead, he chose a quiet spot in a corner. 'There he is," Combs would tell guests, pointing out the new presi dent. "Go shake his hand. " At Brown's request, Combs stayed on at Cal tech until cwo yeats past man datory retirement. Aftecward, he scarcely noriced an increase in free time. He was often asked to work as a volunteer on boards of corporations in which Cal tech- through bequests held controlling interest. But Cal tech had been only one as pect oflife for the Combses back in southern California. They traveled frequently and widely with friends of many yeats, visiting every continent. Antarctica was their favorite. The Combses and their friends had ROTC Cad.t Combs lat .. _w flv. y.a" of actlv. duty In World War II. developed a love for exploring in four wheel-drive vehicles, always traveling used solitary-confinement quartets and Japanese merchandise today. once again decided to "scart over. I've with cwo cars for safety in the remote playing concerts for his own enjoyment. Combs's fitst marriage had become a never been afraid to cake this ki nd of locations they visited. They camped in I n Europe, he chose to join the Sixth casualty of long wartime separations chance," he said. "I've always been out-of-the-way spots throughout the Army Group, which gave engineering and-as he found on his return to the alert to the sound of opportunity southern United States and in Baja. support to Patton's Third Army and U .S.-so had less important aspects of knocking." Rugged areas in Death Valley put cwo additional U .S. and French armies. his life. "The civilian world was baf Back in southern California, the camping skills to special tests. After V-E Day, Combs was on the first fling," he said. "I bought clothes couple remodeled Carmen's home in Combs has not slowed his traveling troop ship to redeploy to the Pacific. where I had shopped for years, and San Matino and serried rhere, while pace. In the spring, he spent a month After several months in the Philip found I had no credit. I looked for old Combs went on to become president of in the Orient with friends, followed by pines, and after VJ Day, Combs frie nd s and couldn't find them. My the Arch Rib Truss Company. Then a camping trip into northern Baja. arrived in Kyoto. Along the way, he contacts in the lumber industry were he joined Zero Manufacturing Com Upcoming plans include a sail with 14 had seen the beach chosen for the land no longer there, and my oid job no pany, a firm specializing in deep-drawn friends down the Turkish coast. ing of U.S. invasion forces. "The land longer existed. And worst of all , I had aluminum containets, as vi ce president The interest in writing that led ing would have been much rougher no family." of engineering. Combs ro enter a co ntest at age seven than we anticipated in planning," Characteristi call y, Combs didn't Combs left Zero in 1963, havi ng has remained constanr. In recent years, Combs said. "If we had invaded, I'm hesitate long before setting out in a achieved an important goal-a base of he has written a hisrory of the Gnome confident I wouldn't be here today." new direction. He decided to rry sales, financial security that would afford him Club and of the Cal tech Y; rhe story of Combs supervised the opening of and began as the lowli est salesman in the luxury of putsuingoptions he would the Neider Grove, Caltech's grove of ai rports, ports, water supplies, and the San Francisco-based Timber Struc most enjoy. Cal tech would become a giant redwoods; a book on Tournament other critical facilities in a country that tures, Inc. Ted Coleman (BS '26), an major benefactor of his new situation. Park; and a new book, Columbus, Spain, had been devastated by bombing. By old Gnome friend, was living in the After leaving Zero, Combs initially and the Incas. late November, he was free of duries San Francisco area, and the Cole mans plunged into property development, Combs has served as a member of and ready to return home. At this invited Combs to meet a house guest but friends at Cal tech asked for his the Alumni Association board and the point he received an offer that he still from Pasadena. The guest was Carmen help. A new position--director of Cal tech Y board; and he's currently on corporate relations-was being estab the board of the Friends of Cal tech lished, and Combs offered half of his Libraries and the Steering Committee time to it. of the Executive Forum of the Indus Meanwhile, Cal tech was gearing up trial Relations Center. He also serves for its Science for Mankind fund-rais as co-chair of the Alumni Association's ing campaign, and Combs was named Long-Range Planning Committee, and director of alumni giving. Assessing is compiling a history of the Associa the Alumni Association, at that time tion. Combs is also active in the Cal an organization of volunteers, he de tech Associates, where he is a member cided it was time to go professional. of the President's Circle. He conceived a study group, whose Friends have always been a priority efforts led to the hiring of the in Combs's life, and continue to be. So Institute's fitst full-time Alumni Asso has family. Today, Combs remains ciation director. Subsequently the close to both his children and those of study group decided that the Institute Carmen (who died in 1991), and to needed a publication that would go ro their nine grandchildren and five great all alumni, and Caltech News was born. grandchildren. President Lee A. DuBridge, a good Combs will soon be moving ro a In '26 Combs lin front) and Caltech roomate Henry Gunning made the trip to Camp friend, had even more in mind for condominium adjoining the campus. Lewis, Washington, for