Tech Topics - Summer 2008 - (Page 29) Burdell&Friends The Ramblin’ Roll 1930s Claude Daughtry, ME 39, and his wife, Mary, celebrated their 65th anniversary on Sept. 13. The couple have two daughters, five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Daughtry is retired and will be 90 years old May 21. James C. Banks, Cls 76, has been elected president of the Tallahassee Bar Association, a 750-member organization that is the longest-serving pro bono provider of free legal services to the poor in Florida. Banks continues to practice law in Tallahassee as the senior partner of Banks and Morris PA. Sherman J. Glass Jr., ChE 71, MS ChE 72, has been appointed president of ExxonMobil Refining & Supply Co. and elected vice president of the corporation. Glass previously served as senior vice president of ExxonMobil Chemical Co. Michael Hoffman, AMath 76, and his wife, Ulrike, announce the birth of a son, Felix, on March 12. Felix joins sister Clara, 2, at the family’s home in Bethesda, Md. Hoffman is a professor of mathematics at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. Manuel A. Junco Jr., ME 75, has joined Brinderson Engineers and Constructors in California as chief executive officer. Junco previously was senior vice president of downstream operations at Fluor Corp., for which he worked for 27 years. He and his wife, Susan, will be moving to Newport Beach, Calif. Robert E. Koch, ME 72, became the plant manager for Superior Essex’s magnet wire facility in Franklin, Ind., in January. He and his wife, Debbie, celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary in November. Their first grandchild was born last year. Frank O. Smith Jr., IM 79, has joined Morgan Keegan & Co. Inc. as a financial adviser and senior vice president in the firm’s Buckhead office in Atlanta. Before joining the firm, Smith was a vice president for Alexander Key/SunTrust in Atlanta. Lynn M. Veatch, ICS 78, received a PhD in biological psychology from the University of Oklahoma and recently became special projects coordinator in the Offices of the Associate Provost for Research at the Medical University of South Carolina. Northrop Grumman Bringing Jobs, Weightless Flight to StateGrumman across the country and certainly a priority for us in this state.” lumnus Philip Teel, the corporate vice Teel announced that the company has president of Northrop Grumman and partnered with the Department of Education to president of its Mission Systems division, bring the Northrop Grumman Foundation’s stood before members of the Atlanta Press Weightless Flights of Discovery to Georgia. “Its Club in April to announce the company’s plans primary intended purpose is to get teachers to create more than 4,000 jobs in and students to engage in some Georgia, pursue a billion dollar really fun aspects of engineering, project in the state, boost its partand in this case aeroengineering, by nership with the Institute and give having them experience true schoolteachers the opportunity to weightless flight. experience weightlessness. “I’m really pleased that “The Air Force has selected Northrop Grumman has stepped out Northrop Grumman as the prime in this area and I want to announce contractor to develop their nextthat on October 7, 2008, Weightless generation aerial tanker. That Flight will be in Georgia,” he said. TEEL program is huge, ultimately estimated Teel said Northrop Grumman has at somewhere between $20 (billion) and $50 been actively engaged in boosting the state billion over the course of the next few years,” economy since the early 1990s. Examples said Teel, AE 71. “That program will be the included the development of a logistics center cornerstone for a very, very significant at Warner Robins Air Force Base; creation of aerospace corridor in the Southeast.” the Advanced Regional Traffic Management While the airplane will be built in Mobile, System for the state Department of Ala., thousands of jobs will be created in Transportation; selection by the Centers for Florida, Mississippi and Georgia, he said. Disease Control for a seven-year, $500 million “Northrop Grumman’s selection for the tanker contract providing advanced information program by the Air Force will bring 4,200 new technology and public health information jobs from the very beginning to the state of solutions and services; and the continuation of Georgia. … It will triple our footprint in the a $530 million multiyear contract to implement state with just that one program.” a joint surveillance system improvement Teel said Northrop Grumman also expects program at Warner Robins. to gain more footing with the Georgia “We are a security provider in general. Technology Authority. “We have been downThose security services are not just in the selected as one of the qualified bidders to bid things that we build that are tangible, they are on this information technology program, in the things that we build from an information which is valued around $1.4 billion over seven technology and from a decision-making and years, a very, very significant outcome for us.” decision process approach. We truly are the Northrop Grumman’s longstanding largest provider of IT to the federal relationship with the Institute is a valuable one, government,” Teel said. Teel said. After the press conference, Teel provided “The partnership really does touch many more details about his meeting with Schuster aspects of our business,” he said. “They range and Giddens. all the way from high-technology activities in “We were talking about what else we the aerospace arena … to national security could do together. We do a lot of work in networks to all types of activities that really go unmanned aerial vehicles. I want to extend across the spectrum of things that are done in that to other robotics and ground vehicles. We the engineering schools and also the Georgia do a lot of work in prognostics for airplanes,” Tech Research Institute. he said. “We think there are some real “We plan to expand our engagement with opportunities with nanotechnology in that the education community throughout the arena. We talked about our engagement in the state,” said Teel, who met earlier in the day health IT arena and the partnership between with Gary Schuster, provost and Tech’s interim Georgia Tech and Emory. We do work now president, and Dean of Engineering Don with Emory in that area and we’d like to Giddens. “In addition to talking about extend it to include both institutions in the expanding our … relationships and our health IT arena. partnerships with them, we talked about a new “We talked about the partnership for partnership and that is one to expand our primary and secondary education, this idea of outreach in science and engineering and math working together,” Teel said, “in reaching out … in the primary and secondary education and educating the public in general and kids in systems across the state. That’s a very the primary and secondary schools about the important and high priority for Northrop importance of math and science.” By Kimberly Link-Wills 1950s Raymond Riddle, IM 55, of Atlanta, has been appointed to the Board of Community Health by Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue. Riddle retired as president of Wachovia Bank of Georgia and previously served as president of the First National Bank of Atlanta. He served as chairman of National Service Industries and director of both AGL Resources Inc. and Atlantic American Corp. He and his wife, Patricia, have two grown children. 1960s William M. “Bill” Jernigan, CE 65, MS SanE 66, senior manager of environmental compliance for the Georgia-Pacific Corp., has been named one of 11 Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry 2008 fellows. A member of TAPPI since 1983, Jernigan has served in every office of the association’s environmental division and the environmental conference program committee. Jernigan is a life member of the Georgia Association of Water Professionals. Jernigan also is a member of the Water Environmental Federation. 1970s Dean Athanassiades, IE 79, of Atlanta, was presented the 2007 Distinguished Fellow Award by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society at its annual conference in Orlando, Fla., in February. He is director of solutions consulting for Philips Healthcare Informatics. TECHTOPICS | SUMMER 2008
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