as Executive Officer and then as Commanding Officer of the Joseph 

 T. Dickman (APA- 13) in the Pacific. He was Chief, Marine Engi- 

 neering Section, Chief, Engineering Division in the 14th Coast 

 Guard District, Honolulu, until 1949, and then Chief, Engineering 

 Division and aide to Ernest Gruening, Governor of Alaska. He 

 commanded the cutter Bibb (WPG-31) (195Z-54) on ocean station 

 (weather patrol) duty in the North Atlantic. From 1955-58 he was 

 Chief, Shore Units Division at Coast Guard Headquarters, until he 

 became a special assistant to the Commandant, and then Chief, 

 Operations Division of the 5th Coast Guard Office, Norfolk. In 

 I960 he was ordered to San Francisco to assume the post of Deputy 

 Comnnander, Western Area. 



He has the American Defense Ribbon with "A, '' Asiatic -Pacific 

 Area, European-African-Middle Eastern Area, and World War II 

 Victory Medal. 



ARTHUR L. NELSON, Supervisory Engineer, Naval Electronics 

 Laboratory, San Diego 5Z, California. 



Mr. Nelson was born in 1915 in Texas, was graduated by 

 the University of Arkansas (electrical engineering) in 1938, becanne 

 a design engineer for the Radio Corporation of America, the 

 Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation, Aircraft Accesso- 

 ries Corporation, and other companies, and started and operated 

 his own Nelson Electric Corporation, Santa Monica, California. 



He has formerly been Planning Engineer, Patrick Air Force 

 Base, Florida, in charge of long-range instrumentation in various 

 missile tracking stations in the West Indies, and he was Senior 

 Engineer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1956-59 

 where he did graduate work in physical oceanography. Mr. Nelson 

 now is an engineer with the U. S. Navy Electronics Laboratory, 

 San Diego, California, where he is program manager of the bath- 

 yscaphe Trieste. 



He is a member of the Instrument Society of America (Exe- 

 cutive Committee of the Marine Science Division). 



REAR ADMIRAL CHARLES PIERCE, USC&GS (Ret.), (Rear Ad- 

 miral Charles Pierce served as Deputy Director of the Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey from August 1957 to August 1961). 



Born in Somerville, Massachusetts, he received his early 

 education at local schools and was graduated by Tufts University 

 in 1922 with a B.S. in Civil Engineering. The following year he 

 entered upon duty with the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 



During his 38 years of service with the Bureau, which includes 



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