Tech Topics - Fall 2008 - (Page 43) BURDELL & FRIENDS Allen S. Jackson, ME 49, of Atlanta, on May 25. He worked in the industrial machinery business and later founded J&H Equipment, designing and developing machines that were sold and used around the world. Mr. Jackson, who started flying an airplane before he ever drove a car, left Tech in 1940 to become a flight instructor in the Civilian Pilot Training Program and in 1942 entered the Army Air Corps as a flight instructor, receiving his commission as a second lieutenant. He served as a pilot in the European theater and returned to Tech after the war. He later served as a flight instructor during the Korean War. Sergio P. Ponce, IM 41, of Gainesville, Fla., on May 3. He was a safety compliance officer with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. At Tech, he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon and Skull and Key. He later trained at the United States Naval Academy and was commissioned as an ensign in 1942, serving as an executive or commanding officer aboard minesweepers in the Caribbean islands, Bermuda and Washington state until 1945. Julian J. Raynes, PHE 41, of Atlanta, on May 12. A mason, he served as a lieutenant commander in the Navy and retired from the Corps of Engineers. Survivors include his brothers, Herman, EE 48; Sidney, ME 50; and Mitchell, ChE 52. Lathan Walker “Skip” Rea, EE 41, of Mountain View, Calif., on June 28. He was a retired AT&T engineer and lieutenant commander with the Navy. Henry Lamar Reid Jr., IM 44, of St. Simons Island, Ga., on May 27. A member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon at Georgia Tech, he worked with the Coca-Cola Company and later with the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. He returned to Atlanta in 1954 and worked for Southeastern Electronics. John “Buddy” Monroe Taulman, Cls 49, of West Palm Beach, Fla., and Boone, N.C., on June 8. He was a salesman in his father’s Atlanta-based company, W.D. Taulman & Associates, which represented major companies in the power, water and wastewater industries, and was named president when the business was incorporated as The Taulman Co. In the late ’50s, he helped develop War Hill, a lakeside community at Lake Lanier. He served as the finance chairman for the George H.W. Bush campaign from 1974 to ’76. He developed a passion for flying when he joined the Army Air Corps in 1943. He piloted his last flight at the age of 80 in an experimental plane. George B. Taylor, EE 49, MS EE 50, of Hattiesburg, Miss., on July 15. He retired in 1985 from the South Mississippi Electric Power Association, where as its first fulltime general manager he oversaw the construction and operation of a new electric utility system. His career spanned 35 years and included stints as a chief engineer at Singing River Electric and a consultant at the Southern Engineering Co. of Georgia. Prior to attending Tech, he served in the Army Infantry during World War II. He was a member of the Mississippi Engineering Society, serving a term as its president. He was active for many years with the Boy Scouts and received the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, Silver Buffalo and Silver Antelope. At Tech, he was a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi and the Camera Club. Survivors include his son, George B. Taylor Jr., EE 74, MS EE 75. William George Trawick, Chem 47, PhD Chem 54, of Stone Mountain, Ga., on April 26. He served in the Army Signal Corps during World War II. Following work at nuclear plants in Oak Ridge, Tenn., he taught chemistry at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute. He joined the chemistry department at Georgia State College in 1961, becoming department head a year later. During his tenure, the college grew into Georgia State University and the chemistry department grew from three to 13 faculty members. He resigned as chairman in 1974 and entered the field of clinical chemistry. A member of the first Science and Technology Commission of Georgia, he was a chairman of the Georgia section of the American Chemical Society and Southeastern section of the National Association of Clinical Chemists and a vice president of the National Registry of Clinical Chemists. Jack D. Weeks, ME 49, of Lawrenceville, Ga., on April 18. Mr. Weeks served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. Irving M. Weiner, TE 47, of Albuquerque, N.M., on May 29. After graduation, he joined Frank Ix and Company, from which he retired in 1995. He entered the Infantry in 1942 and was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge, receiving the Purple Heart. He was a member of the Phi Epsilon Pi social fraternity and Phi Psi professional fraternity. Frank A. Whitaker, ChE 41, of Chattanooga, Tenn., on July 6. Following a 21-year career in the Navy in which he served in the Pacific during World War II, he worked with the Orleans Parish School Board, retiring as the budget director. He left New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. company. He served in the Navy in Korea and the South Pacific from 1948 to 1952. George F. Benson Jr., ME 50, of Plantation, Fla., on Jan. 20. He retired as a supervisor with E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Harold Black, EE 56, MS EE 56, of Annandale, Va., on Feb. 18. He retired from the technical staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 1986 after 11 years of service. He previously had worked as an engineer and program director with the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory and General Research Corp. He served in World War II and the Korean War and later became director of scientific programs for nuclear weapons effects testing at nuclear proving grounds in Nevada and the Pacific. When he retired from the Army as a colonel in 1965, he was working with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, D.C. He was awarded the Legion of Merit, two Bronze Stars and two Purple Hearts. In Memoriam Tech Alumnus, Professor Woodward L eRoy Woodward, Phys 43, of Decatur, Ga., who taught physics at his alma mater until his retirement in 1982, died July 13. As a professor at Tech, he designed and taught a number of unconventional physics courses, covering such topics as weather, music and astronomy. He would even bring his banjo to class on occasion to help illustrate lesson concepts. A member of the Connecticut Naval Reserve, he attended Tech on a Naval ROTC scholarship, arriving in Atlanta with a Model A Ford, several banjos and mandolins and a classical record and sheet music collection. Commissioned as an ensign in the Navy, he served as a line officer aboard the USS John D. Ford destroyer during the Battle of the Atlantic. Following his military service, he attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and received a master’s degree in physics. He later joined the Georgia Tech Engineering Experiment Station, helping develop the Institute’s first electron microscope. Arthur Copeland Blake Jr., IM 59, of Louisville, Ky., on May 8. A stockbroker, banker and management consultant, Mr. Blake served in the Army and was a former member of Mensa and the Louisville Astronomy Club. Bruce Lamar Crider, IE 50, of Marietta, Ga., on June 3. Mr. Crider retired after 35 years with the Worthington Corp. Serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II, he was shot down over Germany and was a prisoner of war for six months. Thomas Carlton Crumbley, IM 57, of Savannah, Ga., on April 20. A registered pharmacist, Mr. Crumbley served as vice president of Crumbley’s Pharmacies Inc. and practiced pharmacy for many years in Savannah. During the Korean War, he was 1950s James O. Armistead, IM 56, of Rutledge, Ga., on Nov. 8. In 1985, he retired from E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. in Wilmington, Del., after nearly 30 years with the TechTopics | Fall 2008 43
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