ROTC training In style, In a Studebaker purchased for $50. Combs, and asked him to become sec From this vantage point he wants to retary to the Board of Trustees, a re stay involved, particularly to continue sometimes muses upon. Williams Boyle, and that evening a sponsibility that also involved being developing scholatships for Cal tech A nationally prominent Japanese romance began. secretary to the Cal tech Corporation students. manufacturer wanted to market high A promotion to vice president of and executive director of The Associ "I've been very fortunate," Combs quality products in the U.S., and asked sales with Timber Structures rook ates of Cal tech. said. "I believe the span of history that Combs to become his consultant. He Combs to Portland, but both he and Harold Brown arrived as president I've experienced is the mosr interesting invited Combs to name his own salary, Carmen knew that their hearts were in in 1969. "He was very, very quick on in the hisrory of the world, and being and promised a western-style house in southern California-because of friends, the uptake," Combs said, "and didn't part of Calrech has certainly added to Kyoto. Familiar with what he terms environment, and, in Combs's case, really need breaking in. He was a ge that. I hope some of my contributions "shoddy Japanese merchandise," Combs Caltech. He resigned his position and nius at money management. But he to the Institute will be enduring. I declined. He occasionally remembers headed south, where he and Carmen was shy socially, and a reluctant fund know that for me, the relationship has the offer as he observes impeccable were married, and where Combs had raiser." Combs remembets arranging a really been a love affair. " 10
ALUMNI
last October and learned about ad vances in recyclable packaging from the CHAPTER company's material conservation man Association offers A big thank-you ager,Joe Ragno. Ragno, who discussed ACTIVITIES "Environmental Influences on Packag- i ng Design," lends his expertise in new job-listing Over the years, many Cal tech faculty and alumni have provided outstanding Bostonians reap benefits of geology recycling, re-use, source reduction, and package elimination ro a regional coal i service, and more leadership for travel/study programs field trip and stimulating addresses both at tion that is developi ng packagi ng by Le Val Lund guidelines for industry. chapter meetings nationwide and at There's far mote to New England's Seminar Day on campus. The Alumni geology than Plymouth Rock, as mem Association takes this opporrunity to bers of the Boston Chapter discovered Two Arizona groups discuss Baja Mexico bifurcation publicly recognize those who have in October during a guided tour of the parricipated in programs and meetings region's countryside led by N ortheast during the past year. ern University geologist Richard Twin gatherings in Tucson and Scottsdale last Ocrober fo cused on rift Naylor PhD '67. Alumni hiked FACULTY: through the brilliant fall foliage, broke geology and on the slow movement of the Baja, California, peninsula away Trip" Jenijoy La Belle, Bill Schaefer, for a box lunch, and explored the com Bob Sharp '34, Lee Silver '55. plex, varied terrain all around them, from mainland Mexico along a rift which numerous geologists, Naylor sysrem. The speaker in borh ciries on included, have sought to explain. co nsecutive days was Joann Stock, asso ciate professor of geology and geophys Tri-State Chapter has double-bill ics ar Calrech. Stock presented evidence of rhe rift's origin and evolu In a tri-state event last October, tion, based on field studies of volca Cal tech and MIT alumni from the noes, faults, and mountain ranges that region joined together to tour a fusion have been exposed in rhe area. research lab--Columbia University's Tokamak Facility. Conducting the S.F. Chapter returns to Lick tour were Gerald Navratil BS '73, Le Val Lund chairman of applied physics at Colum Astro nom y has lost none of its ap bia, and Michael Mauel, an MIT alum peal for Bay Area alumni, judging by I n an efforr to expand the range of nus and a colleague of Navratil's. The the large number of San Francisco services available to Caltech alumni, Beavers from both coasts learned about Chapter participants who turned out the Association will be making a new new developments in fusion physics for the third trip in a row to the Uni career-oriented program, known as and about the potential of the tokamak versity of California's Lick Observatory, Cal tech ProNet, available to alumni in experiment to harness nuclear energy. neat San Jose (the earlier excursions 1993. Cal tech ProNet will link inter A second tri-state event took place were held in May and June). The visir, ested alumni with potential career Oeologlst Lee Sliver I_ding the way this past November in Greenwich, billed as "an evening at the Lick Obser opportunities. A voluntary program, on a travel/study tour of Yellowstone. Connecticut. Chang C. Tsuei (MS '63, vatory," included a private tour of the ProNet provides three services: It PhD '66) received a watm teception facility and a talk on new frontiers in cross-matches alumni profiles against Chaptm: Glen Cass '78, Judith Cohen when he spoke on "Room-Temperature astronomy and asrrophysics. requesrs from parricipating corpora '69, Judith Goodstein, Jenijoy La Supetconductivity: A Pipe Dream or a tions; ci rculates background informa Belle, Jerry Pine, Charles Plott, Ellen Realistic Possibility?" Tsuei, manager tion of alumni actively seeking Rothenberg, Bob Sharp '34, J oann at IBM's ThomasJ. Watson Research employment changes to subscribing Stock, Yu-Chong Tai, Stephen