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neering testing facility are operated under his direction. President of The Oceanic- 

 Foundation, Mr. Pryor is also a Director of the National Oceanographic Asso- 

 ciation, Sea Life, Inc., C. Brewer Corporation, and the Hawaiian Manufacturers' 

 Association. He served as a member of the Senate of the State of Hawaii from 

 1965 until his appointment to the Commission on Marine Science. Engineering 

 and Resources in 1967. He serves on the Governor's Advisory Committee for 

 Science and Technology and is a member of the Science Advisory Committee to 

 the New England Aquarium. 



Born in Connecticut in 1931, Mr. Pryor reecived his BA from Cornell and his 

 graduate training in Marine Ecology from the University of Hawaii. He was a 

 Naval aviator. USMCR, from 1954 to 1957. A receipient of the Honolulu Chamber 

 of Commerce Progress Award of 1964 and the Hawaii J. C. TOYM Award of 

 1966, Mr. Pryor is the author of several publications on marine life and marine 

 conservation. 



GEORGE E. REEDT 



Mr. Reedy is currently President of the Struthers Research and Development 

 Corporation, Washington, D.C. He is also Vice-President for Planning and a 

 Member of the Board of Directors of Struthers Wells Corporation. Prior to these 

 positions Mr. Reedy had a long career in politics and government. He has served 

 as Press Secretary and Special Assistant to President Johnson. Previously, he 

 served as Staff Director of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee from 1953 

 until 1961. Prior to his association with the Policy Committee, Mr. Reedy was 

 Staff Consultant to the Senate Armed Service Preparedness Subcommittee for 

 two years. Except for the period from 1942 to 1946, Mr. Reedy was a congres- 

 sional correspondent for United Press. During World War II, Mr. Reedy served 

 in the mid-Paciflc as a Captain in the USAF. 



I\Ir. Reedy was born in East Chicago, Indiana, on August 5, 1917. He received 

 a BA in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 1938. 



GEORGE H. SULLIVAN 



Dr. Sullivan is an executive of the Northrop Corporation, Beverly Hills, 

 California. As director of Life Sciences for Northrop he has the responsibility 

 for planning, organizing and implementing all the research and development 

 programs in which man or other lower life forms are an important element. 

 Many of these programs are directly related to the use of the oceans. Significant 

 examples are : systems engineering support to the US Navy Man-in-the-Sea 

 project, biomedical problems relating to survival of SCUBA swimmers, anti- 

 biotics from the ocean, and mass culture of marine algae for human con- 

 sumption. 



As an electrical engineer assigned to the Navy Department's Nuclear Reactor 

 Electrical Control Branch between 1955 and 1957, Dr. Sullivan was responsible 

 for the design, development and operation of the electrical, steam and reactor 

 control systems for the first, and subsequent, nuclear submarines. Previously, 

 he had served as a naval line officer, gaining extensive submarine experience 

 aboard the USS WAHOO. 



Dr. Sullivan graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1948 with a Bachelor 

 of Science degree, and received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Georgetown 

 University. 



ROBERT M. WHITE 



Dr. Robert M. White became the first Administrator of the Environmental 

 Science Services Administration (ESSA) when the new Department of Com- 

 merce agency was established in July 1965. 



Before his appointment as ESSA Administrator by President Johnson, Dr. 

 White had been Chief of the Weather Bureau, US Department of Commerce, 

 since October 1963. He has also served since early 1964 as Federal Coordinator 

 for Meteorology, with the responsibility for coordinating and planning Federal 

 weather services and supporting research. 



Born in Boston in 1923, Dr. White received a BA degree in geology from 

 Harvard University in 1944. While attending Harvard, he worked as a weather 

 observer at the Blue Hill Observatory. During World War II, Dr. White was 

 a Captain in the LIS Air Force with duties in both weather forecasting and 

 instruction. Continuing his studies in meteorology at Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology, he earned his Master's degree in 1949 and his Doctorate in 

 1950. 



