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BURDELL & FRIENDS Paul B. Horton, CerE 48, of BatesburgLeesville, S.C., on Aug. 26. Col. Horton graduated from the Citadel in 1935 with a bachelor ’s degree in chemistry and worked as a high school principal, teacher and coach. During World War II, he served in the Army Air Forces, with assignments as a chemical officer. Upon graduation from Tech, he joined the engineering department of General Electric, manufacturing ceramic high-voltage insulators from 1948 to 1974. He was the supervisor of research and development and received two patents. Upon retirement, he was consulting engineer for ceramic manufacturing in Puerto Rico from 1976 to 1979. Daniel C. Kyker Jr., EE 46, of Hendersonville, N.C., on July 30. Mr. Kyker retired from Otis Elevator as vice president of marketing in 1987. He worked at General Electric for 32 years, serving as marketing manager for Hendersonville’s outdoorlighting division and as international sales manager in New York. Attending Georgia Tech through the Navy V-12 program, he served as president of his senior class and Kappa Sigma fraternity. Mr. Kyker served as president of the Jaycees clubs of Schnectady, N.Y., and Atlanta and the Edison Club of Schnectady and on the boards of directors for the Community Foundation of Henderson County and Carolina Village. He also served on the Georgia Tech advisory board. John J. Larew Sr., EE 43, of Waynesboro, Va., on Sept. 27. Mr. Larew worked for GE for 36 years. He earned 15 patents and was one of four people originally chosen to develop the Terminet printer, which later was the core of Genicom Co. An elder, Sunday school teacher and youth group leader, he built his home across the street from his church and locked its doors nightly for 33 years. He chaired the Salvation Army advisory board, was first chairman of Christians United for Service and served on the Waynesboro Commission for the Elderly and the Adult Day Care Center board. Diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer in 1989, he later led the creation of a prostate cancer support group, personally meeting with men following their diagnosis and writing a monthly newsletter. Bruce Masterton, ChE 42, of Walnut Creek, Calif., on Aug. 27. Mr. Masterton retired from Shell Development. Edwin Dale McDaniel, Cls 40, of Richmond, Texas, on April 26. He worked with IBM in the custom engineering field from 1940 to 1975, retiring as a custom engineer manager. He served in the Army from 1940 to 1946. Survivors include son William R. McDaniel II, AE 67, MS IM 71, and grandson William R. McDaniel III, ME 97. John F. McNally, AE 44, of Lawrenceville, Ga., on Aug. 10. Mr. McNally worked in the underground lawn sprinkler business for many years. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Tech and served in the Navy as a gunnery officer during World War II. He retired from the Naval Reserve after 22 years of service. Douglas Milner, ME 44, of Rome, Ga., on Oct. 6. After serving in the Army in the Pacific theater during World War II, he joined the family business, Milner Motor Co., serving as president before it was sold. He then was the co-owner of Bluff Farms. Mr. Milner was recognized for 54 years of service to the U.S. Power Squadron, for which he was a founding member, past commander, instructor and office holder. The Rome Rotary Club honored him in May sioned as a Naval officer and served in the Pacific. Albert S. Parker, IM 41, of High Point, N.C., on Jan. 5. L.H. “Pat” Raines, CE 48, of Peachtree City, Ga., on Sept. 28. Mr. Raines was employed by the Army Corps of Engineers in Washington, D.C. During World War II, he served as a pilot in the Army Air Corps, flying 65 combat missions in B-24s and B25s in the Southwest Pacific combat zone. He left active duty in 1945 and served in the Air Force Reserve, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. He was involved in Habitat for Humanity and the Meals on Wheels program. Amos Martin Rayfield, BS 48, Arch 49, a resident of Roswell, Ga., on Aug. 9. He retired after a career as an architect and was In Memoriam James Crumley, Crime Fiction Master hen I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.” With those famous opening words, novelist James Crumley began his 1978 novel “The Last Good Kiss,” which went on to inspire a generation of crime novelists. Mr. Crumley, 68, died Sept. 16 in his hometown of Missoula, Mont. The author of 11 books, Mr. Crumley entered Georgia Tech in September 1957 and left a year later to enlist in the Army. He served in the Philippines, then returned to the United States and began his career as a writer after earning a bachelor’s degree in history from Texas A&M University and a master’s degree in fine arts in creative writing from the University of Iowa. Much of Mr. Crumley’s writing took place in Montana, where he taught English at the University of Montana. He later taught at colleges and universities throughout the country. His first novel, “One to Count Cadence,” about the Vietnam War, was published by Random House in 1969. He would become best known for his crime novels, which “W THE WITTLIFF COLLECTIONS AT TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY-SAN MARCOS James Crumley inspired a generation of crime novelists. usually featured the fictional private detectives Milo Milodragovitch and C.W. Sughrue. A New York Times reviewer once remarked that Mr. Crumley had “a faultless ear for filthy speech.” for 60 years of membership. Memorials in his name may be made to the Georgia Tech Foundation for the Douglas Milner Endowment Fund. Cornelius J. “Neil” Murphy, IM 44, of Tucson, Ariz., on Aug. 12. Mr. Murphy lived for about 35 years in Santa Fe, N.M., where he was the founder and longtime proprietor of Senor Murphy Candymaker. During World War II, he was commis- a Navy veteran of World War II. Charles B. Rumsey, MS AE 42, of Williamsburg, Va., on Aug. 25. Mr. Rumsey began working for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at Langley Field, Va., in 1942 in the aircraft loads division. He enlisted in the Air Force in 1944 and upon his discharge he returned to NACA, where he studied spacecraft skin friction, aerodynamic heating and bound- TechTopics | Winter 2008 39

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