Taylor, Center, is the inventor of a supercon companies; and publishes a job-listing Amnon Yariv. ducting matetial called the "Tsuei newsletter. Registration packets will Seminar Day: Frances Arnold, Jack wire." He gave audience members a be sent to alumni in January. Please Beauchamp '64, Charles Beichman chance to experiment with a spi nning One of the finer points of the San look for the special announcement in (IPAC), David Goodwin, David magnet hovering above a real high Oabrlels' complex and Intriguing this issue for additional information. Halpern OPL), Philip Hoffman, temperature superconductor. history Is explained by kneeling In another move to enhance the Andrew Ingersoll,Jeff Kimble, Joseph geologist Bruce Carter '611, who led a field trip Into the mountain range Association's range of services, the Kirschvink '75, Christof Koch, Gilles above Pasadena this past November. Electronic Communications Committee Laurent, Jeremy Mould, Peter Results of Caltech-Rice computing Participant., from left, Inoludedl John was created this fall to oversee the Ordeshook, Stephen Taylor, Peter Opfell '47, How Bailey '41, Dana Far collaborations discussed in Houston rington (wHe of Paul Farrington '41 I, alumni electroni c mail network, on Weichman, James Westphal. Don Hloks '46, William Buchman '56. which more than 11 SO alumni cur It was fitting that Caltech alumni re nel y hold accounts. In addition to ADMINISTRATORS living in Houston gathered at Rice the campuswide news groups on the Chapters: Tom Anderson, Dan Bridges, U niversi ty last month to hear about system, specific alumni news groups are Tom Everhart, Paul Messina, Robert projects that resulted from co llabora in operation, dealing with such issues O·Rourke. tions between the two schools. Paul as job offers and resumes, alumni infor Messina, director of the Cal tech Con mation, and general discussion. Access ALUMNI current Supercomputing Facilities, dis to the Alumni Association electronic Trips: Bruce Carter '65, Dan Dzurisin cussed the cooperative projects, which mail network is available through As '75, Sue Kieffer PhD '71, Le Val Lund include the Center for Reseatch on sociation membership. If you are inter '47, Brian Von Herzen '89, Haimin Parallel Computation, at Rice, and the ested in participating, please contact Wang '88. Concurrent Supetcomputing Consor the Alumni Office at 818/356-8365. Chapters: Glen Cass '78, Judith Cohen tium, headed by Messina. The projects The Alumni Association exists fot '69, Terry Cole '58, Gerald Navratil include research on new programming rhe benefit of all alumni whether rhey '73, Richard Naylor '67, Bob Sharp languages, better compilers for existing attended Cal tech as undergraduate or '34, Chang Tsuei '63. languages, algorithms, applications, graduate students. W e are interested and other aspects of computation. in your co mments about the Associa STUDENTS tion and its activities. Please send your Chaptm: Karen Jonscher (graduate Colorado Chapter brews up event thoughts to: Le Val Lund, President, student), Alfredo Morales (SURF), of food, facts, and a facility tour Caltech Alumni, Mail Code 1-97, Pasa Lan Smith (SURF). dena, CA 91125, or by electronic mail Seminar Day: Keow Lin (Lindee) Goh Colorado Chapter members toured to Association President clo (SURF), Anronio Rangel (SURF), Erik the Coors Brewing Company in Golden [email protected]. Taylor (SURF). 11
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HOW DOES CAlTECH PRONET WORK? Management ALUMNI ACTIVITIES A co mpany ca ll s Pro Net and requ ests 11 search for the indi vidual they need. This request is cross-matched against the profiles of participating alumni. If you're the one they're Engineering looking for, you'll be notified. Complete confidentiality is January 1, 1993, ROJe Parade went. February 25-26, Phoenix/Tucson maintained throughout this process and you can restrict the Breakfast and lunch at the Chapter Meeting, wirh David release of your profil e. Arhenaeum. Reserved seating at Halpern, senior research scientist, PhannaceuticaJs Hill and Colorado for the 104rh JPL, "El Nino and Climate." WATCH YOUR MAil FOR DETAILS Tournament of Roses Parade. May 13, Class of 1943, 50th Reunion Pro Net information packages arc being mai led in mid-January. Chemicals Dinner, the Athenaeum. If you do not receive one, pl ease write to Cait ech Pro Net January 6, San Francisco Chapter Registration Department , Cal tec h Alumni Association, Mail Meeting, with Hugh Lusted, pres Code 1-97, Pasadena, CA 91125; or ca ll (818) 356-0654. Manufacturing ident of BioControl Systems, May 14, Half Century Club Reception "BioControl Systems: Use Your and Luncheon, the Athenaeum. Nervous System to Control Machines." May 14, Class of 1948, 45th Reunion Dinner, the Athenaeum. January 12, New Mexico Chapter Alumnu. Richard Alexander '48 brought hi. grand.on Colin Alexander Bennett Muting, with Murray Gell-Mann, May 14, ClaJS of 1953, 40th Reunion along on ...t Octob..... O ...nge County geology field trip with Bob Sharp. In the Dinner, the Athenaeum. background, checking out a formation along theCrlatlanlto. Fault at San Onofre I. Robert Andrews Millikan Professor Brent Fol.om, .on of Blair Folaom '68. of Theoretical Physics. May 14, ClaJS of 1968, 25th Reunion January 14, Santa Cruz Area Dinner, rhe Arhenaeum. Monthly Luncheon, Peachwood's at Pasatiempo Inn, noon. For reser May 15, 56th Annual Seminar Day vations, call Bob Shacklett at 408/ and Dinner, on the Cal tech campus. 722-6021. Luncheons are held the second Thursday of each month. May 15, ClaJS of 1958, 35th Reunion Dinner, rhe Athenaeum. January 21, San FranciJCo PeniflJula Luncheon, Ming's Restauranr in Palo May 15, Class of 1963, 30th Reunion Alto, noon. For reservations, call Dinner, the Athenaeum. Hugh Dubb at 415/362-3800 or 408/773- 9100. Luncheons are held May 15, ClaJS of 1983, 10th Reunion rhe rhird Thursday of each month. Dinner, the Athenaeum.
