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

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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

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2 N W 'Q :ms ii it :Em- IW g.'B9-'23 63259 gn !:7' gi rf'-J :Ji -QW ug? vias' 955' r. , raid 159' . G f,?r Z3 ' RICHARD B ERSO HN 5271 Independence Avenue Bronx, New York 10471 As a soldier, worked on atomic bomb project 1944-46. Graduate school at Harvard 1946-49. Taught chemistry at Cornell and, since 1959, at Columbia. Two sons, aged 17 and 16, and a wife who is a psychologist. Doing research and supervising the research of my students in physical chemistry has been immensely I satisfying. ' . av i, S1 BESSEN 11417 Kingsland Street Los Angeles, California 90066 Sales Engineer Bessen 8: Associates 2346 Westwood Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90064 A Degree: S.B. Xl Wife: Roslyn Goody Children: Howard 1161, Bobby 1141, David 1101, Steven 161 Registered Professional Engineer in two states, American Water Works Association, Water Pol- lution Control Federation Hobbies: Riflery, woodworking Like so many of the others in the Class of '44, I Spent 35 years in the Corps of Engineers be- tween the 3rd and 4th year at Tech. About 9 months of this was in Europe, supplying Water to the First Army. As soon as the war was over there, I was on my way to the Philippines, and got home just in time to start my senior Veal' in September 1946. ' After graduating in June, 1947, 1 Worked 10 Years for manufacturers of sewage treatment equipment in Chicago, New York, and New Jer- SeY- In 1957 Roz and 1 and our then two sons to Los Angeles to work for a manufactur- ' ' representative sellin 5 treatrnent equipnf1en,t, g ewage pumps and A 111 1.967 1 went into business as Bessen gl I Ssoclales, Clolng the same thing. The business 138 glown very nicely, and We are now the ex- clusive representatives of several major manu- factur f . ers o water and waste treatment equip- ment: and Purrlps. This has been a very enjoy- able and rewarding experience. The major P1j0b1em is finding good sales engineers, but with four boys coming up, we hope to find an internal solution. Our 16-year-old worked here last summer and found it very interesting. He is considering applylng to several engineering schools, and maY S0 to TGCT1 1C1ass of '741, but may not be- cause Sanitary Engineering is no longer offered. Our other boys, including the two native Cali- fornlans, have not yet committed themselves. The entire Bessen family loves California, and if we're not here to stay, the only place We're apt to go to is Hawaii. LAWRENCE C. BIEDENHARN, JR. 2716 Sevier Street Durham, North Carolina 27705 Professor of Physics Duke University Physics Department, Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27706 Degrees: B. S. , 2-445 Ph. D. '49 Wife: Sarah .T. Willingham Children: John 1121, Sally 191 Senior Fulbright Fellow, 19583 Guggenheim Fellow, 19585 National Science Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, 19655 Sigrna Xi5 American Association for the Advancement of Science5 Federation of American Scientistsg Fellow, American Physical Societyg Fellow, Institute of Physics 1U. K. 15 Fellow, Physical Society 1U. K. 13 Schweiz. Phys. Ges. 1Swiss1 The University Club 1Washington, D. C. 1 Hobbies: Squash, sailing, hiking As is typical of the class 2-44, World War II put a big gap in our stay at M. 1. T. Went on ac- tive duty in April '43, but got three months ASTP at M. 1. T. that fall, graduating in absentia A guided tour of the Pacific followed 1Signal C01-ps group, lst Lt. , assigned to headquarters1 returning to M. 1. T. in '46, followed by a Ph. D. in theoretical physics 119491. The next twenty years as a professional physicist is probably typical of the tradeg great mobility, not only to climb the academic ladder but to work at the large international research centers. Thus, Oak Ridge National Laboratory 11950-5215 Assistant Professor, Yale 11952-5415 Associate Professor, Rice 11954-6015 Professor, Duke 11960-1. lnterspersed with this has been