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Burdell&Friends Fred William Goette III, EE 54, of Macon, Ga., on Nov. 7. He owned and operated Stewart-Goette Electric Co. and ACE Security Systems. He served as a second lieutenant in the Army. He was a member of Mabel Masonic Lodge No. 255 for 46 years. M. Ray Graham, ME 52, of Massillon, Ohio, on Oct. 25. Mr. Graham was a long-range forecaster in market research for Timken Co., for which he had worked for 38 years. He was an ROTC member at Georgia Tech and later joined the Army. Charles Harry Hamilton, ME 58, of Atlanta, on Nov. 26. Since 1973, Dr. Hamilton had served as the internist at the Asa G. Yancey Health Center and Grady Memorial hospitals and as director of medical services. He also was an instructor and assistant professor at the Emory University School of Medicine, from which he had received a medical degree. A member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus, he was selected by conductor Robert Shaw to sing in the ASO Chamber Chorus. A founding member of the Atlanta Singers, he would travel with the Shaws to their vacation home in the south of France as their family physician. After graduating from Tech, he served in the Army Ordnance Corps for six months and then the Reserve, attaining the rank of captain. Eugene C. Hinshaw Jr., EE 59, of Foley, Mo., on Dec. 11. Mr. Hinshaw retired from Douglas Products Division. Jack R. Hinton, IE 56, of Staunton, Va., on July 11. John A. Hudson, EE 50, a resident of Panama City, Fla., on March 27. Claude William Jenkins Jr., ChE 52, of Crosby, Texas, on Oct. 26. He retired as a consultant with Exxon Chemical Co. in 1994. After serving in the Navy, Mr. Jenkins worked for 10 years with Shell Oil before joining Exxon. James Frank “Jimmy” Jones, IE 52, of Bremen, Ga., on Dec. 31. In 1985, he retired from Southern Can Co. in Tallapoosa, Ga., after serving 14 years as its Arnold Hardy Photo Won Pulitzer Prizernold Hardy, Cls 50, the first amateur photographer to win a Pulitzer Prize, died Dec. 5. Mr. Hardy was a 24-year-old lab assistant at Georgia Tech and an amateur photographer when he won the Pulitzer Prize for his riveting photograph of a woman falling while trying to escape the blazing Winecoff Hotel on Dec. 7, 1946. The horrific inferno claimed the lives of 119 people and is the country’s deadliest hotel fire. On the night of the fire in downtown Atlanta, Mr. Hardy heard the screaming sirens, called the fire department and, identifying himself as a press photographer, asked for the location of the blaze. He rushed to the scene with his Speed Graphic camera but only had five flashbulbs in his pocket. “He stood on the sidewalk and watched people plummet to their deaths,” his son, Glen Hardy of Decatur, Ga., told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “He had an almost posttraumatic response to that.” In a 2006 interview with the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine on the 60th anniversary of the Winecoff fire, Hardy said he took the photo with his last flashbulb. In the Winter 1993 edition of TECH TOPICS, Sam Heys, co-author of “The Winecoff Fire: The Untold Story of America’s Deadliest Hotel Fire,” identified the woman as Daisy McCumber, who amazingly survived the jump. Hardy sold the image to the Associated Press for $300 and received $200 more as a bonus. However, when the Associated Press offered to hire him as a photographer, he turned the job down. Instead, Hardy married Arnold Hardy’s photo of Daisy McCumber falling from the burning Winecoff Hotel won a Pulitzer. and founded his own business, Hardy Manufacturing Co., which designed and manufactured X-ray equipment, and settled in Stone Mountain, Ga. In the Alumni Magazine interview, Hardy said he was pleased that his photograph helped make the nation conscious of fire safety and was an impetus for modern fire safety standards. The Winecoff Hotel had been touted as being fireproof. Hardy said the only photographs he took after winning the Pulitzer were of family and vacations. president. He began his business career at his father’s car dealership, Jones Motor Co. A member