Tech Topics - Spring 2009 - (Page 26) BURDELL & FRIENDS rience in the space and defense industries, joined Teledyne Brown in 2002. Adventure in the Arctic B Lynda B. Herrig, ME 84, MS ME 85, has been named a senior associate with Newcomb & Boyd in Atlanta. Catherine Bullard Morgret, MS ICS 88, and her family have moved to Lebanon Junction, Ky., where her husband, Brian, is the new minister of the First Christian Church. Bullard Morgret stays busy caring for the couple’s four children, three of whom she home-schools, and assisting her husband in his ministry. Frederick Reece, IM 83, was appointed cocoordinator of the program in communication and literature at Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey, in September. Sheila Ryan, IE 86, has been named director for the Georgia chapter of the March of Dimes, leading fundraising, programs, public affairs and marketing. Ryan previously was with the United Way of Metro Atlanta, for which she served as director of the Tocqueville Society and raised more than $13 million annually. She has more than 20 years of management, nonprofit and high-level fundraising experience. orn and reared in Tennessee, hours watching Robert De Niro Brad Whelchel hasn’t had films and episodes of Twin Peaks, in much exposure to frigid cold a blog at http://expeditionchuckles. weather — or he hadn’t until this blogspot.com. winter. The recent Arctic excursion is Whelchel, ME 03, recently just one of Whelchel’s adventures completed a three-month sojourn since graduating from Tech. In 2007, at Greenland’s Summit Station, while in between jobs, he spent six where he trekked through mounds months hiking the Appalachian of snow in minus-zero-degree Trail. weather and celebrated a very “After traveling up the East white Christmas. Coast states and loving it, I wanted Whelchel arrived at the to try to mix contract engineering station, situated at the highest with long periods of travel,” he said. point north of the Arctic Circle, in Whelchel, who spent this past Brad Whelchel braves minus-zero-degree summer in Denver working as a early November as part of a fourweather at Greenland’s Summit Station. person team charged with support engineer for the South Pole maintaining the facility and research station, originally was conducting atmospheric and climate experiments. scheduled to deploy to Antarctica for the winter. When In an e-mail sent to TECH TOPICS in January, the research position was cut, he learned about the post Whelchel said he could not wait “for some sunshine and as a maintenance engineer at the Summit Station. temperatures above zero.” He added, “I’m ready to see Whelchel and his teammates passed Summit some vegetation!” Station duties on to the new crew and departed the ice During his stay, Whelchel experienced the station’s sheet Feb. 13. But for Whelchel, “the adventure record high of zero degrees Fahrenheit and a record low continues,” he said. of minus 68 degrees Fahrenheit. Rather than heading home directly, he planned to Whelchel chronicled his stay at the station, from tour New Zealand with the crew of a biodiesel-powered preparing for balloon launches to whiling away the speedboat circumnavigating the globe. 1990s Alan P. Albert, EE 98, and Brittany Brosch Albert, Mgt 00, announce the birth of a daughter, Mackenzie Grace, on Jan. 22, 2008. Mackenzie joins her sisters, Amy, 4, and Jessica, 6, at the family’s home in Miamisburg, Ohio. Alan is an Air Force major stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Brittany is a full-time mother. Adam R. Bare, ME 96, has been named an associate partner in the firm of Newcomb & Boyd in Atlanta. Robert Louis Bellaire, MS EE 94, PhD EE 96, has received the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service. Bellaire served as the Missile Defense Agency Sensors Directorate chief engineer and acting technical director for the Deputy for Test Integration and Fielding from January to February 2008. In a citation accompanying the award, Bellaire was noted as a “critical leader in the highly successful satellite engagement, Operation Burnt Frost.” Jeff D. Brown, BC 99, and his wife, Jennifer, announce the birth of a daughter, Rachel Suzanne, on Sept. 12. She joins brother Steven Joseph, 3, at the family’s home in Marietta, Ga. Brown is senior project manager with New South Construction. Beach Adventure. His first, Tim and Sally’s Vegetable Garden, won the 2008 Georgia Author of the Year Award in the children’s picture book category. A retired attorney, he lives in Watkinsville, Ga. sions to the moon to lay the groundwork for sustained human exploration of the solar system. 1980s Dennis Carter, EE 83, has joined Concord Project Consulting Inc. in Smyrna, Ga., as a principal. He oversees the firm’s electrical engineering design effort and provides project management for its commercial, university and military projects. Carter joins Jon Jimenez, ME 84, who founded the firm in 1998. Concord Project Consulting provides engineering design and consulting in support of building construction and renovation. Carter and his wife, Karen Barrett Carter, ICS 87, MS CE 93, have two daughters, Stacy, 3, and Dana, 6. Michael R. DeFatta, ME 80, has been promoted to vice president of the manufactured products group of Teledyne Brown Engineering Inc. DeFatta oversees a nuclear manufacturing plant in Limestone County, Ala., and a facility in Huntsville that produces hardware for the aerospace, defense, nuclear and commercial industries. DeFatta, who has 27 years of expe- 1970s M.F. “Frank” Arthur, AE 71, MS AE 74, has been promoted to senior scientist by Harris Corp. Arthur works at its Government Communications Systems Division in Palm Bay, Fla. Raymond “Corky” Clinton Jr., AE 73, MS AE 76, PhD AE 82, deputy manager of the Science and Mission Systems Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., was recognized by President George W. Bush with a Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Executive. One of the highest honors given for government service work, the award is presented annually to a select group of senior federal executives who have provided exceptional service and leadership in critical positions. Clinton, who joined NASA in 1984, also is the acting manager of the Lunar Program & Projects Office at Marshall, overseeing path-finding robotic mis26 TechTopics | Spring 2009 http://expeditionchuckles.blogspot.com http://expeditionchuckles.blogspot.com
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