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TUESDAY, January 4, 1966 ) W. W. Over~, Jr., was announced as Chairman of GRCSW's National Corporations Committee, directed toward the search tor private support outside Texas. Chairman otfthe Board of Texas Bank and Trust Company, he had served as a member of the Advisory Council, and currently was a Trustee. The news release noted that John J. Foley had become Associate Director of Development, with James S. Triolo; and was the first initialed by Patricia Atmar (Godbold) as Information Services writer, succeeding Bick Eubanks. She remained in this assignment until her marriage to Bryghte D. Godbold. REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0266566 THURSDAY, January i, 1966 CUPBOARD featured the Overton appointment and the award of the 1966 Space Science honors (including a $1,000 honorarium) by the American h /,:n",IC/j' .s: JoJMr;p/1 Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The II public news release was made Sunday, January 9. Mention was also made of the opening of the Invited Exobiology-. Seminars, in which Dean ~vC!.,}Mdn) Colin S. Pittendrigh of the Graduate School, ."I ) Princeton University, had spoken December 27 on "Why Go to Mars?" The series continued through May 5, and was summarized in a later issue of ADVANCE. Geosciences seismic equipment was scheduled for use aboard the THOMAS WASHINGTON, .{ Scripps Oceanographic Institut'ion research vessel operating under charter agreements with the U. S. Navy (the ship and her twin,.th~' '. ./' THOMAS G_ THOMPSON, were built tihde.r' -' .' Navy designations AGOR.l0.~:nd AGO:p,..s' ',' ( (Auxiliary General Oceanogr~phic Research ',' Vessels). ' REFS. CUPBOARD, Vol. IV, No. 10 NEWS RELEASE XE128.0276566 FRIDAY, January 7,1966 President Earl Rudder of Texas A&M University and Chancellor Harry S. Ransom of The Univers ity of Texas (Austin) had both accepted their GRCSW Trusteeships and were tin 1111G.n letters from iii Lloyd V. Berkner. M",,!./GuJ RE{ LTRS~NB file, 1·7·66 MONDAY, January 10, 1966 Yuval Ne'eman had accepted a visiting appointment ) and was thanked by Berkner's letter. REF: LTR, LVB File, 1.10·66 ·160· THURSDAY, January 13, 1966 ) MINUTES OF MEETING OF BOARD OF GOVERNORS Banks were inclined to go along with the proposal to sell 10,000 shares of Texas Instruments stock for an approximate $1.4 million, applying proceeds to short.-term loan principal and to interest on both short and long-term loans, with $269,750 left for operating expenses. Th' banks wanted to increase interest rates to 6 per cent (from 5 112) because of a rise in federal reserve discount rate (this being written in 1980, when prime rates were just begin ning ~un down from 19 per cent, and Treasury Bills had dropped from nearly 13 per cent to 10.79). The board authorized the sale after hearing Erik Jonsson's report. Automatic tenure was established for all professors on pppointment or promotion; ten'iUre for assoc· iate professors was to be granted on recommendation of the faculty and board approval. No tenure was granted to assistant professors. Non·tenured faculty could be terminated at term-end, or with one'" year's notice if term of appointment had not been specified. Tenured faculty were to be terminated under the procedures of the American Association of University ) Professors (AAUP) after filing of charges fDoWiii."r due cause; any being dismissed for reasons not involving moral turpitude were to receive one year's notice or one year's salary in _ of notice. .A!/~q Room was left for granting of tenure to associate professors with less than six years of service, but a demotion would result in automatic stripping ofll tenure. GRCSW's fifth anniversary, February 14, 1966!f.rC.!u:f/ly /ilia-rl'.# ,.{, //111-(;/), was to be marked by a program for which the board agreed to a general plan including board meetings and { an appreciation dinner for Lloyd V. Berkner; a symposium on graduate education, and a ceremony for the Western Company's land acquisition. It was also hoped that AtlantiUtefiniri(gompany and Anderson·Clayton Company buildings would be dedicated, although these were not in the GRCSW Technology Park area proper, but on the adjacent Hunt Properties. ,;-. Director JamesJVebb of NASA apparently had NOTE/REF: Webb visited GRCSW on Wednesday, a negative attitude on further GRCSW financing, January 12 Ref: ADVANCE, Vol. 2, No.4, said President Gifford K. Johnson. Webb appeared Winter, 1965·66, and CLIPBOARD, Vol. IV, to think that more should be done with other No. 11, 1-20-66. universities, especially in his native state of Oklahoma, ) and there was some doubt in his mind whether GRCSW was realll an educational institution. .161 THURSDAY, January 13, 1966 ') The proposed LTV land sale was dragging out, and so was land use planning for the 1,240 acre campus site. Expenditures for development of Technology Park were estimated higher than the amount to be received from the Western Company sale. Attorneys for The University of Texas were considering the proposed contract with GRCSW, before action by the regents, &aid President Gifford _\ K. Johnson. There was concern that UTtWas (,d..