Volume 18, No.1, February 1984 CALTECH NEWS
astronomers have theorized that Students take over matter is flowing into a black hole the Rose Bowl with the mass of millions of suns, and that this flow is the source of scoreboard, that is! power for the energetic events in the center of the galaxy. Legends of Cal tech is sold out in "If these theories are correct, then its first printing-and already out of this picture represents the first time date. Cal tech students saw to that on that we are actually seeing matter January 2 when they seized control falling into a black hole. Our galactic of the Rose Bowl scoreboard during center presents the best view of such the game, printing out pro-Caltech an event that we will have, because messages and, with 9:26 to go in the the nearest external galactic center is 4th quarter, substituting the names of about 70 times farther away than . Caltech and MIT for UCLA and . our own." Illinois: Cal tech 38, MIT 9. While their current observations Earlier, the students flashed other allow them to map the ionized gas in messages on the board, including the galactic center, Lo said he and his "Go CIT," "DEC" and a matrix pic colleagues will have to make obser ture of an arrow pointing to two vations at shorter wavelengths to beavers- but none of these attracted map the structure of the neutral gas much attention on the part of sports that is there. announcers or persons in the crowd. "This information will help us Later, the pranksters planned to understand more' about the origin of substitute "1984 Beaver Bowl" for the gas falling into the galactic cen "1984 Rose Bowl," but were stymied ter," he said. "We plan to study the when the scoreboard was turned off center as soon as possible with with four minutes left in the game. This computer picture of the ga lactic center was made from a radio map by K. Y Lo and Mark ]. Cal tech's new millimeter-wave inter Ted Williams, a senior in applied ferometric array." physics from Lloyd House, and Dan Claussen of Ca ltech. The picture shows spiral arms of gas, perhaps representing matter plunging into a black hole. The array of telescopes at the Kegel, a senior in engineering from Institute's Owens Valley Radio Ob Blacker House, were leaders of the servatory consists of three high project. They began work on it 15 Caltech astronomers obtain precision dishes capable of detailed months ago with plans to use it in the highest-resolution photo mapping of the millimeter-wave 1983 Super Bowl, but were not done length emissions from molecules in in time. of galaxy nucleus space. Even better pictures of the The technology consisted of a galactic center will be obtainable with microprocessor unit planted in the By scanning radio waves emanat They used the Very Large Array the Very Long Baseline Array, a control system of the scoreboard, ing from the center of our galaxy, (VLA) in New Mexico. The VLA is a national array of ten radio telescopes and linked to another microprocessor two Cal tech astronomers have pro facility of the National Radio As that has been proposed as a major by radio. The students operated the duced the highest resolution picture tronomy Observatory, which is effort in radio astronomy over the scoreboard from a hill overlooking yet obtained of the galactic nucleus. operated by the Associated Universi next decade. The VLBA will allow the Rose Bowl, some two miles away. The picture clearly shows spiral arms ties, Inc., under contract with NSF. pictures of the center with 100 times They would have liked to be in of gas, perhaps representing matter in The resulting map, which covered better resolution than was previously side, but lacked tickets to the game. the act of plunging into a gigantic the central three parsecs (about ten possible. Jim Muldoon, media director of black hole that scientists theorize light years) of the galaxy, showed Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a the Rose Bowl game, said the stu resides there. three spiral arms of ionized gas spiral-shaped disk of a hundred dents' prank blew the circuitry on the Assistant Professor of Radio As radiating outward from the center. trillion stars, some 100,000 light system, plunging it into darkness tronomy K. Y. Lo and Research The arms appear to be composed of years across and 2,000 light years Continued on page 2 Fellow Mark J. Claussen, who a series of large clumps of matter, thick. Our solar system lies about published their results in the Decem strung out in space. The map reveals 30,000 light years from the center. ber 15 issue of Nature, made their the details of the spiral arms for the map by scanning the galactic center first time. at a wavelength of six centimeters. "Although the general velocities of gas around the galactic center have been known for several years, this new map allows us to make more sense out of them," said Lo . The most natural interpretation is that we are seeing gas falling into a deep gravita tional potential in the center. Many Students take over Technology and Gordon Moore Lee Weingarten the Rose Bowl shoelaces: the named to Caltech Alumni Association Continued from page 1 Los Angeles Times Board of Trustees executive director during the final fo ur minutes of the game. But Williams said this couldn't looks at Bowl fete Gordon E. Moore (PhD '54), Lee S. Weingarten has been ap have happened because the micro chairman and chief executive officer pointed executive director of the This editorial from the Los Angeles processor installed in the bowl was of Intel Corporation and a pioneer in Alumni Association. She succeeds Times on January 4 is reprinted with still operating and accepting the semiconductor industry, has been Phyllis Jelinek, who retired from that permission. Copyright 1984. instructions. named to the Board of Trustees of position after the birth of her daugh In developing the prank, the perpe Monday's bowl games were by and Caltech, Chairman of the Board ter, Christine. She will have responsi trators entered the Rose Bowl several large showcases for the underdogs, R. Stanton Avery has announced. bility for managing alumni activities times to splice a microprocessor into including the underest dogs of all, Moore is the co-founder of the - including Seminar Day, travel the Rose Bowl system and handle athletically speaking- Pasadena's Intel Corporation and of the Fairchild programs, chapter meetings, class other technological details. Lee Caltech. Semiconductor Corporation, which reunions, and student recruitment Sampson, press box supervisor, said By the third quarter of the Rose became the Semiconductor Division support program - and will direct Rose Bowl officials do not know how Bowl game the attention of tens of of the Fairchild Camera and Instru alumni office operations. the students obtained a copy of the thousands of fans had begun to ment Corporation. As director of Weingarten has been with the only computer program that oper wander. Some fans themselves, in research and development of Fair University of Southern California for ated the scoreboard. fact, began to wander. Illinois child during the late 1950s and 1960s, seven years as director of student Kegel submitted elaborate plans for rooters, after a brief frenzied but he supervised much of the work on programs and was coordinator of the project for class credit in Electri futile third-quarter effort to rally which today's semiconductor indus student affairs at California State cal Engineering 91, "Experimental their team, seemed to find their try is based. University, Long Beach. Projects in Electronic Circuits," kneecaps or their shoelaces more At Intel, he led in creating many of She is a graduate of the University taught by Stanley H. Bacon, lecturer interesting than the' game, to judge the semiconductor memories and of Oregon and has done advanced in electrical engineering. He titled the from the downward cast of so many microprocessors that are now main study at Cal State Long Beach and at project "Bulletin Board Control," and heads. Even some UCLA fans were stays of the computer industry. USc. Bacon was under the illusion that it beginning to feel uncomfortably In 1975, Moore was recipient of involved remote control