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..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\.. remained in its original location at the time of / this writing, in 198«; /Wd /r J1It7f hkr.§' /'Or4/., CLIPBOARD also covered Regional High Field Magnet Facility opening plans, and the seven- year biology program under the NIH grant. There had alBo been a change of command at ) the Dallas Geomagnetic Observatory, with Observer-in-Charge David H. Perkins replacing LCDR Lavon L. Posey, Coast and Geodetic Survey. LTJG George C. .-chappell was also assigned as assistant observer, and the name of the station officially changed to Dallas Geomag. V netic Center. REF: CLIPBOARD, Vol.:W, No. 11, 1·20·66

ADVANCE repeated the Webb visit photograph, Magnet Facility plans, Francis S. Johnson's AIAA , awarqhnd the Winthrop Rockefeller gift story. I Pictured was the Pioneer A/Pioneer 6 launch of December, the architect's rendering of the Western Company building, and Martin Halpern showing the flags he had taken to Antarctica, at 76 degrees south, 72 degrees west.

The history of the Geomagnetic Center was subject of the "Report" section, a science article written by AI Mitchell from data furnished by LCDR Lavon L. Posey, David M. Perkins, LTJG George C. Chappell, and Visiting Scientist Arthur W. Green of Texas Instruments. REF: ADVANCE, Vol. 2, No.4, Winter 1966·66

Lloyd V. Berkner wrote to Eugene Fubini of IBM, advising of meeting dates for both the SMU ) Foundation and GRCSW, and urging again that Fubini become a GRCSW trusteee.

.164­ THURSDAY, January 20, 1966 (CONT)

) Klaus Heckmann was offered an assistant prof­ essorship in Biology Division by Berkner l~ter. Klaus Haefner was promoted to assistant prof­ S essor in another letter. RE~: LTRS, L VB File, 1-20·66

SATURDAY, Januq;ry 22/Friday, January 28, 1966

Winter weather hampered campus operations and driving for the first __ time after the opening of Founders Building, on consecutive week-ends, ":/:~ .f ,. freezing rain, snow and temperatures at fI' record lows, in the 10.degree region.tAsm-Dallas developed and expanded, there was also ~ weather at spring semester registration time, in the period 1976-7~' REF: CLIPBOARD, Vol. IV, No. 12, 2-3-66

WEDNESDAY, January 26, 1966

Lloyd V. Berkner recommended appointment of Gilbert Plass, chairman; Walter Harm, representing the Academic Council, and Istvan Ozsvath as members of the Faculty Committee on Qualifications. Berkner asked specifically, in the memorandum to Gifford K. Johnson, that Daniel L. Harris, Henry Faul and ) John W. Graham not be appointed, because he felt they should devote time to their research areas and to improvement of their publications records.

Berkner also wrote to Stanley and Billie Marcus, with,Xhanks for the painting "From a Pink Rem­ emberedfand said it had been hung in the central hall of Founders Building, "a place of radistinction ... where it could be approached from a distance." The location was the south wall of the present i Elsa Level 3 hallway (the exterior wall of what was then Gifford K. Johnson's office, formerly Berkner's; { later, the office was occupied by Francis S. Johnson '$M,AlO/ and Bryce Jordan in their presidencies). REF: LTR, LVB File, 1-26-66

THURSDAY, January 27, 1966

Berkner wrote to Director James A. Shannon, National Institutes of Health, with thanks for the major, seven-year grant; he said it would do far more than aid research, because expansions in connection with Southwestern Medical School and Arlington State College were planned.

Similar thanks went to J. H. U. Brown, General Medical Sciences, and to NIGMS Director IIIiiit Frederick L. Stone. REf: LTRS, LVB File, 1-27-66 1\ -165­ THURSDAY, January 27,1966 (CONT)

) lloyd V. Berkner recommended John Jagger for promotion to professorship, without salary change. Writing to Milton S. Eisenhower of Planned ParenthoodlWorld Population, Berkner accepted a sponsors council appointment, remarking .. than. while world population was increasing at two percent a year, food production was only increasing at one percent, leading to indications ..of general starvation, but principally in Asia, Africa and South America.

A note to Anton L. Hales said that Berkner was impressed by Charles L. Helsley's recent papers and scholarly contributions. REFS: MEMOS, LTRS, LVB File, 1·27·66

THURSDAY, February a, 1966

CIJPBOARD noted a February 16 visit by Presi· dent Lee DuBridge of California Institute of Technology, and his talk on Exploration of the Moon and Mars; this was to be given at Southern Methodist UniversitI., with the Dallas Council of Scientific SocietiefSand the Dallas Council on World Affairs as hosts.

) Pictured ~ the campus snow of late January. A note on ADVANCE, Winter Issue, said that the magazine was being distributed to 4,800.

Appointment of Gifford K. Johnson as chairman of a Research Advisory Committee, Texas College Coordinating Board, was announced; Ross C. Peavey was named vice-chairman and Francis S. Johnson was appointed a member. REF: CLIPBOARD, Vol. IV, No. 12,2·3-66 , THURSDAY, February 10, 1966 f Lloyd V. Berkner wrote to Martin Tycher and indiaated that he and Lillian would leave their Northwest Highway apartment on or about Maya, "giving up our domicile in Dallas" and using hotels during his visits as Chairman of the Board, GRCSW.

Many letters of invitation went out from Berkner at this time relative to the Fifth Anniversary program, and especially. to the Symposium oj on Regional Graduate Education. Vice-Chairman Newton Gresham, Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System (the first time this board title had been used in publications and GRCSW letters), was invited to chair the opening session. Charles Kidd, Office of Science and Technology, Office of the President, and .166· THURSDAY, February 10, 1966 (CONT) ) Direction James m 2U Shannon, National Institutes of Health, were among the invited speakers. REFS: LTRS, LVB File, 2·10·66 and thereafter through mid-February

News release activity was minor during this period, with preparations being made for the Fifth Anniversary program, as well as the series on Exobiology by invited speakers, which got underway February l(!, aft:r the initial late-December program. ").1 MONDAY, February 14, 1966 .)

This was the actual fifth anniversary of GRCSW charter issue.

lloyd V. Berkner adressed Secretary of Com· merce John T. f:i Connor, accepting an appoint­ ment to the advisory committee on the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA) Commissioned Officer Corps. REF: LTR, LVB File, 2=14-66

III\IJ.IIIlI1IM iiml\!llbQl THURSDAY, February 17,1966 ) CgPBOARD covered Sidney Fox' lecture in A..I!#vVj?k ~:.r Ulac C:U:.lv41'/Y tlie,~obiology Seriefi{the Texaco $25,000 /u;;r ~~I I'Y:>x' I''//",s~. gift, and the March 16-lM'ifth Anniversary ? program plans. 11'

Pictured were Martin Halpern, with GRCSW and Texas flags flying at his Antarctic camp site; a story noted that the rock structures of northwest Antarctica resembled those of southern Chile (related to the research that I I indicated massing of present continents in I the southern hemisphere, as Gonwandaland). tl s"£ eci",f'I Cloud seeing should be of national concern, A said Francis S. Johnson in comment on a report of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Weather Modification. He served as a panel member.

A. Douglas McLaren was pictured, having joined the Biology faculty for a six· month visit. CLIPBOARD, Vol. IV, 1l&B No. 11,2·17·66

Berkner wrote to Gifford K. Johnson on the subject of granting degrees; there was still fear among universities that GRCSWJSCAS would ._.111 take away graduate students, Johnson had reported. Berkner said this was difficult to understand, but that the problem "arises

.167­ THURSDAY, February 17, 1966 (CONT)

) from the undergraduate orientation of the university administratorsd~ this area (including The University of Texas.\'V

To Ralph N. Stohl, a Berkner memorandum went into questions of overload on David W. Canham, as Assistant to the Director of SCAS for Research Support. Executive officers were needed for each of four divisions (with exception of Biology) to relieve this, Berkner concluded, with only one prime candidate in sight. Canham had interviewed several who did not come up to his own qiIIl quali· fications but wanted more money than he was making; therefore, Berkner believa(be would be likely to go elsewhere, .....needed a pay adjustment to keep him here, and that it would costly to lose him (because of the expense of finding and _ training a replacement).

