OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH 

 VICENNIAL CONVOCATION 



Wednesday, 4 May 1966, 9 a.m. - 4 p. m. 



The Departmental Auditorium 



Constitution Avenue between 12th and 14th Streets, NW 



Washington, D. C 



PROGRAM 



9:00 a.m. OPENING SOLEMNITIES-Navy Band 



Chairman: Dr. F.Joachim Weyl 



Deputy and Chief Scientist, Office of Naval Research 

 INVOCATION -Rear Admiral Henry J. Rotrige, CHC, USN 

 APPRAISAL OF THE OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH 

 By The Scientific Community 



Dr. Alan T. Waterman 

 By The Makers of Military Technology 

 The Honorable John S. Foster, Jr. 

 Director of Defense Research and Engineering 

 Office of the Secretary of Defense 

 By The Fleet 



Admiral Horacio Rivero 

 Vice Chief of Naval Operations 

 PRESENTATION OF FIRST EDWIN BIDWELL WILSON AWARD 

 The Honorable Emilio Q. Daddario 

 Member of Congress, Connecticut 



10:00 a.m. MORNING SESSION 



Chairman: The Honorable Garrison Norton 



Chairman, Naval Research Advisory Committee 

 Basic Science and Agency Missions 

 Dr. Harvey Brooks, Dean, Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, 

 Harvard University 

 Opportunities and Constraints of Science in the U. S. 



Dr. Frederick Scitz, President, National Academy of Sciences 

 12:00 noon ADJOURNMENT FOR LUNCH 

 2:00 pm. AFTERNOON SESSION 



Chairman: Dr. E. R. Piore 



Vice President and Chief Scientist, IBM 

 The Open World of Science 



Sir Solly Zuckerman, Chief Scientific Adviser 

 Ministry of Defence, Great Britain 

 Science and National Security 



Dr. William O. Baker, Vice President for Research 

 Bell Telephone Laboratories 

 4:00 p.m. ADJOURNMENT 



