Description
This image shows Chancellor Herbert Walter Wey (1969-1979) speaking at a Sigma Pi Sigma fraternity celebration in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Appalachian State University (1967-current) in 1977. Sigma Pi Sigma is a chapter of the National Honor Society for Physics for students at Appalachian State that sponsors guest speakers, trips and events throughout the academic year. Professor Karl Mamola can be seen sitting on the right. The Department of Physics and Astronomy is in the College of Arts and Sciences and maintains the Rankin Science Observatory in Rankin Science Hall, built 1963, and the Dark Sky Observatory, opened 1981, twenty miles northeast of Boone, NC. The Department offers an undergraduate degrees in applied physics and graduate degrees in engineering physics, as well as courses in industrial, chemical, computational, environmental, medical, and radiation safety physics. Dr. Robert Nicklin, Professor of Physics, is seen sitting on the far right. <p>The person on the right is Dr. T.L. Ferrell, Professor of Physics.
Source
General Picture Files, 2004.040, Box 14, Physics and Astronomy F2, C14.2.3.2.
Comments
Tom Rokoske
lines six shouls read:
Professor Robert Nicklin is seated on the left and Dr. Tom Ferrell is seated on the right.
Harvey Durham
Dr. Robert Nicklin, Professor of Physics, is seen sitting on the far right.
The person on the right is not Dr. Connelly. Rather, it is Dr. T.L. Ferrell, Professor of Physics.