1931
CAPTAIN PERRY M. BOOTHE, MS '32, has
been stationed for the past three years in the Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks
in Washington, D.C. He has now
been appointed director of the Bureau's European‑Mid East Division and is
in charge of maintenance and construction at Navy installations throughout the
European and Mediterranean areas.
The Boothes have a son, Thomas, 13,
in high school in London, and a daughter, Lorraine, who graduated from Western
Washington College in Bellingham last June. She now plans to get an MS from the Royal Academy of Dramatic
Arts in London. Allen, their
oldest son, is married and has a son, 2.
Allen is a lieutenant in the Civil Engineer Corps, U.S.N., and is
assistant resident officer‑in-charge of construction for a NASA project
at Seal Beach, Calif.
GEORGE LANGSNER, assistant state
highway engineer in administration for the State of California in Sacramento,
has been promoted to deputy state highway engineer. He has been with the
Division of Highways since 1931.
1933
JOHN R. PIERCE, MS '34, PhD '36,
executive director of research in the communications principles and
communications systems divisions of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, is co‑recipient
of the Arnold Air Society's General Hoyt S. Vandenberg Award for 1963. This is the first time the award has
been given. Pierce was cited for
his "contributions to space age research and development in the field of
communications" Ð including Telstar.
1934
WILLIAM BOLLAY, MS, PhD '36,
construction engineer and founder of the Aerophysics Development Corporation in
Santa Barbara, is back in Santa Barbara after a year as visiting professor of
astronautics at MIT. Under his
guidance, 60 graduate students carried out the preliminary design of a new
equatorial weather satellite system.
Because of the novel features of the system, the U.S. Weather Bureau
requested Bill and five of his students to make a special presentation of the
idea to the chief of the Weather Bureau and the weather satellite leaders of
NASA, in July.
1941
ROBERT E. RUNDLE, PhD, professor of
chemistry at Iowa State University, died on October 9 at Iowa Methodist
Hospital in Des Moines, after suffering a stroke.
He had been at Iowa State since 1941
and was a senior chemist in the Atomic Energy Commission's Ames
Laboratory. He was known for his
work on the structure of starches, uranium, and other heavy elements.
CAPTAIN DONALD C. CAMPBELL, USN, is
the new commanding officer and director of the US Naval Radiological Defense
Laboratory in San Francisco. He
has been in the Navy since 1941, and was director of the Laboratory Management
Division of the Bureau of Ships prior to the new appointment. The Campbells have four children:
Laure, 17; Bruce, 14; John, 6 1/2; and Wayne, 4.
EBERHARDT RECHTIN, PhD '50,
assistant director of the Deep Space Instrumentation facility at JPL, was co‑recipient
of a $5,000 NASA award last summer for his work in space communications
systems. Walter K. Victor, chief
of the JPL Telecommunications Division, shared the award with Rechtin for a
series of electronic devices which has revolutionized the field of deep space
communications. Starting in 1953,
when JPL was working on the Corporal and Sergeant missiles for the U.S. Army,
the two men developed a radio guidance system that was immune to enemy
interference.
1947
COL. CHARLES M. DUKE, MS, chief of
supply and logistics for the Army's First Corps Group in Korea, has been named
District Engineer Commissioner in Washington, D.C., by President Kennedy. The Dukes have one son, Charles, 18,
who attends the Valley Forge Military Academy, and a daughter, Allyson, 13, in
high school.
1948
GEORGE L. HUMPHREY, MS, is now,
acting chairman of the department of chemistry at West Virginia University in,
Morgantown. The Humphreys have
three children: Denton, 13; Lynn, 9; and Alita, 7.
KEITH W. HENDERSON, member of the
research laboratory of Lockheed Missiles and Space Company in Palo Alto, is now
chapter president of the Peninsula Chapter of the California Society of
Professional Engineers. He has
served for the past four years successively as secretary, second vice,
president, and for two terms, first vice president.
1951
FREDERICK T. RALL, JR., MS, is at
MIT for a year, studying management on an Alfred P, Sloan Fellowship. He is
chief of the aerodynamics branch of the B‑70 engineering office of the
Aeronautical Systems Division of the Air Force Systems Command at Wright‑Patterson
Air Force Base in Ohio.
ARTHUR B. LEAK, MS, research project
supervisor of the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University, died
on May 24 at the National Institutes of Health Cancer Clinic. He was 34.
Leak had been an aeronautical
engineer and staff member of the laboratory at Silver Spring since 1957 and was
credited with several significant contributions to the dynamics analysis and
missile systems development effort for the Navy. His early research at the laboratory helped unravel some of
the problems of missile launching aerodynamics. His theoretical research and analysis pointed the way to more
effective use of warheads destined for a submarine air defense.
Leak was working toward his PhD at
the University of Maryland when he became ill. He is survived by his wife.
GEORGE C. DACEY, PhD, has been named
executive director of the telephone and power division of Bell Telephone
Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J. He
has been on leave from the Laboratories since 1961 to serve as vice president
of research at the Sandia Corporation.
The Daceys have three children Ð Donna, John, and Sarah.
1952
MARTIN GOLDSMITH, MS, PhD '55,
currently on loan to the Air Force's Project Forecast, has been appointed staff
engineer in the engineering division of Aerospace Corporation's El Segundo
technical operations. He has been
with the corporation since 1961.
Before joining Aerospace, he spent six years as a specialist in
propulsion applications in the RAND Corporation's aeroastronautics
department. Prior to this, he was
associated with JPL. The
Goldsmiths and their son live in Malibu.
1954
HOWARD L. CROSWHITE is now section
supervisor for the engineering and research staff of the Ford Motor Company's
transmission and chassis division in Dearborn, Mich. He has been with the company since 1954. The Croswhites have
two children, Linda, 7 and Steven, 4.
1962
JOHN E. FISCHER, MS, graduate
student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was married to Linda Mammano on
June 15 in Beacon, N.Y.