can say in candor and frankness to all of you that I have never known 

 any more dedicated work on the part of any ^roup in delving in depth 

 on this subject. If you read this report you will see how much in depth 

 they have gone. 



Certainly these gentlemen have done a magnificent job, led by a 

 person who could not have been a finer selection, and whatever the 

 action of the 91st or 92d or 93d Congress would be, 1 think this report 

 will go down in history as one of the great efforts made by private 

 citizens in cooperation with the Government in finding a solution to 

 this problem. 



I think it Avould be appropriate at this time, to insert into the 

 record, a biography of each of the members of the Commission. If 

 there is no objection, so ordered. 



(The material referred to follows :) 



Biographies of Members, Commission on Marine Science, Engineering, 



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. Born 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 where he received his 

 Master's degree in 1925. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science in 

 Mathematical Physics by the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule of Zurich 

 in 1927 and followed this with study at the Universities of Munich and Leipzig 

 on a traveling fellowshijD 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 

 Laboratory of Electronics, Provost, Vice President, Chancellor, and, in 1959, 

 President. He is now a Life Member of the MIT Corporation. 



Dr. Stratton is a director of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and 

 the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, and a trustee of Pine Manor Junior 

 College and Vassar College. 



He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy 

 of Engineering, the American Philosophical Society, and a Fellow of the Ameri- 

 can Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics 

 Engineers, and the American Physical Society. 



He received the Medal for Merit from the Secretary of War in 1946, the Cer- 

 tificate of Award of the United States Navy (1957), the Medal of Honor of the 

 Institute of Radio Engineers (1957), and the Faraday Medal of the British 

 Institute of Electrical Engineers (1961). 



RICHARD A. GEYER 



Dr. Geyer is presently Head of the Department of Oceanography at Texas 

 A&M University where he has been since 1966. Previously, from 1963-1966, 

 he was Technical Director for Oceanographj^ for Texas Instruments, Inc. From 

 1959-1963, he was a manager of Gravity and Magnetic Department of Texas 

 Instruments, and from 1954-1959, he was Chief Geophysicist for the Gravity 

 Department, Geophysics Services, Inc., of Texas Instruments. From 1945-1954, 

 he was associated with Humble Oil and Refining Companj^, first as Senior Re- 

 search Geophysicist and then Head of the OceanograiDhic Section from 1949-1954. 



During World War II, Dr. Geyer served as Physicist in Charge of the De- 

 gaussing Range for the US Navy, Bureau of Ordnance, in Newport, Rhode Island, 

 and as Senior Field Instructor at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution at 

 Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Before the war, from 1939-1942, he was an in- 

 structor at Princeton, and from 1938-1942, he did research in geophysics and 

 geology for the Standard Oil Companj- in New Jersey. 



