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AIAA BULLETIN | AIAA NEWS AND EVENTS

Correction: AIAA Student

Branches, 2019–2020

Below are the AIAA student

branches that were uninten-

tionally left off the list pub-

lished in the January issue on

pages 55–58.

Region I

City University of New Yo r k

(Long Island)

FA: TBA

SBC: TBA

Johns Hopkins University

(Mid-Atlantic)

FA: TBA

SBC: TBA

Region II

North Carolina State University

(Carolina)

FA: Jack Edwards

SBC: Paul Neil

Tennessee Tech University

(Tennessee)

FA: TBA

SBC: TBA

New Student Branches

AIAA is pleased to welcome eight new student branches, which were approved by the Board of
Trustees in January. With these eight additions, AIAA now has 244 student branches. Please join
us in welcoming these new branches!

Obituaries

AIAA Associate Fellow Isaacs
Died in July 2019
Leslie T. Isaacsdied on 27 July 2019, at
age 92.
Isaacs served his country in the
U.S. Naval Reserve, fi rst Class Aviation
Electronics Tech Mate. He was active
duty from May 1945 to July 1946.
From 1946 to 1950 he attended the
University of Tucson, Arizona graduating
with a degree in Electrical Engineering.
Isaacs was hired by Douglas Aircraft and
worked for them in Long Beach for 42
years as an Electrical Engineer, retiring
in 1992.
In 1990, he received an AIAA Special
Service Citation from the Los Angeles/
Orange County Sections.

AIAA Senior Member Blackaby

Died in December 2019

James Blackaby passed away on 31

December at the age of 98.

In 1939 Blackaby attended the Uni-

versity of Oregon, before transferring to

the University of Washington to pursue

his interest in aerodynamics. He left

the university to serve in the U.S. Army

during World War II, but later returned to

Seattle to fi nish his degree.

In 1947, he accepted a job with

NACA at Ames Research. Blackaby

began his career conducting research in

the wind tunnels at Moffett Field. When

Ames became part of NASA in 1958,

he joined the Life Science Division.

He was involved in the very earliest

space fl ight research and technology

for Project Mercury, Project Gemini,

and the Apollo program, developing

spacesuits and designing astronauts’

life support systems. He holds a patent

for the “Blackaby Backpack,” a portable

unit that enables astronauts to venture

outside an orbiting spacecraft. In 1976

Blackaby retired from NASA.

AIAA Associate

Fellow Bell Died

in January

Robert (Bob) Belldied

on 9 January.

Bell attended to

Columbia University, but left to join

the U.S. Air Force. He served six years

in the Air Force, followed by two years

in the reserves. He later received his

mechanical engineering degree from

the University of Colorado, and earned

a master’s degree equivalency in nuclear

engineering.

Bell worked on many space

development programs for Lockheed,

Ball, Boeing, and SNC. He was a lead

engineer on the transformational

reusable launch vehicle demonstrator,

the DC-X; a propulsion lead on the

mighty Delta III launch vehicle; the

Region I

American Public
University System
(No Section
Assignment)
FA: Marvine Hamner
and Ed Albin
SBC: Scott Palmer

Region II

Florida Atlantic
University
(Palm Beach Section)
FA: Stewart Glegg
SBC: Diego
Salvatierra

FA = Faculty Advisor
SBC = Student
Branch Chair

University of

Tennessee-

Chattanooga

(Tennessee Section)

FA: Kidambi

Sreenivas and Trevor

Elliott

SBC: Ashwyn Sam

University of West

Florida

(NW Florida Section)

FA: Carolyn Mattick

SBC: William Preston

University of

North Carolina at

Charlotte (Carolina

Section)

FA: Karen Thorsett

SBC: Spencer Owen

Region III

University of

Missouri at Kansas

City

(Wisconsin Section)

FA: Travis Fields

SBC: Shawn

Herrington

Region IV

New Mexico

Institute of Mining

and Technology

(Albuquerque

Section)

FA: Mostafa

Hassanalian

SBC: Savannah

Bradley

Region VII

University of

Canterbury

(International)

FA: Dan Zhao and

Bruce Robertson

SBC: Matthew

Furkert