AIEE personalities

D. A. Quarles (AM ´23, F ´41), Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D. C, has been nominated as Deputy Secretary of Defense. Mr. Quarles, a past president of the AIEE, was born in Van Buren, Ark., July 30, 1894. He was graduated from Yale University in 1916 with a B.A. degree. During World War I, he served for two years in the U. S. Army, being discharged with the rank of captain. In 1919, he joined the Western Electric Company engineering department which, in 1925, became the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. Mr. Quarles became a vice-president of the Laboratories in 1947. He also has served as president of San dia Corporation and vice-president of Western Electric Company, Inc. He was appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Development in September 1953 and assumed the position of Air Force Secretary in August 1955. Mr. Quarles is a member of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Radio Engineers, the Yale Engineering Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Telephone Pioneers of America. He has served as a director of the Institute and as a member or chairman of many AIEE Committees.