California Institute of Technology

Volume 22, No.4 August 1988 The answer­ versus the solution

Persons of scienrific and technological backgrounds are sure that the great problems facing humanity can only be solved by more knowledge, and by better science and engineering, Robert 1. Sinsheimer, visiting associate in biology and former chancellor at UC Santa Cruz, told graduates at Caltech's 94th annual commencement. But, he went on to warn the gradu­ ates, "The answer is not necessarily the solution. "As a scientist or an engineet, you may derive the optimal, analytically effective answer to a problem," Sinshei­ mer told them. "But in reality, the answer may not be optimal, because it may simply not be politically or socially feasible in our time. And then one must fashion a solution - an alterna­ tive answer to the problem - that is attainable. "And that requires that you comprehend other perspecrives and points of divergence from your own." Sinsheimer pointed our that advances Joel Hamklns adds a special bit in science and technology have "released of buoyancy to or even engendered vast forces in our commencement. society." Consequently, he said, all the major ptoblems of our time have a significant scientific or technological component - from Srar Wars; verification of arms reduction; high tech industty; the challenges of AIDS, drug President Everhart welcomes new alumni addiction, cancer, and mental disorders; to environmental problems - pollution, Caltech President Thomas E. Everhart welfare of the undergraduate studenr the greenhouse effect, and the depletion welcomed 184 new BS, 123 MS, and body. of the ozone layer. 146 PhD degree recipienrs at his first Bruning received praise for his work As a result, he noted that ethics has commencement at the Institute. Of the as treasurer of the studenr body, for his become increasingly relevant to many BS degree recipients, Everhart said that contributions as the principal organizer scientific and technological issues - for 95 out of 155, or 52 percenr, were of the Student Faculty Conference, and example, such as how we shall best graduating with honors, indicating an as team captain in both water polo and manage our new ability to intervene at average of B+ or better. baseball. the genetic level in the living world. Degrees were about equally distrib­ Nolle was lauded for his effotrs as "Those of our persuasion are sure uted between engineering and the sci­ president of Lloyd House, and as a Stu­ rhar these problems can only be solved ences, with a few in the humanities and dent member of the Committee on by more knowledge, by better science social sciences. Undergraduate Academic Standards and and engineering," Sinsheimer rold rhe Everhart presented the third annual Honors. He also drew praise as a graduares. "But orhers who would Mabel Beckman Prize to Nicole Vogt. talenred musician and competitor in somehow selectively retrear from roday's This honor is bestowed upon a woman interhouse sports. reality will argue thar we will merely studenr completing her junior or senior Jean-Laurenr Rosenrhal received the compound rhe problem. year with excellenr academic credenrials, Milton and Francis Clauser Doctoral "Scienrisrs must remember rhar all of outstanding character and leadership, Prize for the PhD thesis with the these problems have orher nontechnical and conrributions to the Institute com­ greatest degree of originality. The prize components as well - other importanr, munity. carries an award of $1,500. very human dimensions, and economic, Vogt graduated in physics with a 4.1 The thesis, submitted in the Division erhical, ethnic, racial, religious, and po­ grade point average. She was praised of the Humanities and Social Sciences, lirical dimensions rhar may involve rhe for her work as an officer of the Board was entitled 'The Fruits of Revolution; thrusr of ego and the lusr for power. of Control, her contributions as an Property Rights, Litigation and French "As custodians of the cumulative officer in her studenr house, and her Agriculture 1700-1860: knowledge of science it musr be your work on faculty-studenr commirtees - In his remarks to the undergraduates, responsibility in our society ro provide and for tutoring in physics and being a Everhart noted that, in earlier times, the voice of that knowledge - to pro­ leader in popularizing intramural volley­ commencement was taken to mean the ject the voice of reasoned wisdom into ball. completion of academic study and the the din of special pleadings and the The Frederic W. Hinrichs, Jr., commencement of work. But today, he often fantastic views so abundant in Memorial Award was dually presenred said, the world is changing at a faster today's society." to David Bruning and Christopher pace than at any time in history, and But to do so with any effect, he Nolle. This award is given to the senior the human race is more dependenr on warned the graduating students, they or seniors who have shown outstanding qualities of leadership and characrer, and made the greatest conrributions to the Commencement continued page 13 Sinsheimer continued page 11 Due to the early production schedule of Caltech News, the Story on page 2 announcing recipients of the Schuster Memorial Prize was unable to note the tragic death of Peter Lindstrom, one of the outstanding chemistry students awarded this prize. A member of the class of 1989, Peter died in a traffic accident on July 1, 1988. A memorial service for students and faculry is planned for the fall. " • r • ~ ~ • ... • •• >!:'.~ ~ . ~ ~. T ;I '••

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Mrs. Doris Everhart and Leroy Hood greet Mrs. Keith Kieschnick ,rightl. president of The Blue Ribbon of the Music Center. More than 100 members and guests of the organization visited Caltech for morning and afternoon programs. FRIENDS The class of 1938, whose reunion gift committee was headed by Richard Rosencranz, contributed $40,342 with 71 percent participation. The class of 1943, with 53.2 percent participation, Consortium formed contributed $43,065. Its chairman was David Arnold. The class of 1953, with for chemistry Rolf Hastrup as its reunion gift chait­ man, contributed $19,721 with 53.1 percent participation. The formation of the Caltech Consor­ Harold Haskins headed the reunion tium in Chemistry and Chemical gift committee for the class of 1963, tion, one of the nation's largest char­ Engineering has been announced by which conttibuted $13 ,2 89 with 44 irable organizations. The first payment President Thomas E. Everhart. Three percent participation. Ray Morris was was made in July 1985 and the last in corpotate sponsors - E. 1. du Pont de chairman for the class of 1978, whose Beckman July of this year. The grant is the larg­ Nemours and Company, Inc.; Eastman members contributed $20,100. Partici­ est private gift ever given for a scientific Kodak Company; and Minnesota Min­ pating were 33.2 percent of the class wins ACS project. ing and Manufacturing Company - members. President Thomas E. Everhart and one nonprofit philanthropic founda­ Parsons Award expressed his appreciation to Howard B. tion - the Shell Oil Company Founda­ Keck, chairman and president of the tion - will each contribute $1 million Arnold O. Beckman, chairman of the Keck Foundation, and to members of over a four-year period as Consortium Cal tech board of rrustees, emeritus, has the board, for the gift and for the members. been named recipient of the 1989 "splendid partnership that has existed The Consortium will support research Charles Lathrop Parsons Award, which throughout the course of this project.' by Caltech faculty members in broad Caltech recezves recognizes public service by a member Taking part in the groundbreaking areas of chemistry, chemical engineering, of the American Chemical Society. ceremony were President Everhart, and related sciences. neurosczence U,!iversity of Califor.nill President pavid ------Beckman-will-receive the award in --In making the announcement September at the ACS national meeting P. Gardner, and representatives from Everhart said, "Our guiding principle is fellowship grant in Los Angeles. the Keck Foundation, the Smart Trust, to create a true partnership between Cal­ Says one distinguished chemist of and the California Association for tech and industry in which the partners Beckman, 'The work of no other single Research in Astronomy. are bound together by common pur­ Cal tech has received a gift of The 16,000-square-foot headquarters $375,000 from the Del E. Webb Foun­ man has more greariy changed chemistty poses: education of the best students in and related fields for the better. It is building is scheduled for completion the countty, vigorous pursuit of funda­ dation of Wickenburg, Arizona, to early next year. It will house the project sponsor postdoctoral fellowships in neu­ possible with his instrumenrs to attack mental research, and the opportunity for problems that could not be studied staff during the observatory's construc­ industrial researchers and Caltech scien­ roscience. The Institute will use the tion, and its administrative and technical funding to offer support to outstanding previously or could only be done by tists to work together. extremely laborious methods.· staff after operations begin early in the "If the United States is to maintain young researchers in molecular and 1990s. Beckman first came to Caltech in irs competitiveness in international developmental neuroscience and in com­ Construction of the observatory, near markets, such industry-university putational neuroscience. 1923 to work on his doctorate in the summit of Mauna Kea, began in partnerships will need to become The contribution is the third in a photochemistry. He served on the 1985 and is on schedule. It will feature increasingly common.· series of grants for postdoctoral work, Cal tech chemistry faculty until 1940 36 hexagonal-shaped viewing mirrors when he left the teaching profession to Among the benefits to the corporate now totaling $775,000, that the Del E. that will form a mosaic much like tiles devote full time to developing and members of the Consortium will be Webb Foundation has extended to Cal­ on a Roor. Each segment will have a manufacturing scientific instruments. early access to Cal tech research ideas, the tech in rhe last 10 years. The founda­ separate motor and will be controlled to Through the Arnold and Mabel opportunity for visits by company scien­ tion promotes and engages in programs one-millionth of an inch of accuracy. Beckman Foundation, his contributions tists to Caltech laboratories to participate relating to medical services and medical The overall viewing surface will be 10 have made possible Beckman in ongoing research, reciprocal visirs of research in Arizona, California, and meters (33 feet) across, twice as big as Auditorium, the Mabel and Arnold Caltech scientists to companies' labora­ Nevada. any telescope now operating in the Beckman Laboratories of Behavioral tories, and yearly reviews of research world. supported by the Consortium. Biology, the Arnold and Mabel The Shell Oil Company Foundation Beckman Laboratory of Chemical is a nonprofit philanthropic organization, Synthesis, and mosr recently, rhe and as such will not receive any direct Beckman Institute, for which ground Schuster prizes was broken this spring. benefits. Fred C. Anson, professor of chemistry Paul History and chairman of the Division of Chem­ announced istty and Chemical Engineering, Prize supports announced the appointment of Ahmed Peter Lindstrom, a junior majoring in H. Zewail, professor of chemical phys­ chemistry; Karen Oegema, a junior SURF student ics, as chairman of the Consortium majoring in chemistty; and Eric Scharin, Ground broken Board, which is advisory in nature. a graduating senior majoring in chemis­ try, are this year's recipienrs of the for observatory Established in 1987, the Rodman Schuster Memorial Prize. The prize is W. Paul History Prize Fund honors the awarded annually to junior or senior stu­ late Professor Paul's 35 years of teaching dents in chemistty or chemical engineer­ headquarters and scholarship at Caltech. Paul was ing who have shown good academic the Edward S. Harkness Professor of promise. Ground has been broken for the History. This year the prize was Reunion gifts The late Richard Schuster (BS '46, Waimea, Hawaii, headquarters of the awarded to help fund a SURF (Summer BS '49), was Calrech's director of W. M. Keck Observatory. The obser­ Undergraduate Research Fellowships) announced development when he was killed in a vatory - which will be home to opera­ project in history. Typically, the award plane crash outside Chicago while on tions for the largest telescope in the will be used to recognize a graduating business for the Institute. The Richard world - is a joint project of Cal tech senior who has shown unusual interest Classes holding reunions this year P. Schuster Memorial Prize fund was and the University of California. The in and talent for the study of history. contributed a total of more than established by his family, friends, and project is being funded with a $ 70 mil­ Currently, the prize fund generates I- $136,000 in gifrs to the Institute. colleagues in 1985. lion gift from the W. M. Keck Founda- appoximately $600 a year in income. 3

