NATIONAL DEFENSE

4.S. Compress, Senate,

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON

LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE.

UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-FIFTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

SCIENCE AND EDUCATION FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE

JANUARY 21, 23, 28, 29, AND 30, FEBRUARY 6, 7, 18, 19, 20, 21,

24, 25, 26, AND 27, MARCH 3, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, AND 13

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UNITED STATES

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1958

COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE

LISTER HILL, Alabama, Chairman

JAMES E. MURRAY, Montana

JOHN F. KENNEDY, Massachusetts

PAT MCNAMARA, Michigan

WAYNE MORSE, Oregon

STROM THURMOND, South Carolina

RALPH YARBOROUGH, Texas

H. ALEXANDER SMITH, New Jersey

IRVING M. IVES, New York

WILLIAM A. PURTELL, Connecticut

BARRY GOLDWATER, Arizona

GORDON ALLOTT, Colorado

JOHN SHERMAN COOPER, Kentucky

STEWART E. MCCLURE, Chief Clerk

JOHN S. FORSYTHE, General Counsel

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Bronk, Dr. Detlev W., president of the National Academy of Sciences
and National Research Council..

DuBridge, Dr. Lee A., president of California Institute of Technology-
Rabi, Dr. I. I., Higgins professor of physics at Columbia University,
and past chairman of the President's Science Advisory Committee.
von Braun, Wernher, director, Development Operations! Division,
Army Ballistic Missile Agency, Huntsville, Ala....

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Hovde, Frederick L., president of Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind..

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JANUARY 29, 1958

Statement:

Meister, Dr. Morris, principal of the Bronx High School of Science,
New York City.

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Teller, Dr. Edward, physicist at the radiation laboratory, University
of California.

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Folsom, Marion B., Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare___.

FEBRUARY 7, 1958

Statements:

Derthick, Lawrence G., Commissioner of Education, accompanied by

Melvin Sneed, Director, Laws and Legislation Branch; Dr. Lloyd

E. Blanch, Assistant Commissioner, Division of Higher Education;

John R. Ludington, Chief, Secondary School Section, Division of

State and Local School Systems; and Ralph C. M. Flynt, Director,

Higher Education Programs Branch, Division of Higher Education_

McKean, Dayton D., dean, Graduate School, University of Colorado,

speaking for the American Council on Education..

Culpeper, J. B., executive director, board of control, State Institu-

tions of Higher Learning, Florida, speaking for the American

Council on Education__

Anderson, Hurst R., president, the American University, speaking for

the American Council on Education_.

Statements:

FEBRUARY 19, 1958

Holden, Dr. A. John, president, Council of Chief State Officers and

State commissioner of education, Vermont; and Dr. Edgar Fuller,

executive secretary, Council of Chief State School Officers..

Statement:

FEBRUARY 20, 1958

Carr, William G., executive secretary, National Education Associa-

tion, accompanied by Glen E. Robinson, assistant director, National

Education Association, research division__

Statements:

FEBRUARY 21, 1958

Snyder, Hon. Laurence H., chairman of board of directors, American

Association for the Advancement of Science and dean of the Grad-

uate School, University of Oklahoma; accompanied by Dace Wolfle,

executive officer, John Mayor, director of education, Paul E.

Klopsteg, president elect, American Association for the Advance-

ment of Science_.

Statements:

FEBRUARY 24, 1958

Trytten, M. H., director, office of scientific personnel; Ralph Cleland,

chairman, advisory committee on personnel; and R. M. Whaley,

executive director, advisory board on education, National Academy

of Sciences and National Research Council..

FEBRUARY 25, 1958

Statements:

Blough, Glenn D., president, National Science Teachers' Association,

and associate professor of education, University of Maryland;

accompanied by Robert Carleton, executive secretary, National

Science Teachers' Association _ _

Dunn, Dr. Clark A., vice president, National Society of Professional

Engineers, director, engineering experiment station, Oklahoma State

University, Stillwater, Okla.; accompanied by Paul H. Robbins,

executive director, National Society of Professional Engineers.

Rietzke, E. H., president, Coordinating Committee on Scientific and

Engineering Technicians; accompanied by Karl O. Werwath,

president, Milwaukee School of Engineering; and Dr. Kenneth L.

Holdeman, assistant dean, School of Engineering, Pennsylvania

State University...

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