systems for inhospitable, particularly those Caltech's Distinguished Alumni bulletin boards used in stock trading. sandwiched-as we were-among Award, the Institute's highest honor Student critically He only learned of the project's loyal Illini who had traveled so far to to a graduate. In 1975, he endowed true purpose a few minutes before the watch their favored champions make the Gordon and Betty Moore Profes injured in Noyes game, when Kegel called him and up for 20 years of failure to head sorship at Caltech. Carver Mead, an explo~iqn_ asked him to be sure to watch it. west for the oldest of bowl games. innovator in development of tech In 1982 and 1983, students at Enter Caltech- through the air, of niques for design of complex inte Two Caltech graduate students in tempted to bury balloons in the Rose course- manipulating the Rose Bowl grated circuits, is the Moore Profes Noyes Chemical Laboratory were Bowl field that would rise, inflate, scoreboard with a microprocessor sor of Computer Science. injured about 8:40 p.m. on January and carry away streamers boosting transmitting signals from a radio 4. When Caltech News went to press, Cal tech. They were foiled in both installed two mires away. Along a Ramsay A . Bittar, a second-year instances by Rose Bowl security panel at the bottom of the scoreboard Alumni Fund report graduate student from Madison, forces. Thus, not since January 2, customarily reserved for such su Wisconsin, remained in critical condi Caltech's Alumni Fund is finding it 1961, had Caltech made it to the perfluous messages as T-O-U-C-H tion and in a coma after severing a difficult to surpass the pace of last Rose Bowl. That year, students took D-O-W-N after each score there carotid artery when glass from an year's record-setting drive. Through control of the Washington Huskies' appeared the word CALTECH. exploding flask pierced his neck. December 31, 1983, 3,313 donors had card show. Los Angeles Times col Whatever satisfaction the moment Allan Van Asselt, a third-year stu contributed $754,339 - 452 donors umnist Jack Smith recalled that prank gave the Cal tech students, it broke dent from McPherson, Kansas, was and $89,343 less than that received in his January 2 column this year, the very thick ice that had developed treated for superficial facial cuts and by the same time in 1982. writing, "I suppose it can't ever as UCLA's score soared and Illinois's released. The students were working Harry J. Moore, vice-chairman of happen again. Security is so good clung stubbornly to 3. Local fans on an organic synthesis reaction the Irvine Challenge Campaign, says these days. But don't count on it." could explain it all to the baffled when a five-liter fla sk exploded. The that the full support of all alumni is The Tech students didn't count on it. visitors, who were then able to ig explosion was primarily confined to nore both the game and their needed, not only to close the gap, but the fume hood. There was no fire. shoelaces. to exceed last year's performance. (This year's goals are to raise Pasadena takes The scoreboard message got more Vol. 18, No. 1 February 1984 $1,850,000 from 8,250 donors.) elaborate
From the time the first Model T rear wheel of his jeep and wound a was taken apart and reassembled in rope around the wheel, attaching a running order in the room of an box to the rope. When the professor absent classmate, to 1975 when started his engine, the box moved Cal tech students, with the help of a toward him, seeming to travel of its computer, set the fast food world on own volition, until it hit the front of its ear by winning 20 percent of the his jeep. prizes in a $1.1 million McDonald's Smith himself pulled off a prank sweepstake contest - five decades of when he and some of his friends pranks by Techers are chronicled and managed to remove the cement preserved for posterity in the Alumni parking lot marker, con:tplete with Association's new publication, stenciled name, of a campus em Legends of Caltech. ployee who irritated them. They The authors: the prank perpetra reprinted a group of seven spaces in tors themselves, in most cases, or the lot, widened each space to reduce colleagues close to the actual culprits. the total to six spaces, and reinstalled The editors: Willard A. Dodge, Jr. the concrete markers without includ (BS '44, MS '47), Reuben B. Moulton ing that of the offending employee. (BS '57), Harrison W. Sigworth A noteworthy aspect of the (BS '44), and Adrian C. (Chip) pranks, even those that involved Smith, Jr. (BS '70) . moving an F-84 aircraft, a cannon, or Legends had its genesis as alumni the cornerstone of a neighboring in the San Francisco area reminisced Not everyone was pleased when Page House students took on McDonald's restaurants by cras/'I college, has been the care taken to at a luncheon meeting about their ing the fast-food chain's sweepstakes in 1975 with multiple computer-generated entries. This Mc ensure that no permanent damage Donald's manager was among th e unhappy ones. student days. Reminiscences turned was done. to pranks, and several alumni de Kenneth Veronda, the headmaster cided that the pranks should be outstanding, if not always useful, flag, was unaltered, had Washington at Southwestern Academy in nearby "first." recorded before they were lost to chosen to go on with it. But the card San Marino, recalls watching on section fell into confusion after flash memory. With the support of the Says Moulton, "The technology Halloween night in 1972 as some 90 Alumni Association, they publicized got more sophisticated as the years ing "Caltech," and the band and Cal tech students, in a caper pre their intention in Caltech News, went by; but the same mentality and cheerleaders marched off the field. arranged with a nucleus of Fleming sense of humor prevailed. The pranks Another of Moulton's favorite promising free copies to contributors. House leaders, attached ropes to a The response - including accounts were simple and elegant, and they stunts never received media atten 1.7-ton cannon and dragged it from of well-known classics and of Iittle often incorporated an ingredient that tion, but he likes it for its low-key the Southwestern lawn two and a known gems - surprised the editors, only the perpetrators could simplicity and elegance. A woman half miles up a hill to the Cal tech in terms of both quantity and quality. appreciate." friend of a Cal tech student worked campus. Several of the undergradu on campus as a secretary and com They organized the book's contents A case in point is the undisputed ates carefully swept the street after into three sections, according to the classic of Cal tech pranks: the 1961 plained about the long wait for the the cannon's wooden wheels rolled methodology most frequently em Rose Bowl hoax. Cal tech students light to change at a busy California past. ployed: 1920-1945 - vacuum tubes, had burglarized the room containing Boulevard intersection. The light Some observers bewail a lull in mechanical devices, manpower, and the University of Washington's card clearly favored traffic on California, pranks among the present generation nerve; 1946-1969 - transistors; stunts, and at halftime the cards for which borders the Institute, at the of students. Even President Marvin 1970-1981 - printed circuits and the 12th stunt flashed a Cal tech expense of those wanting to cross it. L. Goldberger reminded those as powerful computers. Beaver rather than a Washington Students sympathetic to the secre sembled for 1983 commencement that Husky. The next trick spelled Within the groupings, the editors tary's plight devised a solution. Caltech could not rest forever on the "Washington" backwards, and the say they found a common theme. At 2 a.m. one morning, they used laurels of 1961. It may be that stu They say that the pranks were next capped the show by spelling a screwdriver to reverse the plastic dents are channeling more of their unique and fiendishly ingenious, "Caltech" for national television. covers on the light so that the green energies into Ditch Day, that yearly sometime with an unusual twist or Students had also made a few lens was on the top and the red lens ritual that has been termed the kicker; they