January/February, Washington, July 12-21,lceland Travel/Study D. c., Chapter Meeting, with Charles Program, wirh Robert Sharp '34, the Elachi, assistant lab direcror, Space Robert P. Sharp Professor of Science and Instruments, JPL. Geology, Emerirus, and Sue Kieffer PhD '7 1. February 16, San Francisco Chapter Meeting, with Joel Birnbaum, VP of For information on rhe above, please R&D, and direcror of Hewlett contact Arlana Bosrrom for chaprer Packard Labs, "Information Tech events (818/356-8363), Parsy nology: Impact on Future Sociery ." Gougeon for Seminar Day/Reunions (818/356-8366), and Helen Shafran for rravel/study and local programs (818/356-8364). 12
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1922 1941 1947 19J1 BlabB_It)' BS Nor-m.n Z. Akoc lc MS R ~land S. Aaher BS Paul E. Atbo Eo. Anhut). G.rfi.1d BS Mortu R. Clark BS Adolto). Anne.., US Elill G. Arcooli. MS 192} S.tft.ld). E... ley MS William O. Budedl«k EX o.wi,. N. Dtow,. MS Calling all alumni Roben J. Hammond BS Johl'l M . Peeley DS Ta..s.1l nUll. MS Smic h V. Bucy MS 192.4 O lyn Frllllc-Jonu BS P redric B. CIa rke ,.. W.,ley c..p.b MS Robert C. Hueinp BS Dcmald L. Hu.qo BS Raymond M. Clock MS Pn"k C. LanS BS Mitdwll C. Lubn. BS U oyd A. I.e"';. MS Hush 1-1. Colli,.. 8em.,.,J). O'Neill MS history buffs. Willard H. TrKy BS DlailM' R, Nebol'l BS Briln O. 0..,,,.11 MS'" a..a R. P.,_ BS 1925 Johll G. Partlow BS S4.lbodhC. Du US William C. R~.on MS Wilf~ G. Tho.,..,_ BS Geot-se I. Reimea BS PnlllM P. De Percin MS YunS-Chu,,& $b..... US Conrad J. W.lI.r BS Predericlc G. RobiMOIl BS OrinJ. Ottft.lth BS 00,..1d E. SloMtOIl BS A subcommittee of the Publications 1926 C. B. Sudum BS t..o Pjo~Uo MS Richatd W . WHIu BS HUn&: Y. Chins BS Clyde T. SundridS~ MS Eric Gilla m US Ho_rd E. WibOIl MS Committee, headed by Ted Combs '27, RiI~ L. Gib" EX F10yd G. Sceele MS I!lmer E. Hall MS 1m is currently worki ng on a history of the Fn,. HlII'd..,ick BS Robert L. W~r US W .lter Hurill«,ol'l MS Guerin II. uNo,. MS John R . H~lI BS Colmall Zola Jobl'l W. HanUon BS 511"10,. L. Bilel'lbers BS Alumni Association and is considering 1927 1942 '" Me""Y1l E. HodS" BS l1\eodore Ei,.wohner BS Prank F. Peunon BS M.tlmnP. Debe E•• E.-Qua HUIIIS MS OollaW O. I!menon BS publishing the results. The estimated Yes, I am interested in purchasing Thomu S, Sourh..idc. BS OmlIlM.l!nw Paul T . Hutdu.on US StUlrt G. Le,.IlOX MS price of the book, which should be ___ copies of a history of the 1921 Prank J. Given '"BS Pd ix A. Kalin.dei MS Dourl H. McRae PhD Pruct. C. Manin us O\0"a-HuGo MS Juntt S. I.e.ko .... Georse H. Moore BS approximately 130 pages in length, is Cal tech Alumni Association at $25 per 1929 Ridiud Lanet BS Rodill LeaO'ft1cy BS Wilbur P. Offternw.u Joh n O. Elder PhD Victor H , MlrtilM'J MS Vicente H. Lim US Shuman H. Ripley PhD'". $25. Before going to press, the Asso copy. ReymondJ. Kirdler BS O\.,ltII 8 . Meu PhD J ohn ).bnoulc.ian MS )elW Ruiz·Elizot\do MS KamH. u.u BS Inver M . MunodoSlu Michlfl K . Molloy US Notmln M . Schroeder BS ciation would like to assess what the Juliw NNon BS RUMeD Rhyl'lc BS'" Bui! E. Moo~hnd BS Tho,... R. Slodo_1ei BS level of membership interest misht be Name: True W. RobiN Oft BS WillerS. Spuhler MS Raymond L. O l.on BS Pred P. StolTer MS WillemU)'t~n PhD R~rt S. W onhinst<)n MS Jobn L. On US 0.""' S. Twil'lillS BS in purchasing such a hiscory. Please 1930 1943 Loy. M . s.terfieMl 19J4 Donald K. Alilion BS J~M . Brown BX Aleunder Smith '".PhD Ouo urdi",le BS fill in and recurn the adjacent coupon lHnnm a. Coupt.hd BS WaYM H . Brown BS Praneu O. Su.lliftn BS JoM T. Coushlin MS to: Cal tech Alumni Association, Mail William K~U'Y BS Ted L CtQfrh_;r MS Raymond B. Tuk., BS Ju.im M . BI.HllIIIaiJli MS Prs,,1t N. Moyen BS 9"I'Ijamil'l A. 0.1101'1 MS Ru.uD A. TholTplOn ,.. WolI.y R. Guebert MS Code 1-97, Pasadena, CA 91125, or Home Phone: JICIt O. Pritchett BS Richard M. Ho l (o ~ EX Georse R. Vaade,. Heuwl MS June. II. Guinane MS 1931 Edwlrd G. Kil'lS MS ARhur P. Vi~S BS P.ul K, Henney MS E-mail your response to Marti Jackson JlCk H. A"",,,,, BS Roben H. Koc: l\ MS Pao K. W.,. MS IrviIlG. Henry MS at marti@pcmail. caltech.edu. Business Phone: Abn.ham J. GraflTllll.ll BS Roben W. Ko,.S MS Clilfon:l M. Wi~ l y MS Rich.n:I R. Hod!'. BS Mat¥ill W. Hall BS Willilm L. LeaJ. MS 19" Herberto JimtMJ MS Thomu V, Tarbec BS Rot..nJ E. LUIlJquill US Pred P. Adl" MS Ellfe"" A. Kaiaer BS Jilinf" B. Taylor BX Kt..llll Mlmpell PhD Yil'l-Chilla: Au DS Robert G . Motri. MS WiIIi.mT. W,,1 BS Roben W. Mitchell EX June, A. Burll:~ MS Berdine H . Rosell US T . R. White BS No.".." Nt"'lOme MS T.o-HuIlSOw MS PnotK" P. Scott BS uri K . Yo.hiou DS LlwlfllCe K. O'ben EX Albert R. Clark MS BruceJ. Waddn. BS 1932 Rich.n:lII. Pe"lo""y EX DUfStII.P. CoUi,., Palll P. Weyeh MS P. B. Phl~rr us AUo:xa"d~r C. Ridt..nd SS Jilinf" R. 0.11' ""MS Hed:>en H. Winteb MS H~ ll ry W. Schuln EX Pred D. Roben, MS Ch.tk. O. Edwuda MS 19H Fjording ahead toward Iceland J93 Rich.rd A. Se.tt. BS o.n R. SchoLa M' Pllnck N . G lover BS Alai,. Brat- MS 1933 LNlie A. Shlnl'lol'l MS (hitn H.iao MS Jobll O. Brin"fI PhD Tho"* C, BUlk BX Peur A. TiiNtOn EX Omul.ll'IOllu E•• OouSt... O. u~bell PhD Luu E. Kemniuef US Emtllto Vicente MS Peter C. Lambtn BS L_i, P. ElimoN BS "Whenever Mother Nature chooses 12-21,1993, will be $2,300 per per WilIi.m A. La_II >IS Courtlll,.d L. Wllbbum MS Robert J . M.cNeili MS J.n GeKill .... Edwill B. MicN! US 19« Henna/\ A. Muon DS o.,.i~lJ. G riffin co mix hot rocks with cold ice, the - son, double occupancy, and $2,650 per WilYtol! H . Rke Willi.m O . UIlt..rd BS W.lter P. Murphy E•• Willil.mll. Hu&.., MS"" Moaple O. SNrpeli ""PhD FrlflciKo Durir MS C. rI R. Oberm./\ BS OrenI' W . LorN>ardi BS outcome is, conservatively speaking, person, single occupancy. This price Wanu H. Smith BS Willi.m E. Bell US Geoffrey V. ParkiNoI'I MS Jame. Mllth"n BS unusual. In Iceland this mixture has includes all group-related accommoda William E. Stone BS Donald G. IKnj. mil'l MS Johll S. SWli,. BS WiUi.mT,}.