Tech Topics - Spring 2009 - (Page 35) BURDELL & FRIENDS and rescued by the USS Ronquil. He received the Purple Heart and Air Medal. A member of Beta Theta Pi at Tech, he was a member of the Gerton Volunteer Fire Department and Brotherhood of St. Andrew and a volunteer at Mission Memorial Hospital ER. Some of Mr. MacDonald’s ashes were spread over the Beta Theta Pi house lawn. Louis Franklin McDonald, IM 45, of Atlanta, on Nov. 28. A graduate of the Emory University School of Law, he was a practicing attorney and a member of the State Bar of Georgia for more than 50 years. He served 12 years as assistant attorney general for the state before entering private practice. During World War II, Mr. McDonald served as a commissioned Navy officer and after the close of the war took part in the Navy’s nuclear-testing exercises onboard a ship in the Pacific. He was a member of the Civil War Round Table and received the Cross of Military Service from the United Daughters of the Confederacy. John Smith Miller, CE 49, of Atlanta, on Nov. 1. In 1957, Mr. Miller formed his own company, which launched renewal projects that turned slums into beautiful neighborhoods. He joined the Army in 1941 and served under Gen. George Patton in the 2nd Armored Division. During World War II, he served in the European theater as a battalion commander. He retired from the Army Reserve as a lieutenant colonel. His engineering career included stints with the Army Corps of Engineers and Mississippi State Highway Department and positions as senior engineer with the city of Mobile, Ala., resident engineer for Jekyll Island, Ga., and civil engineer with the Urban Renewal Administration. He was a member of the Knights Templar and the American Society of Civil Engineers. Emory “Jack” Bertram Phillips, EE 47, of Vero Beach, Fla., on Jan. 5. Following service in the military, he worked for Westinghouse, Kaiser, Kearney and eventually ITT Holub, from which he retired as a sales and marketing executive in 1987. He left home at age 16 and later enlisted in the Navy, becoming part of the V-12 program. A member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Tech, Mr. Phillips was commissioned as a lieutenant junior grade and served as a ship’s officer in the Navy during World War II and the Korean War. Robert Franklin Tillman, TE 41, of West Point, Ga., on Nov. 18. Mr. Tillman retired from West Point Pepperell in 1981 following a 33-year career with the company, which included 15 years at the Wellington Sears Division in New York. During World War II, he served as a lieutenant commander in the Navy in the Pacific theater. Survivors include granddaughter Sarah McKibben, a chemical engineering major at Georgia Tech. William Calvin Weeks Jr., IM 42, of Decatur, Ga., on Nov. 19. Mr. Weeks had a long career in Sears’ Southeastern territory, retiring as regional vice president of transportation. A member of the Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame, he captained Tech’s 1942 SEC championship track team. During World War II, he served as an armament and special services officer in a B-24 bomb group in England. Arthur Lewis Williams, EE 46, of Macon, which participated in the invasions of Anzio, Italy, and southern France beachheads. At the end of the war, he was assigned as a disbursing officer in New York. His Naval career also included service as a Naval Academy instructor and as the officer in charge of yards and docks at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Harold Hamilton “Spud” Youngblood, EE 43, of Nokesville, Va., on Oct. 21. Mr. Youngblood worked at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and later NASA in Hampton, Va., from 1943 until his retirement in 1975. In Memoriam College of Architecture Graduate, Professor Joe Smith oseph Newton Smith III, BS 48, Arch 49, who after practicing architecture for a number of years in Florida returned to his alma mater to teach, died Nov. 5 at the age of 83. Mr. Smith accepted a position as a visiting critic at Georgia Tech in 1963. That same year, he became a professor and assistant director of the College of Architecture. During his 18-year career with the Institute, Mr. Smith helped establish an extended-degree program that underlies what is now the master of architecture degree program. He also helped form a study abroad program that later became the Paris program, which now is in its 34th year. Mr. Smith was one of a select group of people awarded the College of Architecture’s Philip Trammell Shutze medal, its highest honor. In 1981, Mr. Smith left Tech to become the senior partner for interior design at Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates, from which he retired. Alan Balfour, dean of the College of Architecture, said, “Joe was a marvelous watercolorist and, above all, a great teacher.” Mr. Smith’s studies at Georgia Tech were interrupted in 1944, when he joined the Navy. After serving as a lieutenant junior grade aboard a battleship in the South Pacific, he returned to the Institute in 1946 to complete his degree. J In addition to being an architect and a Georgia Tech professor, Joe Smith also was a noted watercolorist. Following graduation from Tech, Mr. Smith worked as a designer and architectural delineator for several firms in Miami. From 1951 to ’56, he was a designer and project architect with the firm Watson, Deutschman and Kruse. In 1956, he started Joseph N. Smith Architect. The American Institute of Architects honored Mr. Smith for his career as a designer in 1972 with a fellowship for design. Memorials in his name may be made to the Georgia Tech Foundation for the College of Architecture. Ga., on Nov. 20. A retired Navy lieutenant commander, he retired from Robins Air Force Base, where he served as an electrical engineer for 27 years. He enjoyed quail hunting with his dogs. Sidney W. Williams, Text 42, MS Text 52, of San Diego, on Nov. 10. Cmdr. Williams retired from a 24-year career in the Navy in 1966 and worked as a systems analyst for Boeing and General Dynamics. He was a member of Tau Beta Pi and Theta Kappa Phi at Tech. He received his commission as an ensign in the Navy at Harvard University. During World War II, Cmdr. Williams was assigned to a flotilla, 1950s Charles F. Almand Sr., IM 50, of Hoover, Ala., and Atlanta, on Dec. 28. He retired as president and chairman of the board of Evans L. Shuff and Associates of Atlanta. During World War II, Mr. Almand served in the Army Signal Corps and Army Air Corps radar research and development. Robert Eugene Boggs Sr., ME 59, a resident of Homewood, Ala., on Nov. 30. From 1985 through 1997, he was a maintenance manager with BE&K Industrial Services. He was the recipient of the prestigious TechTopics | Spring 2009 35
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