The Register, 1977-10-25

              use stefanakos recently joined the a&t faculty as an associate professor of elec trical engineering after serv ing as a faculty member at the university of idaho he holds three degrees from washington state universi stefanakos ipter's celebration are from left to right joseph d ind claudius hackney ll 1 participants in the philadelphia alumni chi williams sr mrs carolyn j rhinehardt i chapter celebrates 50 years the rockwell laboratory was funded initially by the huge rockwell international corporation and the initial research grants came from the national aeronautics and space administration nasa cornell university will be assisting a&t in com plementary projects in the laboratory dr winser alexander is director of the laboratory crystals an a&t state university researcher dr ellas k stefanakos has been funded by the national science foundation to study alter native methods of developing commercially and scien tifically our method will be the use of currents and we feel that if this is successful this pro cess will be useful engineers temperature controlled method of developing crystals said stefanakos generally scientists and a dinator of research activities for the new rockwell solid state electronics laboratory at a&t has been granted 64,700 for a three year study of electronic devices such as transitors solar cells and semi-conductor diodes stefanakos also coor stefanakos saidthat,in in itiating this solid state resear ch a&t becomes only the fourth college in the nation to study in this field the others he said are cornell university massachussetts institute of technology and the phillips laboratory of new york city we sincerely hope that this research will lead into better and improved elec tronic devices said dr ellas stefanakos the chapter marked the philadelphia the oldest alumni chapter of north carolina a&t state university the philadelphia chapter celebrated 50 years of existence last weekend in an elaborate anniversary banquet and dance in the marriott motor lodge in board to attend convention about 70 sessions are scheduled for the staff your sharpen skills broaden your horizons...build your career...as you meet listen to and learn from some of the college journalism world's brightest and most knowledgeable people is the explanation the acp convention booklet gives for the purpose of the conven tion the editorial board of the a&t register will attend the 53rd associated collegiate press-national council of college publications ad visers conference acp nccpac in new orleans la.,october 27-29 dowdy was cited'for his longtime leadership role in higher education in north carolina and the nation the sixth chief administrator of a&t he formerly served ias president of the national the chapter has produced two national presidents of the alumni association mrs julia s brooks the first female to lead the organiza tion and eugene h preston jr who now resides in washington d.c the nation the philadelphia chapter was founded on october 6 1927 when seven a&t graduates got together in the city of brotherly love the university now jias more than 77 chapters throughout on hand to lead the celebra tion was claudius hackney the only living survivor of the founders it was indeed a nostalgic evening when the a&t alum ni recalled the founding of the philadelphia chapter even before a&t had a na tional alumni organization longtime service to the university observance by honoring dr.lewis c dowdy chancellor of a&t for his others present from the greensboro area included jimmie i barber national president of the alumni association joseph d williams director of alumni affairs at a&t dr albert e smith vice chancellor for development and university relations tony graham see alumni page 2 in his address dowdy commended the philadelphia chapter for their long and distinguished service to the university and to the city today is just the dawn of a new development he said other honorees included ms mozelle battle frank buie ethel byram pearl daniel daisy dial florence madison hill florence hackney susie howell susie snowden alice smith and gretchen young and caudius hackney he was presented a special award by the chapter dowdy came to a&t in 1951 and he has served as director of student teaching dean of instruction acting president and now chancellor association of state univerities and landjg rant colleges which was designed by one of the staff artists is com pleted the book is being sent to delmont publishing company in charlotte in units of 16 pages called signatures approximately 12 signatures are due november 30 the weather delayed scheduling of color see yearbook page 3 the 1978 edition of the ayantee yearbook is well under way the staff con sisting of 34 members from each classification is work ing very hard to meet the col or deadline which is due november 30 by richard steele over half of this year's book is in color the cover ayantee works hard to meet fall deadlines at the university of south florida at tampa will con duct a short photography course photography techni see newspaper page 8 members to attend including workshops and panel discus sions covering a wide range of subjects this year dr robert l kerns professor * commitment a register complete awareness for completf volume xlix number 16 north carolina agricultural and technical state university greensboro n.c tuesday october 25 1977 dr stefanakos receives funds to study crystal