Fashion-conscious modern ladies, con­ fused about whether to bottom off their By 1856, skirts at lower mid-calf or upper mid­ the size of thigh, face scant problems when com­ ladies' skirts pared to their couneerparts for the 1850s and 1860s. had reached JUSt what the women of that era overwhelming endured to please Dame Fashion is recouneed by Heidi Anderson, a senior proportions, at the California Institute of Technol­ Either skirt ogy, in the report on her Summer size needed Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) project. Working under the to decrease, supervision of Eleanor Searle, the Edie or some other and Lew Wasserman Professor of His­ tory, Anderson rraveled to England last means of summer to probe the role of the crin­ supporting oline and its cousins in the expansion of women's skirts duting the last ceneury. them needed The trend toward the bouffant look to be found, in skirt fashions began with crinoline, a kind of fabric made partially with horsehair and used in the construction of bonnets and as a stiffener for ladies' pet­ notes Anderson. One lady of the ti.me ticoats, Anderson relates. As new outlined the problems that crinolines methods for holding out the bottom of created: "How to travel? How to lie skirts were developed, the term "crino­ down? How to rock one's children? line" came to be applied to any petticoat • • And how to take hold of their hands wo~n specifically to add bulk and shape when our for a walk?" /' to a dress. The spreading skim caused other At the start of the 1850s, it was ptoblems. The Englishwoman's Domestic standard practice for a fashionable lady Magazine noticed that accidenes caused to wear a number of petticoats in addi­ rtno tnes by fire increased during the holiday sea­ tion to her crinoline. By 1856, even son when more crinolines were worn. fashion journals were astounded at the Even if a woman noticed that her skirrs number of muslin, starched flannel, and By Winifred Veronde had caught fire, she was too encaged by crinoline SOuJ-jupes that needed to be them to save herself. As a preveneion, worn to suppOrt the width of the 20,000 extra brass fireguards were sold elegane dresses that set the sryle. The construction of some hoop-skirrs, the woman found herself 'floating off ineo in England. Ladies Cabinet of Fashion and Romance hoops generally were made of watch­ orbit, the magazine reporred. Although the hoops themselves were reporred that "many belles wear foutteen spring steel, initially developed for use Meanwhile, by 1857, European relatively inexpensive, the amoune of [petticoats] in evening dress." as piano wire. ladies were welcoming the steel crin­ fabric required to cover them could One of the ptoblems with this Meanwhile, as Americans adopted oline, and Punch reporred rhat 40 tons exceed 15 yards. Those who were method of supporting the huge dresses, the hoop-skirr, Europeans launched ineo of steel had been ordered from a firm in wealthy could afford the dresses, but known as jupons boujJantJ, was that the a craze for a differene eype of crinoline. Sheffield for the manufacture of hoop middle-class families were hard-pressed layers of petticoat were inelastic. As The jupon boujJant gave way to what skirrs. to do so. In an article called "Shall we soon as the wearer sat down, the fabrics Anderson poines Out was was called a Cerrain properties of the crinoline wear Crinoline?" The Englishwoman's would compress and wrinkle so that the jupon balloonee - a blow-up petticoat. were either positive or negative, depend­ Domestic Magazine warned women effect of the toilette was ruined. Two designs were registered with the ing on one's personal poine of view, against "volunearily relinquishing an Another problem was the fact that a British Patene Office in 1847 for Anderson poines out. For example, the extra servane," removing their children lady found herself overwhelmed by the inflatable skirt-supporters, which were hoops could camouflage almosr any from good schools, or reducing the sheer mass of her clothing. An attempt made by passing tubes of Mackineosh figure defect. Punch went so far as to household allotments of meat and fuel, was made to solve the problem by rubber-coated fabric around the bottom suggest thar the crinoline had been so that they could wear fashionable inveneing skirt supporters that would of a cloth skirr. However, the designs inveneed by women with club feet. clothing. shift most of the weight of the skirrs do not seem to have enjoyed much suc­ But Punch was mistaken, because the Rumors of the crinoline's demise from the waist to the hips. But without cess, according to Anderson. crinoline brought ineo view a region of a were perpetual, but the garmene would reducing the number of skirrs, nothing But in 1856, a Frenchman was woman's body that had been hidden for not be pushed ineo an early obsoles­ could really be done to lessen the bur­ graneed a British patene for an inflatable 20 years - the leg. One report noted cence. It was believed doomed in den. Back problems were not uncom­ crinoline - a "collapsible petticoat" that. rwo young ladies' crinolines tilted 1859, but returned in 1860. It disap­ mon. expressly designed so that its wearer up in the air to the poine that 18 inches peared for a season in 1866, 10 years By 1856, reporrs Anderson, the the could sit without irrevocably damaging of their legs, encased in open-worked after its inveneion, but was resurreaed size of ladies' skirrs had reached her costume. Tubes around the bottom silk stockings, were exposed. in 1867 in the form of a half-jupon. overwhelming proportions. "Fashionable had rwo valves, one for inflation and the Anderson poines out that the English Only the back parr of the hoops gowns were becoming too wide to be other for automatic deflation when the get credit for one of the most practical remained and the frone was complerely supported by fabric alone. Either skirr wearer sat down. of the 1850s skirt inveneions, which also open. This rype of skirr developed into sizes had ro decrease, or some other The patent specified that the skirt helped to reveal women's legs. By the bustle of the 1870s and 1880s. method of distending them needed to was to be inflated by means of a 1856, skirts were so long that they Even today the crinoline cannot be be found." "minute pair of bellows of very slender dragged in the mud. To solve this couneed out. The fashion section of the Yankee ingenuiry had already solved horn." Anderson reporrs that there were problem, the Porte Jupe was devised. Los Angeles Times reported that most of the problem. In 1855, Harper's no instructions for gracefully reinflating By running several cords from the waist the evening gowns shown in Milan for Monthly Magazine reported, "Long it in polite company, or suggesting how to the hem of the outer skirr, a conerap­ the 1988 spring season "were embel­ tottering on the Brink of Hoops, a lady could settle into a chair without tion was rigged by which the skirt could lished with crinoline petticoats, hoops, Fashion has at length taken the plunge." making embarrassing noises. be raised and held up off the ground. or such items as silk roses nestled in lit­ The skim were constructed by Harper's subsequently devoted half a Underneath, a much shorrer petticoat tle beds of black tulle." Anderson con­ suspending a number of hoops of grad­ page to the story of an unfortunate would be visible, usually red with black cludes, "Hoops can still be found under uated diameters from a waistband by woman whose maid accidently mistook bars or checks. wedding gowns and prom dresses, or at means of six or eight fabric tapes. The a bottle of hydrogen gas for the air There was one problem with the any modern occasion reminiscene of the eneire skirt could bend under pressure needed to inflate her mistress's petticoat. crinoline that nobody could ignore: the hoop-skirt's most recent domain, the and rebound to its original shape. The dress inflated far beyond its ordi­ garments enlarged a lady. "It took only elegant social gatherings of the mid­ Although whalebone was used in the nary circumference, and the dismayed three women to fill a drawing room," nineteeneh century: Seminar Day President ardized by CutS in the number of Space Everhart with two Shuttie missions would be national secu­ of Caltech's new distinguished rity payloads necessaty to verify alumni - William NASA's Fletcher treaties-payloads that can only be Sears and Hung­ launched on the Shuttle. Chang Yin. alerts alumni Undermined as well would be our countty's ability ro service the great space observarories - for example, the Eleven years ago, skill and ingenuity Hubble Space Telescope. Due ro be found a way ro save the grand rour of launched in 1989, it will have viewing the outer planets when NASA's budget capacity in visible and ultraviolet light. for this project received inadequate Additionally threatened would be the funding, James C. Fletcher, administra­ existence of cwo proposed telescope ror of NASA, recalled at the general facilities-the gamma-ray observaroty session on Seminar Day. But he and the advanced X-ray astronomy facil­ assereed that the same strategy can't ity, planned for development in the work roday. 1990s. When Congress failed ro appropriate Fletcher explained that the Congres­ money ro build new space vehicles for sional Budget Office has concluded that the grand rour of Jupiter, Saturn, Nep­ Congress faces a fundamental choice: tune, and Uranus, NASA decided ro either ro increase civilian-space-program talked on "How the Brain Interprets modify existing spacecraft, and, within resources as needed to accomplish the What We See" and Henty Lester, whose cwo months, a low-cost alternative was present core program and move on to ropic was "How the Brain Communi­ available, Fletcher pointed out. Named achieve future goals; or ro redirect 1)200 attend cates: A Molecular View." Voyager, this mission's spacecraft have NASA's goals and programs and thus Episodes of Caltech's award-winning been busy examining 15 or more bodies ro accomplish much less. Seminar Day course in physics, "The Mechanical in the solar system, and Voyager 2 will One alternative postulated by the Universe and Beyond"; a JPL space fly by Neptune in August 1989. The CBO would require stretching NASA's Research seminars and exhibits, a exhibit featuring the Galileo and Magel­ mission's rotal dara yield will require current programs out well into the next picnic lunch served ro the music of the lan projects; equipment demonstrations more than 20 years ro interpret. centuty, deferring the space station and Cal tech Brass Quintet, a president's by members of the Caltech amateur Thus NASA succeeded with the other advanced programs for many reception, dinner at the Athenaeum, and radio club, station WGUE; a chess­ Voyager project by using skill, years. The second alternative would be the Caltech Glee Clubs' annual home playing display by the hypercube super­ ingenuity, and resourcefulness. But ro restructure NASA's current program concert filled the day for 1200 alumni computer; and a rour of Cal tech 's these will not be enough ro save the roward unmanned activities in favor of a and guests who converged on the mineral and gem collection were among civilian space program roday if it is "less ambitious but more concentrated campus for the 51st annual Seminar the offerings for alumni at breaks and funded at the levels currently recom­ effore. Day. lunchtime. The bookstore was open all mended by Congress-or by the Senate, "Skilled and talented people are sit­ Coming from farthest away was day and drew throngs of cusromers. where recommendations for funding are ting at their computers and their draw­ Hung-Chang Yin (PhD '37), who Several high school students admitted even lower, Fletcher stressed. ing boards, plotting voyages of explora­ arrived from Shanghai to receive the ro next year's freshman class came to Issuing a warning, Fletcher said, "The tion that could dwarf our countty's past Disringuished Alumni Award. The Seminar Day, hoping ro broaden their civilian space program, which represents achievements in space," Fletcher contin­ honored visitor, who had not visited the perspective on what Calrech is all about. the American spirit, is fighting for its ued. "We've set a new goal of human campus nor spoken English in 50 years, Some alumni rook time out to visit life this year. expansion into the solar system. But delighted guests with his warmth - their old houses, and others sropped in "Just when we're poised to move out skill and ingenuity won't do it. We and his good command of the language during the afternoon for refreshments at and build our greatest future in space, need adequate funding. after so many years. Escorting Dr. Yin the coffeehouse in the student activities the program is facing the greatest threat "But given the reverberations, there is were cwo of his grandchildren - one of center. of its 30-year lifetime," he emphasized. a real chance that adequate funding will them a student at UC San Diego and A chance to talk with President "Why so grim a view? Because if not be provided for any of the technical the other a resident of Santa Barbara. Everhart at a late-afternoon reception NASA is funded at the level recom­ programs. NASA budget recommenda­ Enjoying his first Seminar Day was pleased alumni, who went on to enjoy mended by the Senate, we will have ro tions by Congress are far below requests, President Thomas E. Everhart, who dinner at the Athenaeum. The Glee stop development of the manned space and the Senate threatens even deeper attended a full schedule of seminars Club concert put a finishing rouch on station, which is the key ro our future in cuts. If the budget is approved at the (where he took notes) and the Glee the day. Many stayed over ro partici­ manned spaceflight. Meanwhile, the Senate level, it will mean curtains for Club Concert. Everhare pronounced the pate in Homecoming Spores Day on Soviets will continue ro expand the the U.S. space program. The United Seminar Day experience "a special plea­ Sunday, when students, faculty, and space station they already have in orbit States will remain a nation with a great sure" as he presented the Distinguished alumni rook part in soccer, basketball, and ro press forward with manned space past in space-and a dismal future. Alumni Awards. softball, water polo, tennis, and other exploration. "What's at stake," said Fletcher, "is John D. Baldeschwieler emerged as a informal sports events. "If this delay occurs, we will have ro not only our international prestige but popular favorite among the speakers for "Thank you for making Alumni abrogate major commitments to our our role as a leader in science and his seminar on "Cancer Diagnosis and Seminar Day great!" wrote one alumnus, pareners in Europe, Japan, and Canada technology-a role that is critical ro Treatment: New Technology." Other and that seemed ro sum up visitors' who plan ro use the space station. Our economic growth. favorites were David Van Essen, who feelings about the whole event. partners have already contributed $1 "Speak up!" he urged. "Call people billion and and they plan to contribute you know in Congress. Let them know $8 billion more.' that Americans want their civil space Collis H. (Hunt) There will be serious repercussions "if program ro continue. We have lost Holladay, Jr., and we pull the rug our from under them at several battles and the war is being lost. Janet Holladay this stage of the game,' said Fletcher, with David J. But we are a pragmatic and visionaty Harper and Sara adding that ro do so would strengthen a people. It is nor in our natures ro srand Harper at Seminar perception on the part of some of our back and lose what we have achieved Day. allies that the U.S. does not honor its over seven decades, when we know that, commitments. looking ahead, there's no limit to what Moreover, Fletcher continued, if the we can accomplish." NASA budget falls short of initial NASA requests, then there will be a drastic slowdown in Space Shuttle mis­ sions in the coming years, seriously compromising the ability of the United States ro launch major planetary mis­ sions such as Magellan, Galileo, and Ulysses-all JPL programs. Also jeop- ·~-~ - ~ ~ ..~- , • ~ ••' y '.... • • - •

