Dear Ole Miss Civil Engineering Alumni and Friends:

Do you know what the following people have in common?

  a.. Paul Whitfield Murrill, former Chancellor of Louisiana State University and chief executive officer of Gulf States Utilities in Beaumont, Texas

  b.. Joseph Cerny, Head of Nuclear Science Division and Associate Director of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Professor of Chemistry, UC Berkeley

  c.. John Prados, served as Acting Chancellor of University of Tennessee, Knoxville campus

  d.. Chun-Tsung Wang, Former Dean of Engineering, National Taiwan University; Former President, National Taiwan Ocean University

  e.. Jerry Harris, Chair, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University

  f.. William Parsons, Chief, Space Shuttle Program, NASA

  g.. Richard E. Mayo, Subsystem Manager, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston

  h.. Richard Baxter Wilson, retired CEO of Mississippi Power and Light

  i.. T. Paul Teng, Director, Office of Infrastructure R&D, Federal Highway Administration

  j.. Alfred Crawley, Former Chief Research Engineer, Department of Transportation, State of Mississippi

  k.. Wade Stinson, Vice President, Construction and Maintenance, Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division

  l.. William Yates, President, Yates Construction Co.

  m.. John G. Adler, Chairman of Adaptec Inc.

  o.. Henry C. Brevard Jr., President and CEO of B&B Concrete Co. Inc. of Tupelo

  p.. James Barnette , President, Coastcon Corp. , Corpus Christi, Texas

  q.. Gorman Schaffer , Executive Vice President, Neel-Schaffer, Inc.

  r.. Al Roeder, President, Criterion Catalyst Company

  s.. William D Young,  President, Pinnacle Construction

  t.. Guy Lane Arbuthnot, III,  Former Vice President, TRW

  u.. David Arnold, Senior Vice President, Mississippi Chemical

You are right, they are all graduates of Ole Miss School of Engineering!

(Source: Dean Kai-Fong Lee's presentation to Mississippi Engineering Society
Seminar)

I thought you will enjoy this piece of information.

I wish you happy holidays!

Alex