{(l(l'" MS William R. Wbiru1r.« 'X Mdunn N. DeruM MS Robert K. S_llk MS William R. Monlal'ld MS resulted in curious landforms, spectacu rions, transportation, and meals. The AIII!D."dI!rWolf PhD ERu3NI Birlilc BS Willi.m H . VoelKer MS RoyW. P.ul BS 1934 Jo.epb E. Burch MS Jlme. E. Whillley MS Roy M . SlCba PhD lar scenery, lots of water, and a variety cost of airfare to and from Iceland is not JlCk M. Dumortd BS Willi.mG, Dllf~ MS o.Tid 8 , Wilford BS 19SO of ecological environments. Owing to included. Currently, roundrrip airfare OuncAll L. Hooper US Ahm«:J Cebed MS Robert S. Willl'liiotd MS K~rmit M. Balldt MS Robert A. H~td BS Carlo. A. De Medeil'Olo MS Albert K. WOI'IS BS Witmoc G. Browlll« MS its location on top of a spur off the to Iceland is estimated at $1,100 from JlCk P.JudlOll DS Wrldoll R. Don.bKh BS 1949 JamuL. Co-II BS Rdward E. Simmon. BS E. J . GwhrillS EX Thorr.a E. Aile" Ho. RobeR W. Ed_rd. MS mid-Atlantic spreading ridge, it is the Los Angeles, and $736 from New Prsnci. G. Tl'ICy BS O\ulfll P. HUNOIl MS Thomu). Andre_ MS Jacque. Pl!ise MS Rudol(Vo" Huelle BS Plul). Laba,.IlUu. MS Laurenee I. 8auma"" BS Jame. R. Po.let Eo. center of abnormally high geothermal York; of coutse, these fares are subject 19H Carl O . ManinHlIl BS Arthut R. BellrOft BS R. M. Gold BS and tecconic activity." co change. Spaces are limited, so if you Leoll S. Secket BS Ke"nelh L. McDfClefl MS JOHph P. BurkhoW.r BS o.Yid W . Hill MS Ed_rJ A. Bertnm MS John G . .NcOondd BS Harold O. Cooper MS JIlTle,L. Kelly MS Thus begins Bob Sharp's description would like to be a part of this exciting Chuls j . Gibb. BS A.J . Morr" BS Harold W . o...-idtoll MS Dune.I'I E. ).(ad)uffie BS PUIl-O-l.,.S HUlAS MS uri W . Ollon BS Pnonc" C, POIrer Eo. o."ie!J, Millon MS of Iceland, the subject of a second in a travel/study program, please fill out the futty M . KOON DS Menill E. OlUlt.d MS GeorSt M. Hrebec BS Rolland G. Moody BS series of travel/study programs rhat form below and return it, with your RUNe! L Mly 1'>60 1961 1972 1917 1980 1982 198< N,YiIk: A. Bt.c;k BS Sul1!ndra N . Adodno MS Carl R. Andenon as M, .."r. A. AbUlh.,ur MS Rich.n:I P. Allltee PhD Cafhryn C. Allen NO Sr:ephen C. AnC"O MS I... n M.Onyuc:huk MS Plul R. Call.... y BS J.me. R. Boyd MS D.vi'" S. AndrrtOn EX Adi R. Adi_o MS Jan.Luc R. A~haN MS Mun,.LinIlA", BS Nomen K. Athdl MS Valerie Pllticlt MS JOMph M. uuley BS Maon:i,. D. COOfWr BS Ridurd B. 8 ..ler MS J.me. C. AltllOff MS Pemo:la R. Auhurn MS ~ewart W. &.illi. MS Clinton L. B.II.rd BS Su.nne E. P.uiaon MS JK positions at Shanghai University of Fi nance and Eco nomics, China; Kobe Univenity,J.pan; and the University of Guam. ]n addition, ] have served as Senior and Chief Economist for PERSONALS Guam 's Department of Commerce." He adds that he received his master's and doctoraJ de grees in economics from UC Berkeley. 1943 1963 GEORGE D . AVANT, MS, of Tallahassee, FEDERICO R. NORWOOD, MS, PhD '67, of Plorida, has recently completed 25 years with Albuquerque, New Mexico, has been named a A. G. Edwards & Sons Inc. as a srockbroker and Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical has been awarded a set of Royal Doulton china. Engi neers. He is a senior engineer at Sa ndia He is also active in real es tate and timber National Laboratories. growing (pine crees). 1964 1945 CHARLES VINSONHALER has been named WALTER B. DANDLIKER, PhD, of the 1992 Connecticut Professor of the Year by San Diego, California, has been honNed fot the Council for Advance ment and Support of a lifetime of achievement by the American Education (CASE). The honor recognizes his Associarion for Clinic.1 Chemisrry. Chief "extraordinary commitment to teaching under sciencist at the Diatron Corp., he has also graduates" and is given as part of the CASE worked ar UC Berkeley, Harvard, and Scripps Professor of the Year program, which salutes the most outstanding undergraduate instructors Clinic; his coorriburions to clinical chemistry At a c.remony at the Ath.na.um Ia.t month, alumnu. Chuck Tho..... '35 span more chan 40 years. His recent work applaud.d the unv.lllng of the artwork for the U.S. po.tal .tamp hono.lng in the counrey at both the state and national includes the development of technologies that Th.odo•• von K...... n, who...... reh on the p.lnclpl•• of alrplan. d ••lgn and levels. Vinsonhaler teaches at the University permit faster diagnostic tests on patients. flight h.lp.d to .et the .tag. for modem aviation. Th. man doing the hono.. wa. of Connec ticut. alumnu. W. Bailey O.wald ( ...t.d), a ••I.t.d by hi. g.and.on. O.wald, who ••c.lved hi. PhD In 1932, I. the olde.t living graduate .tudent of von K...... n. 1946 1967 EBERHARDT RECHTIN, PhD '50, has JAMES F. BEAll, of Houston, Texas, writes received a Japan Computer and Communica that May was a big month for the Beall family: tions Prize of 5 million yen ($40,000). The tional competition, where t hree awards were voir engineering at Chevron's Oil Field Research Anne, his wife, graduated. from Southern Meth prize was awarded