TAU BETA PI AWARDS 34 FELLOWSHIPS

Tau Beta Pi's Fellowship Board announces the selection of 34 young engineering graduates from 286 applicants for graduate fellowships in 1997-98. Sixteen of this year's winners will receive cash stipends of $10,000 for their advanced study; the others do not need financial aid from Tau Beta Pi. More than $2,985,000 in stipends will have been given by the society when this 64th group of winners completes its graduate work. All Tau Beta Pi Fellowships are awarded on the competitive basis of high scholarship, campus leadership and service, and promise of future contributions to the engineering profession. All fellows are members of Tau Beta Pi and may do their graduate work at any institution they choose.
Eight of the winners will study mechanical engineering, seven electrical engineering, seven bioengineering and biomedical or biochemical engineering, four chemical engineering, three civil engineering, and five have chosen other individual areas.

Given for the 13th time, the Centennial Fellowship honors the Society's most outstanding fellow.
The Charles H. Spencer Fellowship is given for the 42nd time. Named for Tau Beta Pi's national president in 1936-47, it is awarded to that winner whose contributions to his or her collegiate chapter are judged worthy of commendation.
The Harold M. King Fellowship, awarded for the 36th time, honors the 1954-58 President of Tau Beta Pi and is given to that winner whose participation in his or her technical society is judged worthy of special mention.
Six Tau Beta Pi-James Fife Fellowships are presented in memory of the father of the late member William Fife, CA A '21.
The Tau Beta Pi-Sigma Tau award, given for the 24th time, perpetuates the name of Sigma Tau, national engineering honor society founded at the University of Nebraska in 1904 and merged into Tau Beta Pi in 1974. It also commemorates Sigma Tau's former national president and secretary-treasurer, Clarel B. Mapes.
The Donald A. Stark Fellowship is supported by a gift from a charitable trust named for the man who contributed much to progress in the fluid-power industry.
The Edward H. Williams Jr. Fellowship honors the founder of Tau Beta Pi and is given to a winner who plans to earn a doctoral degree and become a professional engineering teacher, as was Dr. Williams. It is awarded for the 18th time.
The Walter E. Deuchler Sr. Fellowship, IL A '10, presented for the 18th time, is given to a winner whose work is to be in civil, urban, or environmental engineering.
The Robbins Fellowship is awarded in honor of Paul H. Robbins, NY B '35, who served as Director of Fellowships in 1947-79 and as the 1982-86 President of Tau Beta Pi.
The Hollander Fellowship is given for the fourth time, this year in honor of Lawrence J. Hollander, NY E '51, for his service on the Fellowship Board during 1979-96, the first 12 years as Director.
The Astronauts Fellowship is presented for the fourth time, and it commemorates the three members of Tau Beta Pi who lost their lives at Kennedy Space Center in the Apollo spacecraft on January 27, 1967: Roger B. Chaffee, IN A '57, Virgil I. Grissom, IN A '50, and Edward H. White II, MI G '52.
The Tau Beta Pi-Maddox Fellowship, awarded for the second time, is named in honor of Arthur Maddox, OK A '30, who bequeathed a significant gift to the Society.
The Tau Beta Pi-Klipsch Fellowship, given for the second time, is sponsored by Paul W. Klipsch, CA G '26, in memory of his father, Oscar C. Klipsch, IN A '01.
Four new awards are named in gratitude of bequests to the Association from the estates of: Fontaine R. Earle, AR A '37; Franklin A. Lenfesty, IN A '21; Richard H. Kanning, AL B '39; and Harold E. Potter, OH E '32 .
These awards bring the total to 945 fellowships granted since the program was inaugurated in 1929

Tau Beta Pi Announces

1997 Raymond A./Ina C. Best Scholar No. 2

Tau Beta Pi has named its second Raymond A. and Ina C. Best Scholar in its year-old program to assist members who study business administration. The primary concern of Tau Beta Pi is to recognize students of superior scholarship and exemplary character and to honor eminent practicing engineers; the society also encourages excellence in engineering education and in the ethical practice of engineering.
Through the interest of the Best family, a trust fund in memory of Ina C. and Raymond A. Best, NY G '33, was established by Tau Beta Pi in 1995 for a scholarship for a graduate engineer/member to be used for the purpose of studying business administration at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and for acquiring an M.B.A. The recipient of the 1997 Best Scholarship of $10,000 is Christine M. Jones, MN B '93, E.I.T., a 1993 graduate of the University of Minnesota, Duluth, in industrial engineering. She is manufacturing development manager of Luigino's, Inc., in Jackson, OH.