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crafe Corporation, he claimed a major Top: HIV·I virus responsibiliry for development of a Infecting a T-cell. In order to ent.. .. •'" sequence of military aircraft, the best .'. ~. ' f the cell, the virus Distinguished known being the P-61 Black Widow aHaches Itse" to fighter and the Northrop Flying Wing. a cell·surface protein called Alumni After World War II he founded, and CD4. Part of the was for 28 years director of, the Gradu­ virus'.out.r ate School of Aeronautical Engineering coating is shaped so that It fits onto Cal tech conferred its highest at Cornell Universiry. The graduate a specific piece honor-the Distinguished Alumni school quickly became highly influential ofCD4 -the Award-on four graduates on Alumni in its field. At Cornell, Sears was also 'DECoY$1RATEGY- BINDINGSITil binding site Ishaded triangle,. Seminar Day. Recognized were: instrumental in founding and developing Middle: A flood of the School of Engineering Physics, and synthetic binding -Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Abraham he was founder and director of the sites overwhelms the virus, tying up Robinson Adjunct Professor of Center of Applied Mathematics. all Its recognition Mathematical Sciences at Yale Univer­ In 1974 he moved to the Universiry sites before It can siry, who developed the theory of frac­ of Arizona, where he became the guid­ bind to CD4. BoHom: CD4 can tal geometry of nature, which gives ing force behind the development of an be prepared In insight into the complex shape and outstanding graduate educational and soluble form. A structure of the natural world; research center in aeronautics and CD4 solution also overwhelms the aerospace. virus, leaving the - William R. Sears, distinguished While at Cornell, he held almost T·ealls aeronautical engineer, who led in the every distinguished lectureship in T ..",.CELL unmolested. development of a sequence of notable aeronautics, including the oldest esta­ military aircraft at Northrop Aircraft blished lectureship-the Lanchester Corporation and went on to found the Memorial Lecture of the Royal Graduate School of Aeronautical Aeronautical Sociery. He is a member lead to an AIDS treatment.' Engineering at Cornell Universiry; of both the National Academy of Sci­ Previously, other tesearchers have ences and the National Academy of determined that the initial step in -Hung-Chang Yin, director emer­ Engineering. AIDS-virus infection is the binding of irus of the Institute of Plant Physiology, He earned his PhD degree from Cal­ HIV-l ro susceptible cells. Many scien­ Academia Sinica, People's Republic of tedl in 1938. He also holds a BS tists believe that one of the main causes China, who established a world center of degree from the Universiry of Minnesota. of cell death following infection is the plant biology where major contributions Hung-Chang Yin received his PhD fusion of virus-infected cells with unin­ ro China's achievement of food self­ degree in plant physiology from Caltech fected cells, and this fusion also depends sufficiency have been made. in 1937. He returned to China and on the attachment of viral proteins to was selected to become director of the specific binding sites on the cell surface. -Robert W . Zwanzig, Distinguished UNESCO Southeast Asian office in If researchers could synthesize large Professor of Physical Science at the New Delhi. quantities of a protein fragment that Universiry of Maryland, who has In 1950 he returned to China where includes the binding site, for example, achieved worldwide renown for his con­ he became director of the Institute of these might be made to act as decoys, tributions to nonequilibrium statistical Plant Physiology, Academia Sinica, a overwhelming AIDS-virus particles and mechanics at the deepest fundamental center for research on plant hormones, already infected cells, and preventing level. bacterial genetics, and plant tissue them from infecting other cells. For culture, in Shanghai. There he became these reasons, there has been an interna­ Mandelbrot, who recently was well known in scientific circle for his tional effort to come up with ways of awarded the Barnard Medal for Meri­ work on the nonbiophysical aspects of New insight undecsranding the binding process and torious Service to Science by Columbia photosynthesis. He retired as director of interfering with it. Universiry for his contribution, has the Institute in 1986 for health reasons. into AIDS This is precisely what the Science arti­ developed a body of work that gives Yin is one of the principal poli­ cle reports. It was authored by Brad­ insight into such narural-world cymakers in China concerning agricul­ ford A. Jameson, research fellow in biol­ phenomena as the turbulence of liquids, tural research and is one of a few people Researchers at the California Instirute ogy at Caltech; Patricia E. Rao of the symmetry of living forms, the ptincipally responsible for a large of Technology have identified a specific ORTHO Pharmaceuticals; Lilly Kong, branching of crystals or rivers, or the increase in food production in China binding site on the cell-surface protein Beatrice Halm, and George Shaw of the fluctuations of radio static. duting the last 25 years. that the AIDS virus (HIV-1) must latch Universiry of Alabama at Birmingham; Fractal geometry embodies the notion Robert W. Zwanzig has achieved onto before infecting a cell. In addition, Leroy E. Hood, the Ethel Wilson of geometric self-similariry-the ten­ worldwide renown, along with Onsager the researchers created a synthetic ver­ Bowles and Robert Bowles Professor of dency of natural forms to repeat them­ and Kubo, for his contributions to sion of that binding site and have Biology and chairman of the Division of selves - for example, as in the resem­ nonequilibrium statistical mechanics at demonstrated that this synthetic protein Biology at Caltech; and Stephen B. H. blance in shape berween a tree's large the deepest fundamental level. fragment acts as a decoy to prevent the Kent, senior research associate in biology branches and small rwigs. The new He has received numerous honors virus from infecting cells in test tubes. and the leader of the Caltech research geometry is being applied in many and awards in recognition of his contri­ The research was carried Out by group. fields: aerodynamics, art, astronomy, butions, including membership in the Bradford A. Jameson, working with biology, chemistry, linguistics, meteorol­ National Academy of Sciences and the Stephen B. H. Kent, in collaboration ogy, physics, physiology, among others. American Academy of Arts and Sci­ with othet researchers at ORTHO Phar­ Mandelbrot is a Fellow of the Ameri­ ences. He has been a recipient of maceuticals and the Universiry of Ala­ can Academy of Arts and Sciences and awards from the American Chemical bama. The scientists reported their is winner of the 1986 Franklin Medal Sociery-both the Peter Debye Award research in an article published in the A new look for signal and eminent service in science. in Physical Chemistry and the Irving journal Science. He earned his MS degree from Cal tech Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics. "We don't want to give people false for Caltech News in 1948, and his Eng degree in 1949. During the past academic year he has hope. This isn't a cure for AIDS: cau­ He also earned a PhD degree in been on leave from the Universiry of tioned Stephen B. H . Kent, the leader Beginning with this issue, Caltech mathematics in 1952 from the Univer­ Maryland, where he is Distinguished of the research group. ' Nevertheless, News appears in a new, redesigned for­ siry of Paris. Professor of Physical Science, to be we believe this to be a significant mat. The contents are not changing, William R. Sears is noted as one of Fogarry Scholar-in-Residence with the advance not only in AIDS research but and the publication will continue to the most distinguished students of National Institutes of Health. in virology in general. This is the first contain news and features about campus Theodore Von Karman, director for He earned his PhD degree from CaI­ time that the binding site for any virus events and people, alumni and Associate many years of Caltech's Graduate tech in 1952, his BS degree from has been identified with this degree of programs, fund-raising accomplishments, Aeronautical Laboratories. As the chief Brooklyn Polytechnic in 1948, and his precision. At best it is one possible step sports, Personals, and Obiruaries. We of aerodynamics at the Northrop Air- MS degree from USC in 1950. on one possible road that may possibly hope you enjoy the new look. •

following in the family tradition of skip­ academic program and that recreational ping grades. reading on other topics seems more Some qualms did surface about Cal­ inviting. Youngest freshman tech as a college choice, because Datta Has she missed anything by complet­ Telecourses collect had passed eight advanced placement ing elementary school in three years, and sets own pace tests, and Cal tech would give her credit entering high school at age 10 and col­ more awards for none of these. The Institute did lege at age 14? Datta doesn't think so. give her advanced placement in math, "What would have made me most The Mechanical Universe, an intro­ Ruchira Dacca is unimpressed by her based on its own test, however. unhappy," she says, "would have been ductory college-level physics telecourse, Status as Caltech ' s youngest student. Datta enrered Caltech on a full four­ not being able to learn at my own and its successor series, Beyond the After all, she finished elementary school year scholarship from AT&T. The scho­ pace. ' Mechanical Universe, have won their in three years and entered high school at larship also guarantees her a summer second international award in less than a the age of 10. internship for four years. This year she year, as well as their second prestigious Datta, who turned 15 in June, began will work in Denver in Information Sys­ national honor in the same period. skipping grades as soon as she entered tems Lab, and will also write a sum­ Early this spring, the International elementary school. With the help of mary of what she did, for presenration Film and TV Festival of New York her mother, she had alteady taught her­ on SURF (Summer Undergraduate pcesented the "Maxwell's Equations' self to read, and her father had taught Research Fellowships) Seminar Day. episode of Beyond the Mechanical her math, and the school psychologist at Although she was four years younger Universe with its silver medal. Last fall , the public school in Denver that she than the vast majoriry of her Cal tech The Mechanical Uni verse won another entered as a first grader suggested she classmates, Datta, poised, mature, and notable international award. In Tokyo, should go to a private school where she self-possessed, says she had no qualms the episode entitled "The LorenC';: could be in classes closer to her own about entering college so young. "I was Transformation' was awarded the Japan abiliry level. used to being the youngest one in my Prize, the highest honor presenred in the Datta then enrolled in the third classes," she says, "and besides, people 16th Japan Prize International Educa­ grade at the MacIntosh Academy, where here are accusromed to other bright peo­ tional Program Contest. each level consisred of two grades. She ple. They judge you on the basis of More recently, this same episode was went on to finish the third and fourth what you can do, nOt on what your age the recipient of the National Educational grades in one year, and did the same for is . I had no ptoblems in being Film & Video Festival's Gold Apple grades five and six, and seven and eight. accepted ." award for 1988. And last fall, "The She found entering Kent-Denver Datta does acknowledge that initially Atom' episode received another dis­ School at the age of 10 ro be her she had "the normal problems" adjust­ tinguished national honor, when it was gteatest challenge - "difficult, but not ing ro the Caltech academic ptogram. chosen as winner of the Silver Cindy traumatic. I had never been in school 'The work was a lot more intense than award, an Association of Visual Com­ before with so many people older than I in high school," she confesses. 'This hit municators honor that is considered to and it took some adjustment. The oth­ me hard during my first two weeks, but be the Oscar of the audio-visual ers weren't unkind or any~hing , but at then I regained my equilibrium." Three students win industry. first they treated me like an acquain­ At the Institute, Datta says she has "The awards bestowed on The tance, rather than a friend. Finally they "done well" in math and "prerry well" in grand prize in Mechanical Universe and Beyond The gOt used to me, though.' She speaks her other subjects, which were taken Mechanical Universe demonstrate the warmly of her teachers there, and of the duting her freshman year on a pass/ fail "software chase» qualiry that can be achieved when the support they gave her. basis. She's found her teachers helpful ptivate sector joins forces with institu­ An active student in high school, and interested in her. She plans ro earn tions of higher learning to produce edu­ Datta was news editor of the student a double major in physics and electrical A team of three Caltech undergrad­ cational programming," said Thomas E. paper, and a member of the debate and engineering, and to go on to graduate uates won the grand prize in the "Race Everhart, Caltech president. "This entire math clubs. Her skills in math led her school. for Space Software Chase," cosponsored telecourse project is also a timely rem­ to compete in the Colorado Mathematics A member of Ricketts House, she's by the Smithsonian's National Air and inder that many different media can and League and the Colorado State Univer­ found time to write for the California Space Museum, and by Apple Com­ should be utilized to amact American siry Mathematics Day competition. The Tech and to play the piano in a chamber puter, Inc. youth to the study of science. Nothing laccer activiry garnered her a $1 ,000 music group, and during the fall she The goal of the contest was to less than our nation's abiliry to compete scholarship. develop an interactive software program, in an increasingly technological world is Datta came to Caltech before her using the Macintosh II computer, "that at stake." junior year for a conference with Stirling demonstrates how computers can give The series was sponsored by the 1. Huntley, then direcror of admissions. wings to aeronautical ideas that other­ Annenberg/ CPB Project and co­ She was thinking about skipping her wise might not get off the gtound." produced by Caltech and the Southern senior year in high school, but Huntley The winning program will go on display California Consortium. encouraged her to take a full four-year in the National Air and Space program. Dacca now says she is glad she Museum's new Aerospace and Comput­ did because her senior year was "a lot of ing Gallery, scheduled to open in 1989; fun: the program lets the person playing with Although she leaned to Caltech, she it design a rocket and launch it on the also applied to Harvey Mudd, Prince­ computer. ton, Stanford, UC Berkeley, MIT, UC The program was designed by three Carlson honored Irvine, and Colorado State University, Caltech undergraduates. Pierce T. Boulder. She was admitted to all of Wetter III, a junior in electrical them except Princeton. engineering, was team captain and The late Chester Carlson (BS '3D) The 15-year-old sophomore says she designed the program's simulation sec­ has been posthumously inducted into chose Cal tech because '1 thought it tions. Glenn C. Smith, a sophomore in the Informant Hall of Fame in Dallas. would give me the best science educa­ physics, designed the ptogram's color Informant's Information Processing Hall tion,' and because of its small size and graphics. Michael Meckler, a sopho­ of Fame was formed in 1985, to recog­ location. By this time her father, a Ruehlra Datta more in physics, designed and imple­ nize individuals who have made mining engineer, was working in Orange mented the program's user interface. significant scientific, technological, and Counry while the rest of the family went out for volleyball. The grand prize includes 11 Macin­ business contributions to information stayed behind in Denver. In her scant leisure time, Datta likes tosh II computers and, for one of the processing. Her family has now moved to to play the piano and read - particu­ team members, a $5,000 summer The recognition of Carlson's contribu­ Pasadena, where Datta lives at home larly fiction, religion, and philosophy. internship at the National Air and Space tion to the dissemination of information with them. Her father is a branch She says she used ro read a lot of sci­ Museum. The team members kept occurs during the 50th anniversary of manager for a geotechnical firm, and her ence books for laymen. But she adds three of the 11 computers and the his invention of xerography. His induc­ mother works for a video production that now that she's at Caltech she's get­ remaining eight became part of tion ceremonies will take place in Dallas company. Her eight-year-old sister is ting her fill of science through the Caltech's Macintosh lab. on February 8. 7

Caltech student Spring break Saurl Desai makes new is the time friends at EI when most Rancho Mllagro orphanage. students go for surf and sun and a few days of hedonistic recreation. But on the Caltech campus, a few students had other ideas this year.

