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It was proposed that the board should furnish information regarding 

 particular individuals to the local Selective Service Boards and to the Army 

 and Navy. It should have the responsibility to recommend transfers of 

 individuals on the Reserved List from one project to another in accordance 

 with the varying needs of research and the importance of different projects 

 to the total war effort. The names of individuals persistently refusing to 

 conform to the recommendations of the board might be removed from the 

 List. Bush expressed the belief that individual scientists, Selective Service 

 Boards and the armed services would welcome and follow the advice of 

 the proposed board on scientific personnel. 



In a letter of February 26, 1943, the War Manpower Commission ac- 

 cepted Bush's suggestion with very litde change. The letter proposed the 

 establishment within the Commission of an agency to be called the Com- 

 mittee on Scientific Research Personnel and to have the composition sug- 

 gested by Bush with the addition of a representative of the Office of Pro- 

 duction Research and Development of the War Production Board. Mr. 

 McNutt placed the upper limit on the proposed Reserved List as 7500 

 names until additional permission should be received from him to include 

 a larger number. In the same letter he asked for suggestions as to individ- 

 uals who might be designated as members of the proposed committee; 

 and he promptly accepted the suggestions made by OSRD in its reply 

 of March 11, 1943. President Leonard Carmichael of Tufts College, Di- 

 rector of the National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel, was 

 designated as Chairman of the new committee which had its organiza- 

 tion meeting on April 8, 1943. Bush was the OSRD member of the com- 

 mittee with Hogan as his alternate. OSRD informed its contractors of the 

 proposal to establish the Reserved List and requested them to send in the 

 names of qualified persons working under their OSRD contracts for entry 

 on that list. The response was immediate in most cases. Through follow-up 

 correspondence an attempt was made to keep the list correct as to OSRD 

 contractors. 



After a review within OSRD to eliminate names which clearly should 

 not have been included, OSRD referred the names and supporting data 

 to the Carmichael committee which made its own investigation as to the 

 propriety of including each name on the Reserved List. After accepting a 

 name for inclusion on the List, the Committee informed the candidate's 

 local draft board of his inclusion on the List. At the same time it notified 

 the Director of Selective Service who in turn informed the State Selective 

 Service Director by whom the candidate's local board was informed of the 

 qualifications of the individual and the importance of his position to the 

 war effort. In addition a certificate was sent to each individual whose name 

 was included on the List. On his part, the registrant entered into an agree- 



