over 15 years of sea duty, Admiral Pierce has held many responsi- 

 ble positions including field assignments along the coasts of the 

 United States, Alaska, and the Philippines. During the years 1945- 

 47 he initiated and organized the Airport Survey parties for the 

 production of Airport Obstruction Plans. 



He served as Director of Coast Surveys of the Philippine 

 Islands from 1947-50 with headquarters at Manila. He was Chief 

 of the Coast and Geodetic Surveys Mission on the Phillipine Re- 

 habilitation program with responsibility for establishing a 

 counterpart Agency in the Republic of the Philippines. For this 

 work he was awarded the Philippine Legion of Honor, Commander, 

 by the Chief of Staff, Armed Forces of the Philippines. 



In the fall of 1956 he conducted a reconnaissance of the high- 

 lands of Ethiopia which resulted in a connplete geodetic survey of 

 over 100,000 square miles of rugged and sparsely inhabited terrain. 

 He was U. S. delegate at the 12th General Assembly of the Inter- 

 national Union of Geodesy and Geophysics held in Helsinki, Finland, 

 in the summer of I960. His service at sea included various ship- 

 board assignments including Commanding Officer of the largest 

 ships in the surveying fleet, the Pathfinder and Pioneer . He served 

 for 18 months in the Washington Office as Chief, Division of Geo- 

 desy. 



He is past President and life member of the Army and Navy 

 Club of Manila. He is a past President of the Washington Society 

 of Engineers, Past President of the Washington Post of the Ameri- 

 can Military Engineers, Past President of the Section of Geodesy, 

 American Geophysical Union. 



Rear Admiral Pierce retired in August 1961, and, at this 

 writing, is proceeding to the 8th Conference of the International 

 Hydrographic Bureau, at Monaco, as U. S. candidate for the 

 Directing Committee and as U. S. delegate. 



DR. WILLIAM S. RICHARDSON, Physical Chemist, Woods Hole 

 Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. 



Dr. Richardson was born at Providence, Rhode Island, on 

 October 27, 1923, served in the Navy from 1942-45, was gradu- 

 ated by Brown University in 1947 (B. S. ), and received his Ph. D. 

 (chemistry) from Harvard in 1950. From 1950-52 he was a 

 fellow at the Mellon Institute. He is a member of the American 

 Geophysical Union. 



His principal fields of interest are spectroscopy, polymer 

 chemistry, eind oceanography. Dr. Richardson is an outstanding 

 pioneer in the development of deep water anchored buoys for use 



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