Lawyer, businessman. Born: 1902 in Ham, Tex. Parents: Shepard and Anne (Borden) McGee. Adopted at age three by his aunt, Margaret Rosa (Borden) Ide, Jacksonville, Ala. Education: University of Alabama, degree, 1923; Harvard University Law School, LL.B. Married: 1929. Children: One. Married: Rissie Miller on April 11, 1957. Children: One. Joined Anniston (Ala.) law firm, 1929-1931; New York Law firm. Served as secretary, vice president, and president of American Home Products Corporation; director of Pal Blade Company, American Machine and Foundry Company, International Cigar Machine Company. Helped organize and was legal counsel to New York Airways, Inc.

Source: Memoirs.

Author: Memoirs of Knox Ide. Anniston, Ala.: Higginbotham, 1986.

IKENBERRY, ERNEST, 1913-

Mathematician, teacher. Born: November 26, 1913, Ottawa, Kan. Education: University of Ottawa, Kansas, B.A., 1936; University of Kansas, M.A., 1938; Louisiana State University, Ph.D., 1950. Taught mathematics at Louisiana State University, 1946-1950, and at Auburn University, 1950-1975. Member: American Mathematical Society.

Source: American Men and Women of Science, 1982.

Author: Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians and Physicists. New York: Oxford University Press, 1962.

INMAN, ROBERT FREDERICK, 1943-

Journalist. Born: August 22, 1943, Troy. Parents: Louis Frederick and Emma Margaret (Cooper) Inman. Married: Paulette Strong, April 15, 1967. Children: Two. Education: University of Alabama, B.A., 1965, M.F.A., 1979. Employed by WSFA-TV, Montgomery, 1965-1968; press secretary for Governor Albert Brewer 1968-1970; employed by WBTV, Charlotte, N.C., 1970-1975, 1979-; worked for the University of Alabama, 1975-1979. Member: Phi Beta Kappa. Honors: Outstanding Alumnus of the Department of Broadcast and Film Communication, University of Alabama; first prize for fiction, Birmingham Festival of Arts; various awards for television journalism.

Source: Robert Inman, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Author: Dogs and Children. Boston: Little Brown, 1991.

Home Fires Burning. Boston: Little Brown, 1987.

My Friend Delbert Earle and Other Notes in Closing: Television Essays. Charlotte: Hometown Press, 1989.

A Note in Closing. Charlotte, North Carolina: Hometown Press, 1985.

IRWIN, J. DAVID, 1939-

Engineer, teacher. Born: August 9, 1939, Minneapolis, Minn. Education: Auburn University, B.E.E., 1961; University of Tennessee, M.S., 1962, Ph.D., 1967. Employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1967-1969; taught at Auburn University, 1969-, serving as chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering after 1976. Member: American Society for Engineering Education; Alabama and National Society of Professional Engineers; IEEE Computer Society; Southeastern and National Association of Electrical Engineering; executive committee of the Southeastern Center for Electrical Engineering Education; education editor of Computer; editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics; fellow of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers; received the IEEE Centennial Medal, 1984.

Source: J. David Irwin, Auburn, Ala.

Author: Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis. New York: Macmillan, 1984.

Joint Author: Industrial Noise and Vibration Control. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1979.

An Introduction to Computer Logic. Englewood Cliff, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1974.

ISRAEL, MELVIN ALLEN

See: Allen, Mel