22 NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 
Dr. Hornig. Certainly in the development of instrumentation the 
answer is yes. Industry does, of course, carry on geophysical explora- 
tions outside of the Federal sponsorship. I think Secretary Wakelin 
again will come back to the question of undersea engineering or ocean 
bottom exploration where I do not think we have done as much as we 
ought to. I think there is a big role for industry in this essentially 
engineering enterprise. 
Mr, Bauer. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 
Mr. Lennon. Thank you, Doctor. 
Now, will Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Mr. James Wakelin, 
Jr., who is the Chairman of the Interagency Committee on Oceanog- 
raphy and I believe, sir, you and Dr. Hornig are accompanied today 
by Dr. H. J. Carlson, a member of the ICO, representing the National 
Science Foundation; Asst. Surg. Gen. Harry G. Hanson, representing 
the Public Health Service of the Department of Health, Education, 
and Welfare; Rear Adm. H. A. Karo of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic 
Survey of the U.S. Department of Commerce; Mr. D. L. McKernan, 
Bureau of Commercial Fisheries in the Department of Interior; Dr. 
R. Rollefson, who represents the State Department; R. B. Abel, execu- 
tive secretary, ICO; and Rear Adm. W. D. Shields, also a member of 
the Committee on Oceanography; are you representing the Coast 
Guard, Admiral Shields? 
Admiral Sutexps. Yes, 
Mr. Lennon. Of course, I recognize you now. 
Dr. I. E. Wallen, the Smithsonion Institution, and Dr. J. N. Wolfe 
of the Atomic Energy Commission. 
Mr. Secretary, we are old friends. We are delighted to have you 
here. This will be perhaps your last appearance before this commit- 
tee and to underscore my feelings we express our regret at Washing- 
ton losing you, I would like to ask unanimous consent to include in 
the record at this point a tribute paid to Dr. Wakelin by the Ocean 
Science News, volume 6, No. 15, at the second paragraph, and I will 
ask one of the clerks if he will hand it to the lady and ask unanimous 
consent to include it in the record at this point. I think it is a tribute 
tothe gentleman. You have done a fine job. 
(The document mentioned follows :) 
[From the Ocean Science News, June 11, 1964] 
Assistant Secretary of the Navy (R. & D.) Dr. James H. Wakelin, Jr., has 
resigned for personal reasons and will leave his post probably around the middle 
of July—depending on just when the Senate gets around to confirming his suec- 
eessor. This highly important post will be taken over by Dr. Robert W. Morse, 
dean of the college, Brown University, Providence, R.I. Dr. Morse, a physicist 
(ultrasonics, low temperature and solid state physics), has served as a con- 
sultant to the Navy on ASW and underwater acoustics, and is president-elect 
of the Acoustical Society of America. He’s 43; married; three children. 
Ocean Science News wishes to take this opportunity to express its regret that 
the Navy and oceanography will shortly lose a proponent in official Washington 
as strong, intelligent and as effective as Dr. Wakelin has been. As Chairman 
of the Interagency Committee on Oceanography he has guided this unique 
organization to a high degree of effectiveness. In his job with the Navy he 
has successfully urged and guided that service toward a much greater under- 
standing cf its operational environment. We want to add our voice to the 
ehorus of applause for a job very well done, indeed. We wish Dr. Wakelin 
all the best in whatever his new venture turns out to be and hope it will be 
related to man’s effort to explore and exploit the oceans—an effort that needs 
more, not fewer, such men. Concurrently, we look forward to Dr. Morse earry- 
ing on a now-established fine tradition in these jobs. 