To ADM Arleigh Burke, Berkner wrote thanks for the Texaco gift of $25,000, which was publicly announced on February 23. REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0346566 REFS: MEMOS/LTR, LVB File, 2·17·66

MONDAY, February 21, 1966 ) Clarence Zener, who was being sought by Texas A&M University as Dean of Sciences (he was then with Westinghouse Corporation) had visited the SCAS; it was was reported to Margaret McDermott that a staff member had asked i I' Zener why he was going to a "fuddy·duddy in· stitution like A&M." Whether true or not, the comment had fed back to Earl Rudder, who was "sore" about i~according to Mrs. McDermott. Francis S. Johnson was headed to A&M for a , visit and would investigate, Berkner told Gifford , K. Johnson in his memorandum, entitled "A Serious Rumor Mfecting GRCSW." (QUESTION: Was Zener the inventor of the Zener diode? It is believed he was). Ricardo A. R. Palmieira of NASA·Goddard Space Flight Center accepted appointment as assistant professor in Atmospheric and Space Scienees, joining the cosmic radiation study program. Berkner.. wrote that he was happy about the acceptance. REFS: MEMO/LTR, LVB File, 2·21·66

·168· ) TUESDAY, February 22, 1966

) MINUrES OF MEETtira OF BOARD OF GOVERNORS

The meeting was held in the Brick Room of the Petroleum Club.

Cash balance was looking better, with $893,568 estimated balance as of Feb;tary 28, against $519,154. current obliglations. Assets were listed at $22.5 million, liabilities at $9.6 million. For the first seven months of the fiscal year, costs had run $147,589 less than forecast.

Sponsored research was still running $306,749 below forecast, although the seven month period had brought in $1,691,799.

John's Jagger's professorial promotion was approved (at no salary change).

IBM had said it ~ could deliver _ a 360/50 computer with 131K memory by May. The board voted to accept, anticipating shift in installation costs up from December, 1966 to the earlier date.

James E. Webb, NASA Director, was taking a ) look at total NASA budgeting before any possible a c ___tion on building proposals, so there was delay ,-/ on possible funding of the half-size building (half the size of Founders Building). Net result was a decision that, with space increasily tight, a Delta steel building at $60,000 and a permanent concrete building at $150,000 should be built. These were ultimately to be the Materials Research labo.ratories. Eventually, the two (which were built) served as High Field Magnet Facility (the steel buildinl!) and finally as UTD's Physical Plant offices and shops; and, as overflow administrative andd M8 th j' t~~colupnhti~g areas (Plllus Mpathematlics ( an a ema IfC8. YSICS, as we as ersonne ofljces, and as the DevelopmentlNews and Inform· atIJP. offices). Finally, as of 1980, the North Building (concrete structure) was the Quantum ...Electronics Laboratory, with the High Energy Laser Laboratory (HELL) located in the steel building).

Engineering plans for roads and utilities had been drawn by Forrest and Cotton for Tech· nology Park, with construction listed for mid· March. This resulted in the present Tatum and Cullum Drive areas at the Western Company ) )tuilding, which became the UT·Dallas Admin· istration Building later. Western Company's construction was due to start, as of March . REF: MINUTES of Board of Governors meeting, •169­ 2·22·66 WEDNESDAY, February 23,1966

) A problem that troubled Lloyd V. Berkner and Lauriston C. Marshall, in their study of Eatth's atmosphere, was noted in a Berkner letter to Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA) Director Robert White.

Oxygen is a very unstable component of the Earth's atmosphere, sensitive to the ecology, they had concluded. The point of their worries was that they had learned that ocean fish were picking up significant amounts of pesticides. The rate of oxygen production (very low) might be altered by such poisons, they felt.

Oxygen had been thought to be a stable component, prior to the studies, and measurements of its atmospheric concentration were stopped. What Berkner suggested was a renewal of a station network to begin such measurements again, out to several significant figures .• REF: LTR, LVB File 2·23·66

THURSDAY, February 24, 1966

Writing to Freeman H. Quimby, Exobiology Chief in NASA's Office of Space Sciences and ) Applications, Berkner said he and Marshall finally ¥ felt they had a hold on atmosp..-erfc calculations for Venus; its atmosphere would be about 100 times as denISe as Earth's, they had concluded. Thus, a probe through the Venusian atmosphere would need only a small amount of "drag" (ie., such as a small parachute) for slow passage. REF: LTR, LVB File, 2-24-66

FRIDAY, February 25, 1966

To Gifford K. Johnson, Berkner said that five SCAS research areas tied directly into Texas ( Instruments' interests. A very large antenna (a project comparable to the large accelerator in scope), to be built in the 1970's; power spectrum analysis of the Earth's magnetic field (related to undersea warfare); development of the High Field Magnet Facility, subcontracts for space instrumentation, and new measurement techniques such as Brian Tinsley's airglow experiments were the areafmentioned. Berkner saw trtrifjation of the ideas of science into major technological strategies as a result of future "linkage with industry. REF: MEMO, LVB File, 2·25·66

·170· ) THURSDAY, March 3,1966 ) Pictured in CLIPBOARD was the explosive ground breaking for the Western Company building, with Vice President Ralph N. Stohl of GRCSW joining hands with William Brown, Director of Western Research, President E. G. (Bud) Gatlin of the Richardson Chamber of Commerce, and Mayor Pro Tem Richard Reynolds" Specific date of the event was j" ,;;'/~ 4 ,Acr,-peh.t tf1:.ee»f/;1f ~d"-/.r 1$17­ not published and no news release is on file. J( ~ ["'~ c/,,-cu/C. The date, from memory, was on or about February 25. REF: CLIPBOARD, Vol. IV, No. 14

Philip Abelson, Director of the Geophysical Laboratory, C8.d{egie Institutfion of Wash­ ington, was pictured as he opened the Third Section (visiting .... speakers) of the series on Exobiology: Life Beyond the Earth, on Feb~ 21. The opening had been d.!!Jyed from February 17 because Sidney W~ Fox of the University of Miami had been ill and was not able to present his paper at that time.

WEDNESDAY, March 16 through SUNDAY, March 20, 1966

) This was the period of the Fifth Anniversary celebration for GRCSW (celebrated like the Queen's Birthday, at this more convenient time, the actual date being Feb~

WEDNESDAY, March 16, 1966 MINUTES OF MEETING OF BOARD OF GOVERNORS

The Governors had only one item of business, approving negotiations with Texas Instruments fo~ sale of an additional 50 acres of land east of the 125·acre tract purchased earlier for an antenna range.

MINUTES OF MEETING OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Actions of the Board of Governors since October 27, 1965, were ratified.

Promotions of Wolfgang Rindler and John Jagger ~ as professors were approved. NOTE: Research revenue for GRCSW in FY 1966 t o in ~.~~ ( Growth of 42 percent research support was was $3,582,849. In the first half of FY 1980, UT­ VJ f\ ~forecast by President Gifford K. Johnson, although Dallas had received 53 research awards, for a dollar the first half actual had run $245,266 below esti- I volume of ~,65~ with $38.4 million i.q fo'.S' " yf mate. Sponsored" support for Biology was expected 2 pen ing requests (REF;: Research f to double in the year ahead, where it had been a Highlights, Vol. III, No. 16, May 16, 1980) "real problem" in the past, President ..Johnson FY 1980 growth was shown at 30 percent. said.

·171· WEDNESDAY, March 16, 1966 (CONT) (Through Sunday, March 20) ) MINUTES OF JOINT MEETING, BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND ADVISORY COUNCIL

President Gifford K. Johnson reported total staffing had reached 311 in the first five years of operations. The next five years, he said, would be centered on education, with an emphasis on sharing of computers for educational and other purposes (the mM 360·50 installation was reported due in May).

The combined meeting heard len~ reports on research by faculty members (principal investigators).

