Tech Topics - Fall 2008 - (Page 42) BURDELL & FRIENDS Sacramento, Calif., on June 15. He retired from The Spink Corp. in 1983. A veteran of World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars, he retired from the Air Force as a colonel in 1977 after a 32-year career. His last assignment was as the chief civil engineer for the Western region of the Air Force. At 65, he received a master’s degree in business administration. He served as president of the Gamma Tau chapter of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity at Georgia Tech. Bill H. Bobbitt, Cls 48, of Elgin, Ill., on May 15. Following a career in the Navy, he earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia and began a 37-year career with the Milwaukee Railroad as a civil engineer. In 1985, he retired as vice president of the real estate and industrial development department in Chicago. Jack Edwin Crouch, Cls 48, of Bernardsville, N.J., on June 30. Mr. Crouch was a senior executive at Monsanto, Allied Chemical and Occidental Petroleum, where he led the olefins division as vice president and general manager until his retirement. Mr. Crouch participated in the Navy V-12 program and was commissioned at Georgia Tech. After serving in World War II, he earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Mississippi State University. Mr. Crouch’s fondness for music led him to participate in choruses and perform solo well into his 80s. Roy West Darwin Jr., ChE 44, of Chapel Hill, N.C., on June 1. Mr. Darwin spent his entire professional career with Cabot Carbon Corp., working in the United States, Canada and abroad. He was the first recipient of the Carbon Atom Society Award. Mr. Darwin sang in a choir for 60 years and performed in barbershop quartets. in the Pacific theater from 1944 to 1946 and was employed by RCA until 1971. While with RCA, he was awarded two patents relating to production equipment. Mr. Genualdi was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the North Jersey Orchid Society. Joseph A. Gialanella, Cls 42, of North Caldwell, N.J., on July 3. A retired engineer, he also was a poet and artist. Mr. Gialanella received an engineering degree from New York University. Charles Drew Heidler, IE 41, of Decatur, Ga., on May 15. A district engineer specializing in commercial roofing for Johns Manville Corp., Mr. Heidler was a steam train enthusiast. He was a member of the National Railway Historical Society and volunteered at the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, Ga., restoring steam engines and a caboose. He even built his own rail cart to run on tracks in north Georgia. During World War II, he was a major in the 8th Air Corps. Bill Heist, ME 43, a resident of Umatilla, Fla., on May 28. P.W. Hembree Jr., Cls 47, of Knoxville, Tenn., on June 2. A Navy veteran of World War II, he retired after nearly 40 years with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Jasper Thomas Hogan Jr., Cls 44, of Macon, Ga., on July 19. He graduated from the Medical College of Georgia in 1946, began his general practice and surgery practice in 1951 and retired in 2004. Dr. Hogan served as associate clinical professor of surgery at the Mercer University Medical School from 1983 to 1990; was the president of the Parkview Hospital and Middle Georgia Hospital staffs; and served as chief of staff of the Medical Center of Central Georgia. Dr. Hogan was a charter member and past president of the Macon Surgical Society and assistant medical director of the Bankers Health and Life Insurance Co. A captain in the Army Medical Corps, Dr. Hogan served in the Transportation Corps on three continents and was awarded a medal for bravery and service beyond the call of duty for the rescue of a stroke victim at sea. Ardell O’Connor Hollis, ME 47, of Muscle Shoals, Ala., on May 20. Mr. Hollis was an engineer for General Electric for 34 years. During World War II, he served in the Pacific theater as a first lieutenant in the Army Air Corps. William Merritt Holmes, MS EE 49, of Saratoga, Calif., on May 16. He spent his career with Lockheed Missile and Space. In Memoriam Louise Allen, Atlanta’s Former First Lady L ouise Richardson Allen, widow of the late Georgia Tech alumnus and Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr., died June 7 at her home in Atlanta. She was 91 years old. Mrs. Allen, who devoted much of her time to the city’s various civic and charity organizations, was a founder of the Atlanta Speech School and Forward Arts Foundation and a supporter of the Atlanta Botanical Garden and the former Henrietta Egleston Hospital for Children. She also helped transform the Atlanta Historical Society, even suggesting it purchase the Swan House, her uncle’s house, as its headquarters. Mrs. Allen was Atlanta’s first lady from 1962 to 1970, when her husband, a 1933 commerce graduate of Tech, led the city through the turbulent civil rights movement. The couple, who were married in 1936, had three sons: Ivan III, who died in 1992; H. Inman, who was named an honorary alumnus of Georgia Tech in 2007; and Beaumont. Mr. Allen, who in the 1950s served as president of the Alumni Association and the Georgia Tech Foundation, died in 2003 at the age of 92. Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College is named for him. James D. Cahill, IM 48, of Charlotte, N.C., on May 23. Following retirement from the PET Milk Co. as a district manager in the mid-1970s, he began a career in real estate, a subject he later taught at Central Piedmont Community College. He attended Georgia Tech on a football scholarship but left to enlist in the Army when World War II began. He later transferred to the Army Air Corps and served in the Pacific theater, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross. Mr. Cahill resumed his studies at Tech following the war. He retired from the Air Force Reserve in 1979 with the rank of lieutenant colonel. In 1946, he risked his own life to save his family and others in the Winecoff Hotel fire in Atlanta. David E. Cavenaugh, EE 40, of Daytona Beach, Fla., on May 8. He retired from the Espey Mfg. & Electronics Corp. 42 Fred Ellison, IM 49, of Rock Hill, S.C., on June 11. After a stint as a hospital administrator at Oconee Memorial Hospital in Seneca, S.C., Mr. Ellison was hired in Rock Hill, S.C., to run York General Hospital, remaining there until 1983, at which time he was instrumental in the establishment of the Piedmont Medical Center. He worked in business development in the managed health-care industry for many years and served as president of the South Carolina Hospital Association. He also was a lifelong member of the Barbershop Harmony Society. During World War II, he was a ship’s communications officer, making 14 trans-Atlantic convoy crossings from 1943 to ’45. Benjamin F. Genualdi, ME 43, of Summit, N.J., on April 22. Mr. Genualdi retired as an associate director of production engineering with Ethicon Inc. in Somerville, N.J., in 1989. A Navy veteran of World War II, he served TechTopics | Fall 2008
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