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His membership in professional organizations includes the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Chemists, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Society of Chemical Industry, of which he was chairman of the American Section for 1964-1965.

In local civic and charitable activities, he is a past president of the Welfare Council of Delaware, and has been a director and member of the Executive Committee of the United Community Fund of Northern Delaware, Inc., since 1956. He was elected president of the United Fund and Council of Delaware, Inc., in 1969. Mr. Lenher is a director of the Wilmington Country Club and a member of the Wilmington Club, the Greenville Country Club, the Du Pont Country Club, the Quill and Grill Club of Wilmington, the Historical Society of Delaware, the Society of Natural History of Delaware and the Wilmington Chapitre de Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin.

Born June 19, 1905, in Madison, Wis., he was graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1924 and two years later received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in physical chemistry from the University of London. He then studied at the University of Berlin as a Fellow of the International Education Board of Paris, and also worked at the University of California as a Fellow of the National Research Council.

He married Irene Basadre Kirkland of Lake Forest, Ill., in December, 1929. They have a daughter, Mrs. Alexander Laughlin Robinson, Jr., of Greenwich, Conn., and two sons, John K., of Arlington, Va., and George B. Lenher of Chappaqua, N.Y. The Lenhers live at 1900 Woodlawn Avenue, Wilmington.

DR. FRANKLIN A. LONG

Present Position: Vice President for Research & Advanced Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

Born July 27, 1910, Great Falls, Mont.

Education: B.A., Montana State University, 1932; Ph. D. in Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 1935.

Marital Status: Married; two children.

Background Non-Governmental: 1933-35-Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley. 1936-37-Instructor, Chemistry, University of Chicago, 1937-62-Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 1943-45-Research Supervisor, Explosives Research Laboratory of NORC, Pittsburgh, Pa. 1946-Visiting Chemist and Consultant, Brookhaven National Laboratories, Upton, Long Island, N.Y. 1947-62; 1964-Member, Board of Trustees, Associated Universities, Inc., N.Y. 1950-60-Chairman, Department of Chemistry, Cornell University. 1952Research Consultant to the Procter and Gamble Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 1956–59– Faculty Trustee of Cornell University. 1961-Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Physical Chemistry. 1962- Member of the National Academy of Sciences. 1964-67-Chairman, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, National Research Council. 1964 -Member, Committee on Chemistry and Public Affairs, American Chemical Society. 1964 -Member, Board of Directors, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.

Background Government: 1941-45-Consultant, National Defense Research Committee, Office of Scientific Research & Development, Washington, D.C. 1953– 59-Consultant, Ballistics Research Laboratory, Department of the Army, Aberdeen, Md. 1956-60-Consultant, Scientific Advisory Board, Department of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. 1959-63-Chairman of Chemistry Advisory Committee to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. 1959-63-Consultant, Scientific Advisory Committee, Department of Defense, Washington, D.C. 1960Member of Committee on Chemistry & Chemical Technology of the National Research Council. 1961-66-Member of the President's Science Advisory Committee, Washington, D.C. 1962-63-Assistant Director, Science and Technology, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Washington, D.C. 1963--Consultant to U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Washington, D.C. 1966--Consultant to President's Science Advisory Committee.

Author: Contributed numerous articles on chemistry to science journals, encyclopedias, and reference works.

DR. EMANUEL R. PIORE

Dr. Emanuel R. Piore is Vice President and Chief Scientist and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Business Machines Corporation. He joined IBM in 1956 as Director of Research, and was elected a Vice President in 1960.

Dr. Piore was associated with the Office of Naval Research from 1946 to 1955, serving as chief scientist for the last four years of this period. Prior to joining IBM, he was Vice President for research of the Avco Corporation.

He is a member of the National Science Board, and a former member of the President's Science Advisory Committee. Other memberships include the New York State Science and Technology Foundation and the board of Science Research Associates, Inc. He is a trustee and member of the executive committee of the Sloan/Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, chairman of the Committee on Scientific Policy of the Memorial Sloan/Kettering Cancer Center, and a trustee of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, chairman of the board of trustees of the Hall of Science of the City of New York, and a member of the board of directors of Resources for the Future, Inc.