Trammell Crow, as chairman, and William Campbell of the Land Planning Committee spoke on develop- , ment of Technology Park, with initial de¥ale,ment aC,h'v,,'1j centered on a 160·acre tract "adjoining the proposed tl outer·outer loop." (This was a reference to the project that appeared under various names up into 1980, proposing that an additional loop highway be built around Dallas beyond Loop 12 and IH635 (Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway, which did not exist 14 11d-~ at tbat LUlie). No actual construction had been done on the "outer.juter" plan into 1980, with the then latest idea being an east-west spur starting from the. ) Garland area and aiming toward D-FW Airport (which also did not exist in 1966). The various proposed paths have generally led through the north campus area. FIFTH ANNIVERSARY

The CLIPBOARD issue of Thuritay, March 17 was a major distribution pieee covering the five years REFS: Fifth Anniversary Program of GRCSW histo~, including a "Milestones-" listing of major events; hotographs of several such events CLIPBOARD, Vol. IV, No. 15, March 17, 1966 were published. AGER was emphasized, and each CLIPBOARD, Vol. IV, No. 16, March 31, 1966 research area was reviewed, with pictures of the ADVANCE, Vol. 3, No.1, Spring, 1966 leading faculty members. SPEECH FILE, XE129, 3-17·66. Kenneth S. Pitzer, ( Rice University: Graduate Education in the A sub· file carries both news releases and planning papers Universities of the Southwest. relative to the pro~am, which ~cluded a ~mposium PHOTO FILE March 16-20 1966 on graduate educatIOn, symbolIc tree-plantmg on the ' , campus" (in an area since covered by Founders NEWS RELEASE SUB.FILE, XE128.0406566, North Building and its westward extension), and a March 6 through March 22,1966 w/planning dinner honoring Lloyd V. Berkner. Martin Halpern notes supplement. presented the flags that had been flown in Antarctica at this program, in the Statler.Hilton, Dallas). Bob Cullum was called on for the _ invocation, and commented that he could not say who was the more surprised, the Lord or he. ·172· ) SATBRDAY, March 19, 1966

Lloyd V. Berkner spoke on "The Revolution in Education" before a meeting of the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest (this was not a Fifth Anniversary event). He said that the Southwest had become an urltan frontier, with dramatic changes in education going hand·in·hand with science.based technology. REFS: 1JBIMM NEWS RELEASE XE128.0416566 SPEECH FILE, XE129, 8-19·66 FRIDAY, March 18, 1966

Dee Bartley was advised that ..her time eould be divided, in answer to an earlier request for definition of her duties, at 50 percent for Berkner and 50 percent for ~iUJ>rd K. Johnson. The half· time for Berkner was)~ percent on History of the Earth's Atmosphere and 35 percent on the work for Chairman of the Board, GRCSW. REF: MEMO, LVB File, 8-18·66

WEDNESDAY, March 28, 1966

Berkner had been advised by NASA Administrator James E. Webb that he had been proposed as recip. ient of the NASA Public Service Medal; he accepted, and proposed October 7 as the award date. REF: LTR, LVB File, 3·28-66

THURSDAY, March 24 through WEDNESDAY, ) March 30, 1966

Several Berkner letters, including one to Rep. Earle Cabell requesting a special bill, went to persons who might support citizenship for Anton L. Hales without waiting for the five-year term of residence ordinarily required. As matters now stood, Berkner explained, Hales could not serve on a large number of science panels, nor have ~ access to much classified information. REF: LTRS, LVB File, 8-24-66 through 8-30·66 " { FRIDAY, March 25, 1966

NASA news release 66-65 listed a $55,000 new grant to GRCSW for Research on Gravitational Waves and Other Problems in General Relativity. Not named in the release, Ivor Robinson was Principal Investigator. REFS: NEWS RELEASE XE128.04365~ XE128.0086263di', James E. Webb announcement ORAL HISTORY No. 11, Francis S. Johnson, 8·28-78 ORAL HISTORY No. 10, Ivor Robinson, 8·14-78 ·173·

) WEDNESDAY, March 30, 1966

) Patricia Atmar wrote a len~ release on the Pion Dosimetry program, in which Chaim Rich· j refsaJ/ol't: man was Principal Investigator, complimentary ;;;. /lr:/rtJ~ 7 1 to the American Cancer Society ~CS, thi'ough Mrs. William Perkins of the Richardson Cancer '5 Committee, was the release agency. REF,( NEWS RELEASE XE128.0446566 ORAL HISTORY No.2, Lauriston C. Marshall, 6-4.78 Lloyd V. Berkner DIm wrote and forwarded a citation for Scott Forbush, to be used by the American Geophysical Union at presentation R, 6u h of the John Adam Fleming Medal. Ileh8d tJ r ,r shown the 11·year periodicity of cosmic radia­ tion and the production of cosmic ray bursts generated by solar flares, with a decrease in cosmic ray flux about one day after a major flare; the phenomenon was named the "For· bush decrease." REF: LRS, L VB File, 3-80-66

THURSDAY, March 81, 1966 ~r/f:{t'r­ CLiPBOARD"covered the Symposium .... on Graduate Education and other events of the Fifth Anniversary. In addition, the visit of Poland's Ambassador Edward Drozniak, as guest of ) Leopold Infeld, was pictured; aoo.~ were Walter Evans of KRLD.TV, f..... who filmed a third special report on GRCSW stressing the growth of the Biology Division. RE,F: CLIPBOARD, Vol. IV, No. 16, 3-81·66

·.END OF CHRONOLOGY, JANUARY.MARCH, 1966-­ , I ·174.

) FRIDAY, April 1, 1966

) GOALS. FOR DALLAS

Al Mitchell went "on loan" to Erik Jonsson and BrVghte D. Godbold to handle public information for Goals for Dallas, l~ in former New York Life Insurance Company offices, Republic Bank Building.

Patricia Atmar (later, Godbold) handled the major part of news release writing for GRCSW during this period, which ran through to early December; later, she was assisted by Lois Kathryn Bennett. AI Mitchell continued doing final layouts for CLIPBOARD, with their assistance. !f.AG:BR TAGER's full organization met for the first time, in the Nordic Room of the Fort Worth Club. In a review release, Pat Atmar noted that TAGER offices had been opened earlier in Stem mons Tower West, with Jesse Hobson as executive diMm director. The TAGER Board had 30 members, with a 25·JaWlmember Advisory Council.

) Chairman Cecil. H. Green had committed TAGER to construction and operation of a closed circuit television network, «;onnecting all seven campuses of participantiinstitutions and extending later into i)(dustrial classrooms. fl April 25·26 visits to the University of Florida '" and Purdue University were planned, to see existing sprt ""M systems. REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0466566/PA WEDNESDAY, April 6 through FRIDAY, April 8, 1966 , Launches of the Pulsed Ionospheric Probe (PIP) and Multiple Ionosf\Peric Probe (MIP) were made ~ from NASA·Wallops Island, Virginia. Walter J. ;$ .s Heikkila was principal investigator. REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0476566/0486566!PA ~ ~ SATURDAY, April 9, 1966

Walter Evans' special television review of the Graduate Research Center's progress and future plans ran on KRLD·TV (4), later KDFW·TV. Biology Division progress and TAGER plans were the subject areas. REFS: NElliS RELEASE XE128.049656.A CLIPBOARD, Vol. IV, No. 17, 4.14-66

TUtJS{)AY, AprR12,t966 . / ) ,~r' .. In a me.m6r;ndum to President Gifford K. J~on,L " -4 .175· TUESDAY, April 12, 1966 ) In a memorandum to James S. Triolo, Lloyd V. Berkner said he doubted that he ~could work by himself to attract funds from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; that Warren Weaver was the key person, but there was a basic problem in that Weaver thought he should have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and had not. Berkner, as NAS treasurer, thus felt hampered. He said that Gifford K. Johnson should approach Weaver and attempt to break down another basic objection: the thought that""',..~ was plenty of money for philanthropy in Texas without Sloan Foundation participation. REF: MEMO, LVB File, 4-12·66

Berkner also said, in a'1iilii letter to Ross C. Peavey, as Assistant to the President, GRCSW, that TAGER institutions needed tiIIIIIIR first to build strong disciplinary departments, and come into full competence at graduate l.....m ....level; then, talk about having interdiscipo linary centers. Otherwise, TAGER would be a laughingstock in all good graduate schools. REF: LTR, LVB File, 4-12·66

Mrs. Charles A. Baker of Dallas apparently had written, in late February, to say that Philip Abelson's paper on Exobiology was ! ) in conflict with religion. BerJt;er finally wrote in answer. He said there wafconflict ~ between religion and science, quoting Pope Pius' allocution, "De Originii Hominis Corporali," Acta Apolostica Sedis, of 1941.