Spring break is a time when most and a half what we thought it would srudems go for surf and sun and a few take uS three days to do," he com­ days of hedonistic recreation. But on memed. "Then we tried to find other the Cal tech campus, a few srudems had jobs, but we could have been more help other ideas this year: They packed three if some other projects had been planned vans with paiming supplies, donated for us." clothes (including 60 Caltech "The kids were really neat," remarked sweatshirts), some toys and athletic John Hoskins. "They were fun to play equipmem, and plenty of food and bot­ with, and they made the whole trip cled water. Then they headed across the meaningful. It was fun watching their border to EI Rancho Milagro, an faces. " orphanage in Baja, California, where Michael Pravica, who had never been they would be involved in a work pro­ to Mexico before and didn't speak ject - and where they would meet 64 Time out Spanish, commemed that 'you make youngsters who would caprure their friends down there . You touch the life hearts. of a kid. I wam to go back." The Alumni Association, ASCIT, the Paul Gemieu, who went "because of Caltech Y, the Deans' Office, the Mas­ the chance to help people," said "it ter of Srudem Houses' Office, and an really felt good. The kids were very off-campus sorority, Beta Sigma Phi, open. They weren't shy and withdrawn eendshi at all. They seemed happy, even with an on-campus member, Helen Burrus, made comributions. Their though they don't have many physical funding (just under $1400) almost pre­ possessions. They liked playing with us. cisely matched expenses. I don't speak Spanish, so I leamed a lot B, WInifred V...... da Once at the orphanage, they applied about communicating through body sealer to a new building to prepare it for language and sign language. painting, cleared weeds that represemed living parem, but one who is financially exposed to a life-style and a culture that ·We played football, catch, soccer, a fire hazard, and played frisbee, volley­ unable to provide for the child. I'd never known before. The kids were we tossed tennis balls around. I'll ball, baseball, and soccer with some of EI Rancho Milagro is located in a a lot of fun to play games with. They definitely go back- maybe just for a the most appealing kids they'd ever valley on the old road between Tijuana were anxious to make us feel welcome. couple of days after finals week to play encountered . When it was time to come and Ensenada. Its setting is one of low I'm thinking of coming back for the with the kids." home, most were ready to plan a rerurn brown hills and grassy plains with trip next spring break, even though I'm Helen Knudsen, librarian in Robin­ trip. mountains in the distance. A stream gtaduating this year." son Laboratory, signed on to do the The project was the brainchild of cuts through the property. Chickens, "I had never done anything like this cooking. "I can hardly remember hav­ Geoff Pilling, who had been part of pigs, dogs, and ducks roam over the before," remarked Joshua Roth. "I'd ing so much fun," she commented. "I church-group work projects at the land; and Geoff Pilling can still point been to Mexico, but being involved love to cook, and on this trip, I had lots orphanage when he was in high school. with pride to a large garden that his with the people was a different way to of opportunities. Nobody got sick, He thought it would be fun to involve church group started several years ago. see the country. 1 was eager to find out nobody wem away hungty. These CaI­ Cal tech srudems in a similar endeavor. Pilling explained that the children - what the orphanage was all about. tech students were good, self-sacrificing Well before spring break, Pilling visited most of whom are between 4 and 12 Besides, 1 enjoy doing physical work, kids, willing to stand in line for thirds each srudem house and made an - are bussed to Ensenada, where they and 1 don't get to do much of it at Cal­ of chocolate mousse pie; it was hard, announcement during dinner about the attend school from 1 to 5 p.m. At the tech, so, for me, doing some paiming but they knew somebody had to do it. trip to the orphanage. Initially 51 orphanage, they sleep in low, concrete seemed like a good opportunity. "All of us had good feelings about volumeers signed to go but in rhe end, dormitories with room un der ~heir beds "They were a wonderful, natural rhe reason we went: putting a hand to 15 (including 12 male and twO female for their personal belongings. When bunch of kids," he added, about the something useful to help a group of studems and one staff member) actually they are old enough, they leave to find orphans. "Their communiry reminded friendly, giggly kids. The Caltech sru­ showed up to take part in the Baja jobs, and some return to their parems me of a kibbutz in Israel where 1 spem dents worked very hard while we were advemure. As it turned out, 15 was when they can support themselves. some time a yeat ago. Maybe we'll be there. When they finished one job they enough to handle the gtoup's work For several of the Cal tech students, able to go back in the summet and take looked for another job to do, and when assignmem comfortably. this was their first visit to Mexico, and them some more toys. They really they finished that one, they looked for The destination, EI Rancho Milagro, for others, the first time they had been don't have many toys at all. " something else. is a Catholic orphanage that receives there other than as tourists. Roth also said it would be nice to do "I've always thought that Caltech some support ftom the state. Many of "It was a lot of fun and I'd like to more work the next time a Caltech kids are super, and this trip confirmed its 60-some charges have at least one go back," said John Gehring. "I was group goes down. "We did in a day it. " 8

Andrew Kalunziacki of Ricketts House complies with a Ditch Day CALTECH mandate to disassemble a Pinto wagon and put it in four 55· IN THE gallon drums. NEWS

"Thursday was Ditch Day - 'Star by a supernova,' said physics professor the Caltech Y, he wondered whether the Monacles and eyebrows, dowagers Wars' meets 'Animal House,' it's been Tom Prince. . .. 'It's a very abundant script would have to be updated. After and highbrows, called - at Caltech. element and we'd like to know what its all, it had been written before there Diamonds to fill a bus, "It's an occasion for seniors to let off origin is and how it's made,' he said: were undergraduate women at Caltech, Never with a crowd like us. steam from the pressure of academics by Pasadena Star-News before pocket calculators and personal locking up their rooms in inventive ways computers, before moon walks. But he and challenging underclassmen to said he was happy to observe that noth­ The May show was entitled "Caltech unravel the secret of gaining entry. ing in the script needed to be changed: Re-revisited.: or Deja, Deja Vu: and "This year, Marry O'Brien, a sopho­ "Caltech remains totally recognizable, an transported the audience back to 1966 more in chemical engineering, showed inexhaustible subject for comedy'­ to the show for Wes Hershey. Then it up at one senior's door to find that it A rare Stock Stanzas from a few of the popular brought them forward (with a few stops had been replaced by a piece of ply­ favorites performed that evening in between) to an evening in 1987 wood divided into six miniature doors included: when the Stock Company presented that were wired into a computer in the Company show What's a nice girl like you doing in a "Troll's Progress " at a Cal tech doorway. Fragments of the combination place like this? Playreaders' parry. for opening the entire door were hidden A nice girl like you should be doing But despite women undergraduates, behind the mini-entrances, each of something better. 15 new buildings, landscaping, and a which could be opened only by answer­ A nice girl like you ought to be free battalion of fund-raisers, Clark found in ing questions posed by the computer." as atr. comparing scripts that "in essentials, New York Tim es Waving at a star now, cruising in a beneath the camouflage, the Institute car now, remains unchanged - as time-proof as "Devastating earthquakes have Strumming a guitar now, laughing in Shakespeare .• occurred only every 200 to 400 years on a bar now, And after the show The Associates the northern San Andreas Fault, says a Something light and easy, something agreed they felt that family ties with study that provides some comfort for bright and breezy, Caltech - alteady strengthening - had San Franciscans worried about a repeat Pleasing a lovely miss. been firmly cemented. of the deadly 1906 quake. California Never in a place like this. Institute of Technology geologist Carol S. Prentice . . . said she found evidence of six great or major quakes in What's a nice girl like me doing in a the last 2,000 years along a 160-mile The Caltech Srock Company - once place like this? stretch of the San Andreas tupture. The described by Professor Kent Clark as "a A nice girl like me happens to be last was the 1906 shaker that killed at sturdy band of extroverted eggheads fond of physics, New light controls least 2,500 people'-The Press-Enterprise who lead double lives as professors, A nice girl like me wants to be an secretaries, and faculry wives" - has engineer. darken Palomar's "The California Institute of been delighting Cal tech audiences with Fond of mathematics, fond of Technology is poised to give a team its performances since it presented a hydrostatics, envzronment headed by Leroy Hood a spacious new show in 1954, "The Road to Stock­ Any new dimension, any new inven­ faciliry for developing advanced DNA holm," that celebrated the awarding to cion, sequencing technology and exploring the Linus Pauling of his first Nobel Prize. Wild about a proton, gamma ray or The future looks darker for Palomar uses of computer chips and neural net­ Clark was responsible for the lyrics; photon, Observatory, but no one is complaining. works for the analysis of sequence data. Elliott Davis wrote the music. No ton I want to miss The Riverside Counry board of supervi­ Such largess is made possible by the The Stock Company was persuaded Being in a place like this. sors has unanimously approved an ordi­ new Beckman Institute to be located on to appear in one of its now relatively nance to substantially strengthen light­ the Caltech campus, where space and rare performances at a dinner for The pollution controls within a 45-mile money will be available for exploratory Associates in May. There, in an evening Or this one: radius of the observatory. The board's research projects and interdisciplinary of entertainment, the guests heard favor­ You won't find us crying for the action, on April 19, marked the end of technology development. The institute ite stock company songs from bygone moon. a yearlong campaign by Cal tech and lis] financed by a $50 million grant years, and sketches from favorite stock Our spacemen dried our teats and Palomar to persuade counry officials to from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman company shows. Joining the old-timers made us wise. expand outdoor lighting controls origi­ Foundation and $10 million in match­ were three undergraduates - Heidi For when they had surveyed it, with nally adopted in 1981. The supervisors' ing funds raised by Caltech." Nature Anderson, Joe Beckenbach, and Dave its whites and grays and blacks, decision is expected to take place later Magazine Stevens. They simply gathered up some moon this year. Veteran performers for the evening And brought it home in sacks. The eatlier, 1981 measure required "For the last year a team of Caltech included, besides Clark, Professor that all new street lamps within 30 scientists has been studying where the Robert Oliver, Professor David Wood miles of Palomar be low-pressure iron in a person's body comes from. and Connie Wood, Professor Ward Or this one (about Beckman Audito­ sodium (LPS) vapor lights, which have No, they aren 't doing nutritional Whaling, Robert Burkert (BS '65), rium): the least impact on observatory research. research. Rather they're looking at the Micheal Boughton (BS '55), Sue What's a nice place like this doing Under the new ordinance, controls will original source of iron - supernovae. McCloud-Gibson (a former secretary in with a crowd like us? be extended to areas not covered in the In particular, they're using a gamma-ray humanities), Professor Noel Corngold, A nice place like this should be original decision, including decorative, camera to study the first supernova and Christopher Harcourt (BS '77). doing something better, billboard, resraurant, parking lot, and that's been visible to the naked eye in Clark remarked that, in rereading a A nice place like this should be full securiry lighting. About 70 percent of 383 years. 'The iron in our blood was 1966 production that honored Wesley of billionaires. light pollution can be traced to those once part of a star and it was produced Hershey on his 20th anniversary with All the literati, critical and haughry. sources. •

Potts notes that sports such as baseball have long and well­ documented histories} but Ralph Landau track and field does delivers annual not, Bray Lecture

Caltech trustee Ralph Landau came to campus in April as the Ultic and Evelyn Bray visiting lecturet. Landau led a morning symposium on "Chemical Engineering at Cal tech • and delivered the evening lecture on "Global Competi­ tiveness - What it Really Means for the U.S." By Winifred The lecrure was part of the ongoing Veronda Executive Forum series sponsored by the Statistics on the run Cal tech Industrial Relations Center. In his talk, Landau dealt with the economic factors and policies necessary Why does a man devote hundreds of three years, specializing in sprints and entry to an international circle of friends fot attaining a furute growth rate that houts ovet several decades delving into hurdles. As an undergraduate, he was a with similar interests. He meets these will sustain a satisfactoty national stan­ statistics on the perfotmances of track member of Blacker House. While he friends when he travels to his favorite dard of living, while remair.ing competi­ and field athletes? Why does he spend was a graduate student, he and his sporring events - the world champion­ tive in the world marketplace. weekends poring over microfilm, ferret­ hobby were featured in the Pasadena ship track and field meets. He has Mrs. Evelyn Bray established the ing Out obscure records of events that Star News. attended these meets in Helsinki and Ulric B. and Evelyn 1. Bray Visiting have long passed into history? "My hobby had no external outlet in Rome, and will attend the next meets Lectureship on the Economic System in "Why do people climb Mount those days: he says, "and I never scheduled for Tokyo in 1991. 1981. Each year the Bray Lecrureship Everest?" responds Donald H. Potts (BS expected that it would have." Although he has attended the Olym­ brings to campus outstanding visitors '43, PhD '47), who has been immersing Late in 1945, while POtts was con­ pics several times, Potts says he doesn't whose research and practical experience himself in su~h statistics sin~e high tinuing his graduate work, he discovered enjoy them very much any more. enhance an understanding of the U.S. school. "I do it because the challenge is a kindred spirit. He found a list of "They're very crowded, and there are so economic system. there: best-performance statistics in Amateur many events I'm not that interested in: Landau is chairman of Listowel, Inc., Moreover, he notes, sports such as Athlete - some of them unknown to he says. a private consulting and investment fitm baseball have long and well-documented him - and obtained the name of the "Moreover, they've become very po­ which he founded in 1982. statistical histories, but track and field author, Robert Quercetani, of Florence, litical in the way they're used. And does not. This is one of the things that Italy. besides, I can stay home and watch the make the subject fun for someone who Thus began a voluminous correspon­ interesring events On tele.brvision almost likes doing statistical research. dence - one that averaged 25 letters as well as if I were there." Pores, who is head of the mathemat­ per year - that led to the joint author­ As contemporary statistics have been i~s department at Cal State University, ship of a booklet containing the 100 increasingly well documented, Potts has Northridge, began to absorb track best marks in each track event. The become more and mote interested in FACULTY records when he was a sophomore in two men met in 1955 and continue to historical research. He, Quercetani, and Lincoln High School, Seartle. He was be colleagues and good friends, although a third friend are now compiling best on the track team when he began clip­ Potts says their correspondence dimin­ marks for events from 1937 to 1944 - HONORS ping summaries of the local high school ished after their meeting. a task they hope to complete in two meets from newspapers and filing them In 1948, the year their booklet was more years. in s~rapbooks. published, Track and Field News, the Potts, who makes his home in Fred Anson, professor of chemistry Today he is one of the world's lead­ first comprehensive source for track and Goleta, California, with his wife, J en­ nifer, is the father of a son and three and chairman of the Division of Chem­ ing authorities on performances by track field statistics, began publication. The daughters. He joined the faculty at istry and Chemical Engineering, has and field athletes and a major resource editors learned about Potts through for Track and Field News in its world "Doc" Floyd Hanes, long-time trainer at N orrhridge in 1965 after teaching at been elected a member of the National ranking of performers. He is a former UC Santa Barbara, Cal State Long Academy of Sciences, one of the highest Cal tech and coach of the track team honors that can be bestowed on a U.S. president of the Association of Track from 1943 to 1946. Potts and his Beach, and Northwestern University. Professionally he is interested in founda­ scientist or engineer. Anson's election and Field Statisticians, and honorary friend Quercetani became regular con­ tions and the history of mathematics, brings to 57 the number of NAS president of the Federation of American tributors to the publication and have and in ways to interest students in math members currently on the Cal tech Track and Field Statisticians. remained so. "Finally: POtts says, "we faculry. But these organizations had yet to be had an outlet for our hobby: Quer­ from a cultural point of view. founded when Ports began compiling cetani is now the European editor for He looks forward to two more years Harry Gray was named the 1988 scrapbooks in 1937. Clipping high Track and Field News. at Cal State Northridge, and then plans California Scientist of the Year for mak­ school track-event summaries soon In 1948, Potts and Quercetani began to retire and to "do a lot of projects I've ing key discoveries regarding how living expanded to clipping records of college what would become an annual been putting on the back burner." cells store energy. Gray, the Arnold O. meets - and then he began to wonder endeavor. They were asked by Track Among these will be a history of sprint­ Beckman Professor of Chemistry and what had happened at meets in earlier and Field News to do the compilations ing and a biography of the person he director of the Beckman Institute, has years. for a world ranking of the top 10 ath­ considers the greatest U.S. track athlete been a member of the Cal tech faculry "I was a Jesse Owens fan," he says. letes in each track and field event. of the nineteenth cenrury - Lon Myers. since 1966. He received the $5,000 "He retired from amateur track after the By the mid-1970s, the statistics they (Potts considers Carl Lewis to be the award from the California Museum 1936 Olympics. I went to the public worked with had become so voluminous greatest athlete of this cenrury but adds Foundation, a nonprofit arm of the Cali­ library and perused bound volumes of that they asked for help. Today, Potts that "I may be prejudiced because he's a fornia Museum of Science and Industry. local newspapers, working my way back sets up preliminary rankings for five sprinter and long jumper, and those to the early 1930s." events (generally sprintS and hurdles) for were my events in college.") Two members of the Cal tech faculry Potts continued these activities over which he is primarily responsible. He One thing he is sure of: He has no are among 15 outstanding biological the next 10 years, filling more and more shares this information with other fear of idle time on his hands, because scientists to be named 1988 Searle scrap books and composition books with authorities, considers their opinions, and the hobby that began with those high Scholars. They are Howard D. Lipshitz, his records. He also began to collect then does a final ranking. Meanwhile, school scrapbooks continues - like a assistant professot of biology, and Paul NCAA guides and Spaulding athletic the other events are ranked by other world-class mountain - to offer undi­ W. Sternbetg, assistant professor of biol­ almanacs. experts through a similar procedure. minished challenges. ogy. Each teceives a three-year grant of Enteting Caltech as a freshman in Potts's starus in the realm of track $180,000 to support his research. 1939, he earned varsity crack letters for and field statisticians has given him 10