<A~-i-t/J) planning a private fund drive in Dallas, and that GRCSW supporters would also support this all i ill campaign; but it was agreed that not I' 11 much could or should be done about it. There also seemed to a slowdown in development of TAGER, and its further organization. REF: Minutes of Meeting of Board of Gove~rs, 1·13-66 Lloyd V. Berkner wrote to Chairman Harry Hess of the Space Science Board, National Academy of Sciences, reiterating his desire to be released from the board. ) In a letter to Hugo Gernsback, Editor in Chief of Radio-Electronics, Berkner praised him for his role in interesting a generation of young people $ in science and technology. REF:.... LTRS, LVB File, 1·13-66 FRIDAY, January 14, 1966 Several Berkner letters invited leading scientists to speak in the Exobiology series; these went to John Oro, University of Houston chemist; to Harold C. Urey, Revelle College (who had accepted , a May 5 date, and received a confirming note); , to Robert B. Painter, U·Cal San Francisco Medical Center, and Cyril A. Ponnamperuma, Exobiology Division, NASA·Ames Research Center. Another, dated January 17, went to Philip H. Abelson of :5 CarnegitInstitution of Washington. REF: LTRS, LVB File, 1.14/1·17·66 ;\ SUNDAY, Janaary 16, 1966 In an advance release for this date, plans for opening of the High Field Magnetill Facility were announced, with operatioiifs scheduled to begin in July. Nine universities and three industries had joined in the planning, the release said, and $200,600 had been granted by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense for partiel support of further design and assembly, and initial operations. -162· SUNDAY, January 16, 1966 (CONT) ) Lauriston C. Marshall was to direct the facility program and its further expansion into a major Materials Research Laboratory. Universities in the planning group were Rice, Oklahoma, North Texas State, Texas Womans University, Austin College, Oklahoma State, Texas Christian, and Southern Methodist. Texas Instruments, General Dynamics and Ling-Temco-Vought were the industries. REFS: NEWS RELEASE SUB-FILE, XE128.0296566 Oral History No.2, Lauriston C. Marshall, 6-4-78 MONDAY, January 17, 1966 A long letter went to Harvey Brooks, Chairman on the Committee on Science and Public Policy, Natiional Academy of Sciences; Lloyd V. Berkner debated the question "is there a science of science and technology?:; in this communication, centering on the pointof measures of performance and effective balance of programs. His commentary, by admission, raised more questions than it gave answers. Characier of employment patterns ) would be radically different by 1986, he thought, and education would have to change; there would be great population concentration in 100 to 125 metropolitan centers, each of which would require a great graduate institution as an intellectual hub. He expressed concern that "in our preoccupation and delight" with scientific discovery and advance, was the nation thinking about impact on society? REF: LTR, LVB File, 1-17-66 WEDNESDAY, January 19, 1966 , Award of $311,734 by Health, Education and , Welfare, National Institutes of Health (General Medical Sciences) was announced in an HEW release, coordinated locally by Al Mitchell. The grant was announced by the Surgeon General, U. S. Public Health Service, and was for the filE. first year of a seven-year progr.am in broad molecular '12 r esln biology research. Carsten Breich and Royston v " C. Clowes were directors of the program. REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0306566 A Berkner letter went to William R. Sheldon, at Seattle, Washington, thanking him for his acceptance of an appointment in the cosmic radiation program. ) To his past co-worker, Merle Tuve, Berkner wrote in congratulation; Tuve had accepted appointment as Home Secretary. He was then Director of the Carnegie Institution of Wash· .163· WEDNESDAY, Januaryt 19, 1966 9n (CONT) ) ington, where Berkner had been a staff member in earlier years. REF: ORAL HISTORY No.2, Lauriston C. Marshall, 6-4-78 THURSDAY, January 20, 1966 Sen. Ralph Yarborough broke~~ about a NASA grant for an F ·Region ionospheric probe experiment to be directed by William B. Hanson, in his senatorial newsletter; GRCSW was waiting for the signed grant, awar~g $169,927. REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0316666 CLIPBOARD pictured NASA Director James E. Webb on his January 12 visit, at the site of the painting "From a Pink Remembered" by James Leong, one of three paint_ings given to GRCSW by the Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Marcus Foundation. s" (Others were Frank Avray Wilson's "Nexu;," "~ and "Te Tres Ascentas." Only the Leong painting f\.