never injured persons or minor changes in the first 11 stunts, on the bottom. The next day, traffic "superbowl of tomfoolery." damaged property (permanently); Moulton notes, and those were for on California Boulevard was backed But most Cal tech prank watchers and they taught someone a tongue the Techers alone to savor. For exam up for miles in both directions, until are convinced that, over the long in-cheek lesson or accomplished an ple, one card stunt incorporated a the Pasadena police came to change run, the tendency for students to picture of an Erlenmeyer flask with the signal to flashing yellow. concoct elegant, intricate pranks at sharp corners. The Cal tech students But the best part came when Pasa any time of the year will remain rounded the corners to make them dena city electricians arrived to fix constant because the pranks meet an even more realistic. "In effect," says the light. As students looked on with important need. Moulton, 'Tech enhanced delight, the electricians disassembled Harrison Sigworth, who graduated Washington's stunts at no extra the light mechanisms, laid them on from Cal tech in 1944, followed his charge." the lawn, and scratched their heads. son's progress toward a Caltech Also gratifying to the Tech students They didn't notice for several hours degree in 1974, and observed the was the knowledge that stunt number that the problem could be solved by same blend of humor at work as 15, which would have concluded the putting the red lens back on top and when he was an undergraduate. show with a picture of an American the green lens on the bottom. Continued on page 7 One of Chip Smith's favorite pranks is a simple and little-known one - attractive to Smith because of the visual image it evokes. The prank was directed at the late Professor of Geology Richard Jahns, who had acquired quite a reputation as a practical joker. Determined to get back at him, students jacked up the 5
Quest for a self-sufficient life on the land leads this alumnus to northern Arizona Indian country by Winifred Veronda The evolution of that home was suffer from multiple sclerosis in power in wet-cell batteries until interrupted when the family went to 1959), used dry-stacked block. For needed. These provide a good power About ten miles from the 2 Bar 3 Europe, where Calley taught for two extra coolness during the summer, he source for the computer, a small Saloon, Hay; and Feed Store, and 25 years at an international school in built it half undergrounl A wood television, a pump at the kitchen miles northeast of Flagstaff, just Germany. Back in Arizona they sold burning stove gives extra warmth sink, and lighting. A photovoltaic south of Saddle Crater in a three the A-frame, opting for a 40-acre site during the winter. unit gives 12-, 20- and nO-volt story house that's half underground, that had once been part of Santa Fe Across the southern exposure, the power for shop, tool. and other looking across the red, sage-covered Railroad holdings. Except for Indians Calleys erected a greenhouse with equipment in basement workrooms lands of northeastern Arizona to who must have passed through in three windows in the ground floor and three outbuildings. A compost ward the San Francisco Peaks, generations past, the land evaded and two at basement level. "Even toilet takes care of basic plumbing Douglas Calley (BS '51) is proving human touch. "I disturbed the first with snow on the ground, the heat needs. that there is life without telephones cinder," says Calley with pride. pours in all day, " Calley says. Visi The three Calley sons, who - but not without computers. The Calleys' nearest neighbor tors to the home, when temperatures worked with their father on the land The Calleys and their three sleek (except for the coyotes, antelopes, outside reached a high of 35, and as they were growing up, have cats moved in 1974 to the rain-scarce and deer) is a German writer who 40-mile winds whipped around the moved on to independent lives. John, volcanic-cinder-covered site, living lives in a hogan, after the Navajo structure, found temperatures inside a graduate of Beloit College, works there on weekends and during the fashion, and writes for a European the greenhouse a pleasant 70 degrees. in the computer science industry in summers. A teacher by profession, audience about Indian life in the Tomatoes, strawberries, potatoes, Wisconsin; Jens is a cook and kitchen Calley taught mathematics for 20 American southwest. The German collards, turnips - all grow there, manager in a Flagstaff restaurant and years at the Verde Valley School, a recently termed the environment oblivious to the outside cold, and plans to open his own spot; and private boarding school near Sedona, inside the Calleys' home, filled with some found their way into the lunch David, at home summers, vacations, and then was an electrical engineer- electronics projects in various stages that Calley served. and frequently on weekends, is a ing instructor at Northern Arizona of completion, as "harmonious At one point, Calley thought it student at Northern Arizona Univer University. He now teaches high school chaos." Three miles east of the prop might be nice to have a telephone on sity, where he majors in physics mathematics and electronics at Tuba erty, the Navajo Reservation begins the premises, and he contacted and art. City on the Navajo Reservation. its 10,OOO-square-mile sweep through Mountain Bell for information. No, As a sculptor, one of David Cal The son of a Carmel potter, Calley northern Arizona, Utah, and New there would be no extra charge for ley's goals is to express the principles grew up amid Monterey pines on a Mexico. the hookup, he was told, and the of physics in his artistic creations. He slope just beyond the Pacific Ocean, Rainfall is at a premium in north technicians would be out the next has put his talent to work on the and from his father acquired a deep eastern Arizona (12 inches fall a week. But on the morning of the Calley land, sculpturing a small appreciation for life on the land. His year), and all of it is carefully pre anticipated installation, he received a house, abstract in shape, out of high school French teacher interested served to provide the entire water call. There had been a mistake, and concrete and mesh. him in Cal tech, where he majored in supply for the household. Every drop bringing a phone and lines into the Calley is pleased to take visitors on physics and lived for one of his four is stored, as it runs from the roof, in home would cost $28,000. Calley a tour of his self-sufficient home site, years in Dabney House "to see what a six-foot-deep, concrete-lined cistern decided to do without the and his directions are easy to follow. it would be like." beneath the house. "So far, we've had convenience. "Come out Leupp Road from Flag After he graduated, his work took all the water we need for personal use But do without a computer? That staff to milepost 439, take the first him to a private school in the Santa and for our greenhouse," says Calley, is another matter. To provide power, (dirt) road east, stay on the south Barbara area and then on to Arizona "but we don't waste any." Calley developed three wind-operat side of Saddle Crater, and you'll find and opportunities there for environ Calley, who constructed the home ing units (two homemade and one a us," he says. mental self-sufficiency. The Calleys, with his sons (Mrs. Calley began to commercial model), which store If you're lucky, the invitation may whose family now included three include a chunk of hearty Calley sons, lived during the week in faculty bread, made from his own recipe and housing at the Verde Valley School. full of raw peanuts and raisins, and a but on weekends Calley built an mug of tea - all to be enjoyed to the A-frame on lands he purchased north accompaniment of high-desert winds of Flagstaff on the slopes of the whipping around corners, the snap of peaks. "I had grown up," he says, burning wood, and through the crisp "believing that a home is a place air, 35 miles to the west, a spectacu you own." lar view of the San Francisco Peaks, their snow sparkling in the winter sunshine. The visit is well worth the drive.
