NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM— 1969 



tuesday, may 20, 1969 



House of Representatives, 

 Subcommittee on Oceanography of the 

 Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 



Washington^ D.O. 



The subcommittee met at 10 :15 a.m., pursuant to call, in room 1334, 

 Longwortli House Office Building, Hon. Paul G. Sogers, presiding. 



Mr. Rogers. The subcommittee will come to order, please. 



We are honored to have as our first witness today an old friend of 

 this committee who I am delighted to see here and whose testimony 

 many times has been helpful to this committee in its deliberations. Dr. 

 Paul M. Fye, who is president of Woods Hole Oceanographic Insti- 

 tution. 



Dr. Fye, it is a pleasure to greet you this morning, and the com- 

 mittee will be pleased to receive your testimony. 



(Dr. Fye's biography follows :) 



Paul M(cDonald) Fye, 21 Challenger Drive, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543. 



Born. : August 6, 1912, Johnstown, Pennsylvania. 



Education: Albright College, B.S., 1935; Columbia University, Ph. D. in Phys- 

 ical Chemistry, 1939. 



List of Positions : President, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1961 to 

 present ; Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1958 to present ; Asso- 

 ciate Director for Research, U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory, 1956-1958 ; Deputy 

 Chief & Chief, Explosives Research Department, U.S. Naval Ordnance Labora- 

 tory, 1948-1956 ; Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, 

 1947—48 ; Research Supervisor & Research Director, Undervpater Explosives Re- 

 search Laboratory of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1942-1947 ; 

 Research Associate, Carnegie Institute of Technologr, 1941-1942 ; Assistant Pro- 

 fessor, Hofstra College, 1989-1941. 



Member : Member of the Corporation, Marine Biological Laboratory, 1958 to 

 present; Committee on Oceanography, National Academy of Sciences, 1961 to 

 present ; Trustee, Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Inc., 1960 to present ; 

 Undersea Warfare Research and Development Planning Council, 1959 to present ; 

 Board of Visitors, Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, 

 1966-196S : Polaris Steering Task Group, 1956-1958 ; Polaris Ad Hoc Group for 

 Long Range Research and Development, 1960-1965; Trustee, State Colleges of 

 Massachusetts, 1966; Advisory Board, Naval Ordnance Test Station/Naval 

 Weapons Laboratory, China Lake, California, 1965-1968 ; Board of Directors, 

 Arthur D. Little, Inc., 1969. 



Scientific Societies : American Association for the Advancement of Science : 

 American Chemical Society ; American Geophysical Union ; Amei'ican Physical 

 Society ; American Society of Limnology and Oceanography ; The New York 

 Academy of Sciences, Marine Technology Society, President, 1968. 



Social Clubs : Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. ; Edgartown Yacht Club : Pi Tau 

 Beta. 



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