1921
CLIFFORD C. POTTS died on September
23 in Los Angeles, after a long illness.
He had been with the Westinghouse Electric Corp. since 1923 and, at the
time of his retirement in 1962, was a special representative for their electric
utility department. He is survived
by his wife, Betty, his daughter, Mrs. Thomas McMahon, and two granddaughters.
1925
KENNETH W. RANNEY died on July 4 in
Garden Grove, Calif., where he made his home. Retired chief executive of CalCompack Foods, Inc., of Santa
Ann, Ranney was a pioneer in the Orange County food processing industry. He is survived by his wife, Marjorie;
two sons, Gilbert and David; a daughter, Sylvia, and one granddaughter.
1931
GEORGE LANGSNER, California deputy
state highway engineer, has been reelected secretary‑treasurer of the
Western Association of State Highway Officials.
1933
ROBERT C. HOGAN is the new Western
regional manager of the Englander Company, Inc., in charge of sales offices in
San Francisco, Seattle, and Los Angeles, with headquarters in L.A.
1935
DAVID J. LEHMICKE has been named
research associate for fundamental problems in textiles and fibers research at
the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company's central research laboratories in
Akron, Ohio. Lehmicke, who has
been with Firestone since 1955, was serving as group leader in the textiles and
adhesives division of the laboratories.
1938
DAVID K. BEAVON has joined the Ralph
M. Parsons Co. in Los Angeles,
as director of process operations, petroleum‑chemical engineering.
1940
LEO BREWER, professor of chemistry
at the University of California at Berkeley, is director of the new Inorganic
Materials Research Laboratory of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at the
University of California at Berkeley, which was dedicated in July.
ROSS D. F. THOMPSON has been
promoted to professor of physics at California State College at Los
Angeles. He has been on the Cal
State faculty since 1959 and, before that, spent nine years in the physics
department at USC.
1942
HENRY W. MRNARD, JR., MS '47, writes
that he is on a year's leave of absence from the University of California at
San Diego and is a technical assistant with the Executive Office of the
President, Office of Science and Technology, in Washington, D.C.
1943
WILLIAM HOVANITZ, PhD, professor of
zoology at California State College at Los Angeles, is on sabbatical leave
doing research under the sponsorship of the Lepidoptera Research Foundation and
the National Science Foundation.
1944
WILLIAM E. LOCKWOOD, JR., has been
appointed manager of manufacturing for the eastern metal division of the
Continental Can Company in New York City.
1945
OTIS E. LANCASTER, AE, has been
elected vice president and member of the board of directors of the American
Society of Engineering Education.
He is George Westinghouse Professor of Engineering Education, at
Pennsylvania State University.
HARRIS M. SCHURMEIER, MS '48, AE
'49, former Ranger Project manager at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has
been appointed Voyager deputy project manager and Voyager capsule system
manager. The spacecraft is
scheduled for operational launch to Mars in 1971.
1946
MIKE W. FOSSIER, MS, AE '47, has
been elected vice president and division assistant general manager‑technical
of the Raytheon Company in Lexington, Mass. Fossier, who has been with Raytheon
since 1950, was chief engineer for the missile systems division.
1947
PAUL G. ATKINSON, JR., MS, colonel
in the U.S. Air Force, is deputy commander of the Aerospace Research
Laboratories at Wright‑Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Atkinson, a recipient of the
Distinguished Service Cross and the Legion of Merit, recently received the Air
Force Commendation Medal for outstanding achievement during his assignment as
propulsion division chief for research and development at USAF headquarters in
Washington, D.C.
1948
GLENN A. CHAFFEE has resigned as
pastor of the First Church of the Nazarene in San Francisco to study for his
PhD at Michigan State University.
CHARLES I. BROWNE, JR., MS, has been
named an assistant test division leader at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
in New Mexico. Browne has been
with the Laboratory since 1955.
1949
CLEMENT J. SAVANT, JR., MS '50, PhD
'53, will serve as director of Whittaker Corp.'s new advanced development department
in the controls and guidance division in North Hollywood.
1950
WILLIAM F. SAMPSON has been
appointed assistant general manager of a newly established Manned Orbiting
Laboratory systems engineering office for the Aerospace Corporation in El
Segundo. He was previously group
director of several military space programs in the satellite systems division.
JOHN R. JANNARONE, MS, was promoted
to the rank of brigadier general and appointed dean of the United States
Military Academy at West Point on June 1.
General Jannarone has been professor in the physics and chemistry
departments at West Point since 1957 and was head of both departments last
year.
EDWIN E. PYATT is at the University
of Florida in Gainesville as professor of sanitary engineering. He was formerly a senior research
engineer at the Travelers Research Center in Hartford, Conn.
1952
MELVIN A. PEDERSEN, MS, physicist
with the U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory in San Diego, was awarded $1200 by
the Bureau of Ships for research that led to the adaptation of computer
techniques to underwater sound propagation. The new method, it is estimated, will save the Navy $450,000
a year.
1954
SIDNEY B. BELLINGER, JR., MD.,
writes that he has completed a four‑year residency in general surgery at
the U.S. Naval Hospital in Oakland, Calif., and is enroute to the U.S. Naval
Hospital in Guam with his wife, Edie, and children, Mark (4), and Kristen, (2).
1956
WILLIAM K. PURVES, JR., associate
professor of botany at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has
received the Plous Memorial Award for substantial contributions to the
intellectual life of the college community. Purves has been at Santa Barbara for four years and holds a
National Science Foundation grant to conduct research on a plant growth
hormone.
1957
REUBEN B. MOULTON, Jr., and his
wife, Beverly, send news of the birth of their first child, Victoria Lynne, on
August 19. Rube is division
commercial supervisor for Pacific Telephone in Alhamhra.
T. NEIL DAVIS, MS, has been appointed
assistant director of the Geophysical Institute at the University of
Alaska. He will continue his
investigations of the upper atmosphere, using sounding rockets, which he began
while working for NASA.
1958
ROBERT E. TOKHEIM, MS '59. has
joined the electron devices division of Watkins‑Johnson Company in Palo
Alto. Before joining W‑J he
was a research assistant at the Stanford University Microwave Laboratory.
GORDON D. LANGE received his PhD
from The Rockefeller University in June.
1961
JOEL A. MICHAEL has received a
research fellowship from the Carnegie Institution and will spend a year at the
National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, England. He will investigate the processes its the brain involved in
vision. Michael has been working
on his PhD at MIT.
1962
RAYMOND P. LUTZ, PhD, was recently
appointed assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois. He went to Urbana from Harvard
University, where he had been on the faculty since 1961.
1963
DAVID WARREN HALL, PhD, has been
named advanced research chemist at the Marathon Oil Company's Denver Research
Center. Hall, who joined Marathon
in 1962, is the inventor of a new method for production of a raw material for
synthetic rubber.
1965
ROGER L. PETERSON, PhD, has joined
International Minerals & Chemical Corporation as a research chemist at the
company's research and development center near Skokie, Illinois.
GLENN GARY CLINARD has received the
1965 Honeywell award for significant work in undergraduate engineering and
science. He is doing graduate work
at Caltech in mechanical engineering.