Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Technique Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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and wont brick to M. l. 'l'. .is ii sl.il'tA nwnilwr gil: the .Lincoln Lab. in the Solid Sluts Division. V01-k 'it lincoln l..ili luis been in -solid el-ll i-wir ' . . - ,- -rw Chenxistry prnnarily in the etlucls ol nlliru-liigli pressure Qnp to over l. 5 niillion p, 5, in Qu tlfc structures and on the electrical and niagiietig properties of electronic materials. 1 ani enjoy- 1110 the work and have had several graduate stu- D . K' dents from the Department ot Metallurgy and from the Material Science Center carrying out their thesis work under my supervision. ' 5 X. . X .Figs 9 , X iii - A fix? v X.: page RALPH G. BARC LAY 12107 Lerner Place Bowie, Maryland 20715 Aerospace Technologist NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland 20771 Code 723 Degrees: S.B. II: A. B. , Middlebury, Physics: M. S. , University of Connecticut M. E. 3 Ph.D. , University of Maryland M. E. Wife: Janet C. Baldwin Children: Richard f5l, David Q31 Member: Local S. E. S. A. Hobbies: Photography, gardening After graduation I was eventually drafted into the Navy to be trained as an electronics techni- cian, having missed a more heroic role as an ensign by virtue of substandard before- correc- tion vision. Ultimately, I was assigned to a transport ship just in time to bring the boys back. The highlight of my service career came when I repaired a transmitter that the old chief cou1dn't fix. This was a triurnph of deduction and scientific training, but actually I happened 120 notice a broken wire that he had overlooked. After the war I worked for Johns Manville until 1951 when, feeling the need of a training retread, I took a year off and obtained an M. S. at the University of Connecticut--where I also met my wife. Now being somewhat committed to more technical work with my shiny M. S. , I hlred on at the National Bureau of Standards. Reorganization in the wake of the ADX2-battery- additive furor created the Army's Harry Dia- mond Laboratories from my part of N. B. S. At Harlflf Diamond I was involved in a br eakthru and its aftermath when Horton, Bowles, and Wiarren started f1uidics. In fluidics I worked Wllih the hydraulic analogy as an aid in creating fluidic designs, As a consequence of endlessly going 120 school, the University of Maryland gave me a Ph- D. degree in 1960. In 1963 NASA looked like greener grass, and that's where I am today. JOHN G. BARMBY 924 Fairway Drive, NE Vienna, Virginia 22180 Senior Scientist IIT ' Research Institute 1825 K Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20006 Degrees: S. B. XVI3 A. B. fPhysicsJ Middlebury 19443 M. A. CBusiness Administrationl, George Washington University, 1951: Ph. D. CPublic Administrationl, American University, 1957 Wife: Ellaveen Rebecca Childress Children: John Scott Clll, Grant 173 Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aero- nautics and Astronautics: Senior Member, Am- erican Society of Public Administrationg AAAS Past President of the M. I. T. Luncheon Clubs in the Pentagon and Downtown D. C. 3 Vienna Presbyterian Churchg Westwood Country Clubg Shawneeland Mountain Club Hobbies: Readings in systems analysis as ape plied to civil problems: swimming: tennis and skiing have taken a back seat since I broke my leg on the slopes two years ago. Having been a Presbyterian since I left MIT, nt career may be considered somewhat predestine In the 'Forties I was in the airplane business: i the 'Fifties I was in the missiles business, in the 'Sixties I have been in the spacecraft busi- ness: in the 'Seventies I-plan to move imc the civil applications field. The same view may bi appropriate for my domestic life. Ellaveen CTCU-BA in Math and MA in Edj and I met in Holland in 1953 on a summer tourg that winter I was assigned as project engineer on a missill being developed in Fort' Worthy where she live- the next summer she and some of her teacher colleagues studied at Columbia: we were mar- ried in 1955 and bought a house with a 4070 mortgage Cremember those days?,l. I am considered a long-time resident of the Washington area, having been here 'for 20 years. Following graduation I worked as a re- search engineer for the predecessor of NASA fthe space agencyl at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. Then for eleven years 41948-19591 I was a project engineer at the Navy fnow the Ai Systems Commandl. Systems engineering was attractive so I moved over to the Pentagon as a weapons systems analyst with the Institute for Defense Analyses. Since 1962 I have been studying problems related to space science anc applications under contract to NASA, mostly la IIT Research Institute in charge of the analytic group in D. C. My group is enthused about the potential economic benefits to the general pub- lic which could accrue from satellite surveys for water resources, mineral and oil resource Oceanography, agriculture, forestry, etc.