"Since th$'Earth and all within are the work of God," Berkner said, "the work of science is simply to ...... unravel the magnificent detail ... and the natural law under which it has developed , &B1l is IfOll9llleli. ChHseter ; and is governed." Character Jl!ld mutations of the DNA chain have nothing to'With religion, he said, exeept as manifestations of natura. law, laid down to govern the universe. REF: LTR, LVB File, 4.12·66

WEDNESDAY, April 13, 1966 J::.'4 Berkner wrote to Buford Berry of Thompson, Night, Wright and Bullion, saying he had mailed his income tax return and check for 1965; there was still a minor discrepancy in reporting fees, and he had ..over,aid by $39.93, but was not inclined to reopen the return. REF: LTR, LVB File, 4·13·66

) ·176­ THURSDAY, April 14, 1966

CLIPBOARD led off witb a listing of SCAS ) participants in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and International Scientific Radio Union (URSI) meetings at Washington, D. C:; noted the special television program on KRLD.TV, and reported Texas Technological College's affiliation with the regional university group planning to use the High Field Magnet Facility. REF: CUPBOARD, Vol. IV, No. 17,4-14-66

NOTE: Asst. Prof. Brian T. C. Davis of Geosciences Division was amone the AGU participants. He was found dead in the Sheraton Park Hotel on or about the morning of April ~t the insftence l,19. of David W. Canham, Bill" F8R"~...~f the~ nm S' Times Herald was told that "death--wiSQue to ~Il McAda natural causes" when he queried Al Mitchell on a story transmitted by press services. Mitchell had received no such medical examiner report. Davis' body was not returned to Dallas, but a memorial service was held April 23. His burial :s was in his native New Jersey. REJi: ~orial Service, CLIPBOARD Vol. IV, No. 18, ~ 4-28·66 NEWS RELEASE XE128.0526566/w note ADDITIONAL NOTE: As this was written, in June, 1980, Canham was reported convalescine from critical surgery for bladder cancer. He had ) gone from UT·Dallas to Sacremlnto State r University to direct research contracting and grants. A's "IJ lv' x J 1\:: '1:2 ..I;"/. REF: Verbal report by Betty Hunter, Office of Sponsored Projects, UT.Dallas, to Al Mitchell, 6-2-80

FRIDAY.SATURDAY, April 15.16, 1966

Lloyd V. Berkner and Astronaut Walter Schirra (amone others) received honorary doctoral degrees at a Lafayette College convocation. Berkner spoke on "Man's Technologicar" Futurlat the convocation { luncheon on April 16. REFS: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0506566/Lafayette College releases 270/271 SPEECH FILE XE129, 4·16-66

MONDAY·TUESDAY, April 18.19, 1966 ·URSI Summary releases were made on the AGq,papers scheduled by SCAS participantsII' with emphasis on Kenneth G. McCracken's report of data from Pioneer 6 regarding cosmic radiation fields. REFS; NEWS RELEASES XE128.0516566 and XE128.0526566 (See April 14 re Brian T. C. Davis and note appended to XE128.0526566)

·177· ) TUESDAY, April 19, 1966

) MINUTES OF ~ MEETING OF BOARD OF GOVERNORS

.,. Revised agreements on Lloyd V. Berlma,s salary and deferred compensation were approved, specifying that part of salary under the earlier agreement represented performance under the deferred compensation plan. No '!l0llar amounts were entered in the record.

Obligations estimated for April 30 were $557.1200, with a bank ...... balance of $1,179,200. Assets were shown at $22.9 million and liabilities at $8.2 million.

Costs were down from estimates, at $177,703 for the first nine months of the fiscal year; sponsored research reached $2,281,704, but was still below forecast by $453,957.

Sale of securities completed March 29 (at $216.10 a share) had brought in $2,154,483.15, of which $1,668,290.87 had been. paid on bank loans in principal and interest. The long-term bank loan (five years) was still delinquent by $695,965.17, with $325,000 due June 30. There was still an obligation of $1,264,000 on the short-term note ) with the four banks.

A resolution passed to sell an additional 6,250 shares of Texas Instruments stock, make the loan payments on June 30 (and become current on the notes), and provide enough operating cash until September.

A budget deficit of $1,601,670 was forecast for the fiscal year ending June 30,1967. , President Gifford K. Johnson proposed three ~ five-year plans to the board (minimum, "most likely," and maximunJ. Details of the plans were not placed in the record, but the philo­ sophy of the "most likely" plan was approved.

It appeared that The University of Texas was "not as anxious as previously indicated" to work out a co-operation between GRCSW and ~lington State College, Mr. Johnson said.

Board members suggested ceaJin"g the effort with The University of Texas; direct effort to co-operations with other universities and ) TAGER,'" and the possible consolidation of the three state schools in North TeEas in a single system under a chancellor.

-178­ TUESDAY, April 19, 1966 (CONT)

An organization in the southwest, known as the ) Compact for Education, was reported seeking land for its facilities; an offer of two acres at $1 per year for 51 years was approved.

There was a rumor that Humble Oil (the present-day EXXON) might put research facilities in the Dallas area; but Texas Instruments had decided not to buy any more land, in addition to its 125 acres.

A consulting firm (Cresap, McCormick and Paget) was engaged to review GRCSW policies and pro­ cedures; President Johnson commented that the faculty felt GRCSW had a non-academic administ­ ration. REF: Minutes of Meeting of Board of Governors, 4-19-1966

THURSDAY, April 21, 1966

Nuclear power (reactor propulsion devices) ~ the wave of the future in interplanetary space vehicles, Lloyd V. Berkner wrote to Chairman Glenn T. Seaborg of the Atomic Energy Comm­ isiion. Berkner also commented that the chair­ man's office resembled that of a medieval Pope, with problems of warfare, law, commerce, diplomacy, ) patronage of arts and sciences, and management of an extraordinarily complex political organ i- 1: zation. REF: LTR, LVB File, 4-~1-66

SUNDAY, April 24, 1966 and THURSDAY, April 28, 1966

What was to have been a national project, with 11 maps (only two were produced) was announced with publication of the first in the "United States , Geological Highway Map Series." Research Scientist Philip Oetking of SCAS was the producer. ~ On the committee were Dan Feray of Texas Christian University and H. B. (Pete) Renfro of Neches Petroleum Corporation.

The series, involving highly complicated carto­ graphy and printing (39 colors and tints were involved in register in the first map), began IIIi*dIBlI!IiIIIDII_talll.nu.sl with mid-continent states. Key point in the plan was the relating of geological formations to highways and other political surface features. The project eventually ran into opposition of the American Association of Petroleum Geolo­ gists and was shelved. REFS: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0536566 ) CIJPBOARD, Vol. IV, No. 18, 4-28-66

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t-Cf> THURSDAY, April ~ 1966 CLIPBOARD also noted arrival (and depart­ ) ure) of Gunnar Johansen, concert pianist and artist in residence at the University of Wiscon­ sin. A friend of Lauriston C. Marshall's, _ Johansen did not play at GRCSW. The story was in his arrival by modified Cessna (Wren) airplane. The aircraft, with extra elevator sur­ faces, wing slo(and extra power, was nearly a vertical-takeoff-and-landing machine (VTOL). Its flight characteristics were no-stall, 'la-spin and no-slip, even in a full vertical tu!'n at 60 knots. Johansen, whose interests also included flight safety, demonstrated the machine in landing and takeoff on the grassed area north of Founders Building (about at the north edge of the later Jonsson Center).

Leopold Infeld, in rather feeble health, had gone back to Warsaw, Poland; his departure from Love Field was pictured.

CLIPBOARD had received a first place award among university internal publications, in a contest held by the American College Public Relations Association (ACPRA, now CASE) at Houston. ADVANCE received a second ) place award.