of ROTC at Tech, he served two years in the Korean War as a first lieutenant. William M. “Bill” Law Sr., ME 51, of Atlanta, on Nov. 6. He retired from Lockheed after 21 years of service and from DeKalb County as a heating and air inspector. During World War II, he served in the Navy in the Pacific. James E. “Jim” Lunsford, CE 56, of Signal Mountain, Tenn., on Nov. 28. He retired as a technical engineer for Signal Mountain Cement Co. Mr. Lunsford created a collegiate program for cement technology and conducted seminars. He served in the Marines during World War II and the Korean War. Richard Robert Marinaro, IE 53, of Stuart, Fla., on May 11. Mr. Marinaro was a member of the Martin County Chamber of Commerce and Veterans of Foreign Wars, a volunteer at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center and founder of the Martin County detachment of the Marine Corps League. He served in the Marine Corps during World War II. Samuel Paul Moody Jr., IM 58, of Desert Hot Springs, Calif., on Nov. 1. Mr. Moody served as project manager for life support systems for the command module on all 16 NASA Apollo launches. He and his team played a key role in saving the lives of the Apollo 13 astronauts. He later held a similar position for NASA’s space shuttle program. He served in the Navy from 1950 to 1958. Edward M. Parker, IE 52, of Atlanta, on Nov. 20. Mr. Parker was a research engineer at Lockheed. Richard “Dick” Womack Penn, ME 54, of Atlanta, on Nov. 28. Mr. Penn spent his entire career working for the Lockheed Corp. in Marietta, Ga., retiring in 1988. He was an avid researcher and loved old cars, computers and his coffee club. James Lloyd Pippin, EE 52, of Crestview, Fla., on Jan. 14. Charles Logan “Charlie” Ray Jr., ME 50, of Marietta, Ga., on Dec. 28. Following service in the Air Force during the Korean War, he joined Lockheed in production engineering and retired as vice president of marketing and product support. As a student at Georgia Tech, he was named Most Outstanding Senior and was a member of Kappa Sigma. As an alumnus, he was a founding member and chairman of the Georgia Tech Mechanical Engineering Advisory Board, the first recipient of the School of Mechanical Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1989 and a member of the first class of the College of Engineering’s Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni. He had served as president of the Cobb/ Marietta YMCA board of directors, chairman of the Cobb Extension Service Advisory Board and a member of the Kennestone Hospital Foundation. Paul E. Robbins, PhD Chem 56, of Morrow, Ga., on Nov. 6. Dr. Robbins worked at Dupont in Richmond, Va., and taught at Clemson University. He was employed by Armstrong State College as a professor in chemistry from 1966 until his retirement in 1986, when he was named professor emeritus. He was a former chairman of the board of deacons and a life deacon of the First Baptist Church of Savannah. He served in the Army from 1946 to 1947. Walter B. Roddenbery III, Phys 59, of St. Petersburg, Fla., on Nov. 13. He received a degree in electrical engineering from Auburn University. He was preceded in death by his father, Walter B. Roddenbery Jr., ME 22. Raymond Rodriguez, IE 58, of Cocoa Beach, Fla., on Oct. 28. Mr. Rodriguez retired from Boeing Aerospace Operations after 33 years of service. He served in the Korean War and attended Georgia Tech on the GI Bill. Fred J. Sacchettini, ME 50, of Chesterfield, Mo., on Oct. 31. He retired from AT&T after 35 years of service. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. Billy L. Sanders, IM 56, of Titusville, Fla., on May 23. Mr. Sanders retired from Florida Power & Light in 1989 and spent the next 15 years traveling across the country with his wife in their RV. He was a deacon at Cutler Ridge Presbyterian and an elder at St. Luke’s Presbyterian. Mr. Sanders joined the Marine Corps at age 17 and served two years. William Warren Seaton Jr., ChE 57, of Suwanee, Ga., on Nov. 18. He served in the Navy, retiring as a captain. A member of the TECHTOPICS | SPRING 2008

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