for his fundamental contribu made representing the humanities, the sc iences, Company in La Habra, California. While at odist University" Perkin. School of Theology, their daughter Catherine graduated from high rions to the archi[ec tu~ and design of the deep and business-technology-human developmenc . Chevron, McDowell's on-the-job accomplish space digital-communkation systems that have respectively. HefTerlin has taught physics at ments included worldwide consulting on com school, and their daughter Kristin graduated permiued the spectacular recurn of images to Southern College for 37 yean. In regard <0 the puter si mulation of oil fields, including from Austin College. Earth by spacecraft exploring the solar sysrem. award, he said, "Much of the credit belongs to enhanced recovery processes. ]n addition, as an Indeed, he was the architect of the Jet Propul my wife, Indda Phillips Hefferlin, who has avid offshore sailboat racer, he has served as SUSAN W . KIEFFER, MS, PhD '71, was sion laboratory's Deep Space Network, which lived with my long hours at the college and my commodore of the King Harbor and Santa awarded the Arthur A. Day Medal by the he managed 1961-1967 as an assisrant labora many sc ience trips." Monica Yacht Clubs, and he received King Geological Society of America at its annual tory director. He is now a professor of electrical Harbor's 1991 Yachtsman of the Year Award . meeting in Cincinnari , on October 26. "Kieffer engineering and engineering sys tems at the 1960 He is also a magician. was recognized for her accomplishmentS as a University of Southern California. EDWARD R. H. MCDOWELL, MS, PhD '64, superb experimentalist, field observer, theoreti of Pacific Palisades, Californi a, has been named 1961 cian, and teacher. She was cited as having 'an 1951 recipient of the F. J. & Oororhy Van Antwerpen PETER C. MAYER, of Guam, writes, "I have uncanny knack for solving the physics of inter CORNELIUS J. PlNGS, MS '52, PhD '55, Award for Service to the Inseicute; he was given recently learned that I shall be listed in the esting problems in geology and then developing provost and senior vice president for academic the award by the Ameri ca n [nstiture ofChemi Eleventh Edition of Who's Who of th, World. applications of considerable generali ty .· .. affairs at the Univecsity of Southern California, cal Engineen (AIChE). The award honors his This is in addition to previous inclusion in has been appointed the next president of the contributions to the Institute as paSt president, Who's Who in Finance and IndJlStry. Many events 1969 Association of American Universities. He will former ditector on the governing cou ncil, and were necessary for these honors to be possible. LAWRENCE SHIRLEY, of Towson, Maryland, assume the post February 15, 1993, for a term general campaign chair of AlChE's Foundation None is as impoctanr as my education at the has been elected a Fellow of the Mathematical of five years. He has served in his current posi Board. An AIChE Fellow, McDowell has served California Institute of Technology and at the Association of Nigeri a, rhe organization's high tion at USC since 1981, and he was previously on many national AIChE committees. Before University of Cal ifornia at Betkeley. This note est honor, which has never before been awarded professor of chemical engineering and chemical retiring in 1986, he served as manager of reser- is submitted as thanks. I have held faculty to a non-Nigerian. The ceremonies involved physics, as well as vice provost and dean of a visit to the Emir of Kano and formal confer graduate studies, at Caltech. ment by the Governor of Kano State and the President of the Mathematical Association at 1955 the Association's Annual Conference in Kano, ALLEN FUHS, MS, PhD '58, a Distinguished Nigeria, on September 1. The award was in Professor Emeritus at the Naval Postgraduate KEEP US INFORMED! recog nition ofShicley's fifteen years of work in School (NPS), was inducred into the Interna mathematics teacher education and curriculum development in Nigeria. He currently teaches tional Space Hall of Fame in Alamogordo, Keep uS informed so we can keep your fe llow alums informed. Send us news abour New Mexico, in October. An internationally mathematics education at Towson State Univer you and your family, about a new job, promotion, awards-anything you'd like ro see si ty in Baltimore and serves on the Executive renowned educator and space scientist currently printed in the Personals section of Caltech NewJ, Rerurn this coupon and any addi serving on the U.S. Space Policy Review Board, Board of the International Study Group on tional materials ro: Caltech NewJ, Caltech Mail Srop 1-71, Pasadena, CA 9 11 25. Fuhs was honored for his many contributions to Erhnomarhematics. the exploration of space. These concribucions Name ______include, among numerous others, laying the 1974 RALPH W . ALEWINE III, PhD, Di rector groundwork for the development of NPS's Degree(s) and Year(s) Granted ______of the Nuclear Monitoring Research Office, space-systems group and serving as its chairman Defense Advanced ReseaIch Projects Agency, until 1987; serving, at separate times, as chair has received a Department of Defense Distin man of the mechanical engineering and aeronau Address ______guished Civilian Service Award , which is the tical engineering departments at NPSj and department's highes t civilian award and recog serving as president of the American Institute nizes exceptional contributions to national of Aeronautics and Astronautics. security. Among his many responsibilities, Is this a new address? __ Day phone ______Occupation ______Alewine directs the