Dr. Piore is a member and treasurer of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Philosophical Society, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dr. Piore received his A.B. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1930 and 1935. He also served as an instructor at Wisconsin from 1930 until 1935. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from Union University in 1962 and from the University of Wisconsin in 1966. Upon completion of his work with the Office of Naval Research, Dr. Piore was awarded the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award in recognition of exceptionally outstanding service to the Navy. In 1967 he received the Industrial Research Institute medal and in 1960 the Eta Kappa Nu award.

He has been associated also with the Radio Corporation of America, Columbia Broadcasting System, and the U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships. During World War II he served as Lieutenant Commander in the Navy.

DON K. PRICE

Middlesboro, Kentucky, January 23, 1910. A.B., Vanderbilt University, 1931. B.A., Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar 1932), 1934; B. Litt., 1935 LL.D., Centre College of Kentucky, 1961, Syracuse University, 1962.

Margaret Helen Gailbreath, March 3, 1936, children: Don C., Linda G. (Mrs. Keith S. Thomson).

Reporter, Nashville Evening Tennessean, 1930-32.

Staff member: Home Owners' Loan Corporation, 1935-37. Social Science Research Council, 1937-39. Public Administration Clearing House, 1939-53. U.S. Bureau of the Budget, 1945-46.

Hoover Commission on the Organization of the Executive Branch of Government, 1947-48.

Deputy Chairman, Research and Development Board, U.S. Department of Defense, 1952-53.

Associate director, The Ford Foundation, 1953-54; Vice president, 1954-58. Dean, John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government (formerly Graduate School of Public Administration), Harvard University, 1958.

Served as Lt., U.S.C.G. Reserve, 1943-45.

Member President's Advisory Committee on Government Organization, 195961; Committee on Foreign Affairs Personnel (Carnegie Endowment) 1961-63; Consultant to the Executive Office of the President, 1961-. Trustee: The RAND Corporation; Vanderbilt University; The Twentieth Century Fund. Member, Board of Directors: Social Science Research Council; American Association for the Advancement of Science. President, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1967.

Author: City Manager Government in the United States (with Harold and Kathryn Stone), 1940; U.S. Foreign Policy, Its Organization and Control (with W. Y. Elliott and others), 1952, also The Political Economy of American Foreign Policy, 1955; Government and Science, 1954; ed., The Secretary of State (for the American Assembly), 1960; The Scientific Estate, 1965 (awarded Faculty Prize of Harvard University Press, 1965).

DR. MICHAEL D. REAGAN

NYC, N.Y., 12 March 1927. Educated public schools, Westport, Conn.; College of the Holy Cross, A.B., 1948; Princeton University, Ph. D., 1959. Military service: U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, active duty April 1945-November 1946, October 1950-December 1951. Book publishing assistant, 1948-53. Academic career: Princeton University, Williams College, Syracuse University, University of California, Riverside (Professor of Political Science, 1964-). Author: Science and the Federal Patron (1969), The Managed Economy (1963). Co-author: Monetary Management (1963). Editor: Politics, Economics and the General Welfare (1965), The Administration of Public Policy (1969). Author of articles in Science, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Public Administration Review, American Political Science Review, Western Political Quarterly, Harvard Business Review, New York Times Magazine, New Republic, Nation, Policy, George Washington Law Review, Challenge, Dissent. Consultant, Office of Planning and Policy Studies, NSF; Member (1969), NRC Committee on the Management of Behavioral Science Research in the Department of Defense.

GEN. B. A. SCHRIEVER, USAF (RETIRED)

At the time of his retirement from the United States Air Force on 31 August 1966, General Schriever was commander of the Air Force Systems Command (AFSC) and Director of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) Program. As commander of the AFSC, he was responsible for those research, development, test, engineering and procurement actions necessary to insure that the USAF had the very best equipment possible for the jobs at hand then, as well as in the future-for use in the jungles of Vietnam as well as in the outer reaches of space. AFSC's annual budget totaled nearly eight billion dollars.

Since retirement, General Schriever has served as a consultant to industry and government in technical and management subject areas. He is Chairman of the Board of Schriever & McKee Associates, a management-consultant firm located in Arlington, Virginia, and serves many other corporate boards. He is especially active in organizational efforts to bring industry into the race to save our cities.