11/ ....The m{morial service for Brian T. C. Davis was briefly noted. REF: CLIPBOARD, Vol. IV, No. 18,4-28-66

WEDNESDAY, May 4, 1966

The GRC Witv; Club, marking its first """",rn anniversary, held a dinner dance at Brook­ haven Country Club (on May 6). Mrs. Glen I ,~ H. Riley became president; Mrs. William B. , Hanson, vice president; Mrs. William J. Odor, I /:fff second vice president; Mrs. Philip Oetking, /%/ secretary, and Mrs. Roswell C. Peav~, Treasurer. ~ ./ Dance committee chairwoman was 'Mrs. William C. (Dee) Bartley; Mrs. Charles E~elsley, Mrs. Wolfram Heumann and Mrs.. Lauriston C. at Marshall were the assisting committee. REF: NEWS RELEASE/pa XE128.0536566 @ MONDAY, May 2, 1966 Writing to the Australian Embassy, Lloyd V. Berkner said it was not likely that Cecil H. Green would add to his charitable commit­ ments to support a memorial foundation.rf' for Sir Ian Clunies Ross. The habit of philan­ ) thropy in Texas is new, Berkner said in other comment; a significant part of educational institutions' activity in Texas must be directed -180­ TUEADAY, May 2, 1966 .~ONT)

toward education of the very wealthy, to assure ) the supply of private funds without which education and research cannot go forward. REF~e, 5·2·66

Again, Berkner said he could not attend a Banquet of the Golden Plate dinner sponsored by the American Academy of Achievement, S S on June 18. REF: LTR, LVB File, 5·2-66 " a. WEDNESDAY, May 3, 1966

Writing to Raymond C. ~ Blaylock of Ling. Temco·Vought, Berkner said he hoped LTV would reconsider cancellation of its support­ ing ind'trial membership in the American Geophysical Union. REF: ~e. 5·3-66 Berkner accepted an invitation to address the University of Nevada Commencement at Reno and receive an honorary degree, on June 11.

He also asked Republic National Bank to change his checking account address to GRCSW, Box 30365, Dallas TX 75230. The postal delivery point for GRCSW had been changed to this Royal Lane Station some time earlier. REFS: LTRS, LVB File, 5·3-66 ) WEDNESDAY, May 4,1966

~rt from page 180 he~ Writing to Bernard M. Oliver of Hewlatt-Packard Company (also an IEEE leader), Berber said he had heard that Earl Lipscomb was inquiring into locations for an H·P office site in the area. He asked Oliver to look into use of GRCSW's , "Technology Park." As a note, the H·P service center was built later, but on Arapaho Road ~ near the Collins Radio·Rockwell International and Vantage sites. Lipscomb, incidentally, had been AI Mitchell's "skipper" for a short time in Boston at the Harbor Building extension of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Navy radar schools, in 1942. RE~-vB""File, 5·4-66

Following a visit to ...NASA Manned Space­ craft Center, Berkner wrote to Director Robert R. lJiIJiitarSu 1tim Gilruth, recommending that contracts with university and scientific groups be the method of "doing the scientiftqob" in lunar and other space BXperiments; i~., that scientific needs might be missed by flight ) engineers.

He passed along his comments to Harry Hess of

-181· WEDNESDAY, May 4,1966 (CONT)

the Space Science Board, adding that he suspected ) some objections to a scientific interface had been '$ S been raised at NASA-MSC. REF:,. LTR,,,:::­ L!b File, 5·4-66 THURSDAY, May 5, 1966

Fred Agnich had called Berkner to advise thqt a seminar on retarded children was planned by the University of Plano, and asking that a Biology faculty member participate. Berkner said in a memorandum to Gifford K. Johnson that he had avoided too close a relationship with the Univers· ity of Plano because (in part) of the rather" odd circumstances of its organization; but he was willing to let Winfried Krone attend, and suggested a direct communicatioon with Presid~t Bob Morris. REF: MEMO, LVB File, 5·5-66

Berkner planned a Texas Instruments trip to Naples during much iIaI. of the month.

He gave a strong endorsement to William C. and Dee Bartley, by lette~to the Edna Gladney Home in Fort Worth, suppofing their application for adoption of a child. REF: LTR, L VB File, 5·5·66

THURSDAY, May 12, 1966 ) Nobel Laureate Harold C. Urey said he was a neutral on the question of life beyond the Earth, but that he would like to get an 80th ill birthday present (in 1973) of Mars material with a reverse ..... optical rotation, indicating organic matter's presence. He spoke in the ExobiologyJJeminar series on May 5, and the report was featured in CLIP· BOARD. ///'/7" d/fl.t:! a/ La,/p//Q, C'i~:hr/.J?,/~ ~:n ./o/JvP'o/~" 1'4/J'tJ. Also reported was the (eventually fatal) April ( 30 gas blast, in her apartment on Bowser Road, that burned Sabine~, Biology Division l... 7"~r.v technician. With assistance of the State Depart- - ' ment and Lufthansa Airlines, her mother was brought to Dallas within 36 hours after the accident. Miss Zerau diedlafter her mother's pst-" arrival. Radio news media co.operated in not :; announcing her death (although her mother did not speak English) until Carsten Bresch could break the news personally.

Also featured in pictures was the installation of the mM 360-50 computer. Charles Craig was maiai"ger of the Data Processing Center. The location (Founders Building had no south· ) east basement area at this time) was on the present Level 2, in the south hallway just west of the reception area. A "picture" window in ·182­ THURSDAY, May 12, 1966 (CONT)

the north hallway wall gave everyone a chance ) to view the marvelous new machine. REF: CLIPBOARD, Vol. IV, No. 19,5·12·66

MONDAY, May 23 and THURSDAY, May 26, 1966

Two programs involving insitrumentation for studies of the lunar atmosphere were announced. Francis S. Johnson was principal investigator in both, and the programs were funded by NASA. One involved use of a cold cathode ionization gauge (the first of these experiments was deployed in 1969 by Apollo 12 Astronauts). The other, , "h' /h in which Glen H. Riley of Geosciencesliided , ...' , 9' Johnson, was development of a coincidence mass spectrometer. _ Eventually, John H. ~ ..Hoffman developed the spectrometer, which was used both in lunar orbit and on the surface.

The Atomic Energy Commission added $20,000 funding to Chaim Richman's Pion Dosimetry research; NASA requested Lloyd V. Berkner and Lauriston C. Marshall do a study of Evolu· tion of Earth and Mars Atmospheres ($88,876 funding), and. John W. Graham was granted $7,200 for construction of a highly.sensitive magnetometer, for measurements of weak rem· ) anent magnetism in soft rock. REFS: NEWS RELEASES XE128.0566566 through 0596566/pa CLIPBOARD, Vol. IV, No. 20, 5·26-66 CLIPBOARD noted the May 12 death of Sabine Zierau, and a memorial service. Ricardo A. R. Palmeira became a Space Sciences faculty member, effective ~ 18.

John Vanderford became Executive Officer of Space Sciences, effective May 16, to relieve , David W. Canham of a part of his heavy workload. REF: CLIPBOARD, Vol. IV, No. 20, 5·26-66 , SATURDAY, May 28, 1966

President Gifford K. Johnson (in a speech written by Al Mitchell) said that population growth and expansion of knowledge were forcing changes in ways to learn and the e~ent of learning. He was Commencement speaIfat Midwestern University, s Wichita Falls. 'I RE~: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0606566/am SPEECH FILE XE129. 5·28·66 TUESDAY, May 31, 1966

Additional funding of $15,000 was given by the Office of Naval Research, in support of the Pion Dosimetry project. REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0616566/am ) ·183­ WEDNESDAY, June 1, 1966

The Army Research Office granted $19,093 for studies ) of Earth mantle composition, with Ian D. Mc;;egor and then Research Associate James L. Carter is .0626566/pa Principal Investigators in Geosciences Division. REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128,. 6-1·66

WEDNESDAY, June 8, 1966

lloyd V. Berkner wrote to Mrs. J. Leddy Jones of Dallas, concerning her interest in studies of international law in outer space and inviting her to a luncheon discussion. As a note, :Mrs. Jones continued her interest in this field until she lost her life in a commuter airplane accident during an approach to Galveston Island. REF: LTR, LVB File, 6-8·66

THURSDAY, June 9,1966 ~o Some 56' summer students, four of them newly graduated from Dallas high schools, came to SCAS as research participants, in Biology, Space Sciences. This program was a fore·runner of the Clark Foundation sponsorship of summer students at both the SCAS and UT·Dallas.

Eugene M. Locke, GRCSW Advisory Countil ') member and senior partner in Locke, Purnell, Boren, Laney and Neely, was nominated as Ambassador to Pakistan by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Locke later ran unsuccessfully for the governorship of Texas.

