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BURDELL & FRIENDS has been appointed to the Jekyll Island State Park Authority by Gov. Sonny Perdue. Royal is retiring from the Georgia House of Representatives, where he has served since 1983. He is a past president of the Camilla Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club and served 10 years on the city council. He received the Georgia Chamber of Commerce’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the Georgia Forestry Commission’s Legislator of the Year Award and the Georgia Farm Bureau Commodity Award. Royal and his wife, Marilyn, have five grown children and nine grandchildren. Douglas J. Spence, EE 69, has been elected chairman of the board of directors of Groundwork Group, an IT and data management service company that serves the nonprofit community of central Ohio. He is COO of Foresight Corp., a privately held software development company in Columbus, Ohio. Spence and his wife, Deb, have lived in Columbus for 30 years. Don Swann, IE 67, has published his second novel, “Justice for JJ in Jenkins.” After 25 years at Deloitte Consulting, Swann is semiretired and has created an alter ego named Freddie Chapman, who solves business mysteries similar to those Swann faced in his consulting career. Swann continues to consult with clients and recently served as COO for Bristol Compressors. He and his wife, Debbie, recently celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. mittee for the last six years. An attorney, Jenkins recently was reappointed to the Georgia State Bar’s advisory committee on legislation. Tom Lyttle, ME 70, drove his Mazda RX-7 to a second-place finish in the South Atlantic Road Racing Championships Invitational Challenge at Roebling Road Raceway in September, scoring enough points to win the 2008 South Atlantic Road Racing Series championship. His season included six race wins. Lyttle won the series championship in 2006 and finished third in the year-end standings in 2004 and 2007. He will receive the award at the Sports Car Club of America Southeast division’s banquet in January at Jekyll Island, Ga. John H. Miller II, CE 75, MS CE 76, retired from the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D.C., after 30 years as senior engineer/project manager and began a one-year, active-duty tour as facilities engineer in the Office of the Navy Judge Advocate General at the Washington Navy Yard. Miller is a captain in the Navy’s Civil Engineer Corps. His family has moved to Decatur, Ga., but will keep its home in Vienna, Va., until Miller’s active-duty tour is completed. Richard Rogers, EE 76, retired in July after a 37-year career at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Rogers, who began work as a co-op student in 1971 on the Apollo program, was the lead telecommunications engineer on the space shuttle communications systems. In retirement, he plans to do volunteer work at his 8-year-old daughter’s elementary school and work on home-renovation projects. 1970s Janet C. Campbell, Arch 75, M Arch 77, was re-elected for a third consecutive term to the San Francisco Republican Party Central Committee from the California 12th Assembly District in June. Campbell serves as vice chair of special events. Alex Gregory, TE 70, was elected in June to the board of directors of YKK Corp., headquartered in Tokyo. Gregory, the first nonnative to be elected to the board, is president and CEO of the Marietta-based YKK Corporation of America, which leads 15 subsidiaries located throughout the Western hemisphere across five time zones from Canada to Colombia, South America. The company makes zippers and other sewnproducts fasteners and architectural products such as windows and doors for commercial and residential applications. Curtis Jenkins, IM 79, has been elected to the board of directors and appointed to the legal affairs and legislative policy committees of the National Rifle Association. Jenkins was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1989 to 2005, serving as chairman of the special judiciary com- 1980s Marc Corsini, IM 80, has published a book, “Do What You Do Better for Salespeople,” which uses concise concepts and practical, proven techniques to emphasize the fundamentals of selling. Corsini is the founder of Corsini Consulting Group LLC, a strategicplanning and business-coaching firm based in Birmingham, Ala. Cigdem Delano, ICS 83, assumed the post of chief information officer of the Morehouse School of Medicine in September. Delano will be responsible for implementing an information technology strategy that sustains a scalable network, supports a common operational database and optimizes technology resources to improve access to information for strategic decision making and better support the institution’s core activities. She will direct and manage academic, administrative, telecommunication, clinical and institutional computing. Delano most recently CHRIS GADDIS Godspeed, Dad Naval Reserve Lt. Cmdr. Reginald Mackey, EE 96, salutes his son, Joseph, during a September send-off event in Norcross, Ga., hosted by his employer, Wells Real Estate Funds, before his deployment to Afghanistan. served as president of BIT Synergies LLC in Atlanta. Paul Fritz, Arch 83, and his wife, Kim Killu, announce the birth of a son, Braeden Anthony, on July 24. He joins sister Danielle, 18, at the family’s home in St. Clair Shores, Mich. Fritz is the director of architecture for AE Equities, located in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich. Tom Hendricks, ChE 84, is living in Singapore with his wife, Barbara, and son, Brent. Hendricks has been with Fluor, the world’s TechTopics | Winter 2008 31

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