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Burdell&Friends Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He served four years in the Air Force. John Joseph King, ME 62, of Jacksonville, Fla., on April 8. In 2003, Mr. King retired as director of production with the Jacksonville Electric Authority after 19 years. He began his career in the aerospace industry with Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, working on the RL10 Rocket and JT11 jet engine, and later worked for TRW in California on several space projects, including the lunar landing engines used in the July 1969 Apollo 11 mission. In 1973, he moved to Jacksonville and became involved in the electric power industry. Nick Winford Weathers, IM 67, of Atlanta, on June 29. Mr. Weathers was a business partner in Weathers Properties Ltd. and for the past 25 years was owner of the Track One Package Store in East Point, Ga. clude a son, Justin Porter, who is a student at Georgia Tech. Memorials in his name may be made to the Georgia Tech Foundation. 1990s Rahim H. Kapadia, CS 99, of San Jose, Calif., on April 17. 1980s David C. Weaver, M CP 80, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., on April 3, 2006. Mr. Weaver taught at West Georgia College from 1970 to 1977, when he joined the University of Alabama as an associate professor in the department of geography. He was promoted to professor in 1982 and in 1987 became departmental chair, a position he held for 13 years. In conjunction with the Alabama Geographic Alliance and Legacy Inc. Partners in Environmental Education, in 1990 he began providing annual workshops for K-12 teachers to improve geographic and environmental education. He authored several books and monographs, technical reports and maps. He was a member of the National Council for Geographic Education, Alabama Academy of Science, Alabama chapter of the American Planning Association and the Southeastern division of the Association of American Geographers. In 1992, he received the Distinguished Teaching Achievement Award from the NCGE and in 1997 was awarded the Outstanding Service Award by the SEDAAG. Brian W. Wynne, Mgt 89, of Stone Mountain, Ga., on May 25. During a family vacation at Fernandina Beach, Fla., Mr. Wynne drowned in the ocean trying to save his 7year-old son, Will, who survived. He and his son were playing in the surf when they were caught in a rip tide. Lifeguards and passersby ran in the water to save them both, but Mr. Wynne insisted they save his son first. An insurance auditor, he was active in the Masons in many leadership positions. He coached youth sports, most recently for the Mountain Park Athletic Association. As a child, he attained the rank of Eagle Scout and at Georgia Tech was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa. 2000s Erin Taylore Campbell McDole, MS Psy 07, of Atlanta, on July 3, in a car accident. She specialized in animal behavior and was working toward a PhD at Georgia Tech. She graduated from Randolph School in Huntsville, Ala., and later from Pomona College in Claremont, Calif. Survivors include her husband, John Thomas McDole, CS 02. Tina G. Prestridge, MS MoT 02, of Douglasville, Ga., on June 22, after a fiveyear battle with breast cancer. She was the assistant director for business operations for the Microelectronics Research Center at Georgia Tech. She graduated from Auburn University in 1986 with a bachelor’s of fine arts degree. Memorials may be made to the Georgia Tech Foundation. 1970s Kathy Vereen Clifford, IM 79, of Atlanta, on July 9. She was a technical support representative with Relational Tech. James P. Gammans, CerE 76, of Conyers, Ga., on June 5. The fourth generation of his family to work in the plumbing industry, Mr. Gammans was employed by Crane Plumbing as an engineering manager for more than 25 years. He was a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi and Keromos honor societies and served as chairman of the Southeast section of the American Ceramic Society. A member of St. Pius X Catholic Church for 24 years, he was a member of the Parish Finance Council, a Eucharistic minister and a member of the Knights of Columbus. He served as a Cub Scout leader and coached his son in soccer, tennis and church league basketball. Thomas R. Porter, IE 72, MS IE 76, of Marshall, Va., on May 23. An Air Force veteran and lawyer, Mr. Porter was director of litigation services for Grant Thornton. He received a juris doctor degree from George Washington University in 1982. Survivors in- Students Shahram Kavianpour, 32, on July 