Dick Rosencranz and W. T. Cardwell, Jr. ('38) reminisce over some vintage newspapers at the Half·Century Club luncheon.

ALUMNI Association welcomes three new honorary alumni

Classmates recall The Alumni Association welcomed three new honorary alumni at the 50 years of annual dinner in June. This honor, based on contributions to the campus personal history community and to the studencs, was conferred upon Thomas E. Everhart, Finding a group of classmates with her performance in Jezebel, and Orson ing insignificant as a freshman - until president of Caltech; Christopher Bren­ whom he felt complete empathy was the Welles scared a large portion of the Jon Mathews, his freshman advisor, nen, professor of mechanical engineering special reward that being a Cal tech country into believing the Martians had stopped to talk to him on campus and and former master of student houses; freshman brought ro Carlton 1. Horine invaded, with his radio rendition of The actually remembered his name. and Tsutomu Oshima, karate insttuctor back in 1933. That empathy has lasted War of the Worlds. The first color Robert Metzner reminisced about an to Cal tech studencs since 1958. through the years, and it pulled 62 television was demonstrated and a Cal­ economics professor with a Welsh accent Elected as officers for 1988-89 were: members of the class of 1938 back ro tech alumnus, the late Chester Carlson, who smoked several packs of cigarettes Charles H. Holland, Jr. (BS '64), campus for a weekend of festivities, gave his first xerography demonstration. during a class session. One day, just as presidenc; Rhonda 1. MacDonald (BS capped by the Half-Century Club lun­ "It was a difficult time to graduate," he opened the second pack, all of the '74), vice president; E. Micheal Bough­ cheon. said Harper. "Twenry percent of the students pulled Out five-cent cigars and ton (BS '55), treasurer; and Gary W. Charles W. Clarke was chairman of work force was unemployed." lit up. Stupian (BS '61), secretary. Outgoing the reunion committee, assisted by Then it was time for the class The professor told them he gOt the president David]. D . Harper (MS '77) Robert]. Barry, Ralph W. Jones, Wil­ members to reminisce a bit, as they point, and promised to try to smoke will also serve on the executive commit­ liam F. Nash, Jr., Evan A. Johnson, received their Half-Century Club less. Then he dismissed class for the tee. Paul C. Siechert, Gardner P. Wilson, certificates. day because the smoke was so heavy. Elected as directors were Tway W. and Robert G. Metzner. Harry Boller said that one of the John Minasian remembered a physics Andrews (BS '44), Joe K. Cheng (BS The committee planned a vigorous greatest discoveries he's made during the class during his sophomore year when '85), Joseph A. Dobrowolski (BS '49); round of activities for classmates to last 50 years has been that the better the average class score was nine percenc Rolf H. Sabersky (BS '42, MS '43, enjoy, including a tour of JPL; dinner at time you're having, the faster the time - and his score was eight percent. PhD '49), William M. Whirney (BS the Valley Hunt Club, with a talk by goes. And George Osborne said he hitchhiked '51); and Hubert E. Dubb (BS '56). Judith Goodstein on "Caltech in the Thomas V. Davis recalled that he to school from Azusa for three years, Harper, 1987-88 presidenc, was Turbulent '30s"; a tour of campus led lived off campus until the year he edited finally managing to live in Fleming presented wirh a birch armchair with the by CATS (Caltech Architectural Tour the yearbook and he became so when he was a senior. Institute logo and 'a plaque bearing the Service); the Half-Century Club lun­ absorbed in the project that he slept on Hollis Reamer said he has taken a lot presidential gavel. A short business cheon at the Athenaeum; and a fiesta a couch in the Confab office in the base­ of kidding because so many years passed meeting preceded the festivities. dinner at the home of Ralph Jones in ment of Dabney House. before he got out of college. Reamer San Marino. Munson Dowd remembered pajamar­ began working with Sage and Lacey's The Reunion Campaign Committee, inos, pulling the trolley off the track, group after he graduated and srayed on headed by Richard Rosencranz, playing football in the Rose Bowl as a faculty member unci! retirement. presented the Institute with a check for against powers like Pomona, Occidental, $42,800 to be used for scholarships and Redlands, snaking until all hours of - "a 41 percent increase over what the the morning, and walking to class Project seeks same population accomplished last through the steam tunnels when it was year: Other committee members raining. included Carl F. Friend, Samuel Keller, Herbert Ellis recalled the time Rick­ postgraduate Stanley T. Wolfberg, Donald D. David­ etts House members were given a stern son, George B. Holmes, Phillip Sauren­ lecture ro follow house tules to the pranks man, and David K. Beavan. letter. Since they were required to wear President Thomas E. Everhart greeted coats and ties ro dinner in the evenings, Readers of Caltech News are aware the class. He remarked that "since you they showed up that night in coats and that the Alumni Association is consider­ graduated, you have lived through more ties and nothing else. ing the publication of a second volume change than any other group of Richard B. Forward, who was with of Legends of Caltech, and has asked for alumni. " He assured the alumni rhat the Navy as an aviator with a torpedo written contributions. Material received the freshman class continues to stand squadron in the Coral Sea, remembered so far has been limited, so no decision out in relationship to its counterparts at that the Bureau of Ordnance was look­ has been made about whether to other schools, and he noted that "we are ing for a naval officer with a technical proceed with a second volume. well above Stanford and Harvard in background to go to Washington, and Washington, D.C.­ However, we have received several SAT scores. And while the faculry is he was chosen. Shortly afterward, what contributions describing pranks pulled by not the same as when you were here, ir had been his plane went down short of area alumni meet Caltech alumni after they graduated is of the same stature." its carrier on its return from a mission. from the Institute. So we are pondering David]. D. Harper, president of the Evan Johnson thought about Robert In the Washingron, D. C. area, 32 whether to include a seeton entitled Alumni Association, was master of Millikan, who told him that he would alumni and guests gathered for dinner "The Beat Goes On" that chronicles this ceremonies for the occasion. He forget the details of his education, but at Michael's Restaurant in Bethesda, special facet of Caltech's legacy, observed that 25 PhD degrees, 94 MS not the scientific approach that Caltech Maryland, on May 10 to hear a talk by So look past your adventures at Cal­ degrees, and 130 BS degrees were would teach him. What Millikan said Alvin Trivelpiece (MS '55, PhD '58). tech and try to recall those special little awarded in 1938. Recalling that year, was true, Johnson acknowledged, and Trivelpiece shared what he has learned things you've done" to and for others" he pointed out that Cal beat Alabama he added that "this approach has been and done in his roles in academia, after graduation, Of course, we're still 13-0 in rhe Orange Bowl, Benny Good­ very valuable in dealing with all the industry, and government and he dis­ very interested in any stories about man gave the first Carnegie Hall jazz problems that I've confronted in my cussed some of his presenc concerns pranks at Tech that have not yet been concert, Snow White and the Seven life: about U. S. science and technology. submitted. Send them to Chip Smith, Dwarfs was released, and Superman Ralph Jones remembered getting into John Andelin (BS '55, PhD '65), Lawrence Livermore National Lab, P.O. made his appearance. trouble with the SPCA for using live president of the Washington, D. C. Box 808/L-626, Livermore, California Spencer Tracy won an Oscar for his goldfish in a liquid-air lecture in Cul­ chapter, and Lisa Heinz (BS '78) organ­ 94550, Final deadline for all submis­ role in Boys' Town, and Bette Davis for bertson, and Samuel Keller recalled feel- ized the event. sions is September 30. 11

Antarctica From the alumni president Eight faculty trip scheduled members retire Your Caltech Alumni Association is bring alumni and studentS affiliated with Eight faculty members retired at the Members of both the Cal tech Alumni about ro begin a new year, with the aim a particular house together in a lively end of the academic year. They are Association and the Harvard Alumni of maintaining the expanded levels of social situation. Heinz E. Ellersieck, associate professor Association are invited to participate in activity that have begun in several new Support to enhance the lives of stu­ of history; Edward B. Lewis, Thomas a co-sponsored trip to explore programs. We will also continue our dents on campus has been an ongoing Hunt Morgan Professor of Biology; Antarctica, the Strait of Magellan, and ongoing activities, such as the alumni project for the Alumni Association. Robert W. Oliver, professor of econom­ Cape Horn on February 9-24, 1989. travel programs, and in these we antici­ Your membership dues help suppOrt ics and master of student houses; Organized by Travel Dynamics, the trip pate ensuring a pattern of steady such worthwhile student activities as Charles H . Papas, ptofessor of electrical features as a guest lecturer Barclay growth. We appreciate David Harper's Freshman Camp, athletics, the Glee engineering; John D. Roberrs, Insritute Kamb, vice president, provost, and pro­ outstanding leadership as president this Clubs, and many student clubs. Professor of Chemistry; Rolf H. fessor of geology and geophysics at Cal­ past year, and will work to continue to The Alumni Association provides Sabersky, ptofessor of mechanical tech. maintain a strong Alumni Association. seed money for new clubs trying to get engineering; Eli Sternberg, professor of Kamb's studies have included crystal This year we hope to focus on started, for unusual opportunities for mechanics; and David S. Wood, profes­ and physical properties of minerals, and strengthening the existing alumni srudents - for example, the weekend sor of materials science. the mechanics of solid deformation and chapters, and creating new ones where basal slip in glaciers. His research at there are clusters of interested alumni. Variegated Glacier in Alaska has led to We want to increase the visibility of the the development of a quantitative physi­ Alumni Association through chapter cal model of surging in valley glaciers. activities - activities that spread the Cal tech alumni who graduated before word about our efforts on behalf of stu­ ALUMNI 1971 should have received a brochure dents, alumni, and the Institute. Charles H. Holland, Jr. ACTIVITIES describing the Antarctica adventure. If As a membership organization, the you have questions, or would like ro Alumni Association uses your dues ro receive a brochure, please call Kathy September 25 - Palomar Observa­ fund the various programs thar facilitare toty cdp for San Diego area alumni, Harris at the Alumni Office, 818/356- positive interaction among alumni, Stu­ 6593. Join us. for an exciting journey dents, and the Institute. Along with OC.EUbet 2-6 - N.ew Engian

They think of Hitoshima and Chernobyl currently accessible to our senses." "a golden age for science. Sinsheimer and Love Canal - and they fear . As Sinsheimer pointed out that Cal tech "Building upon the cumulative Robert Penn Warren wrote, 'The end of has many extraordinary strengths - discoveries of the past, using ever more Continued from page 1 man is knowledge, but there is one among them, the relative homogeneity powerful instruments, the rates of must understand, and they cannot thing he can't know. He can't know of a community whose members share a discovery and invention continue to dismiss, the other perspectives rhat do whether knowledge will save him or kill common outlook- "a common percep­ accelerate: he said. "You will not - not center on scientific and technological him.'" tion of the world which greatly facili­ you cannot - ever cease to learn. The knowledge. And to comprehend these Sinsheimer reminded the srudents tates agreement and action." one certainty for the future is change. I other perspectives, he added, they must that scientists firmly believe in physical This homogeneity has its manifest have no doubt that more will be learned be able to recognize their own perspec­ causality and in a ttuth that can be benefit - but it may also have its cost, in the next 20 or 30 years in most areas tive - "often unspoken but shared by found in nature. "And they know of the he said. "You may not be fully of science and technology than in all most scientists and engineers." impermanence of the world, of the long prepared for rhe tumultuous and diverse previous times." This perspective might be expressed histoty which preceded the emergence of world outside these cloistered, cerebral Sinsheimer left the graduates with an in this way - that knowledge is good our species, of the course of stellar evo­ quarters: admonition in the form of a story about and that more knowledge is better, and lution which produced the very elements Thus, Sinsheimer told the graduates, an engineer who was about to be guillo­ that the quest for knowledge itself is of which we are made, of the evolution "In addition to keeping pace with sci­ rined during the French revolution. one of the highest forms of human of the planet as seen in the geological ence or technology you will also - to Looking up at the blade hovering over endeavor. record and the ongoing movements of be effective - need to learn to him, he pointed out to his executioners "You must know: Sinsheimer con­ the tectonic plates, of the evolutionaty comprehend, and to match wits with, that it could not fall because a screw tinued, "that others are nor sure, espe­ chain of life as recorded in the fossils the advocates of world views vety dis­ was loose. cially in a world in the thrall of an ethic and in our very genes. Yet much of the tant from your own: "It's fine to make use of your techni­ that strongly favors the swift application world recognizes no history before the Looking at the present - and ahead cal expertise," Sinsheimer said, "but you of new knowledge to practical purposes. written record and no order beyond thar to the future - Sinsheimer termed this should always be aware of the context." -- . - ......