Douglas Calley with his son, David, at the entrance to a small structure created by David on the Calley land out of concrete and mesh. mployees willing to work all day new parts. Then the two switched Each Friday, Fossgreen and They were impressed by a fine Eand night and through the next roles. Both favored the latter Acevedo-Ruiz were part of a quality public transportation system (clean day to meet a deadline ... factory assignment. control circle to evaluate a part made subways, bullet trains traveling at workers hired for life ... company "Every day, when we weren't at the factory and determine how it 200 kilometers an hour), little gar uniforms for everyone, including the working with the robot, we did could be made better or stronger. dens blended with buildings ('They bosses . . . work days that begin with something new and different," said Everyone involved in its creation or take a rock, some moss, a little bush, calisthenics ... weekly quality Acevedo-Ruiz. "We machined new use spent an hour in this process, and a pond, and they create a place control meetings involving product parts, and we worked with actual of beauty. Here we would just fill up designers, assemblers, sales blueprints. We got a chance to design the spot with cement."), no guns personnel .... things, build them, and see them (even the police don't carry any) and Two Caltech students who spent a work. Neither of us had had this no concern about being mugged, low summer working in a Japanese fac experience before, and it was really unemployment out much makework tory discovered these and other satisfying." - people cleaning escalator rails and contrasts to the routines of U.S. In Hiratsuka, Fossgreen and pushing elevator buttons - and workers, and they were impressed Acevedo-Ruiz lived in an apartment crowded Tokyo streets. ("We were with what they found about the building with other company em taller than most of the people. We'd effectiveness of Japanese management ployees. Their rooms were in quar walk down a street with a rug of techniques. ters for unmarried males, with black hair all around us. ") This was part of what Kaname kitchen and shower facilities four Best of all, they found friendly Kitsuda (MS '33, MS '35), president flights down. "We always put our people. "They treated us as special," of Kitsuda Engineering Co., had in shoes on and took them off when we said Fossgreen. 'They were always mind when he contacted the Cal tech went downstairs, or in and out of our willing to go out of their way to help Alumni Association last winter. rooms," said Fossgreen. "Sometimes us. If we asked for directions, four of Kitsuda offered two students the we put them on and took them off 20 them would walk us there. We'd find opportunity to spend the summer as times a day." Manny Acevedo-Ruiz ourselves walking along with our employees at his company, Kitsuda own little entourage." Engineering Company, in Hiratsuka, Both came away impressed - with about 60 miles from Tokyo. He the people, the culture, and the would pay their airfare and lodging, business management methods. "I as well as a salary. A Japanese alumnus plan to work for a company for a Donald Fossgreen, a senior major few years and then start my own," ing in electrical engineering and does his bit Fossgreen said, "and I want to run a computer science, and Manuel company like Mr. Kitsuda's. I'll draw Acevedo-Ruiz, a junior majoring in for the U.S. balance of trade on my experience at his factory to make the employees feel they're a engineering, were selected from 16 by Winifred Veronda applicants to an ad in the California part of the company. Tech . "The people really like working Speaking no Japanese, they left to there. They work hard. They like- · spend three months working in an their bosses. They're treated with environment where almost no one conducted entirely in Japanese. respect, up and down the line." spoke English. (Through hand waving, body lan Said Acevedo-Ruiz, 'The supervi Fortunately, the lack of a mutual guage, drawing pictures and dia sors are always polite. If they criticize language didn't prove to be a prob grams and speaking a few words in someone, they do it very tactfully." lem. "We learned there are five or six Japanese, Fossgreen and Acevedo-Ruiz Before Fossgreen starts his own ways to communicate that don't made their impact in the sessions.) company, he has another goal: to involve speech," Fossgreen said. Both were rewarded through a spend a year in France, studying At the factory in Hiratsuka, which company system that pays bonuses ballet or mime. A serious ballet manufactures specialty steel parts, to workers who contribute ideas for student, he practices 15 hours a Fossgreen and Acevedo-Ruiz traded making parts more effectively, sim week. On ·campus he has been active off on assignments. ply, or economically. Fossgreen con in drama programs and has taken Fossgreen spent the first several tributed ten ideas that were accepted leading roles in two student musicals. weeks working with a robot that by the management, and Acevedo Acevedo-Ruiz, whose family came to welded the ends of axles for Datsuns, Ruiz, seven. the United States from Spain six assembling parts and putting them Work days beginning with calis years ago, plans to earn an MS into a jig, afterward inspecting them thenics and company uniforms - degree, spend a year in France work and reprogramming the robot. identical except for minor distin ing and becoming proficient in Meanwhile, Acevedo-Ruiz worked Don Fossgreen guishing features that marked super French, and then return to Spain. in the tool shop, making new die sets visors - were other workplace Meanwhile, other Caltech students fo r transfer presses and machining In the factory the students ob novelties for Fossgreen and will be traveling to Japan to spend a served the dedication of the workers Acevedo-Ruiz to observe. summer working in Mr. Kitsuda's to the company and their willingness In their spare time - limited, after factory; the alumnus is extending his to work overtime when a normal a six-day week - Fossgreen and internship to two students each year. work week involved eight-hour days, Acevedo-Ruiz spent three hours a In this way, elements of Japanese five or six days a week. "Overtime in week teaching English to workers in business management may find their Japan is more or less expected," the factory and exploring the area. way up and into U.S. businesses as Fossgreen said. young Cal tech alumni become entre "Sometimes the employees would preneurs - and in this way, Mr. work all night and through the next Kitsuda may make a notable contri-. day without a break, or they would bution to the U.S. balance of trade. work on Sundays. They didn't like it very much, but they were willing to do it. In a way, they were proud they had been asked. They're hired by a company for life, and this makes a difference." 7
Hawaii trip offers alumni a bonus: a 6.7 quake
When Robert Sharp (The Sharp "If a crack - even a little one - the basin was shaking so vigorously The quake changed the group's Professor of Geology, emeritus) takes had begun to open up beside me, it that he feared it might collapse. itinerary, eliminating walks inside the a group of alumni on a field trip, he would have been a different matter," The group quickly gathered in the calderas of Kilauea and Kilauea Iki, characteristically gives them a little he said. "Fortunately, at the time of hotel lobby, eager to go investigate and an exploration of Mauna Ulu, a something extra. Thus no one should the quake, I was probably in the the damage. The hotel staff served new lava shield. They substituted have been surprised when the expedi most secure place of any on everyone the same breakfast so they other activities, among them an tion to volcano country on the island my walk." could get outside more quickly to assessment of earthquake damage to of Hawaii, November 13-18, featured Back at the hotel, David Rathje begin an exploration. Permission had roads and buildings, and a drive to a 6.7 earthquake. (BS '51) was shaving when he felt the been obtained from rangers for the the Kona side of the island on the The Caltech group (38 people, quake. Thinking it "a little earth group to walk along the trails and to final day. including alumni and their guests) quake," he grabbed the edge of the go into some areas now closed to the "Considering the strength of the had arrived the evening before the basin to steady himself. But by now general public. quake," said Rathje, "we were sur quake at Volcano House on the rim prised at how·little damage was done of the Kilauea Crater, after spending to roads and buildings and how few the previous night at the Hilo Ha Students take plunge as new pool opens and relatively minor the injuries waiian. Many were still in bed were." at 6:14 a.m. Overall, members expressed satis One who was not was Curt faction with their unique experience. Schulze (BS '56, MS '57), who had Commented Rathje, "It was nice to gone out at 5:30 a.m. to hike along have the trip include something the trail bordering the crater. Two unplanned." miles from Volcano House, Schulze Said Schulze, "We asked the was about ten feet from the railing of rangers to put on a show for us. We a crater overlook when he thought he couldn't complain if what they gave had been hit by a gust of wind. "I us surpassed our expectations." decided I must be nervous," he said. "I grabbed a tree and the tree was nervous too. I ran into a parking Ingeniousness, area, away from the overlook. I elegance: trademark could hear boulders falling. I looked toward the crater and saw four rock of pranks avalanches heading for it. I could Continued from page 4 hear lots of rocks crashing down to my left. I ran about 300 yards to see "Caltech encourages and promotes the source of the noise but decided A regulation water polo pool with a required safe depth for three-meter diving is one 'o f the ingenuity and innovation, and the not to go any further. The center athletic facilities constructed with a $700,000 grant from the Carl F Braun Trust and the Braun small size of its student body contrib portion of the railing, and part of the Foundation. Additional facilities include a women's locker room and weight training room in a utes to cross-fertilization of ideas," new building immediately west of the pool. The pool, adjacent to and west of the Alumni Swim says Sigworth. "Meanwhile, the overlook platform looking toward ming Pool, is helping to relieve crowded conditions for campus swimmers. Kilauea Iki, had collapsed." academic pressures are tremendous. Schulze, who had left Volcano The encouragement of original think House without awakening Mrs. Red Door Cafe: on-campus oasis ing, combined with the grind, gives Schulze, decided that he should get students the need to release their back as quickly as possible to let her energies in an innovative way. As know he was safe. "The entire trail long as there are free spirits among seemed to have a crack down the undergraduates at Cal tech, you'll get middle," he said. this kind of outlet." The trail lay five feet from the edge of the crater, where there was a Legends of Caltech 200-foot drop. Beside the trail, he Legends of Cal tech, a collection of saw separations up to a foot wide the best of Caltech pranks contrib and eight to ten feet deep. uted by alumni and published by the Schulze says he wasn't afraid when Alumni Association, is available for the quake hit, although he "quickly purchase. Order now. became hyperactive." Please send me __ copies of Legends of Caltech at $9.00 each. Name ______Address ______
Mail your check or money order, made payable to the Caltech Alumni Association, to: Caltech Alumni A ssociation Mail Code 1-97 California Institute of Technology A quiet, comfortable spot on campus for graduate students to relax and meet one another - th is Pasadena, CA 91125 was the initial concept behind the Red Door Cafe, which opened recently in Winnett Center. Now patronized by undergraduates as well as by graduate students - and on occasion by faculty and staff - the cafe is open three weekday evenings and three weekday afternoons, serving coffee, tea, and light snacks. It is funded by the Alumni Association, the Caltech administration, and the Grad uate Student Council, and has been attracting up to 50 people each time it opens its doors. 8
Fred W. Morris: [The Way It Was] thousandth person 1937 Housing for married students with ing to E&S in June. The others: Case to join Associates Cal tech receives an anonymous gift children is again a major problem at Institute of Technology, MIT, Stan of $750,000 to endow the Division of Cal tech as the opening of school ford, and Tulane. "We need a million dollars," said the Humanities, according to the approaches, the Independent reports Robert A. Millikan to industrialist Pasadena Post on March 22. The gift on September 14. Most of the stu The Norman W. Church Labora Henry M . Robinson in 1924 as the is the largest single grant Caltech has dents faced with the problem are tory of Chemical Biology, a major two looked out across the remains of another leveled orange grove, and received during the past six years. No veterans. Enrollment is expected to addition to Caltech research facilities, conditions accompany it, except that equal that of last year, when the will be officially dedicated on No contemplated the fast-growing nature it be used to strengthen work at the average was more than 1,350 stu vember 15, according to November of Cal tech's southern California Institute in literature, history, eco dents each term. E&S. The new lab accommodates the environment - and of Cal tech's need nomics, foreign language, philoso to grow along with it. "Do you think phy, and other humanities courses. we could find a hundred men in Plans are under way, according to the southern California willing to put in Post, to bring to Pasadena as visiting $1,000 a year for ten years to push professors some of the outstanding this enterprise along?" "Yes, I think we can," Robinson humanistic scholars of the East, responded, "and we haven't any time giving students the opportunity for to lose." interaction with these distinguished Millikan and Robinson found men. those hundred people, who became the Four geologists and three expert initial members of The Associates of riverboatmen are making their way the California Institute of Technol- through the Grand Canyon in row ogy, and over the years, the organi boats and will stop off at various zation grew in a way that would ' points to study the world's oldest have surprised its founders. In No rocks, reports the Star-News on vember, the organization reached a October 19. Heading the expedition special milestone: Fred W. Morris, Jr., are Drs. Ian Campbell and John H. joined as a member of the President's Maxon of the Cal tech geological Circle, bringing the number of mem staff. Among those accompanying William Fowler (left) and John D. Roberts (rigl,t) are honored in 1956 through election to ti,e Na bers to 1,000. the group is Robert Sharp, Caltech tional A cademy of Sciences, bringing the number of NAS member.; on the Calfech fa culty to 28. Morris, who graduated from geologist, now of Harvard University. Caltech in 1944 with a BS degree in "We quit playing when our luck Institute's rapidly expanding research electrical engineering, is the founder 1947 began to change and we failed to win in areas where chemistry and biology and chief executive of his own tele Hazing of freshmen results in a bet in more than 100 consecutive overlap in relation to medicine. communications firm, Tele-Sciences injuries to two Caltech students when Associates in Portola Valley. The rolls," says Roy Walforo, a graduate . Student tuition will be raised from they accidentally fall and roll 300 feet firm provides management consulting of the University of Chicago who, $750 to $900 a year beginning in services in electronics and computer down a steep mountainside on the with Albert Hibbs, a graduate of CIT September 1957, according to E&S. Angeles Crest Highway, reports the and Chicago, played a Reno roulette sciences with emphasis in telecom Star News on April 27. The student~ system for several days. According to The Cal tech community goes 52 munications. His Bay Area residence were injured after their intended Hibbs, their wins amounted to be percent for Eisenhower, 43 percent is symptomatic of yet another change "victim" tried to save one of the tween $7,500 and $8,000, says the for Stevenson, and 5 percent unde from the days of Robinson and upperclassmen who was sliding down Los Angeles Times on November 21. cided in a pre-election poll conducted Millikan: As Cal tech's reputation in cooperation with the Cal tech Y by