AIEE personalities

J. K. Nunan (AM ´39, M ´47), executive vice-president, Consolidated Vacuum Corporation, Rochester, N. Y., has been elected president of the company. Mr. Nunan was named executive vice-president of the firm early in 1953. Prior to becoming associated with Consolidated Engineering Corporation in February 1952 as vice-president in charge of sales, Mr. Nunan was employed by Howard Hughes, acting on direct assignment in matters relating to Hughes Aircraft, Hughes Tool Company, RKO-Radio Pictures Corporation, and Trans World Airlines. Before joining the Hughes organization, he served as general manager of the motion picture department, Ansco Division, General Aniline and Film Corporation, successfully introducing the Ansco color process to the motion picture industry in 1936. A former assistant dean of engineering and assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Mr. Nunan was an electrical engineering graduate of that university and subsequently was awarded a masters degree in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology. During World War II, Mr. Nunan was awarded the Medal for Merit for his work on submarine development and as director of the Pearl Harbor Laboratory of the Columbia University Division of War Research. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Eta Kappa Nu and has served on the AIEE Committee on Electronics (1948–50).