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Davis award for rhe ourstanding field­ seconds off her previous best time. Occidental, challenged her way to the event athlete, to freshman Ray Sidney; The ourstanding female track athlete number cwo sPOt. Freshman A1ecia the outstanding freshman award to award went to Liz Warner. Not only Chen developed rapidly and stepped Dave Park; and the most inspirational had she set four school records and par­ temporarily into the number-six SpOt SPORTS athlete award to senior Joe Shiang. ticipated in two others, but she also when injuries sidelined two players afrer Despite the loss of several valuable scored more points for rhe team than spring break. athleres due to graduation, the team any other woman in Caltech track his­ Medical problems beset the team should still be in good shape next year. tory with 178-3/4. Throughout the from the first week. However, despite Dave Park, Randy Ralph, and Gary season she competed in 10 different ankle injuries, shin splines, and sore Eastvedt will dominate the vertical and events. The freshman barely missed hips, elbows, and shoulders, the team horizontal jumps. Ray Sidney and Paul all-conference honors in rhe 400-m managed an impressive 3-1 record dur­ Socolow will be competitive in the hur­ intermediate hurdles, the long jump, ing the first two weeks of the season. dles races, while SCOct Kister, Chris and the 100-m hurdles. Tech ended the season at 6-13 afrer Campo, Mark Lyttle, and Ed Naranjo The future for women's track and defeating Redlands 9-0 and making an will take up the slack in the distance field looks bright, because all the team impressive showing in the SCIAC cham­ races. Todd Kaplan, Dave Amezcua, members will be returning and can be pionship tournament. Three players Steve Harkness, and Ed Mao will con­ expected to imptove over sctong advanced to the second round, and tinue to be forces in the throwing performances this year. Carol Mullenax narrowly missed a rrip events. to the semifinals. The doubles team of Alex Athanasopoulos is expected to Jennifer Low and Junko Munakara qualify for the nationals in the 800 m, returned ro the semifinals on Saturday. and Ray Hu, John Raguin, and Jeff The ream put on a consistent and Willis will contribute heavily in the impressive show this season, aided by middle distances. Sprinters Tom drilling from former Oxy coach, Tracy Track team posts Tetzlaff, Dan Kollmorgen, Sean Hill­ Lillig. Especially strong play came from yard , and Jack Prater will continue to Carol Choy, Jane Seto, and Laura Her­ wtnntng season develop and are expected to contribute nandez. Jennifer Low and Carol Mul­ heavily to the team's future success. lenax improved ctemendously over the season. J unko Munakata battled a sore For the third successive year, a tena­ hip all season, but played consistently cious and talented men's track team well. When Linda Schlueter was avail­ posted a winning season wirh a 7-6 able, she played excellent doubles with record. With 20 freshmen athletes Laura H ernandez. Jane Seco and Carol added to a squad of 20 upperclassmen, Women's track: Choy played cough at number-one dou­ the team could benefit from a fine blend bles as well. of experience and exuberance. In SCIAC competition, Pomona­ While rhere were many highlighrs a new book Pitzer ended Occidental's domination of during rhe season, the progress made by Tennis recap women's tennis. Claremonc-Mudd­ several individuals stands our dramati­ The new and improved version of the Scripps was runner-up while Occidental cally. These were some of rhe Cal tech women's track team has virtu­ Caltech lost three key players from a slipped to third, followed by Whittier, personal-best performances achieved this ally rewritten the record book this year. powerful 1987 team, and cwo key La Verne, Caltech, and Redlands. season: 1:57.47 in the 800 m by senior With a squad of eight athletes, the players from the 1988 squad were Joe Shiang (Shiang claimed fourth team managed to pick up four dual­ injured. Thus Tech began the season place, all-conference recognition in the meet victories against eight losses, as with freshmen Dan Pang, Lioyd Farn­ SCIAC); 4:06.30 for the 1500 m by well as a first-time win over a conference ham, Hemant Keny, Jimmy Ng, and senior John Gehring; 11.82 for the 100 opponent. senior Greg Martin in key roles. m and 23.99 for the 200 m by junior Freshman sensation Lz Warner led Early in the season, Cal tech defeated Tom Tetzlaff; and 51.47 for the 400 m the charge, contributing to team vic­ La Verne and barely lost to Fort Lewis by junior Sean Hillyard. tories over Master's College and Chap­ College and Whittier. With the return In addition, Steve Harkness put the man College with record-setting perfor­ of number-cwo player Raleigh Chiu and shot 38'6" and threw the javelin mances in the 100-m (13.87 seconds) the steady play of number-one Mark 13 1 ' 11 " while Ed Mao threw the discus and the 200-m (29.41 seconds). Holdsworth, number-three Gene Pot­ 109'4". Sophomore Randy Ralph high Warner also broke the existing long­ tenger, and number-four Ahn Tuan Le, jumped 6'4-1/2", while freshman Gary jump standard on four separate occa­ Cal tech won four of its last six team Eastvedt cleared 6'2" and jumped sions - the last time in the SCIAC matches. The team outpointed Whit­ 19'4-1/4" in the long jump. conference finals at Occidental. Here tier in the league tournament to finish in Paul Socolow ran 59.8 seconds in the she soared 15'10-1/2". Even though fifth place for the fourth straight year. 400-m intermediate hurdles and Ray Warner was making her first attempt at The SCIAC men's tennis division is Sidney cleared 12 feer in rhe pole vault the triple jump this year, she destroyed particularly strong this year, with three and also triple jumped 39'7 ". Finally, that record by almost 11 inches; her teams-Claremont, Redlands, and Scott Kister raced to 16: 5 3.0 over 5000 best jump was 31'4-3/ 4". Pomona- belonging in the top 25 m and 11:06.0 in the steeplechase, Tech's relay team, consisting of Division III NCAA teams in the coun­ while Ray Hu ran 2:01.1 for the 800- Warner, Golda Bernstein, Kitt try. Claremont won the conference Fine baseball year m. Hodsden, and Bibi Jentoft-Nilsen, es­ championship and went on to compete In SCIAC dual-meet competition, tablished new records in both the 400- with other top-ten teams for rhe Tech finished with 2 wins and 4 losses , m relay (59.5 seconds) and the 1600-m national tide in May. The 1988 Cal tech baseball team easily defeating both Whittier College relay (4:42.87). Jentoft-Nilsen provided finished its campaign in fine fashion, and the University of La Verne. The a strong anchor leg to both evenrs. winning a season-ending doubleheader team managed to garner a tie for fifth During the annual track and field and raising its overall record to 8-23. place in the final conference standings, awards banquet, team co-captains The eight wins are highly significant while Occidental won the championship. Warner and Jentoft-Nilsen received the because they represent the largest Team captain John Gehring was major awards. Jentoft-Nilson was reci­ number of baseball victories recorded by voted the team's highesr honor, the pient of the most valuable runner tro­ Women's tennis any Cal tech baseball team since 1963. Goldsworthy Award. This trophy is phy. In addition to her strong contribu­ This ye-ar's team also posted the first presented for spirit, leadership, and tion to the relay teams, she ran competi­ showing strong SCIAC Conference victory since 1983, proficiency, and this season marks the tive times in both the 1500-m (5.29.2) defeating Whittier 6-5 on April 16. second time that Gehring has been its and the 800 m (2 .30.22). At the The women's tennis ream returned Leading this year's team was righr­ recipient during his career. SCIAC finals she barely missed all­ this year, virtually intact. Two new handed pitcher Brian Colder, a junior. Additional awards presented at the conference recognition with a seventh­ faces brought the roster to eighr full­ Colder posted a 7-8 record on the annual track banquet were: the M. T. place finish as she chopped more than 5 rime players. Jane Seto, a rransfer from mound and batted a team high - 292. 13

