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our State, improvements in Mississippi-based fishing industries, an en- 

 hancement in the natural beauty and resources of the coastline, an im- 

 proved educational program as particularly relates to the many estab- 

 lished institutions in the coastal region, significant economic growth 

 for the entire State of Mississippi and an enhanced national image as a 

 focal point for Oceanography in this country. 



I, therefore, support a strong, sound oceanography program and 

 I believe I can speak for the citizens of my section of the country in 

 offering their full support to this program. 



Thank you. 



Mr. Lennon". Thank you Congressman for a very brief, but in- 

 formative, statement. 



Dr. Kavanagh, if you will now come forward and make your pres- 

 entation, please, sir. 



I would like to have inserted in the record, at this point, with the 

 consent of the members present, the biography of Dr. Kavanagh, 

 which will precede his statement. 



(The biography follows :) 



Biography of Thomas C. Kavanagh 



Dr. Thomas C. Kavanagh has been a partner in the New York consulting firm 

 of Praeger-Kavanagh-Waterbury, engineers-architects, for the past 16 years. Be- 

 fore his present association he was professor of civil engineering at the Pennsyl- 

 vania State University, and chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering at 

 New York University. Even now he continues to serve as adjunct professor in the 

 graduate school of Columbia University, to help bring professional practice into 

 the academic area. 



His professional interests center on the planning, design, and construction of 

 heavy structures — buildings, bridges, tunnels, foundations, stadiums, waterfront 

 facilities, highways, subways and transportation systems, nuclear powerplants, 

 radio telescopes, hardened underground facilities — and his work has received 

 many major awards. He has carried out or supervisfed research in several struc- 

 tural fields and has published some 40 papers. 



His interests extend over a broad range of activities, into such fields as ocean 

 engineering (he is chairman of ASCE's Technical Council on Ocean Engineering, 

 and chairman of the National Academy of Engineering's Committee on Ocean 

 Engineering) ; into research (as a member of the Building Research Advisory 

 Board and the ASCE Research Council on Performance of Full-Scale Structures) ; 

 into education (as a member of several university and ASEE advisory boards; 

 into esthetics (as a gold medalist of the Architectural League of New York) ; and 

 into systems work (as a member of the Consulting Engineers Council Committee 

 on Systems). He is vice president of the Metropolitan Section of ASOE, and 

 was first chairman and a founder of the Met Section Structures Group. 



Dr. Kavanagh is a founding member and the treasurer of the new National 

 Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 

 and a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers, the American 

 Institute of Consulting Engineers, the American Society for Engineering Educa- 

 tion, the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering, and 

 many other professional organizations. His membership in honor societies in- 

 cludes Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Chi Epsilon, and Phi Beta Kappa. 



Born in New York, he was educated in schools and colleges there and at the 

 Technical University of Berlin, Germany. He holds the degrees of B.S. and 

 M.C.E. from City College, New York, and M.B.A. and Sc. D. (Engineering) from 

 New York University. 



Mr. Lennon. I think each of the members has before him a copy of 

 the statement that Dr. Kavanagh will use primarily in his appearance. 

 Doctor, if you will proceed, we are delighted to have you. 



