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BURDELL & FRIENDS Japan. His studies at Tech were interrupted when he was called back to active duty for the Korean War. Augustus L. Stanford Jr., Phys 52, MS Phys 57, PhD Phys 58, of Atlanta, on Sept. 14. Dr. Stanford was a physics professor at Georgia Tech for 40 years. Shelton Clement Till III, ME 58, of Everett, Wash., on Aug. 26. He was a mechanical engineer for Boeing for 40 years. He spent many years participating in community and church sports, running tournaments, coaching basketball and softball teams and refereeing. Hope Clark Waggoner Jr., ME 50, of Dallas, in October. He worked with Frito Lay as a mechanical engineer from 1954 until retiring in 1987. Mr. Waggoner made violins for 41 years but did not start learning to play until the age of 80. A member of the Herschel 400 Club, he loved astronomy and built an observatory at Lake Kiowa, Texas. During World War II, he served as a scout International Paper and Canadian Pacific. Prior to attending Georgia Tech, Mr. West attended George Washington University while working at the FBI. He served in the Army during the Korean War, achieving the rank of first lieutenant. John W. Windle Jr., MS IE 58, of Fort Worth, Texas, on Sept. 15. He was president of MCS/Texas Direct Inc. for 32 years. He served two years in the Air Force and later earned a doctorate in industrial psychology from Texas Christian University. Dr. Windle was a member of the Senior Men’s Golf Association. Memphis, Tenn., on Sept. 24. Mr. Cooper retired from a career in machine-tool sales. Byron A. Davis, ChE 61, of Collinsville, Ill., on Sept. 28. Mr. Davis retired from the McDonnell-Douglas Corp. after 32 years of service. William A. Faughnan Jr., IE 68, EE 79, of Rowley, Mass., on Aug. 26. Mr. Faughnan worked at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard as a nuclear engineer, retiring in May after 30 years. During the Vietnam War, Mr. Faughnan served in the Army and was awarded the Bronze Star. He later retired from the Army Reserve as a lieutenant colonel. He received a master’s degree in finance from Georgia State University and was a member of the Knights of Columbus. Henry Glen Richmond, BS 60, Arch 61, of Tampa, Fla., on Aug. 2. He worked as an architect in Atlanta for many years before moving to Tampa, where he started the Stewart/Richmond firm and was an architect, an expert witness and a professional arbitrator. He served on the city’s code enforcement board for many years. The owner of Arabian horses, Mr. Richmond was a member of the Arabian Horse Association. Anthony “Tony” Rourke, CE 61, of Houston, on Aug. 14. Mr. Rourke worked in the construction industry throughout his career and most recently was employed by the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. He served in the Air Force before attending Georgia Tech and later earned a master’s degree from Stanford University. Donald Roy Salo, MS EM 69, of Sandy Springs, Ga., on Aug. 15. Mr. Salo retired from IBM in 1994 and turned Design Security Systems, a security-alarm business he earlier started as a hobby, into a fulltime business serving residential and commercial customers in the Buckhead and Sandy Springs areas. In his free time, Mr. Salo enjoyed watching films in his basement, which he had equipped with a ticket booth, marquee, popcorn machine and theater seats. Ying Kuen Shum, EE 69, of Hong Kong, on Dec. 8, 2007. Ronald John Snelson, IM 66, of Alpharetta, Ga., on Aug. 10. He received an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. An Army veteran, Mr. Snelson served as a Boy Scout troop leader for many years. Tracy W. Stackhouse III, IM 68, of Oxford, Ga., on Aug. 22, from a heart attack. Mr. Stackhouse, who received a master’s In Memoriam 1960s Max L. Allen, MS AMath 65, of Scottsdale, Ariz., on Aug. 25. At the time of his death, Mr. Allen was co-chair of the education committee of the Arizona chapter of the Lymphoma Research Foundation. He had battled mantle cell lymphoma for five years. Prior to attending Georgia Tech, he served in the Army. In 1968, he moved to Scottsdale, where he worked for Motorola for more than 30 years. Joseph E. Baker, ChE 65, of Brookfield, Conn., on Aug. 12, in Easton, Mass., as a result of a plane accident while flying an Angel Flight mission. Mr. Baker worked for 14 years for Union Carbide Corp. before joining Amoco Performance Products as a business controller. From 1994 to 2008, he was a Realtor. He received an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. A lieutenant in the Navy, he served as a submarine officer from 1968 to ’72. He had served on the board of trustees for the Presbytery of Southern New England, the Brookfield Board of Education and the Brookfield Republican Town Committee. He was a Connecticut justice of the peace from 2005 to 2008, an Eagle Scout and member of the Order of the Arrow. John Ansel Brady Jr., IM 61, of Larose, La., on Aug. 13. He had retired as president of SJI Inc. Ellen Burnstein, Cls 68, of Atlanta, on Oct. 11. She was vice president of Dale Henson Associates, a real-estate consulting firm for which she worked for nearly 25 years, before stepping down due to illness. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, she moved to Nashville, Tenn., at the age of 3 and graduated from Vanderbilt University after surviving polio her sophomore year. Mrs. Burstein worked as a city planner for the state of Tennessee before moving to Atlanta to pursue a master’s degree in city planning from Georgia Tech. William Terry “Ted” Cooper III, IM 60, of Gordon P. Boutwell Jr., CE 60, MS CE 61, of Baton Rouge, La., on Sept. 2. After working with Humble Oil and ETCO Engineers, Dr. Boutwell in 1974 established Soil Testing Engineers, which grew to become the largest geotechnical services firm in Louisiana. He developed the two-stage field permeability test for hydraulic conductivity testing of clay liners and wrote the American Society for Testing and Materials standard for it. In 2004, he received the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality Benton Mackay Award for lifetime service to the solid waste community. He was the 2008 recipient of the American Society of Civil Engineers Louisiana chapter’s lifetime achievement award. He served on the ASCE New Orleans levee assessment team after Hurricane Katrina. He produced more than 40 technical publications, taught engineering courses as a visiting professor at several universities and served as an expert witness in numerous trials. An Eagle Scout, he was a letterman on the cross-country team and a member of Kappa Sigma at Georgia Tech. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1961 and earned the rank of first lieutenant. He earned a PhD in civil engineering at Duke University. Dr. Boutwell, who served as president of the Baton Rouge Ship Modelers Association and built exhibits for the USS Kidd Museum, also constructed dollhouses for his granddaughters. car commander with Troop A of the 18th Calvary Reconnaissance Squadron in the European theater. Alexander Lockhart West, IM 56, of Decatur, Ala., on Aug. 25. Mr. West was vice president of sales at Avenor, a newsprint manufacturer, when he retired in 1994. During his 35-year career in newsprint sales, he worked with such companies as 42 TechTopics | Winter 2008

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