For these accomplishments, he was 1934 given the 1988 Alumni Award as the W. LAVERN HOWLAND, MS '35, MS '36, team's most valuable player and was PhD '39, On March 7, in Burbank, California. recognized at the conference level with Commencement A retired aeronautical engineer, he had been head of Right-test operations at Lockheed. He was an all-league honorable mention. OBITUARIES nationally recognized for his contributions to air­ A second player who received honor­ Continued from page 1 craft research and development. He had been able mention at the conference level was actively involved with the Grandview Pres­ Page House senior Michael Keating, a science and technology than ever before. byterian Church, Juniot Achievement, the PTA, shortstop. Keating batted .267 and and rhe Lockheed Starbusrers. He enjoyed play­ "While today marks the commence­ broke the all-time Caltech single season 1916 ing golf, and was a member of the Laguna (21) and career (55) stolen-base record. ment of the rest of your life," he told ROBERT N. ALLEN, of Hollywood, California, Beach Golf Club. Dr. Howland is survived by Other award recipients were freshman them, "that life will necessarily involve on January 31. his son, Gregory; daughter, Kathleen Field; sis­ Ken Campman and senior Kenny Lin. conrinuing learning, so you can be a ter. Merriam Banbury; and cwo grandchildren. 1923 Campman, another right-handed dynamic part of this ever changing WILLARD E. BAIER, of Oneario, California, on world. 1938 pitcher, received the Peterson Trophy as February 16. He was manager of the research "As you have discovered, Caltech is a RALPH D. BAKER, PhD, of Salt Lake City, the outstanding freshman for his efforts department of Sunkist Growers until his retire­ remarkable enclave. It is small and Urah, on December I, 1987. He began his as the team's number fWO pitcher. Lin, mene in 1967. A Life Member of rhe Alumni self-contained and marches to a differenr career as an instructor in the Mechanical a second baseman, received the Coaches' Association, he was also past president of the Los Engineering Department at the Univetsity of Award for his outstanding dedication drummer than much of the world Angeles and San Gorgonio (San Bernardino Kansas. After earning his PhD, he began teach­ and hard work over the past four years. around us. Part of your success will Couney) chapters of the American Chemical ing mechanical and aeronautical engineering at depend on how you adapt to the set­ Society. He was Man of the Year for the South­ Claremont won the SCIAC Confer­ the University of Utah, a position he held for tings you choose after leaving here - ern California seccion of the Institute of Food ence title this year with a 16-2 record, over 30 years. While at the University of Utah, how well you work with the people who Technologists; an honorary board member of followed by Whittier (13-5), Redlands he was a member of the Scholarship Committee become your colleagues, and how you ~Mcals for Millions~j past master of Masonic (ll-7), La Verne (l0-8), Occidental and the Faculty Council; was head of rhe Lodge No. 301 in Ontario; and author of many (9-9), Pomona-Pitzer (3-15), and Cal­ apply yourselves to the tasks you under­ Mechanical Engineering Department for 7 years; technical publications. He is survived by his take. " and was the first chairman of a new regional tech (1-17) wife, Anita; son, Rodger; daughter, Dorotha Everhart reminded the group that, 10 organization of mechanical engineering schools to Even though this year's team was Ediger; six grandchildren; and three great­ 1869, Charles William Eliot, the correlate curriculum for those schools. For over tremendously successful by Caltech stan­ grandchildren. dards, bereer things are expected next president of Harvard University, said 40 years, he served as a volunteer for the Boy SCOUtS of America, receiving many awards. He year. With a solid nucleus of 13 that to observe keenly, to reason 1924 is survived by his daughter, Mary Ann Kleinert; returning players, including six starters soundly, and to imagine vividly are as DAVID WOLOCHOW, of Vancouver, BC, son, 1. Ralph; daughter-in-law, Mary Ann; four essential as clear and forceful expression, Canada, on January 8, of a heart attack. He and a live-man pitching stalf, the 1989 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Caltech baseball team looks like a and that to develop one of these facul­ was director of the Specifications and Standards strong candidate to become the first to ties, it is not necessary to repress or Branch of the Department of Defense Production post a double-digit win toral in the past dwarf the others. and secretary of the Canadian Government JACK F. DOUGHERTY, MS '39, of Housron, Specifications Board, uncil his retirement in Texas, on July 1, 1987. He was presidene of 30 years. If it does, it can thank the "We hope we have helped you learn 1969. A Life Member of the Alumni Associa­ JFD, Inc., engaged in setring up and managing 1988 team for the renewed confidence to observe keenly, to reason soundly, and to imagine vividly," Everhart said. rion, he was also an appointed member of the joint ventures in oil and gas exploration and and enthusiasm that helped to make City of Vicroria, BC, Advisoty Planning Com­ "I know that at least some of you are developmenr. After obraining his MS in Geol­ this possible. mission, and elected an Honorary Alumnus of ogy at Cal tech in 1939, he worked for the capable of clear and forceful expression. the Israel Insritllte of Technology. Federal Power Commission in Washington. He These skills, even more than the formu­ next rook a position with the Phillips Petroleum las you have learned, will stand you in 1926 Company in Amaril1o. He then went inco key good stead as life progresses." MARK SERRURIER, of Pasadena, California, positions in a succession of firms located in Dal­ Letting the graduates know that they on Febmary 14. A member of The Associates, las and New York where he evaluated petroleum would be missed, Everhart remarked, he received a Distinguished Alumni Award in and natural gas properties. As consultant and "This is a bittersweet time for those of 1981. He worked on the design of the 200-inch head of his own company, he was intimately us who remain to carry on the work of telescope at Mt. Palomar and assisted with the associated with aJl aspects of the petroleum busi­ the Institute. As you go forth from development and modernization of the ~ Moviola" ness upstream of refining and petrochemicals, Caltech, you take a part of us with you. (used for film editing), for which he received an with effect on development in the U.S., Canada, Oscar. He is survived by his wife, Naomi, and and Ecuador. He is survived by his wife, Ruth; Unlike energy and momentum, which four children. and six children. ate conserved, ideas and knowledge are not. We can learn ideas and values and 1927 1940 knowledge from each other, and their FREDERICK G. THEARLE, of San Pedro, Cal­ ROBERT P. ADAMS, of Claremont, California, influence expands. ifornia. He was a Life Member of the Alumni on April 26, of cancer. He was a Life Member "As we do so, one individual can Association. of the Alumni Association. He is survived by Golfers improve become part of another, not in body but his wife, Kathleen; twO sons; a granddaughter; in spirit. You have gained experience 1929 his mother; his sister; and his brother-in-law, here from mentors and colleagues. Part GEORGE F. WEISMANN, of La Mesa, Cali­ William R. Cleveland, Jr. Although the varsity golf team met of us has become part of you. fornia, on April 17. After serving as a lieutenant with very little success, the team­ "Like home and previous schools, c:ommander in the Navy during World War II, STANLEY N. HEAPS, of Housron, Texas, on CO April 16, 1987. He is survived by his wife. dominated by underclassmen-showed Caltech has become part of yOut roOts.' he went on become a sales manager for Mobil improvement from match to match. Oil Corporation. He is survived by his sons, 1941 Dong-Su Kim, a freshman, was the James and George; stepsons, Michael and Roger; and two grandchildren. WALTER E. FELLERS, MS, of Los Angeles, number one player for the entire season, California, on April 13. In 1976, he was elected and was awarded the Most Valuable 1932 a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics Player trophy for his consistent perfor­ JOSEPH SHEFFET, MS '33, of Indian Wells, and Astronautics. He was also a Life Member of mance. California, on December 23, 1987. He was the Alumni Association. He is survived by his Captain-elect Yogi Krikorian was president of Joseph Sheffer, Inc., and Area wife, Ruth; two sons; and five grandchildren. often close behind in scoring, and shows Copies of Volunteer for the Desert for the Caltech Alumni promise of moving up il). the rankings Fund. FRANK H. SKALECKY, of La Mesa, Califor­ next season. Rounding out the top four nia, on March 18, of lung cancer. He is sur­ were freshman Kyung Lee and sopho­ annual report WILLIAM]. THOMAS, 'Of Los Angeles, Cali­ vived by his wife, June; three sons, Alfred, more James Ibbetson. The highlight of fornia, on Ocrober 30, 1987. He was a Life Frank, and John; and four grandchildren. Member of the Alumni Association. He is sur­ the season was a narrow loss to the available vived by his wife, Lucile. 1944 Whittier varsity team in early April. DONALD W. PENDERY, of New Canaan, Redlands University conrinued its Copies of the 1986-87 Annual 1933 Connecricut, on October 19, 1987. He was a domination of the SCIAC golf competi­ Report are now available to all alumni HARALD OMSTED, MS, of Pasadena, Califor­ retired vice president of the Xerox Corporation. tion, followed by La Verne, Claremonr­ on request through the Publications nia, on January 31. A Life Member of the He is survived by his wife, Joyce; sons, David

Mudd-Scripps, Pomona-Pitzer, Occiden­ Office, Caltech 1-71, Pasadena, Califor­ Alumni Association, he is survived by his wife, and Steven; grandson, Alexander; motherl Hilda; tal, Whittier, and Caltech. nia, 91125. Charlotte. brother, John; and sister, Mary. • '" ._.~ ~,-,.-. - ~ •• •• ~, ."'-- ,,', ~ " .,.... - 1 ~ •

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and worked in private practice for 14 years in 1942 rhe Institute for the Advancement of Engineering. Highland Park. Illinois. A Life Member of the MYRON POLLYCOVE is direcror of the Stookey, an engineer and ciry planner, is co­ Alumni Association, he is survived by his wife, department of nuclear medicine, San Francisco founder and chairman of Willdan Associates in Obituaries Marilyn; his mother, Maysie; and a sister. General Hospital. He also holds a faculry poSt Anaheim, California. He was recognized for his at UC San Francisco, as professor of laboratory ability to •c onsummate difficult engineering pro­ 1967 medicine and radiology in the School of Medi­ grams in the political1y sensitive municipal Continued from page 13 WILLIAM G. HAMMER, of Spokane. Wash­ cine. He is now serving as president of the arena. ington, On March 2 l . American College of N udear Physicians and director of the American Board of Nuclear Medi­ 1947 1946 1979 cine. KURT MISLOW, PhD, has received a number JEROLD R. IRELAND. of Agoura. California. RICHARD C. PARKER, PhD, of Los Angeles. of awards during the last three years, among He was a Life Member of the Alumni Associa­ of cancer about a year and a half ago. Accord­ CARL H. SAVIT, MS '43, was named by the them: the Prelog Medal of the E.T.H. (Zurich) tion. ing to Jeffrey Mayne (PhD. '84), "He had been Houscon Intellectual Property L1W Association as in 1986. the William H. Nichols Medal of the 6ghting it since very shortly after he left Caltech. the recipient of its L98 8 Oucstanding Inventor American Chemical Sociery's New York Section 1947 first as a postdoctoral fellow at UCSF, and later Award. Savit. who holds over 40 U.S. patenrs. in 1987. and the Sciencific Achievement Award JOHN PE'ITLEY. MS. of Buellton. California. as a faculry member at Columbia. - Columbia was recognized for his inventions relating to Medal of the CCNY Alumni Association in has set up the Richard C. Parker Memotial Fund improved methods for obtaining and processing 1988. 1948 since his death. seismic data, inventions that have had a ROBERT P. BARRACLOUGH. of Costa Mesa. significanc impact on the offshore oil and gas 1948 California. in November 1987. exploracion industry. Savit recendy recired as a GEORGE J. GLEGHORN. JR .• MS, PhD '55. Trustee senior vice president of technology at Western vice president and direccor, product integrity, of JAMES E. OLSON, Trustee, of Shorr Hills. 1949 Atlas Internacional. Inc. (formerly Western Geo­ TRW's Space and Technology Group. received a New Jersey. of cancer. Chairman and chief ex­ ROBERT T. MOORE. JR .• Eng. of Woodland. physical Company). where he had worked for Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award from ecutive offi cer of AT&T, Mr. Olson played a California. almost 40 years. In 1970-71. Savit served on the the University of Colorado's College of Engineer­ key leadership role in the redesign of AT&T fol­ Whire House staff, assisting the Presideru's sci­ ing and Applied Science. Boulder. Gleghorn was lowing divestiture, especially in the aggressive 1950 ence advisot in the areas of earth, sea, and air recognized for his role in some of rhe nation's moves to exrend the company's business intema~ ROBERT V. MacALLISTER. PhD. of Clinton. sciences. most notable space accomplishments during rhe tionally and in rhe restrucNring of its manufac­ Iowa. He is survived by his wife. past three decades. turing organization. Me. Olson was a graduate 1943 of the Universiry of North Dakota and the 1951 LEON BLITZER. PhD, has retired as professor DONALD E. LOVELACE, of Carson Ciry, Universiry of Pennsylvania's lnscituce of KENDRICK RADEY. MS. Eng '62, of Crest­ emeritus of physics, at the University of Arizona, Nevada, has retired into a life of music. He Humanistic Studies. H e was a member of the line, California, on May 6. He and his wife Tucson. plays trumpet with his local community band. board of directors of the Chase Manhattan Cor­ were killed in an auto accident. which went on a two-week concert tour in poration, Caterpillar, Inc., the Warner~Lambert PETER DEHLlNGER, MS. PhD '50. became eastern Australia this summer. Among cheir gigs Co., the Mobil Corporation. as well as of the 1954 professor emeritus ar the University of Connecti­ was a concert at Expo '88. Council for Aid to Education Inc.; the National JAMES L. McGREGOR. PhD, of Los Altos CUt . as of J anuary 1987. During his 18- 1/ 2 Legal Center for the Public Interest, and the Hills, California, on J anuary 3. Professor emer­ years there. he served as professor of geophysics 1950 Business Committee for the Arts. H e was chair­ irus of marhemacics at Stanford University, he and, for eight of those years. as director of the CAREL O'ITE. JR .• MS. PhD '54, has been man of the U.S.-Japan Council and of the contributed moSt nocably in the areas of applied university'S Marine Sciences Institute. selected as a member of rhe N adona! Academy United Way Tri-Scare, and was a trustee of the srochascic processes, metric analysis, and moment of Engineering. A resident of La Canada­ American Entetprise Institute, and the Conference theory. He also pursued research over a wide 1944 Flintridge, California, he is presidenr of the Board. He was also a member of the Business spectrum of basic mathematical models in evolu­ JOSEPH B. (BEN) EARL. a resident of Arcadia, geothermal division of UNOCAL. Otre has Roundtable, the Business Council, and the Busi­ tionary theory. Collaborating with Stanfotd California. was honored dus spring by the Amer­ served as chairman of the U.S. Department of ness Higher Education Forum of the American marhematician Paul Berg, Dr. McGregor wrOte ican Cancer Society. N ortheast Los Angeles Energy Advisory Committee on Geothermal Council on Education. He was deeply concerned rhe inrroducrory text Elementary Partial Counry Unit. Earl. president of O.K. Earl Cor­ Energy and was a Distinguished Lecturer for the about the qualiry of American education, espe­ Differential Equation;. Following his retirement poration (a Pasadena-based architectural. Society of Petroleum Engineers in 1980. Reci­ cially its availability to minorities. He is sur­ in 1986, he became inrerested in compurers and engineering. building, and realry firm), was pient of Caltech's Distinguished Alumni Award vived by his wife, Jean; son, James; daughter, devoted much time to investigarions of combina­ praised for his leadership and suppOrt in the 6ght in 1984. Otte is a member of the Associates and Mrs. Bruce Paterson; a brorher; and cwo sisters. rorial problems. H e was also an avid fisherman against cancer. A former president of the a former president of the Caltech Alumni Associ­ and led groups of his colleagues on salmon Sociery's local unit, Earl is a longtime volunteer ation. 6shing excursions. In addition to his work at of the organization and now serves as chairman Stanford, Dr. McGregor was a noted area horti­ of the major gifts committee. His firm helped 1952 culturist who produced vigorous hybrid stock. the Society procute new office space in 1987. WILLIAM L. WISE, an elecrrical engineer in Ar one time he was an officer of the Bay Area Mountain View, California, has developed a way Camellia Sociery. He is survived by his wife. 1946 to make robot arms ·smarter." Wise has submit­ Alice; son, James; daughrer, Elaine Rhodes; and MIKE FOSSIER. MS. ENG '47. technical vice ted patent applications in Europe, the U.S., and cwo brothers, John and William. PERSONALS president of Raytheon Company of Lexington, Asia for a technique that would regulate feed­ Massachusetrs, was selected this year as a Fellow back in dosed-loop circuirs. -With this tech­ 1958 1927 by the Ametican Institute of Aeronautics and nique: Wise told the San Jose Business Journal. JOHN D. EBERHARDT. of San Diego. Cali­ RUSSELL E. THOMPSON. of Alhambra. Cali­ Astronautics. Fossier was recognized for his con­ -a robot arm could pick up a boulder and then a fornia. A Life Member of the Alumni Associa­ fornia. celebrated his 60th wedding anniversary tributions to the development of radar-guided feather, and do both with the same precise per­ tion, he is survived by his wife. on March 31. homing-missile technology. Since joining formance. ~ Raytheon in 1950. he has been a pioneer in the 1960 1937 fields of missile design and guidance technologies. 1953 GERALD R. JANTSCHER. of Bethesda, Mary­ MARTIN H . WEBSTER, of Los Angeles. has His work was incorporared in the Hawk and DAYlD JOHNSTON is living in Zhouxian. in land, on October 17. 1987, of cancer. In 1966, been elected to serve a second two-year term as Sparrow missile programs - the leading radar­ the People's Republic of China, working as a he moved to the WashingtOn, D.C., area and chairman of the board of advisors of the UCLA guided missiles for the U.S. and its allies since tesearch geophysicist on contract with China's joined the Office of Tax Analysis at the Treasury Medical Center. He is also active in the Caltech 1960. Petroleum Bureau. Department. From 1967 to 1977. he was a Alumni Literary Group, an organization Webster research associate at the Brookings Institucion. co-founded 35 years ago. EBERHARDT RECHTIN. PhD '50. retired as RONALD L. RICHMOND. MS. PhD' 57. has Since 1977, he had been a rax policy analyst president of the Aerospace Corporation in retired as chief engineer. advanced engineering, at with the General Accounting Office. Dr. 1939 December of 1987. H e is now on the faculry of Ford Aerospace in Newport Beach, California, Janrscher wrote several books. including Bread LLOYD R. ZUMWALT. PhD, is professor the University of Southern California, where he where he had worked for 28 years. H e is now a Upon Ih, Water!, published by the Brookings emeritus of nuclear engineering at North Carolina has established the nation's first academic pro­ part-time adjunct faculry member at the Univer­ Institution. He is survived by his wife, Milka; State Universiry. Raleigh. grams for systems architecture and related fields. sity of California, Irvine, teaching aeronautical and his stepmother, Maurine. -The Space Station, the Strategic Defense Initia­ design. 1941 tive (,Star Wats). and the Worldwide Military 1965 REUBEN P. SNODGRASS. MS '42, retired in Command and Control System are a few exam­ 1954 JOHN J . TURECHEK, of Glendale. California. 1987 after 20 years with Grumman Aerospace. ples of systems of such vast complexity that their WILLIAM E. DIBBLE. PhD '60, prOfessor of on March 4. A Life Member of the Alumni flight-test department. His last posicion there conception is not so much a matter of traditional physics at BYU. has won an Alcuin Fellowship. Association, he is survived by his morher. was as operations manager - automated engineering as it is architecture, ~ Rechtin said in Awarded by the university to recognize outsrand­ telemetry sysrem, a real-time computerized a recem interview published in the Los Angeles ing contributions to general education and 1966 flight-test facility . Last wincer, Snodgrass [rav­ Times. honors, rhe fellowship provides research, rurriru­ DAVID A. BRUECKNER. MS, of Highland eled to Leningrad, USSR. to compete in the lum, and professional development support for Park. Illinois. on March 2 1. After receiving his world championships of ON iceboars. He and WILLIAM C. STOOKEY, of Fullerton. Califor­ thtee years. medical degree from Washingron University in his wife, Virginia, live in Lake Ronkonkoma, nia, received an Outstanding Engineering Merit St. Louis, he went on 1:0 become a psychiatrist, Long Island, New York. award this spring, onc of three awards given by 15