department's research pro RAY HEFFERLlN, PhD, physics chairman at gram for improving verification capabilities Southern College of Seventh-day Adventists, has News ______regarding nuclear-testing agreements, serves as been selected to receive the 1992 N ational head of the U.S. delegation to the United Na Zapata Award for Excellence in Teaching, in the tions Conference on Disarmament, Group of science category. The award includes a $3,000 Scientific Experts, to consider international cash prize. He was selected last spring on the cooperative measures co monitor a nuclear test recommendation of students and peers as one of ban, and is chairman of the NATO Joint W ork three recipients of the award on the local cam ing Group on Aromic Information. pus level. This qualified him to enter the na- 15 1980 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FINANCIAL STATEMENT JOHN M . CIMBALA. MS. PhD '84. now an associate professor at Pennsylvania State Univer ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CALIFORNIA INSnTUTE OF TECHNOLOGY sity, w rites that he has received an outstanding Pasadena. California teaching award from the university's college of OBITUARIES engineering. BALANCESHEJrr lune 30. 1992 1983 ASSJrrS LYNMAR1E THOMPSON. an assistanr 1923 Cash on Hand and in Bank ...... $ 125,540 Investments: professor of chemistry at rhe University of JOHN R. NORTH. of Mountain View. Massachusens. has been selected as a National California. on September 28; he was 92. He was ~~y~~:~.:d~~.~~~~.:::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::: :::::::::::::: :: :::::::::::::: : :: ::::: :: ::: ::: : :: :::::::::: : :: :: :: : :::::::: . ~ :1~:~~~ Science Foundation Young Investigator. She the former president of Gilben/Commonwealth Receivables ...... 15.951 Inventory ...... 19,154 (Commonwealth Associates), a consulting and will receive up co $100,000 pet year, for five Ocferred Program Expense ...... 55.530 years, through a combination of federal and design-engineering firm in Jackson, Mjchigan. private funds. A biophysical chemist, she will He had been associated with Commonwealth ~::re~=~e~:~~!~~~. ::::::::::: ::: : : ::: : :::::::::::: ::: ::::: : :::::::::::::: : ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::: 2~:m Accumulated Depnx:iation ...... (1 0.880) be using sophisticated tec hniques involving since 1924. and was president from 1958 to sol id-sc3rc nuclear magnetic resonance, to better 1963, when he retired. He was presidential TOTAL ASSJrrS ...... $1.832,557 understand basic biochemical mechanisms at the advisor fo r North Central Airlines, and active molecular level; she will be specifically looking wirh rhe Civil Air Patrol in World Wnr II. His LIABILITIES, RESERVES AND SURPLUS Accounts Payable ...... $ 71.149 at how membmne recepcors transmit informa professional societies included, among many Deferred Income: tion across cell membranes. Afte r graduating others, the National Society of ProfessiofUll Invesuncnt Income from C.J.T. Consolidated Portfolio ...... 56,000 from Calrec h, Thompson received her MS and Engjneers, the Society of Automotive Engi neer· Program Income ...... 129.765 PhD in chemistry from Yale University, in ing, and the American Institute of Elecrcical 1985 and 1989. respectively. Engineers (now the Institute of Electrical and ~:~~~1:~:j:·~::::::::::: :::::: :::::::: ::::::::::::: ::: : ::: ::: : :::::: :::::: :: ::: :::: ::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: : : : ::: ~:·:~.~iH Electronics Engineers), in which he attained the Reserve for Electronic Database ...... 715 Invesunent in Equipment ...... 11.435 mnk offellow (1941) and served as direcror 1984 Surplu ...... 73.895 DANIEL C. DAVIS. a medical docror and a (194~1949) and vice-president (1949--1952). TOTAL LIABILITIES, RESERVES AND SURPLlJS ...... _ ...... ,.. ,...... _$ 1.832.557 lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, married Amy He was listed in Who's Who in Engin«ring. He is Cindriry. of Fallbrook. Califo rnia. on October survived by two sons, Robert and Donald; a STATEMENT OF INCOME, EXPENSES AND SURPLUS 24. She is currently attending San Diego SCR te daughter. Lucille Loomis; and 23 grandchildren For the Year Ended lune 30. 1992 University. Davis is in his final year of diagnos and 36 great-grandchildren. His wife. Martha. tic· radiology residency at Balboa Naval Hospi died Inst year. He was particularly proud that INCOME Dues of Annual Memben ...... $ 71.410 cat, in San Diego. his grandson, Donald, Jr., is an undergraduare Investment Tncome: at Caltcch. 1985 M ICHAEL CHWE wrires, "\'m in Ko rea now 1931 umil December with my wife, Namhee Lee (we ROBERT M. LEHMAN. of Pasadena. E:~~~f¥~~:~:f~j:~t~~:~~::~: : :~~~~;::t:::==~i 80t married in March). who is doing research for California, on N ovem ber 9. He was a TOTAL INCOME ...... _ ...... $ 172,003 her dissenadon in modern Korean history. I member of rhe Descanso Gardens Guild. finally got my PhD in June in economics at The Associares of Calrech. and the Valley Hunr EXPENSES Northwescern U niversity. last year I was a Club. He is survived by his wife of 66 years. posrdoctoral fellow in rhe economics depart Evelyn; two sons, Robert and Charles; tWO mem at the University of Chicago, and this yH.l daughters. Mary Harvey and Sa ll y Boynton; I am statting there as an assistant professor. 12 grandchildren and 15 grear-grandchildren; ~~~:§~~~~":"::;~:~-~~~:=~--~~~":~~~I~~~":-"~~~~~~~j Right now the leaves are changing colors and we and a sisrer, Susan Young. ace enjoying sweet potatoes." 