spread, so did the geographic make the slope. The hazing cycle started Within the next 15 years, bathtubs Dr. James Davies's course in political up of the membership. Members now when upperclassmen poured buckets may become obsolete as they are parties and pressure groups. Under come not only from southern Cali of water on freshmen from an up replaced by shower stalls, predicts graduates favor Eisenhower 63 per fornia, as the founders initially envi stairs window, and frosh retaliated industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss in cent, to 32 percent for Stevenson, sioned, but from Wyoming, Minne by taking an upperclassman to a spot the December 12 Star News. To an while faculty vote 22 percent for sota, Washington state, Illinois, miles from Pasadena and letting him overflow crowd at Cal tech, Dreyfuss Eisenhower and 76 percent for North Carolina, Washington, D. c., out there. Upperclassmen then took a discusses future trends in the indus Stevenson. New York, Switzerland, West Ger freshman up the Angeles Crest High trial design profession. Seats will be many, and numerous other locations. way and were preparing to tie him to installed in showers to make them Cal tech undergraduates donate a tree when they slid over a bank. more comfortable. $1,000 to help Hungarian students The administration states that such who have fled Austria to escape hazing will be eliminated. 1956 reprisal for their part in the Hungar William A. Fowler, professor of ian revolt against Russian domina physics, and John D. Roberts, profes tion, reports E&S in November. sor of organic chemistry, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, bringing Cal tech staff membership in the Academy to 28, according to Engineering & Science magazine in May. Cal tech is one of five major educa tional institutions chosen to form a new agency, the Institute for Defense Analyses, to conduct scientific re search on military problems, accord- · Football team posts 7-1 record: best in Tech history
Could the People's Almanac be dinner at the Alumni House. Win high in most meets. But freshmen dual meet - the one time that five wrong? ning football awards were four-year John Beck, Darin Acosta, and Mike runners were available - and placed What David Wallechinsky and letterman Steve Martin and three Jensen were called on for depth. In six th in the NAIA District Three Irving Wallace have described as year footballers Phil Scott, Daren spite of the youthful team makeup, championship meet. college football's "all time" worst Casey, and Keith Holt. The captains' the Engineers won five dual meets As in 1982, Jennifer Haase led team team seems to have come full circle: awards went to Scott, Casey, and while losing eight, and placed fifth in efforts, placing 12th in the SCIAC The 1983 edition of Caltech's "Bat Rick Roberts. Larry Sverdrup was the SCIAC and sixth in the NAIA and ninth in the district. All team tling Beavers" set several records singled out as "most improved" and District Three championship meet. members will be back in 1984; thus, a while posting a 7-1 total. That's 7 newcomer George Kailiwai was Next year, the tea m will again lose big improvement in the team's for wins, topping the won-lost record of named "Rookie of the Year." Jona its number one and number two tunes is hoped for. Coach "Fox" Stanton's 6-2-1 "wonder than Brown was the "Outstanding runners as Stahl and Kelly graduate. team" of 1931, and that of the Tech Offensive Player." The Irv Noren But 1984 should be very successful, Soccer team ers of 1944, who were 4-0, with a Trophy for "Outstanding Back" was because the team will have a strong finishes fifth significant number of Navy men who voted to Andre Johnson, while the contingent of experienced sopho were here for the V-12 program on Max West Trophy for "Outstanding mores to rely on. The soccer team closed its season the team. Thus the record stands as Lineplay" went to freshman Mike At the annual cross country with a record of 6 wins and 11 losses, the best in Cal tech's 91-year football Burl. The coveted Wheaton Trophy awards dinner, Kelly won the "Most finishing fifth in the league with history. for "Leadership and All-Around Improved Runner" award and Steve victories over Occidental, Whittier, The National Collegiate Football Excellence" was awarded to Phil Stahl was voted to receive the "Paul and Redlands. Claremont finished Club Association ranked the Beavers Scott. Barthel Outstanding Runner" award. first , with an 11-1 record. fifth in its final list, one notch above Throughout the season, the team playoff-bound MIT. Meanwhile, Cross country team Women 's cross country was hampered by injury. Ed Felton, Coach Lin Parker witnessed his 18th in transition lacks runners sweeper, and Stefan Feuerabendt, victory at Tech - only one victory center forward, were out for the behind the number for Bert LaBru The 1983 cross country team was a The women's team suffered the entire season. Scott Karlin, John cherie. (Stanton's 11 seasons, from team in transition. The loss of All same basic problem that it has faced Krehbiel, and Manny Acevedo 1921 to 1931, yielded 54 wins.) Conference and All-District seniors over the last three years. Many meets missed several critical ga mes. Caltech's 91-year total now shows Vince Cammarata and Karl Clausing were forfeited because Tech could not Most memorable individual effort 121 wins, 340 losses, and 17 ties. placed the burden on two returning produce the required five runners. came from Tom Remmers, who Highlighting the schedule were a lettermen and a large group of tal Caltech had five runners, but injuries scored all of Cal tech's goals in a close come-from-behind win over La ented freshmen . Seniors Steve Stahl kept them all from being healthy at 4-3 win over Whittier. Other out Verne, 20-14, the University of Baja and Bob Kelly led the team, placing the same time. The team did win one standing performances were turned California, 15-7, and Edwards Air in by Terry Barr, Bob Mostert, John Force Base, 45-12. The Edwards score Krehbiel, Steve Havstad, and Manny was the seventh highest ever posted Acevedo. by a Tech football team. Sharing the Acevedo was elected captain for limelight was the Beaver defense, next year, and most valuable player which ranked third in the NCFCA, this year. He was selected to the and held opponents to 6.3 points per all-conference team by a unanimous game. Nationally, Caltech led the vote of the conference coaches. way with 25 team interceptions. In spite of the loss of a large num Andre Johnson was nominated for ber of seniors, the nucleus remains All-American honors, with 14 inter for a good team next year - if ceptions, as was George Kailiwai, everyone returns healthy and in good with 10 picks. On the offensive side, shape. Jonathan Brown led the NCFCA's national charges in three categories: Women's volleyball scoring 12 touchdowns and 72 team record: 9-5 points, achieving a 122.4-yard-per game rushing average, and setting a The women's volleyball team Cal tech record of 238 yards, running enjoyed another winning season in against Edwards Air Force Base. 1983. Even though several key Of the 46 men and one woman players graduated in the spring, who began the season, 38 celebrated Cal tech succeeded in maintaining its the record-breaking year with a winning tradition with a solid 9-5 season record. There were many challenges for the new coach, Becky Valentine. Please turn the page