ROLAND S. MILLER, MS '55, has returned ASIC assembly guality and reliability engineer­ pient of the American Chemical Society Award WILLIAM D . JONES II, PhD, professor of from the Far East (where he had lived for 17- ing. His children are following in his science­ in Inorganic Chemistry. W righton was recog­ chemistry at the University of Rochester, has 1/ 2 years) co cake a job in Sacramento as projeCt sized footsteps: Spencer is srudying computer nized for his conrributions to developing new been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for rhe ditector of the mulri-billion dollar California science engineering at Arizona State while catalysts, new electronic devices, and new 1988-89 year. Jones will conduct research on prison construction program. daughter Cathy, a senior in high school, is con­ approaches to converting solar energy to useful the photOchemical behavior of organometallic sidering a coUege major in genetia or premed, forms of energy such as electricity and chemical complexes. His project involves the study of 1956 perhaps at Calrech Or UC Davis. energy. He holds nine patents and is the author reactive compounds thac may convert oil prod­ ALAN M. POISNER is returning home to Kan­ or coauthor of over 200 publications. In 1983, UCtS inco other useful substances. sas City chis summer after a sabbatical year in 1964 he was awarded a MacArthur Prize fellowship. Norch Carolina at the National Institute for MARK LEVINSON, PhD, professor of mechan­ PETER G. SCHUL1Z, PhD '84, associate pro­ Environmental Research in Research Triangle ical engineering and director of the technology 1973 fessor of chemistty at UC Berkeley, has won the Park and at Duke University. His next trip is and society project at rhe University of Maine (on JAMES E. CRAIG, MS, PhD '77, works for National Science Foundation's prestigious Alan an 18-day tour to Japan and the Orient. leave 1987-89) has beeo awarded an NSF His­ Spectron in EI Toro, California. As part of a T . Warerman Award. Schultz will receive a toty and Philosophy of Science Senior Fellowship team involved with the Lidar in Space Technol­ medal and NSF grants of up to $500,000 to 1957 for 1989. The fellowship is intended to enable ogy Experimenr for NASA Langley, he will par­ fund research and advanced studies over the next RAY H. WHITE, of San Diego, California, him to continue his historical research in airfoil ticipate in the design, fabrication, and integration three years. His research interests ceorer on the teaches physics and computer science at the theory, design, and selection in the United Scates of a space-qualified laser for a Space Shuttle interface of chemistry and biology. NSF, in University of San Diego. In his free time, he and Germany during the period 1880-1922. He Right in the 1990s. making the award , singled OUt his work in the bicycles - his last major tour took him up the will be a research associate in the department of investigation of catalytic antibodies as especially coast co San Francisco. His son Ken works at histoty at the University of Washington while GERALD A. NAVRATIL has been named importane. JPL; daughter KAREN ('85) is a graduate stu­ holding the fellowship. chairman of the department of applied physics dent at Columbia, studying mathematics; and his and nuclear engineering at Columbia University. 1980 youngest son , Percr, is a student at UC Berkeley, 1965 Navratil and his wife, Joan Etzweiler, live in KENNETH H. BRITTEN received his PhD in majoring in physics. ROGER L. HOOKE, PhD, is on sabbatical this Manhasset, New York, with their three neurobiology from SUNY, Stony Brook, in year and pJans an extensive cravel program: to daughters, Frances, Alexis, and Paula. 1987. 1958 Norway, Sweden, Hawaii, AustraJia, and New TRACY L. ATHERTON, JR., MS '60, is the Zealand, and (most important, he writes) ro JONATHAN V. POST is living with his wife in S. SHEVAUN (GILLEY) DUIKER and hus­ president of Alcatel Business Systems in Milpitas, Maine, Pasadena, California. band, HENDRIK M. (MATT) (,84), are California. ABS is a group of business commu­ parenrs of daughter Brenna, born January 20, nications and data systems companies in the U.S. GIULIO V. VENEZIAN, PhD, is an associate 1974 1988. Shevaun is in her second year of a formed from a joint venture between lIT and professor of physirs at the College of Charleston, JAMES M. STANA, MS, is a staff engineer and family-practice residency in Denver. Marr is CGE in France. South Carolina, where he teaches the engineering task leader for the Marrin Marietra LANTIRN working on his PhD in theoretical physics at the courses. He is also the state coordinator for program, in Orlando, Florida. University of Colorado. RICHARD W. FIDDLER, of Seattle, Washing­ JETS, and the engineering advisor for the ron, has been elected to a third three-year term engineering transfer oprion ar the college. 1975 1981 as direcror of the Sierra Club, the narional ANN ELIZABETH CLEMMENS and husband, JOSEPH E. SHEPHERD, PhD, became an environmental organization. 1966 Gaty Ferland, have moved ro Ohio State in assisrant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Insri­ RONALD L. CONSTABLE has left his post at Columbus. Previously. mey were at the Univer­ tute in 1986. GEORGE D. LEAL, MS, chief executive ollicer Loclcheed (where he worked for 20 years) ro sity of Kentucky, where C1emmens earned her of Dames & Moore, Los Angeles, has been accept the position of manager of systems PhD in scarisrics (in 1986) and Ferland was an 1982 named a Fellow by the American Society of Civil integration at Northrop's Venrura division. He's astronomer. Their first child, Peter Andrew, was ANDREW W . MAVERICK, PhD, has raken a Engineers. During his 29 years with Dames & building a house in Camarillo, California. born April 2, 1987. new position as assistant professor of chemistry at Moorc, engineering and environmental consul­ Louisiana State University, in Bacon Rouge. tanrs, Leal has directed a number of georechnical 1969 KATHRYN D. CROSSLAND has begun an and environmemal projects. RICHARD R. BURKE, MS, is manager of elec­ oncology fellowship at the University of Wash­ 1983 tronic communications for the Summer Instituce ington, in Seatde, after finishing an internal RI-CHEE CHOU completed a PhD degree in WILLIAM G. WAGNER, PhD '62, has served, of" Linguistics, a nonprofit corporation dedicated medicine residency there. Her son, Noah, was electrical engineering (in electromagnetics) last since 1987, as the dean ofInterdisciplinaty Pro­ to seeing the wodd's unwritten languages (about born on April 30, 1987. August and has been an assistant professor of grams and Developmenral Acriviries ar the 3,000) transcribed, the speakers of the languages electrical engineering at Ohio State University University of Southern California, where he has (approximately 300 million) taughr to rC'dd their WILLIAM J. SHARMAN and wife, Aly, had since September, 1987. been professor of physia and electrical engineer­ mother tongues, and then the translation of the their firsr child, Morgan, in March 1987. They ing since 1969. He currently is an advisor for Bible inro each of these languages. live in Tucson, where Sharman works for J. NICHOLAS GROSS has recently graduated NSF, in the area of emerging engineering Hughes. from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. After a technologies. Wagner writes that he and his wife 1970 summer vacation in Mainc, he will begin work­ are proud parenrs of four children, ages 19, 17, ERIC B. JENSEN was married to Deborah 1976 ing as an associate specializing in intellectual 16, and 14. Feder in January 1987, at the Caltech Alumni JAN L. HILLSON, MS, is a fellow in rheuma­ property with rhe law firm of Spensley, Horn, House. In November, he left The Aerospace tology and biochemistry at the University of Jubas & Lubir< in Centuty City, California. 1959 Corporation to join the Hughes Aircraft Com­ Washington, in Seattle. She is married to AKIRA KOBAYASHI, MS, professor in the pany as a senior scientist in the advanced pro~ David R. Haynor, and rhey have rwo sons: Sam ROBERT KANNE, MS, a physics teacher in Institute of Interdisciplinary Research at rhe grams organization, space and strategic systems (2 years) and Ben (4 months). Yorba Linda, California, married Diane Dillon University of Tokyo, has been appointed profes­ division, electro-optical and data systems group. November 28 at the chapel in Yosemite Valley. sor in the department of materials science, faculty HUGO E. HUEY has returned to Varian Asso­ of engineering. Since 1986, he has served as a LAHMER LYNDS, PhD, of Glastonbuty, Con­ ciates , Palo Alto, California, to lead the gyratron BJORN E. MATTHIAS is finishing his work at narional delegate of Japan for the international necticut, was among the 14 United Technologies development group for electron cyclotron heating LAMPF for a PhD in physics from Yale. He commirree on aeronamical fatigue. He is also Research Cenrer scienrisrs and engineers cited by of fusion plasmas. and wife, Susanne, are expecting their first child. chairman of the Japanese organizing commirree the Research Cenrer for their achievemencs in for the fourth Japan-U.S. Conference on Compo­ 1987. Lynds andrwo other colleagues were the CLIFFORD LEONG married Lani Haeyung 1985 site Materials, held in Washington, D.C. in June first to demonstrate how to make superconduct­ Chu On April 2. Since graduation, Leong has BRIAN H . DAVISON, PhD, who is with the 1988; and general vice chairman of the seventh ing thin films using the laser ablation deposition completed an MS in mechanical engineering at Oak Ridge National Lab in Knoxville, has been International Conference on Composite Materials, technique with near-infrared laser radiation. the University of Michigan and an MBA at rhe appoinred adjuncr professot of chemical engineer­ to be held in Beijing, People's Republic of University of Hawaii. Leong lives in San Diego, ing at the University of Tennessee. China, in 1989. He is director for both the MICHAEL R. SPERRY has moved back to where he is an engineering supervisor for General Japan Society for Aeronaurical and Space Sciences Colorado, and is working as a senior engineer at Dynamics' Convair Division. Wife Lani is a BRUCE C. FAUST, PhD, joined rhe faculty of and the J apan Society for Composite Materials. NBI in Boulder. senior programming analyse for The Compucare Duke University in November of 1987, as a Co. research assistant professor of environmental 1960 1971 chemistry. JAMES L. FARMER, recently promoted to pro­ DAVID P. HILL, PhD, is taking a leave from 1977 fessor of zoology at BYU, was awarded an his post as research scientist ar the U.S. Geologi­ THOMAS D. SNYDER received the highest ANIRVAN GHOSH is a graduate student in Alcuin Fellowship by the university in recognirion cal Survey in Menlo Park, California, to spend score on the Illinois CPA exam, and is now the Stanford neurosciences program, working on of his outstanding contributions to general educa­ six months at E.T.H. in Zurich, Switzerland, working in the cax department of Arthur Ander­ the development of the visual system. He and tion and honors. The award will provide fund­ where he will teach a graduate seminar in son & Co. in Chicago. LEEANNA MORELAND ('86) were married in ing, over the next three years, for research, curri­ seismology. Palo Alto on October 17, 1987. LeeAnna works culum, and professional development. 1979 at Lockheed Missiles and Space Co., and is 1972 PHILIP G. CORMIER has been transferred ro srudying for her master's in mechanical engineer­ 1963 MARK S. WRIGHTON, PhD, the Frederick Offut Air Force Base, in Omaha, Nebraska, ing at Scanford. RICHARD C. BLISH II, MS '64, PhD '67, of G . Keys Professor of Chemistry and head of the where he works on computer simulations and Saratoga, California, is with Intel, as manager of chemistry department ar MIT, is the 1988 reci- modeling. California Institute of Technology Caitech

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