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The President's response to the requirements of the act in regard to 

 the establishment of the Commission has even exceeded our confident 

 hopes tliat men of the liigliest qualifications and dedication would be 

 appointed to this important body. 



Mr, Mosher and I, as the two advisory members of the Coimnission 

 from the House, can attest to this fa,ct for we have had the opportu- 

 nity not only to meet all of the members of the Commission, but to 

 work with them and their regular sessions. 



Our principal witness this morning, Dr. Julius Adams Stratton, is 

 an outstanding example of a group of outstanding Americans who 

 comprise the membership of the Commission on Marine Science, Engi- 

 neering, and Resources. 



Dr. btratton's biography follows : 



]Mr. Stratton is one of the Nation's outstanding scientists and educa- 

 tors. He served on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology from 1928 to 1951, in electrical engineering and later in phys- 

 ics. Subsequently, he served as an officer of the university in posts of 

 increasing responsibility, culminating in appointment as President of 

 MIT in 1959. 



In 1966, after retirement from MIT, he was made chairman of the 

 board of the Ford Foundation. Mr. Stratton has been a member of the 

 National Science Board, trustee of numerous educational foundations, 

 recipient of the Medal of Merit, the Faraday Medal, and the Medal of 

 Honor of the American Institute of Radio Engmeers. He currently 

 resides in New York City. Dr. Stratton is accompanied by Dr. Richard 

 A. Geyer, head of the department of Oceanography at Texas A. & M. 

 University, who is Vice Chairman of the Commission ; and Dr. Samuel 

 A. Lawrence, who has a distinguished career in Government service, 

 and is now Staff Director of the Commission. 



At this point, Dr. Stratton, I would appreciate it if you would have 

 Dr. Lawrence furnish for the record a biography, name, and identifi- 

 cation; and a reasonably lengthy biography of each member of the 

 Commission for insertion in the record at this point and without ob- 

 jection, gentlemen, I will ask that these biographies be included in 

 the hearing record at this point. 



(The biographies follow :) 



BiOGBAPHiEs OP Members, Commission on Marine Science, Engineebing, and 



Resources 



JULIUS A. stratton 



Julius A. Stratton assumed the Chairmanship of the Board of the Ford Foun- 

 dation in 1966 upon his retirement as President of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, an institution with which he had been continuously associated since 

 his undergraduate days. Bom in Seattle on May 18, 1901, he spent one year at the 

 University of Washington and then transferred to MIT, graduating with the 

 Class of 1923. He studied abroad in 1923 and 1924 at the Universities of Grenoble 

 and Toulouse after which he returned to MIT w^here he received his Master's 

 degree in 1925. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science in Mathematical 

 Physics by the Bidgenossische Technische Hochschule of Zurich in 1927 and fol- 

 lowed this with study at the Universities of Munidi and Leipzig on a traveling 

 fellowship from MIT. 



He joined the MIT faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering in 1928 

 and subsequently became Professor of Physics, Director of the Research Labora- 

 tory of Electronics, Provost, A^ice President, Chancellor, and, in 1959, President. 

 He is now a Life Member of the MIT Corporation. 