Sue Fuhs defends in a volleyball contest. Because several outstanding players games, one against UC Riverside. Dear Editor: had graduated the year before, this Next year's captain, Dave Watkins, When I entered Caltech as a pim was a building year for the eight set the tempo with his speed and pled, skinny freshman in 1937, I was Personals graduate and three undergraduate quickness. Playing center post were awed by fellow frosh who were not students. Sue Fuhs-Huff, Cris Morris, Stuart Ray and Hans Hermans, with only top students but good athletes. 1939 and Chris Tiller exhibited strong Steve Loyola and Paul Graven sup At the high school in near-downtown CALViN A. GONGWER, MS , president of innerspace Corporation in Covina, Califor leadership throughout the season. plying outside shooting. Los Angeles that I graduated from, nia, is the 1983 recipient of the Henry R. The season highlight was a closely At the awards dinner, Jim Labrenz varsity athletes were usually indus Worthington Medal of the American contested second game against Po was voted by his teammates to re trial arts majors and average or Society of Mechanical Engineers. The mona-Pitzer. Cal tech met Pomona in ceive the Coach's Cup. Most Im worse students. award, given annuall y for achievemen t in the opening game of the season and proved awards went to Ferrante and One of the better athletes in the field of pumping machinery, was presented for Gongwer's insight that in Pomona blew Cal tech off the court, Dave Watkins. The conference Cal tech in 1941 was Reuben Snod spired a breakthrough in the understanding 15-0 and 15-1. But in the second coaches voted Reed Burkhart second grass, who had been a wrestling, of the design problems of cavitation and round, Pomona learned to respect team for his field play, and Jim La swimming, and diving star in high stall in centrifugal impellers. the women Techers. Even though brenz received honorable mention. school in Oklahoma. He was hand Cal tech was not victorious, team With a solid core of excellent some and well-built and he roomed 1940 members played "out of their minds" freshmen, the prospects look bright across the hall from me in Ricketts JAMES E. LuVALLE, PhD, first president of the UCLA Graduate Students Association and demonstrated their capabilities. for next year. House. An excellent draftsman - he in 1936-37, has been honored by the univer Their hard work and consistent had professional experience - he sity; the future northeast campus student improvement throughout the season helped me (rescued me) in descriptive center will be known as the james E. had paid off: Cal tech lost to Po Letters geometry. He could also pilot an LuValle Commons. He retired in 1982 after mona, 15-9 and 15-10. airplane. a career with Eastman Kodak, and with Dear Editor: Smith-Corona, where he held research and I can see Snodgrass now, poised administrative positions, and served as Water polo team rebuilds With reference to your article on and godlike on the 3-meter diving director of undergraduate labs for Stanford page 13, October 1983 issue, regard board at the PJC (now PCC) pool in University's chemistry department. The Cal tech water polo team ing Bob Parker and the Spacelab 1 an interhouse swim meet. (Cal tech finished its "rebuilding year" with a Space Shuttle flight, you omitted my got its own swimming pool and 1946 record of five wins and 18 losses, name as a Caltech alumnus in the gymnasium years later.) I can hear E. H. CLARK, jR., MS '47, chairman and finishing in fifth place in the SCIAC astronaut program. I was chosen in chief executive officer of Baker Interna him, Victor Sturdevant, and Don tional Corporation in Orange, California, Conference ahead of Redlands. Tech's 1978 as payload specialist astronaut Campbell, the trio that reactivated has been elected to a one-year term as wins included a 12-11 victory over for Spacelab 2, to be launched March water sports at Tech, standing in the chairman of the California Chamber of UC Riverside and a 9-8 success over 1985, and will fly either on this hall outside my room decrying the Commerce. Cal State Los Angeles - undefeated mission or on the follow-on flight minor sports status of water polo and by Caltech since 1969 and 1968, called Sunlab, scheduled for swimming. (Minor sports lettermen 1947 respectively. In SCIAC play, the July 1986. ROBERT S. MacALlSTER has been ap received circle T's, not big block T's. pointed managing director of Hamilton Beavers again upset Whittier 6-5, and GEORGE W. SIMON , MS '61, PHD Swimming became a major sport in Brothers Oil and Gas Limited, in London, came from three goals down with '63, senior scientist, Space Physics 1942 or 1943.) England. He previously worked for Occi two minutes left in the game, to post Division, Department of the Air For years, Snodgrass represented dental Petroleum Corporation as managing a 16-15 victory over Riverside. Said Force. Tech victoriously in diving competi director of Australian operations. He was Coach Clinton Dodd, 'The team We regret the omission and thank also president and chairman of the board of tion in the SCIAC. In his senior year Canadian Occidental Petroleum Ltd. improved substantially from the first Dr. Simon for calling it to our a rival appeared at Occidental Col half of the season when we lost to attention. lege, a rival whom Snodgrass could 1948 Whittier and Cal State by more than not defeat. WALTER P. EATHERLY. MS '49, manager 10 goals - demonstrating how hard Naomi Kashiwabara (BS '49) sends The Occidental diver was Sammy of graphite programs in the metals and the team worked and how tough we this recollection about a Caltech Lee, later gold medal platforming ceramics division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has received the American can play to beat those fine teams." classmate of his era - Reuben Snod diving champion in the 1948 and Carbon Society's 1983 George Skakei Depleted by the graduation, en grass - and one rival that Snodgrass 1952 Olympic Garnes. Memorial Award. The award cites Eatherly masse, of last year's starters, the team could not defeat. NAOMI KASHIWABARA, BS '49 for "development of graphites for use in was led this year by only one senior, unique and severe environments, such as Reed Burkhart. An All-American very high temperatures for civilian and military aerospace systems and intense goalie from last year, Reed was irradiation exposures associated with captain of the team, splitting his molten salt, high temperature gas-cooled, athletic talents between goal (54 and pebble-bed nuclear reactors." saves) and the field (23 goals). His replacement in the goal was Fred Alumni Fund progress report 1949 Ferrante, with the aid of Stan ARTHUR O. SPAULDING, MS '58, has received the newly created Public Service Berman. Goals Award from the American institute of High scorer in the field was Jim The Alumni Fund Professional Geologists. He is vice president Labrenz, who achieved two six-goal $1,850,000 8,250 1,300 1983-84 and general manger of the Western Oil and Gas Association in Los Angeles. As of December 31 , 1983
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1953 1972 1978 cal Technology Center at the university's GORDON EATON, MS, PhD '57, has PATRICK CLARK, MS, one of five foun DAVID LEIGHTON, MS, a programmer/ Richmond field station, and was active with been named provost and vice president for ders of Advanced CountermeasUfe Systems analyst with Aerojet in Azusa, California, the energy and environmental division of academic affairs at Texas A&M University. in Cupertino, California, has been ap reports, 'We are enjoying our Navajo foster the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory. He had pOinted vice president, engineering, of the daughter, Matilda, for the second year. She developed improved water desalination and 1957 corporation. is quitea student/athlete. She just started purification processes and a computer MARTIN TANGORA, secretary of the MARK S. WRIGHTON, PhD, the Fred high school and will probably be with us model of pollutant spread adjacent to Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois, erick G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry at every school year until she graduates from freeways, and most recently was doing was named Preservationist of the Year by MIT, has received the Gregory and Freda high school." work on new methods for coal liquefaction. the Chicago Coordinating Conference on Halpern Award in Photochemistry, spon In 1971 Vermeulen received the prestigious Landmarks Preservation in May. Tangora, a sored by the Polychrome Corporation. 1979 William H. Walker Award of the American founder of LCPI in 1971, has secured Wrighton is best known for his work in BOB DOWNS, senior project engineer with Institute of Chemical Engineers. He is landmark status for many major Chicago photon assistance of electrochemical General Motors Advance Product Engi survived by his wife, Mary Dee, and buildings. He was founder and first vice reactions. neering in Warren, Michigan, and his wife, two sons. president of the Uptown Historical Society, Karen, happily announce the birth of their and has been chairman of the advisory 1973 first child, April Elizabeth, on May 28, 1937 committee to the Commission on Chicago DALE COLLINS, MS '74, has resigned as 1983. DOUGLAS K. ROllOW in December Historical and Architectural Landmarks deputy assistant attorney general in the DAVID WHEELER writes, "I am spenaing a 1982. He had retired from his position as since 1978. Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department year in Pullman working with Dr. Sue senior staff engineer at Hughes Aircraft of Justice and has returned to private legal Ritter at Washington State University. I am Company in Canoga Park and was living in 1961 practice at Shearman & Sterling in New continuing my research on the neuroana Oxnard, California. GEORGE w. SIMON, MS, PhD '63, senior York City. Before serving in the Justice tomy of body weight and body fluid scientist in space physics at the Air Force Department, Collins was White House regulatory systems in the brain." 1939 Geophysics Laboratory at Hanscom Air Fellow and special assistant to Vice Presi ANDREW LUCIEN HANNON on Novem Force Base, Massachusetts, won the labora dent Bush. ber 19. He was president of Hannon Engi neering, Inc. , which he founded in 1945. He tory's annual award for his research on ROBERT FLAKE writes from Seattle, was a member of the board of trustees of magnetism of the sun and the motions of Washington, "After ten years of living in Loyola Marymount University and a the solar atmosphere. the country in northwest Washington state Obituaries member of the board of directors of Na and writing poetry and fiction (two books tional Electrical Contractors Association, 1963 completed), poverty got the better of me. I Los Angeles chapter. His is survived by his ALAN LIPPERT. MS, reports that he is a have gone to work with STEVE SHAIMAN 1922 GEORGE K. SMITH on July 15 following a wife, Alice May, three daughters, and staff memoer at the T. J. Watson Research (BS '72) at Cygnet Systems Corp., doing year-long illness. He was assistant vice a son. Center at IBM in Yorktown Heights, New technical writing and programming, just president of Pacific Telephone in San York, and is responsible for CAD/ CAM like everyone else I know from Cal tech. Francisco, in charge of public relations, activity at the center. Also doing consulting for Cygnet are 1941 when he retired in 1962. Smith is survived DEAN BALLARD (BS '73) and CRAIG JOSEPH P. laSALLE, PhD, on July 7. He NICHOLAS TURRO, PhD, was one of five by two daughters. scientists to receive a Lawrence Award from SAN PIETRO (BS '68, MS '69). At this was professor emeritus of applied mathe the Department of Energy for outstanding rate, we're going to change the name of the ARTHUR M. WHISTLER on September 17 matics at Brown University, and had also contributions to the field of atomic energy. , company to Dabney, Inc." from complication~ of a stroke suffered two served on the faculty of the University of months earlier. After graduating' from Notre Dame. ' ., Turro, Schweitzer Professor of Chemistry BRUCE REZNICK writes, "In the last year Cal tech he worked briefly for Standard Oil at Columbia University, was honored for and a half, good news has exploded on me Company of California, then took a job his "pioneering work in mechanisms of like ketchup onto a hamburger. In reverse 1947 with C F Braun Company, where he even organic photochemistry, reactions of chronological order, I was: 1. Promoted to HERMAN KAHN, MS, on July 7 at his tually became chief engineer. His last job energy-rich compounds and for the exten associate professor of mathematics at the home in Chappaqua, New York, of an was with Fluor Corporation, where he also sion of this study of the chemistry and University of Illinois at Urbana apparent heart attack. Founder of the became chief engineer. Mathematics was his physics of excited states to systems with Champaign; 2. Named an Arnold O. Hudson Institute, the influential "think hobby, and after retirement he received a restricted geometries, such as micelles." Beckman Fellow at the UI Center for tank" in Croton-on-Hudson, he advanced plaque of commendation from Saddleback Advanced Study for the spring '84 semes the controversial idea that nuclear war College in Mission Viejo, California, for his ter; 3. Appointed to an Alfred P. Sloan could be won and survived. Kahn first 1966 detailed review of a calculus textbook. HENRY G. SCHWARTZ, JR. , PhD, has Fellowship; 4. Placed on the questions gained public attention in 1959 when, while been elected vice president of the Water committee for the William Lowell Putnam a staff member of the Rand Corporation, he Pollution Control Federation. He is vice Mathematical Competition; 5. Cited by the 1926 gave a series of lectures at Princeton that president and corporate principal of College of Letters and Sciences for excel LYMAN SCHEEL, Ex, on July 28, having led to the publication of his book On Sverdrup Corporation in SI. Louis, lence in undergraduate teaching. These been in failing health for some time .. He had Thermonuclear War. Missouri. made turning 30 much more tolerable! been a consultant in gas machinery for Robin Sabner and I also bought a house. Mycom Corporation in Torrance, Califor 1950 1970 Robin is a computer scientist at Compion nia. His wife, Stell a, survives him. EDWARD F. McDANIEL. MS, on Novem TH. PAPAZOGLOU writes from Iraklion, Corp., an accomplished musician and ber lS. He had retired as senior reviewer Crete, where he is head of the electrical equestrienne. We expect to marry some 1928 and attorney for the Internal Revenue engineering department at the Higher time this decade." HARVEY E. BilLIG, JR., Ex, on September Service in Dallas. Technical Education Center, "My wife, LANG WITHERS, JR. , writes, "Everything 19, of cancer, at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, where he served as a staff mem Vappu, and I are happy to announce the keeps getti~g better, most of all following 1951 birth of our second child, Michael, on Jesus Christ (don't fail to check him out). ber for many years. After receiving his GEORGE ABELL, MS '52, PhD '57. on October 24. He comes three and a half Christine Lewis Hayes and I were married M.D. from Stanford and training in ortho October 5, of a heart attack at his home in years after his sister, Sophia." in May 1980. Our daughter, Carolyn, was pedic surgery, he spent nine years doing Encino, California. The author of the most born this past May. She is a real joy to us. neuromuscular physiology research at widely used introductory college textbook Mathematical craftsmanship somehow Caltech. He was a consultant to companies, on astronomy, Abell was an international hasn't lost its appeal, so I am taking courses school districts, and universities for many authority on clusters and superclusters of at the University of Maryland while work years, and founded the Billig Clinic for galaxies, the largest masses of matter visible ing three-fourths time as a system engineer Research in Orthopedics and Rehabilita to astronomers. He compiled the "Abell in Falls Church, Virginia. Last, I would like tion. He is survived by his wife, Roberta, Catalogue of Clusters of Galaxies, " which to encourage more L10ydies (of whom I am two daughters, and a son. lists all known galaxies and is used through the least) to break their long silence and out the world. He joined the UCLA faculty write in as I have." 1931 in 1956 and was chairman of the astronomy JAMES B. TAYLOR, Ex, on October 3, of a department for seven years. heart attack. For many years he was an electrical engineer in CaItech's buildings and maintenance department. He is survived by a daughter and a son. !.{ 1936 THEODORE vERMEULEN, MS '37, on October 29, (If ieu! I l i "'l ...... I··· t , ,• ,• 1_-...... :::1 1+_ I::' ,_-- t I •••• • . ... :I • .I ::... :I t'1IT i'"1 ..... , t • It• w • ••• , •••i •• r-'..... • If • .. . • . ... •• io'.'.• I • •••• QUARTER • ••• TIME OUTS LEFT :I L.f 3 TIME OUTS LEF l IIIll1'J~1 /TO GOB BALLON 13 -r.--• •• ---=r ..• ...··.... ·-·1 .... · .... ·--· ..:....---:.. .. I'• I ••· .'.· II·.· · • After 23 years - Caltech goes to the Rose Bowl again! February 1984 The sentiment expressed at the top of this sheet of doodle paper sums up the sentiments of most of the students who stopped by The Caltech Y for the Y's traditional finals week decompression, CALTECH NEWS California Institute of Technology 1201 E. California Boulevard Pasadena, California 91125 Published for Alumni and Friends of the California Institute of Technology Volume 18, No. 1, February 1984