President Gifford K. Johnson, who was lit chairman of the original planning committee for Dallas County Junior College (later, the Dallas County Community College System) was pictured in , CLIPBOARD at "first birthday" ceremonies , for DCJC. First work at the EI Centro campus was scheduled for the fall of 1966. REF: DCJCIDCCCD, ORAL HISTORY No. 14, Gifford K. Johnson, 10·17·79 High capacity switch gear was installed in the electrical distribution center north of Founders Building, to handlke the 2,000 KVA needs of the motor generator at the High Field Magnet Facility (generator output was estimated at about the same as needed for a _ community like Mineola, Texas, with 1,000 population, on a hot summer night). GENERAL REF: CLIPBOARD, Vol. IV, No. 21, 6-9·66 CLIPBOARD production, including typesetting, was moved to the Richardson Digest, published by Charles Heaton, at this time. Al Mitchell con· ) tinued as editor, although involved nearly full· time in Goals for Dallas, with Patricia Atmar (Godbold) and Lois"" Kathryn Bennett assisting in the news service. ·184­ SATURDAY, June 11,1966

Lloyd V. Berlmer said that technology and ') vast productivity offer miehty potentiam for human welfare, but also call for new ,ualities, of judement to control potential evils. He spoke at the University of Nevada Commence • -;: ment in Reno, where he received an honorary deeree. R~: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0646566IPA ..SPEECH FILE, XE129. 6-11·66 TUESDAY, June 14, 1966 ~/A",;r'c A review of the Berkner.Marshall studies was sent as a news release, tied to a ~ant of $114,700 by National Science Foundation. The erant was for two years of aJ1 [ t • lin an estimated five-year proeram, aimed at broad research in the develop· ment of planetary atmospheres. Berlmer's death came almost one year later. Rm{: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0656566. ORAL mSTORY No.1, Ross C. Peavey, 5·9·78 ORAL HISTORY No.2, Lauriston C. Marshall, 6-4-78 TUESDAY, June 21, 1966

Berkner wrote to Ross C. Peavey reeardine a visit by J. H. U. Brown of the National Insti· • tutes of Health on June 29, indicatine NIH interest in developine computer proerams for use in medical services, includine diaenostics. Richardson, with 30,000 to 40,000 people ) (as this was written in 1980, population had risen to 78,000) was sueeested as a test site for such a proeram, with GRCSW and South­ western Medical School, plus area physicians, involved. As a note, this type of activity was ___ developed later by American Bio~"'" hc..l Company, which was headed by Gifford K. Johnson after his GRCSW presidency; the company later became NatiDnal Health Lab· oratories, Incorporated, a Revlon subsidary. REFS: MEMO, LVB File, 6-21·66 f ORAL HISTORY No. 14, Gifford K. Johnson, ~ 10-17·79 Berkner also wrote to Lauriston C. Marshall and Ralph N. Stohl about a visit with Louis Cuam of DOD/Office of Naval Research, sayine that Cuam had indicated that a half million dollars for the Hieh Field M~et Facility was not inappropriate, from a $7 million fund that ONR would administer (out of a $20 million. appro­ priation -.to DOD for university research support) REF: MEMO, LVB File, 6-21·66

GOALS FOR DALLAS GENERAL NOTE Within this period, centerine on June 16-19 and a retreat held at Salado, Texas, Goam for Dallas ) was in the critical staee of brineine toeether the first summation of eoam. S'"' -1tu: GOALS FOR DALLAS GENERAL NOTE (CONT)

Essay reports on various goals areas had been ) prepared during the period from January to June; the Salado discussions involved committee meet· ings and discussions to derive general goals and specific recommendations under each major head· ing.

A major task was the conversion of notes and reports from a dozen committee. into "smooth copy" manuscripts, at great speed. This was done (at Al Mitchell's suggestion) by volunteers from news rewrite and editorial desks, notably by Ray Holbrook of the Dallas Bureau, Associated Press.

Essays and the book "Goals for Dallas" have not GENERAL REFERENCES: been made a part of the UT·Dallas archive, but "Essays," Goals for Dallas are retained in the Goals for Dallas offices, which "Goals for Dallas," initial and revised editions are still functional as of 1980. The publications were printed under Southwest Center for Advan· ORAL HISTORY No.9, Erik Jonsson, 8·9·78 ced Studies copyrights. ORAL HISTORY No. 15, Bryghte D. Godbold, 10·17·79 The active program was directed by Staff Vice CLIPBOARD, Vol. IV, No. 22, 7·7·66 President Bryghte D. Godbold, on leave from ADVANCE, Vol. 3, No.2, Summer, 1966 SCAS. Following the Salado conference, the fall REF NOTE (added 1-1:.4-82): Under the was devoted to a series of town meetings in many title "Planning for the Future: DALLAS Dallas areas, refining the initial goals statements. 2000," a program of examining the city's ) future in terms of physical growth Leading f.J:or.sor of the program., and its chief and development was inaugurated by underwriter, was Mayor Erik Jonsson, a Founder ,the City of Dallas. Focus of the study of the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest. was on generation of a land use plan, to be reviewed by a Dallas 2000 Con­ gress, representing nearly 100 organi­ WEDNESDAY, June 22,1966 zations including the Goals for Dallas I "t/A,'h,,/ ~.r ' Board, then located at ]004 Davis Surveyor~ad made the first.. unmann~ Building, 1309 Main Street. A full page landing after its May 30 launch~63.6 hour advertisement in local newspapers , flight, and was traasmitting early runs of photo­ spelled out the plan and listed the graphs (more than 11,000 to mid.July). These organizations. t excited Lloyd V. Berkner as copies came to GRCSW~ Date of the advertisement was January He asked in a note whether Phil Oetking had 10, 1982. noticed apparent atmospheric scattering in the picture made just befor lunar sunset, and said the horizon glow indicated some atmosphere present (perhaps Krypton and XenorJ. REF: MEMO, LVB File, 6-22·66 Berkner also advised H. B~) Renfro that he had sent the highway geological map produced by Renfro and Oetking to Walter Sullivan of the New York Times (science editor). REF: LTR, LVB File, 6-22·66

.18f. ) WEDNESDAY, June 22, 1966 ) DfINJlUTES OF MEETING OF BOARD OF GOVERNORS Obligations estimated for June 30 were $896,600 with an estimated bank balance of $464,600. Assets were estimated at $21.7 million, with obligations of $8.2 million. Overall costs for the fiscal year through April 30 had run $197,317 under forecast of rl,542,134. Sponsored re.arch completed and biI(lOr 10 months was $2,642,398"or $445,825 below the forecast.Stock sales authorized in May and June had been accomplished, with applicatio~ to bank loans, but the banks were asking that the long.term loan be renegotiated (with interest increasing from 5 112 to 6 percent). Erik Jonsson was to ask for a delay in renegotiation until August, when additional stock could be sold. The short term note had been renewed May 16, at !II. $1,264,000, for 90 days (at the 6 percent rate).

Appointments of John H...Hoffman in Space Sciences and Harold Werbin, in Biology, both as associate professors, were approved.

Salary increases were approved, at a general rate of 3.82 percent. ) President Gifford K. Johnson again ..... went over the GRCSWISCAS name confusion, and recommended a change to "Eriksson Center;" Erik Jonsson strenuously objected, and the board made no decision.

There had been a meeting with Frank C. Erwin, Vice-Chairman of The University of Texas System regents; Chancellor Harry Ransom, and Dr. Charles A. LeMa istre, Vice Chancellor for Medical Mfairs, { formerly with the Southwestern Medical School, on June 3. Overall, there seemAd to be considerable appeal_ for "establishing, adjacent to GRCSW, and with appropriate help by I ... Center faculty, a graduate component of The University iI*l of Texas at docpttallevel."

Among the points raised were: It would be several years before.UT.Arlington could launch doctoral .I9,./";y ~ S'~ ~/k".~ programs; an existing state institution could not easily obtain faci~ies money except f«8d valorem ",#"..".11 taxes based on enrollment, while a new institutiDn could ..... seek a direct appropriation from the legislature; and, the beginning IIiin of such a program probably depended on GRCSW and the (. ) community contributing andlor obtaining funds for land and initial construction. .1al WEDNESDAY, June 22, 1966 (CONT)

In addition, specifics of operation and contractual ) arrangements would have to be worked out with both the then· new Coordinating Board and The University of Texas System... Erwin had said he would present a proposal to the regents on July S, and awaited further word from GRCSW.

The board resolved that its chairman (Erik Jonsson) be authorized to offer land suitable for a campus facility; to proceed with negotiations involving UT·System, Coordinating Board, federal government and the Dallas community to obtain funds for and construct an initial building suitable for a UT doctoral training center. The board further resolved to approach the community for funding support for a bunding to be owned either by GRCSW or The University of Texas, recognizing that an outright donation of land to UT System might be needed if the structure was owned by UT System.

