Tech Topics - Spring 2009 - (Page 32) BURDELL & FRIENDS risa, announce the birth of a son, Joseph Samuel, on Nov 4. The family lives in Falls Church, Va. Brett M. Gilbert, ME 03, has been appointed as an associate of Newcomb & Boyd in Atlanta. Jennifer Nicole Keskeny, Mgt 03, of Norcross, Ga., has joined the law firm of Browning and Gamradt as an associate. Keskeny earned a juris doctor degree from Loyola University. W. Scott King, ME 02, has been named an associate of the firm of Newcomb & Boyd in Atlanta. Paul J. Kitchens, ME 06, has been appointed as an associate of the firm of Newcomb & Boyd in Atlanta. Shane F. Lawlor, ME 02, has been appointed as an associate of Newcomb & Boyd in Atlanta. Dave Lo, CS 00, has accepted a position at Industrial Light and Magic and has relocated to San Francisco. Lo previously was a 3-D modeler/digital artist with Digital Domain. Nicholas A. Mazzolini, EE 03, has been named an associate of Newcomb & Boyd in Atlanta. Brian Mileshosky, MS ECE 05, and his wife, Katelyn, announce the birth of a son, Landon Patrick, on Sept. 28. Mileshosky works as a senior member of the technical staff within the advanced radio frequency applications department at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M. Paul Pitney, ME 00, and his wife, Christina, announce the birth of son Nathan Christopher on Sept. 30. Nathan joins his brother, Josh, 2, at the family’s home in Macomb, Mich. Pitney is a design engineer for body closures with General Motors. Erin Porter, IE 01, and Marine Corps Lt. Col. Jim Izen were married Oct. 18. Porter recently was promoted to senior manager with The Home Depot in Atlanta. Chad F. Slieper, PubPol 02, became director of the Emory University School of Law’s newly created Global Health Law and Policy Project in November. Slieper, who is a 2005 graduate of the law school, previously was on the faculty of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston as a clinical ethicist. Kristin Dennison Speck, ChE 01, and Jason Speck, ChE 98, announce the birth of a daughter, Lorelai Susan, on Oct. 17. Kristin is a group manager at the Clorox Co. Jason is a research and development manager at Pearl Therapeutics. The Speck family lives in Dublin, Calif. Stephanie Steele, Mgt 02, who recently passed the Georgia Bar examination, has joined the Atlanta office of Jones Day. Justin Wrinn, Mgt 01, and Jinquan Wu were married July 3. The couple live in Yokohama, Japan. In Memoriam 1920s Jack Kelvin Bleich, ChE 27, of Atlanta, on Nov. 9. He was 101 years old. Dr. Bleich retired from the military after 20 years of active and reserve service and from medical practice at the age of 80. Motivated to become a doctor by a love of science and the untimely deaths of his mother and three sisters, he graduated with honors from the Emory University School of Medicine in 1931. An ROTC member at Tech, he left his Atlanta practice at the outbreak of World War II and served in Europe with the Army Medical Corps from 1942 to ’46, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel and receiving the Bronze Star. Ramblin’ Roll 1930s Elmore Hines Camp, CE 36, of Charlotte, N.C., on Oct. 22. Mr. Camp worked for 44 years with the Kendall Co., which he joined in 1940 as an engineer. He served as an Army major from 1942 to ’46. He served as an adult Sunday school teacher and a deacon at his church and was a member of the North Carolina and South Carolina societies of engineers, the Charlotte Engineer’s Club, Senior Scholars and the Senior Forum. Solomon E. Chernicoff, ChE 33, of Pittsburg, Kan., on Jan. 8. He worked for MackieClemens Mining Co. as a chemical engineer for 42 years, retiring at the age of 70. John Glustrom, Cls 38, of Atlanta, on Oct. 26. Mr. Glustrom, who earned a business degree from Emory University, ran a retail store, worked in the mortgage industry and developed real estate. He was a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity at Tech. A World War II Army veteran, he helped liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Upon moving to Atlanta in 1949, Mr. Glustrom and his wife worked to help end segregation. Robert Edmund Hammond Sr., GS 36, of Roswell, Ga., on Nov. 22. In 1978, Col. Hammond retired from a 27-year career with Lockheed Aircraft Corp. in Marietta, Ga. In his later years, he worked part time as a real estate agent for Harry Norman Realty. A varsity baseball player and ROTC member at Tech, he entered the Army as a second lieutenant in 1941 and throughout the war served as a personnel officer and quartermaster. He was stationed in Liege, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge and was awarded the Purple Heart. Discharged from active service as a lieutenant colonel in 1946, he went to work with the Veterans Administration. He retired from the Army Reserve as a full colonel in 1973. An Eagle Scout, he Tech Bedtime Stories Perhaps Randy Whitfield, ME 32, MS ME 34, who turned 100 on Feb. 9, is telling great-grandson Eston Thomas McDow about the time he drove a bus full of Tech students, alumni and fans across the country to attend the Rose Bowl in 1928 and published his accounts of the journey in the Atlanta Journal. Maybe Eston, born Nov. 19, already has heard the story from his parents, Lauren Weatherly McDow, Mgt 03, program manager for the College of Management, and Randy McDow, ISyE 95, MS PubPol 03, director of the Office of Special Scholarships. 32 TechTopics | Spring 2009
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