General Schriever had a most distinguished career in the services of his country. Combat service in the South Pacific during World War II was followed by Pentagon assignments and a year at the National War College.

In June 1953, he was promoted to Brigadier General and became Assistant to the Commander, Air Research and Development Command the following year. In 1954 he assumed command of the Air Force Western Development Division (WDD) at Inglewood, California. In this capacity he directed both the nation's highest priority projects-the development of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile program (ICBM), and development of the Air Force's initial space programs. He is responsible not only for pushing forward research and development on all phases of the Atlas, Titan, Thor and Minuteman missiles, but also for concurrently providing the launching sites and equipment, tracking facilities, and group support necessary for missile operation.

In 1959 General Schriever assumed command of the Air Research and Development Command and was promoted to Lieutenant General.

In 1961 ARDC was reorganized and became the Air Force Systems Command. He was named commander and promoted to the rank of full General.

Born in Bremen, Germany, and raised in San Antonio, Texas, General Schriever received a BS degree from Texas A & M in 1931, and a master's degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Stanford University in 1942. He is the recipient of many honorary degrees from leading educational institutions and has been awarded many decorations, service medals and other honors.

DR. GLENN T. SEABORG

Glenn T. Seaborg was born April 19, 1912, in Ishpeming, Michigan. At the age of ten, he and his family moved to California. In 1929 he was valedictorian of his class at the David Starr Jordan High School in Los Angeles. In his junior year at the University of California at Los Angeles, he was named to Phi Beta Kappa,

and in 1934 he received an A.B. degree in chemistry from UCLA. In 1937 he was awarded the Ph. D. degree in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Seaborg is Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, having been appointed by President Kennedy in 1961, and subsequently reappointed by President Johnson and President Nixon. He also served under President Truman, from 1946 to 1950, as a member of the Atomic Energy Commission's first General Advisory Committee, and under President Eisenhower, from 1959 to 1961, as a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee.

From 1958 to 1961, Dr. Seaborg was Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, having served on the faculty since 1939, and from 1937-1939 as the personal research assistant of Gilbert Newton Lewis, Berkeley's famous physical chemist. He is currently on leave as professor of chemistry.

During World War II, while on leave of absence from Berkeley, he headed the group at the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago that devised the chemical extraction processes used in the production of plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

Among his major scientific contributions are his discoveries, between 1940 and 1958, with several colleagues, of the transuranium elements: plutonium (element 94), americium (95), curium (96), berkelium (97), californium (98), einsteinium (99), fermium (100), mendelevium (101), and nobelium (102). His co-discoveries include the fissile isotopes plutonium-239 and uranium-233, as well as the identification of more than 100 other isotopes throughout the periodic table, including a number that have practical applications in research and medicine such as iodine-131, cobalt-60, technetium-99m, cobalt-57, iron-39, iron-55, manganese-54, antimony-124.

In 1951, at the age of 39, Dr. Seaborg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (with E. M. McMillan). In 1947 he was named by the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce one of America's ten outstanding young men. For his outstanding work in the field of nuclear chemistry and for his leadership in scientific and educational affairs, he was awarded the Atomic Energy Commission's 1959 Enrico Fermi Award. In 1962 he was named "Swedish American of the Year" by the Vasa Order of America in Stockholm, and in 1963 he received the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia. The Pacific Science Center, Seattle, recognized his vast contributions to the public understanding of science by selecting him for the 1968 Arches of Science Award. He has been honored by the American Chemical Society with the Award in Pure Chemistry (1947), William H. Nichols Medal (1948), Charles Lathrop Parsons Award (1964), and Willard Gibbs Medal (1966). Dr. Seaborg holds honorary degrees from more than 30 educational institutions.

In 1959 Dr. Seaborg was instrumental in inaugurating the Chemical Education Material Study (CHEM Study), the high school Course Content Improvement Study of the National Science Foundation, and has served continuously since then as Chairman of its Steering Committee. Since 1966 he has been president of Science Service, Washington, D.C., an organization devoted to the popularization of science.

