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Burdell&Friends band, Joaquin, announce the birth of a daughter, Alexa, on Oct. 4. Vizcarra Chaidez works in revenue management at UPS Supply Chain Solutions. The family lives in Roswell, Ga. Nitasha Chopra, CompE 05, married Carlos Andres Alzate, ME 05, on Nov. 29. Chopra is a software engineer for Intel Corp. in Chandler, Ariz., and Alzate is a product development engineer for Universal Laser Systems in Scottsdale, Ariz. Jason M. Conner, MS BC 05, has been named an associate in the firm of Newcomb & Boyd, located in Atlanta. Meredith Mitchell Couey, Mgt 01, and Clay Andrew Couey, ME 98, EE 99, MS ECE 99, announce the birth of a son, Andrew Bradford, on July 16. Andrew joins brother Clayton, 2, at the family’s home in Clarksburg, Md. Meredith is a full-time mother and Clay is senior manager of the radio frequency engineering department at Digital Receiver Technology. Michael D. Ernst, ME 02, has become an associate with Newcomb & Boyd in Atlanta. Lindsey A. Ewing, ME 07, is a licensed LEED-accredited professional. Ewing works for Newcomb & Boyd in Atlanta. Susannah Halweg, CE 05, and Brian Spears, BME 06, were married Nov. 24. Halweg is employed by the Medical College of Georgia Wellness Center and Spears is a second-year medical student at the college. The couple live in Augusta, Ga. Josh Hernstrom, ChE 01, and his wife, Stacia, announce the birth of a son, Samuel Quinn, on Dec. 18. Hernstrom is a software engineer for National Instruments in Austin. Aamir Kazi, CS 02, has joined the Atlanta office of Fish & Richardson PC as an associate in the firm’s litigation and patent prosecution groups. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Kazi was employed as a consulant at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. Ramona McClain, PTFE 05, married Chris Walsh, Mgt 00, on April 14. McClain is a scientist with Kimberly-Clark and Walsh is an associate with Miller & Martin. The couple live in Dunwoody, Ga. Chris Mothorpe, AMath 05, was honored as the Fayette Family YMCA 2007 Volunteer of the Year in November. Mothorpe is the adviser of the YMCA’s Leaders Club, an organization in which teens gain significant leadership skills and knowledge. Under his direction, Leaders Club members completed more than 1,700 service hours in their community. Catherine “Katie” Neal, STC 03, and Christopher Sinotte, Biol 02, MS BioE 06, were married Oct. 6. Neal is the executive director of the Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board in Tucker, Ga., and Sinotte is a research scientist for Kimberly-Clark in Roswell. The couple live in Atlanta. Ginger Wilde Nichols, ChE 00, and Chris Nichols, ChE 95, of Thomasville, Ga., announce the birth of a son, Eli, on Nov. 9. Ginger is a fulltime mother and Chris is the area director for Young Life Thomas County in Thomasville. Laura A. Rafter, ME 03, has been named an associate with Newcomb & Boyd in Atlanta. Nathan Settembrini, EE 06, married Lauren Halford on Dec. 15. Settembrini is a technical support engineer with Duravit USA Inc. and Halford is a senior at Georgia Tech majoring in materials science and engineering. The couple live in Atlanta. Kristina L. Taylor, ME 00, has become an associate with the firm of Newcomb & Boyd in Atlanta. Heather Sumrow Williams, IE 00, and J. Daniel Williams, IntA 01, MS IntA 03, announce the birth of twins Abby Elise and Carter Daniel on July 11. The Williamses are residents of Ashburn, Va. David Wofford, CE 01, of Canton, Ga., was awarded a master’s degree in divinity from Asbury Theological Seminary in December. Wofford has been appointed to serve the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church. Deaths 1920s Lincoln S. Grant, Cls 29, of Leesburg, Fla., on March 22, 2007. He and his wife started Grant Equipment Co., selling automotive tools to the trade in Hempstead, N.Y. He sold the company in 1973 and moved to Port St. Lucie, Fla. In an earlier job with Automatic Electric, he sold some of the first dial phone systems and from 1942 to ’45 worked at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. At Georgia Tech, he was in the Gamma Eta chapter of Beta Theta Pi. George M. Seal, EE 27, of Fort Myers, Fla., on Dec. 1. Mr. Seal was a supervising engineer for AT&T for 42 years. He received a master’s degree in electrical engineering from MIT. engineer after a 40-year career, he founded James C. Barber and Associates, a consulting firm specializing in the field of phosphorus technology. He began working for the TVA as a co-op student at Georgia Tech. David Clarke Boy Jr., IM 37, of Appleton, Wis., in December. Mr. Boy worked for Dan River Mills for 34 years, during which time he helped organize the National Tobacco and Textile Museum. A Paul Harris fellow and chairman of the United Fund, he was active in Rotary International for 49 years and served on the boards of the Danville chapter of the American Red Cross and Danville Cancer Association. He was a Sunday school teacher, deacon and chairman at his church. Upon graduating from Georgia Tech, he was commissioned as a first lieutenant in World War II and was honorably discharged as a lieutenant colonel in the Army Air Corps. Albert Jesse Hill, ME 32, of Vero Beach, Fla., on Nov. 26. He served as chairman of 1930s James Corbett Barber, ChE 38, of Florence, Ala., on Nov. 3. Following retirement from the Tennessee Valley Authority as a chemical the board of the Haitian American Sugar Co., for which he worked for 40 years. His career in the sugar industry took him from Florida to the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Haiti. During World War II, he served as a lieutenant commander in the Navy, earning a presidential citation with one star for extraordinary heroism in action aboard the USS Bennion during the Okinawa campaign. Sol Tobias Lipsius, ChE 37, of Atlanta, on Dec. 14. Mr. Lipsius was the president of Empire Laboratories. Robert Sims Munford Jr., ME 34, of Ridgeland, Miss., on Nov. 21. In 1948, he started the Munford Engineering Co. in Jackson, Miss., which for more than 30 years built cold storage rooms and freezers for the beef, chicken and catfish industries. In 1941, he was called to active duty in the Air Force. He taught at the Command General Staff School in Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and in 1944 went to India as the officer in charge of ordnance for the 10th Air Force. Under his command, troops pioneered Herbert Saffir Devised Hurricane Scale H erbert Saffir, CE 40, the force behind the scale that is used to define the destructive power of hurricanes, died Nov. 21. A consulting structural engineer, Saffir created the scale in 1969 to categorize the different strength of hurricanes. The fivestage scale became the world standard for measuring the fury of a hurricane. “It was worked up initially in a study I did for the United Nations on hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones throughout the world and their relationship with housing,” Mr. Saffir explained in an article appearing in the Winter 1992 edition of TECH TOPICS. Bob Simpson, a former director of the National Hurricane Center, added tidalsurge data to the categorization, which became known as the Saffir-Simpson scale in the 1970s. A native of New York, Mr. Saffir was a consulting engineer in Coral Gables, Fla., for most of his career. He moved to Dade County, Fla., in 1947 and into the path of his first hurricane that same month. Because of the frequency of hurricanes and the region’s vulnerability, Mr. Saffir became an expert at calculating the severity of a storm and the damage it could cause. He also helped write and unify building codes in South Florida. “Driving around south Florida I can see the engineering work I have done. It’s there in the shape of buildings and bridges,” Mr. Saffir told the Alumni Magazine in 2001. “I think I’ve left a little mark.” TECHTOPICS | SPRING 2008 39

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