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1 H! U Lg- s. has 1: ll 2 Lh- M. ng. 22:- lm W EPS! K3. us:- -fd :ni gin' f- 1. nfl 193- :H-'Y milf' 243 . BFE' nl-'51 5:52314 -:B I2 :Zi ff m 55' 8,-gs. MELVIN BECKER R.D. 4 - Merryweather Drive Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015 Chief Engineer, Bethlehem Plant Bethlehem Steel Corporation Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18016 Degree: S. B. 11 Wife: Cecile Inge Children: Bruce 1171, Karen 1141, Mark 1111 Member: AISE, AISI Hobbies: Golf, skiing My business career has been entirely with the Bethlehem Steel Corporation where I started in 1947 as an Engineer Trainee at the Sparrows Point Plant 1outside of Baltimore, Maryland1. Like many others in the Class of 1944, three years of military duty resulted in a three- year delay in formal graduation. During my stint in the Army Engineers, I met and married Mrs. Becker in Europe. The first l 8 years of my career were all at the Sparrows Point Plant and were all involved in the various aspects of plant engineering and construction--a time which witnessed a doubling of plant capacity, as well as many installations designed for modernizing and generally upgrad- ing. Also a time which granted me the oppor- tunity to advance from Engineer to Assistant Chief Engineer through the intermediate steps of Project Engineer, Supervising Engineer, and Superintendent of Construction. In 1965, .I became the Assistant Chief En- gineer, Capital Budgets and Appropriations, at the Corporate Office located in Bethlehem, Pa. One year later, I was transferred to the Bethle- hem Plant as Chief Engineer and am currently in this position. The Becker family are all enthusiastic va- cationers.: they also enjoy more of the partici- P9-ting sports such as golf, skiing, skating, tennis, etc, NORMAN B EECHER 1100 Monument Street Concord, Massachusetts 01742 Assistant Director of Research Norton Research Corporation 70 Memorial Drive Cambridge, Massachusetts 01742 Degrees: B.S. X, 19443 M. S. X, 19485 Sc.D. X, 1957 Wife: Nancy E. Bartram Children: Nancy Catharine 1161, Carolyn Elizabeth 1141, Norman Buckingham II 1121, Edward Bartram 1101 Registered Professional Engineer, Massachu- setts: Sigma Xig A. I. Ch. E. , A.I. A. A. 3 Epis- copal Church, American Civil Liberties Union, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Planned-ParenthoodfWorld Population Association, Appalachian Mountain Club, Concord Country Club, Northeast Harbor Fleet Hobbies: Skiing, tennis, sailing, hiking, carpentry Although called to active military service in April 1943, I managed to squeak by with a de- gree in June 1944 by such extreme measures as writing up a thesis nights at Officer Candidate School. I arrived in France with the 14th Ar- mored Division in October 1944 and served overseas for two years as an Ordnance officer. In the fall of l 946 I returned to M. I. T. and pursued both an M. S. degree and a certain Wel- lesley girl. Both efforts were successful in June of 1948. After graduation and marriage I worked for a little over a year as a foreman in production at Dewey and Almy Chemical Co. , Cambridge, Mass. Then we embarked on a really great adventure, A teaching at Robert Col- lege, Istanbul, Turkey, for three years. Dur- ing the summers we saw Europe by bicycle. In 1952 I returned to M. I. T. again to get an Sc. D. , received an appointment as Assistant Professor in 1953, and finally finished the de- gree in 1957, after four valuable years of teach- ing with such colleagues as Professor T. K. Sherwood. Since 1957 I have been with the same outfit, but with varying company names. When I joined up, National Research Corporation was a small, technically oriented new product developer and manufacturer. Five years ago we merged with Norton Co. and now are Norton Research Cor- poration, the corporate research arm of Nor- ton, charged with long- range new product devel-e opment. As Assistant Director of Research I manage R 8: D in the area of advanced materials We have lived in Concord, Mass. , for 13 years, where we are active in the church, in skiing and tennis, and enjoy music. My wife is