1933 ~=;~~ ?:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::: :::::: :::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: : ::::::::::::::::: :::::::::: :: : :::: :::::: :::J~:E TED WOODWARD. MS. PhD '88, and ROBERT L. SUGGS. MS. of Metairie. TOTAL EXPENSES ...... $ 190,748 SHERYL (SMITH) WOODWARD, MS '85. Louisiana, on Septem ber 4, 1989. He was INCOME OVER (UNDER) EXPENSES ...... $ (18.715) PhD '88. are pleased to announce the birth of founder and chairman of rhe board of Petroleum Surplus.lune 30. 1991 ...... 92.610 their first child, lit daughter, Helen Jessie, on Helicopters Inc., opetator of the largest com· Surplus, lune 30. 1992 ...... $ 73.895 October 12. Borh have been employed since mercial helicopter fleet in the world . He is INDBPBNDIlNT AUDITOR'S REPORT graduation as members of the technical Staff survived by his wife, Carroll. Baucl orOftacn Alwzml A.ociatiao ar AT&T Bell Laborarories. in Holmdel. California btitu~ olTodmolOl.)' New Jersey. He is in the Advanced Phoronics 1946 I myo audited tb: acc:omp&rJ)'mc b&lmc:e Iboet oItbD AlI.IIIJI:d ~.I..ioa. California btitulD olTodmoloey. u 01 JIInI:I 30,1992. and the related Research Department, and she is in the ROBERT G . PARKE. MS. of San Anronio. lta1r::munt orinc:.mlc, CJlpcDKlf IIIJd surplu far lbc,..,., lhcncndod. 'J'bca fiDaDcial ~ &1'0 tba rc.ponIibiJiy oCthc ANociatioo'. Board 01 D~ton . My rwpomibility u. to oxprcu an opinion on tIlDIIC . tu::mmtJ, buod OIl my awiiL Lightwave Communications Research Depart Texas, o n March 2. He is survived by his ment. They live in Lincroft. New Jersey. wife. Lee. I ~dod my IWdit in IICCU'dInclCI with pD'ally KClCJ*Id auditina mnduda. nx- It:andarcII"''fUn Iball plan and pcdMa the IUldit to obta.in I'C&ICJDAblc UlW'aDCC abouI w~ r thc finmciallll.lI:mcQb am t'RlC o(ma1criaJ miutat.emcm. An audit mcJudct cuminin" em.~. buil., cvidmc:e .upportin& tho amowu and diKlOII.InII in the rllWlcialltalcmmw. An aDdU al-a incllll:b UICUin. tho aCCCUlllina principle. uad and aI.&nif~ 1986 DAVID B. SHELDON. of Bishop. California. oftimatca made by manapmool, .. .."u .. ovaluatin& tho ovcnl1 rmanciaJ ltalcmcnt Jl"Cl'GDtation. I belill'Ve thai my alldit providcIa rcUOl1llble huw for my opinion. ROD V AN METER. of Los Angeles. writes on August 12. He died when his sailplane rhar he married Kathy Fleischer on March 18. crashed in the White Mountains, in Inyo In my opinion. tho finmcialltalcDllODti tcbtod 10 abcMJ ~t fairly, in all maJctiaJ tclpCa..lhD financial paaitiaa ofthu A1w:mi A.ociatioa u of JIIDII 30, 1992, and thu roa&JtI clltt oporatiom for Ibo year tbeo eodDd, in c:mformily with FDCfI.lly ac:c:eJ*'d accountina priDclplcl.. 1989, in Yo~mite National Park. He received County, California. An Air Force pilot during c.Jvin A. Amell his MS in computer engineering from USC in World W ar II. he loved ro fly and had flown a Cortifiod Public. Ac:co..mtanl Sepccmbcr 19, 1992 December 1991. In February 1992. after more variety of aircraft for over 50 years. He was also than five and a half years as a programmer at • ham radio operator and a photographer. He USC's Information Sciences Institute, he graduated wirh Alpha O mega Alpha ho nors accepted a position as chief software engineer from Harvard Medical School in 1950, and from 1947 all·around athlete, bridge player, and musician. at ASACA, a video and test-equipmem manu 1955 to 1966 he was a general surgeon on the LOREN F. STRINGER. MS. of Clarence. Survivors include his wife, G retchen; twO facturer located in western Tokyo, where he Staffs of St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, N ew York. on Seprem ber 19; he was 67. daughters, Pamela Stringer and Lizbech expects ro be at least unril rhe end of 1993. Santa Monica Hospital, and the UCLA Medical A leading authority on power electronics Coffman; two sons, William and Frederick; He hopes to bring molt' awareness of the U.S. Center. H e moved to Bishop in 1966, where he systems and indusrrial controls, he was presi his mother, H elen; and a granddaughter. market to the company as it moves into rhe had a private practice and was a general surgeon dent of Stringer Power Elec tronics Corp., which A memorial fund has betn esrablished at compurer mass-storage field . He is interested in at Northern Inyo Hospital; he had gone inco he formed after retiring from Westinghouse Caltech. Those wishing to contribute should meeting alumni living in Japan. He can still be semicctirernen.t onJuly' 3 1. He is survived by Electric Corp. in 1985. He held 24 U.S. write to the Loren F. Stringet Memorial Fund, reached bye-mail at [email protected]. or through h is wife. Carol Partridge Sheldon; a former wife, pacents, and received many awards, including Calrech. 1201 East Cali fornia Boulevard. rhe Alumni Association. Dororhy Sheldon; his son. Spencer; his daugh the Wescinghouse Special Patent Award, the 105-40. Pasadena CA 91 125. ters. Anne Sheldon. Sarah Sheldon Cashoough. Westinghouse O rder of Merit, and hoth the Emily Sheldon. and Grace Sheldon; his step William E. Newell Award and the Lamme 1989 daughter, Phyllis Partridge Bateman; his seep Medal of rhe Institure of Electrical and HEATH A. MAXFIELD. on Aug ust 19. son. Alan Partridge; eight grandchildren; and Electronics Engineers, to which he was elected Mter graduating from Calrec h. he spenr two his sister, Barbara Rush. a fellow. He was also a member of the Assoc ia years in the Peace Corps, then moved to Port tion of Iron and Steel Engineers and a technical land, Oregon, where ht was living with his adviser for several committees of the Interna girlfriend, Elizabeth Essex. He is survived by tional Electrotechnical Commission. He wns an his parents. NON-PROFIT ORG. 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