There was discussion about implications of the UT System negotiations relative to GRCSW's responsibilities to assist other institutions in the area. Therefore, a second resolution was passed, making a similar proposal to Southern Methodist Universif and Texas Christian University (on an ) "either or both" bas.

But, the consensus of the board was that the second resolution should not be ..-..0 activated until negotiations with The University of Texas had been successfully launched; specifically, "to the point that the necessary legal steps will have been initiated to accomplish the establish· ment of a University of Texas doctoral program in the Dallas-Fort Worth area." , There had been some support generated for the I summer student program (see June 9, 1966); this was prior to Clark Foundation support. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation had given $9,900 for appointment of 10 undergraduate students from TAGER institutions. Additional support was from sponsored research or GRCSW funding.

Construction was underwl on the Western Company of North America bunding, with September 15 set as completion date. REF: MINUTES OF MEETING OF BOARD OF GOVERNORS, 6-22·66

THURSDAY, June 23, 1966 ) Lloyd V. Berkner indicated he would be glad to come to Brookhaven National Laboratory to speak on his research concerning oxygen in .1St. THURSDAY, June 23, 1966

Earth's atmosphere, and preferred the date ) of April 12, 1967, in a letter to G. S. (Trudy) Goldbaber ojAssociated Universities, Inc. REF: LTR, LVB File, 6·23·66

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) FRIDAY, July 1, 1966 (,£y...;i,») ) A new summer experiment involving large", bottom blasts in Lake Superior, was followed by Geosciences Division staff on a recording line from Del Rio, Texas to the lake's Wisconsin shore, then back to St. Louis. Anton L. Hales, Rodleigh W. E. Green, David B. Edmondson and Joe B. Nation were in the SCAS group. REF: ~ASE XE128.0676566 @ The Department of Air Force (AFOSR) was a bit sticky about approval of ne,vs releases concerning the experiment, reqqpng 12 copies in advance. REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0686566 wI attached correspondence

THURSDAY, July 7, 1966

CLIPBOARD reviewed the Salado conference on Goals for Dallas, particularly the goal on "become one of the greatest educational centers in the nation."

Pictured were summer student groups in Space Sciences, Biology and Geosciences; also, the early June combining of wheat on the campus, in and near the areas now covered (in 1980) ) by UT-Dallas' commuter parking "fans." The farm operator for GRCSW was Robert L. McCreary, whose home and large machine shops were located on the south side of Valley View Lane; the area has since been transformed into Lyndon B. Johnson Free­ way (IH635), and the major Valley View shopping center to the north of the McCreary location. REF: CLIPBOARD, Vol. IV, No. 22, 7-7-66

SATURDAY, July 9, 1966

ESSA (Environmental Science Services Admini­ ( stration~observed its first anniversary locally by holding a )IiIb public open house at the Dallas Geomagnetic Center on the SCAS campus. The event was held Wednesday,,, July 18. REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0696566/pa

THURSDAY, July 14, 1966 K Writing to President Gifford I. Johnson, GRCSW, Lloyd V. Berkner reconfirmed the gift CIII!IIIIIilt of his personal library , appraised at $15,926.75. There had been apparent limitations on the gift up to this point (in discussions begun in March), but the letter of this date stated that "this gift is made without any reservations or restrictions as to use, sale or ) disposition and ~the library _ materials of I this stated value are hereby conveyed to the Center in their entirety." REF: LTR, LVB File, 7-14-66 -190­ FRIDAY, July 15, 1966 ) Lloyd V. and Lillian F. Berkner opened a check· ing account at Colorado National Bank in Denver, with initial oJ LJ ,. dirt deposits of $2,877.83. Denver was the home location of their' .1' daughter, Mrs. Phyllis Ashley. REF:~ile, 7·15·66

To Brookhaven National Laboratory (Trudytrrude) Goldhaber), Berkner accepted a date of March 8, 1967," for a visit and lecture. REFS: LTRS, LVB File, 7·15·66

• FRIDAY, July 29, 1966

..Berkner wrote to Earle Cabell and Joe R. Pool, Dallas congressmen, in protest over Secretary of Labor Willard .. Wirtz' public statement that a current airline strike was not a national emergency. It might not appear so from Washington, he said, but those in management of business or education saw the failure of air transportation as disastrous. It was seriously hampering work at the Center, Berkner said. REF: LTR, LVB File, 7·29·66

A late-July issue of ADVANCE covered the Goals for Dallas conference, summer students, and formal appointment of Lauriston C. Marshall ) as head of the Materials Research Division. Henry Faul of Geosciences was named chairman of the Department of Geology, University of Pennsylvania; another departure was that of Donald B. Owen, head of Mathematical and Stochastic Systems, to be director of graduate studies in Southern Methodist.. University's Department of Statistics; the action essentially clo~t:e MSS Division's existence at the SCAS. I I Pictured in ADVANCE was an event not held t before or since, up to summer of 1980. Faculty and staff members of British origin joined in their own "Fourth of'" July" (to show no hard feelings, they said). The central item was actually on Saturday, July 2, and was a cricket match, with Geosciences Division winning 63-24 in one inning. The cricket pitch was laid out north of the present-day Green Center location, near the northeast parking area at UT·Dallas.

Vice President for Development James S. Triolo had written a chapter, "A New Commun· ity of Scholarslf'ld: the Southwest," for a Columbia • Univesity Press book, "Science and the Uni. versity!' The book was edited from papers given ) at a Purdue University symposium, by Boy~ R. Keenan of Purdue's political science faculty.

·191. FRIDAY, July 29, 1966 (CONT) ) John Jagger did an excellent review article on the Invited Exobiology Seminars. He expressed the view that we know a great deal about how" large mole· cules of biological systems might have arisen on a lifeless planet, such as Earth; but still know essen­ tially nothing about how these might have become organized into living systems. REF: ADVANCE, Vol. 3, No.2, Summer, 1966

WEDNESDAY, August 3, 1966

A lenllA!b news release was prepared on Pioneer BI Pioneer 7, the second interplanetary flight to carry a SCAS cosmic radiation detector, scheduled for mid· August launcq,prior to August 15. The material was included in a Cape Kennedy press kit. McCracken Kenneth G. and Gillian, with daughters Ruth and Helen, were':. on their way to his new assignment ,$,,/1 Ii at the University of Adelaide iB early lAtIUM. after his approximate three years ~f cosmic radiation research at GRCSWI SCAS. The McCrackens were guests of honor at a dinner held August 6 at the Brookhaven Country Club.

Actual launching date of Pioneer 7 was August 17. REFS: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0726566 wI ) supplements CLIPBOARD, Vol. IV, No. 23,8·4-66 . CLIPBOARD, Vol. -I"a, _1 V, No.1, 9-15·66 THURSDAY, August 4, 1966

CLIPBAARD pictured the Lake Superior seismic project, and announced signing of a contratt with Tom Campbell for construction of the North Office , Building, just south of the then High Field Magnet Facility. Campbell was also the contractor for the ~ Western Company of North American building, used in later years for UT·Dallas administrative offices.

Arrival of Harold Werbin, and departures of Donald B. Owen for Sout~JlDMethodist and Henry Faul, for the University~P.f;:Dit Pennsylvania, were noted (Faul having recently been divorced, and later marrying his laboratory assistant). Al Mitchell's full· time assignment with Goals for Dallas was ,

Lloyd V. Berkner enclosed a blank checkbook on

·192· 1966 FRIDAY, August 5,:t166 (CONT) "\ ) Colorado National Bank of Denver, addressing Richard C. Cockrell, who held power of attorney; his letter instructing that checks be issued in terms of a contract with Bekkedahl Subdivision of Summit County (an area 40 to 50 miles west of Denver, west of the Continental Divide, and extending southeasterly from Green Mountain Reservoir to just above Climax; several winter sports areas were later developed in this section). There was no further explanation of this trans· action. REF: LTR, LVB File, 8·5·66

TUESDAY, August 16, 1966

Lloyd V. Berkner addressed a warm personal greeting to Larry Gould, who had been second in command of the Byrd Expeditions of the 1920's, and Berkner's close associate, on the occasion of Gould's 70th birthday. REF: LTR, LVB File, 8·16-66

WEDNESDA .24, 1966 ~gust) MINl1rES OF MEETING OF BOARD OF GOVERNORS ) Current obligations, as of August 31, were shown at $866,442, with a projected bank balance of $428,250; assets were indicated at $22.4 million, with liabilities of $7.7 million. During the first month of the new fiscal year (from July 1, 1966) operating costs had been $308,476, less than the forecast of $342,377; sponsored research billed was $377,684, only $45)364 below forecast.

