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Dr. Kelson. It is the support of a cooperative program between a 

 group of, typically, college faculty, specialists, and a school district, 

 public or private, in helping that school district with its own program. 

 The help that we can provide can and usually does consist of funds 

 to provide the professional assistance for helping the school system 

 with the design of its program and the retraining of its teachers to 

 teach that program. 



Mr. Pollock. I noticed in the table on the back page of the state- 

 ment by Dr. Robertson that there was a number of 700 people of the 

 feneral public who were included in the individuals attending the 

 rSF-supported educational programs. 



Would you address your attention to that ? 



Dr. KJELsoN. Yes, sir. 



A group at the University of Maryland was especially interested in 

 the marine oceanographic sciences. They thought it would be a very 

 useful thing to try to have one or more of their number who is a 

 specialist in this field develop a set of public lectures to try to expose 

 some part of the general public to what the marine sciences really 

 were. To the extent that some funds were needed to try that, we 

 supplied them. 



It was explicitly a set of public lectures. It was not an educational 

 program that the public might have happened to come in to. 



Mr. Pollock. It has been completed ? 



Dr. Kelson. We are not, so far as I can recall, currently supporting 

 the activity. 



We are willing to support this kind of activity, and do, in other 

 fields as well. To the best of my knowledge, we are not at the moment 

 supporting a lecture series in oceanography at this time. 



Mr. Pollock. Doctor, I have one other question. 

 Earlier, when the gentleman from Virginia asked about Government 

 requirements, you alluded to this. Are you today, or is anyone in the 

 Government projecting Government manpower requirements in the 

 field of oceanography ? 



Suppose we get scholastic competence and educational competence 

 all over the country and get a vast supply of scientists who become 

 qualified in the field of oceanography. Is there a place other than in 

 the field of education for them to go ? Do you know what the require- 

 ments will be? Have you projected them for 10 or 15 or 20 years? 



Dr. Kelson. No, sir. The committee to which I referred is beginning 

 to look at this. Yesterday it had its second meeting. It is very new. 



Mr. Pollock. I see. 



Dr. Ejelson. To the best of my knowledge, and I could be in error, 

 there is now not going on throughout the Government a sophisticated 

 look at its own manpower requirements in this area. 



Some agencies unquestionably are looking at their own situations. 



I might add just from the experience in my own agency, that it is a 

 very difficult thing to predict your own requirements, because your 

 requirements in fact eventually become tailored to your financial 

 capacity. 



Mr. Pollock. Just one more thing, Mr. Chairman. 



Do you have any program now, or any plan for a program, to sell 

 your product in the schools of the country ? 



I am thinking in terms of public relations, of educational film, or 

 whatever, in the high schools and colleges. 