7, from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. A College of Engineering student, he was pursuing a doctorate. Rashad Rafique Qazi, 22, of Dubai, on July 13. He was a senior majoring in chemical engineering. Friends Hugh M. Chapman, 74, of Atlanta, on April 29. He served as president of Citizens & Southern Corp. and later as chairman of NationsBank South, from which he retired in 1997. In the 1990s, he chaired the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and was on the board of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. He chaired the East Lake Foundation. Corinne Kelly Cown, 84, of Temple, Ga., on July 12. Mrs. Cown retired from Georgia Tech as the executive assistant for the biology department. Cherry Logan Emerson, 90, of Atlanta, on April 29. A third-generation scientist, his grandfather, W.H. Emerson, was a founding dean at Georgia Tech. His father, Cherry L. Emerson, ME 08, EE 09, was a two-time president of the Alumni Association, a former dean of engineering, and former Georgia Tech vice president. Dr. Emerson graduated from Emory College in 1938 and from Emory’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1939. Credited by Emory as its biggest benefactor in recent years, his name is on an Emory science hall, professorship, science lecture series and concert hall. He received a doctorate from MIT and earned his fortune through patents and products developed by Emerson and Cuming, a chemical engineering firm specializing in chemical compounds and coatings for the defense and aerospace industries that he co-founded in Massachusetts and led for 35 years. J. Edmund Fitzgerald, 83, of Marietta, Ga., on April 13. He served as director of Georgia Tech’s School of Civil Engineering and later as associate dean of research for the College of Engineering. He retired from Georgia Tech in 1994 after a 19-year career with the Institute. He earned a master’s degree from Harvard University and a doctorate from the National University of Ireland. His research areas included solid rocket propellants and nonlinear mechanics. He was a fellow of the Royal Institute of Physics and American Physical Society. Melvin E. “Sam” Lyle, 82, of Atlanta, on May 25. He worked under coach Bobby Dodd at Georgia Tech in the early 1950s and helped found the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Foundation. A Navy veteran of World War II, he attended Louisiana State University on a football scholarship and led the team to two New Year’s Day bowl games. He was selected team captain and all-SEC in 1950. Eleanor Fryer Massell, of Atlanta, on June 19. A co-founder of the Arts Festival of Atlanta, she was a long- serving board member on the Fulton County Arts Council and the Georgia Council for the Arts. In recent years, she was a board member of the College of Architecture Advisory Council at Georgia Tech. She helped establish the Preschool Speech and Hearing Clinic, the first to provide assistance to African-American children during segregation, and helped indigent women from the Cabbagetown neighborhood in Atlanta create a craftwork cooperative. She also created Questers, one of Atlanta’s first businesses to specialize tours for foreign visitors. Helene Moad, 71, of Decatur, Ga., on April 10. Survivors include her husband, Mohamed Moad, EE 56, MS EE 56, PhD EE 61, associate professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at Georgia Tech. In 1957, the couple met at an international dance at an Atlanta YMCA while he was a student. Alice Huffard Richards, 75, of Carrollton, Ga., on May 29. She was preceded in death by her husband, Roy Richards Sr., ME 35, the founder of Southwire Co. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, she had board positions with many organizations, including the Georgia Council of the Arts, State Botanical Gardens, Shepherd Spinal Center, University of West Georgia, University of North Carolina, Emory University School of Medicine, High Museum of Art, Berry College, Margaret Mitchell House and Georgia Women of Achievement. Survivors include sons Roy Richards, Cls 80, and Jim Richards, Econ 81. Margaret Dent Thompson, 84, of Atlanta, on July 8. She met her future husband, Romulus H. “Tommy” Thompson, Arch 49, on a blind date arranged by one of his Alpha Tau Omega fraternity brothers. Mr. Thompson, who died in 1998, proposed to her that same evening. They were married in 1947. She later teamed up with her husband and an architect to found Thompson & Hancock Architects, for which she was a bookkeeper. GT TECHTOPICS | FALL 2007

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