Queens College Alumni Associationhonored H. William Koch, chief of the High Energy Radiation Section of the National Bureau of Standards Radiation Physics Division, by naming him as its “Alumnus of the Year”. The award, the first to be given by the Association, was presented at the college's annual homecoming dinner on November 5. A member of Queens' first graduating class, Dr. Koch received his BS in 1941. He did his graduate work at the University of Illinois and was on the staff at Illinois and at the Clinton Laboratories in Oak Ridge, Tenn., before joining NBS in 1949.