His many activities include membership on the Federal Council for Science and Technology, National Aeronautics and Space Council, National Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Development, Scientific Advisory Board of the Robert A. Welch Foundation in Houston, board of directors of the National Educational Television and Radio Center in New York, board of trustees of Pacific Science Center Foundation in Seattle, and Advisory Board of Nova University in Fort Lauderdale.

He is the author of more than a dozen books, many of which have been translated into foreign languages. He has published over 200 scientific papers on the transuranium elements, artificial radioactivity, nuclear physics and chemistry, high energy nuclear reactions, as well as the compilation of complete tables of isotopes, and a comprehensive article on "Elements Beyond 100, Present Status and Future Prospects" in the 1968 Annual Review of Nuclear Science.

He organized and was the chief participant in the National Educational Television series of ten half-hour films on The Elements, produced in 1957 and still widely used in high schools throughout the country.

Dr. Seaborg is a member of the leading national and international scientific societies, including the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Chemical Society, Americal Physical Society, American

Nuclear Society, American Philosophical Society, Royal Society of Arts (England), Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Argentine National Academy of Sciences, Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, honorary fellow of the Chemical Society of London, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Dr. Seaborg is married to the former Helen L. Griggs; they have six children. He is an ardent sports fan. His favorite spectator sports are football and baseball. His recreational interests include hiking and golf. From 1953 to 1958 he served as Faculty Athletic Representative of the University of California, Berkeley, to the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

DR. ROBERT CHANNING SEAMANS, JR.

Dr. Robert Channing Seamans, Jr., Secretary of the Air Force since February 15, 1969. Born in Salem, Massachusetts on October 30, 1918. Harvard University, B.S. 1939; Mass. Inst. Tech., M.S. 1942. Sc. D. 1951. Honorary Doctor of Science, Rollins College and New York University.

Professorial and laboratory-staff positions at M.I.T., 1941-1955. Engineering and managerial duties in the Airborne Systems Department of the Radio Corporation of America, 1955-1958. Chief Engineer of Missile Electronics and Controls Division at RCA, 1958-1960. Joined NASA as Associate Administrator, 1960; Deputy Administrator, Dec 1965-Jan 1968. Appointed visiting professor at M.I.T., Mar 1968; became Jerome Clarke Hunsaker Professor, July 1968.

Served on technical committees of NASA's predecessor organization, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1948-1958. Served as consultant to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Air Force, 1957-1959; as member of the board, 1959-1962; and as associate advisor, 1962-1967. He is a National Delegate Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development (NATO).

Member of Sigma Xi; the American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Astronautical Society; American Society for Public Administration; American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Boston); National Space Club; Foreign Policy Association; National Academy of Engineering; and International Academy of Astronautics. Married to the former Eugenia A. Merrill; five children.

DR. JAMES A. SHANNON

Dr. James A. Shannon, widely recognized for his contributions to medical research, teaching, and public service, is serving as Special Advisor to the President of the National Academy of Sciences. As "scholar in residence" at the Academy, Dr. Shannon is engaged in evaluating the present state of medical research, education, and service in the light of his long and intimate involvement with all three aspects of medicine. He is developing projections of future needs and innovative methods of answering them.

As Director of the National Institutes of Health for 13 years, Dr. Shannon was responsible for the direction and development of eight Institutes, seven Divisions, the Clinical Center, the Bureau of Health Manpower, and the National Library of Medicine. In addition to its direct laboratory and clinical research at Bethesda, Maryland, the NIH supported research projects, research training and medical education as well as construction at non-Federal institutions. In the last years of Dr. Shannon's directorship the NIH operated with a budget of over one million dollars.

Before becoming Director, Dr. Shannon held the post of Associate Director and was responsible for the Institutes' direct research program. Prior to 1952, he was Associate Director in charge of research at the National Heart Institute of NIH.

A graduate of the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, Dr. Shannon received his medical degree from New York University in 1929 and his Ph. D. in Physiology from the same university in 1935. Following his internship at Bellevue Hospital in New York, he taught in the Department of Physiology at New York University College of Medicine (1931-1941) and directed research at the University's Goldwater Memorial Hospital (1940-1941). During periods of

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