For fiscal year 1966, ending June 30, GRCSW's deficit was $1,497,908 (below a forecast of $1,620,151). Revenue from research had been f $3,582,849 ($231,216 below forecast). The f new fiscal year was expected to bring mor, than $4.5 million in research revenueraccording to Vice President Ralph N. Stohl. !

Support for Biology was increasing, but none had yet been generated for Materials Division (High Field Magnet Facility); Mathematics and Stochastic Systems had phased out with Donald B. Owen's departure to Southern Methodist University, without having generated any sig· nificant support.

Some $100,000 in Dallas Founding Fund pledges had Il ) been written off as uncollectible as of June 30; but $100,000 in new money had been received in fiscal 1966, as well as $162,000 in pledges and gifts in kind during July and August (beginning of fiscal 1967). .193· WEDNESDAY, August 24,1966 (CONT)

) Gifford K. Johnson presented two plans for fiscal year 1967 operations; he preferred Plan B, while Ralph N. Stohl preferred Plan A. Plan A called for maintaining the bank loan payments as scheduled and selling 28,825 shares of Texas Instruments stock at $125 a share, to provide $2,978,000; the goal was to pay loans and have a $101,580 bank balance on June. 80,1967, alloiNing $676,470 for operating requirements. /S/J:f.,.tlhab/l4' Plan B called for reasciJting the bank loans, with a U.8 million balance payable in two years (as of August 81, 1968); selling 6,000 shares of stock in fiscal year 1967 and 6,000 more in fiscal year 1968, adding $755,400 from the five-year private funding plan, and coming out on August 81, 1968 with $68,180 in the bank.

More ap" d,Mid exploration with Darrell Hamric of Republic National Bank was th'-wish of the board, with neither plan adopted.

Rather than have long faculty presentations on research at the annual meeting, it was decided to appoint committees on ~ science and educa­ tion areas from the Board of Trustees aIHI Ad· ) visory Council. ~ fIll'S ~ ~mpletion of the North Office Building (not ci/k~ , '" yet carrying that name) were lor occupancy 6'y November 1, and release of the. Cl'ow.Hunt C/lni!­ Building in Plano at that time; occu~cy and 1\ release actually came a little later. There had been no success on finding a donor to build an administration building for the High Field Magnet Facility (Materials Research). { The board agreed on furthering negotiations with The University of Texas System, but warned against getting at cross purposes with North Texas State University and Texas Woman's University.

Roads were to be comple~in Technology Park by Labor Day, with the Wesem Company building expected to be ready by mid·October. REF: MINUTES OF MEETING OF BOARD of GOVERNORS, 8·24-66 Writing to iIIIIIDn Horace R. Byers at Texas A&M University, Lloyd V. Berkner suggested a change in nominations and voting for the National Academy of Sciences, with particular interest in getting support for Francis S. Johnson's election. The past difficultqhad been that solid earth scientists were not supporting "atmospheric scientists" in .194­ WEDNESDAY, August 24, 1966 (CONT)

sectional elections because they knew nothing ) ~ :s about the "atmospheric" field. REF: LTR, L VB File, 8-24-66

Berkner __wrote to James J. Ling, then '" "" Ling. Temco-Vought Chairman of the Board and at the peak of his financial success, with thanks for pledges and gifts obtained through 1 his efforts.

TUESDAY, September 6, 1966

Joseph T. Orchard, who had been president of Pecan Joe Enterprises of Texarkana, Texas, joined the Development Office staff as associ· ate director, with special interest in the field of corporate gifts. REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0066667

WEDNESDAY, September 14, 1966 r move Lloyd V. Berkner wrote to Lorain Boswell, to pg Chairman of the Board of Trustees o/Texas /,7 Christian University, concerning the death of McGruder Ellis (Mac) Sadler, who had been followed as Chancellor by James M. Moudy ( (see December 27, 1965). ) Sadler, a DirectortI'rustee of GRCSW since 1962, had been elected Trustee Emeritus at the 1965 annual meeting.

He dieJI in Huntsville, September 11, 1966, after an apparent heart attack while driving on a fishing trip near New Waverly, Texas. REF: LTR, LVB File, 9·14-66 CLIPBOARD, Vol. 5, No.2, 9·29·66

TUESDAY, September 13, 1966 MINUTES OF MEETING OF BOARD OF GOVERNORS { (for tIie urst time) While bank loan payments were curren~GRCSW did not have enough cash to meet the $550,000 installment due September SO. As of that date, current obligations were estimated at $1,070,100; there were estimated cash receipts from research of $802,900.

Darrel Hamric of Republic National Bank had had a change of feeling regarding renegotiation of the , , , l bank loans, President Gifford K. Johnson reported, because of II changes in the money market. Hamric advised getting out of the bank loans and "unburdening" of land; Johnson said that in the new money market, sales of.land to potential friendly buyers was not practical. .195­ ~P4~ ~~ WEDNESD.A.Y, September W, 1966 (CONT) ) Johnaon and Hamric had agreed that it was not satisfactory for GRCSW to continue paying interest, Hamric believing that interest rates were going up. Hamric suggested additional stock sales to meet the September 30 obligation to banks; Johnson said this was not possible until after September 30, because of a stock-rights offering limitation, and even then only 2,700 more shares were authorized for sale, plus 2,000 beyond that (shares owned by GRCSW).

The only area of negotiation was finally brought ... down to a plan tying GRCSW's interest rates to the I'· !9¥ rate; both Hamric and Johnson ftfP:t felt that interest would first go up and then drop again.

Righ('to 4,772 shares of Texas Instruments stock were to be received by GRCSW in about two days from the date of the board meeting. Decision was lOde to sell these rights, without specification by the Governors as to disposition of the funds.

While Eugene McDermott and C. A. Tatum, Jr., strongly urged that negotiations with The Uni­ versity of Texas System be kept confidenmtial ) because of political implications, and that area of proposed co-operation be clarified, it was h.rlWtI' 'x;ll"'''''~ still hoped that graduate education of the region .. could be expanded through TAGER.

The Governors were pessimistic about TAGER, ;,,,,,,"'f because some objectio~had been voiced by ~ the concept faculty members at Southern Methodist and Texas Christiana Universities (chiefly SMU). , GRCSW could only afford about 45 faculty t at this time. The greater hope was that state assistance could d I. double this number. The compromiselwas to build an instituijgn _Stiff'S"'''~ ~ &nI,,#'f1rl .. sponsored by the state and then work out further co-operations with the private univer­ sities; so the consensus was that GRCSW must continue to pursue efforts.. with The Uni­ versity of Texas System to establish a state- supported graduaee center.

Gov. John Connally had indicated earlier that he thought some state money should be used to assist GRCSW. Efforts had been made to

,) -196­ TUESDAY September 13 Wfi»Jtmlih7fI"'IfflTPlrli/~'" 1966 (CONT) get the Coordinating Board to include some ) money in a preliminary budget which could be justified during the next biennium for use by GRCSW, but nothing had been budgeted up to this date. Again it was agreed that association with The University of Texas System, or with several state universities (not named, but assumed to be ~ North Texas State, Texas Woman's University and perhaps others), or the new state..... C supported graduate center, were the greater hopes.

It was agreed that the possibility of state funds for GRCSW should be pursued .. with Governor Connally.

There was finally a move toward changing the corporate name of GRCSW; but the decision was to make a gradual evolution into the name "SCASn with a possible change of "Southwest" to something else. The transition was to be made within 12 months, with a more specific plan to be presented at the October board _ .. MEETING ~f- meeting. REF: MINUTES OF BOARD OF GOVERNORS ~" ~ ) 9·"66 WEDNESDAY, September 14, 1966 <1fn;ert Mas Sadler deBiiLfiQm Pii9ID THURSDAY September 15 1966 Lloyd V. Berlmer sent a drait of his proposed remarks of October 7 to NASA Administrator James E. Webb, for the space awards program; he also said he and Lillian were looking forward I to helping celebrate Webb's 60th birthday on .. ~ "oS" that date. REF(LTI}aLVB File, 9·"66 I There had been a fact-finding visit to GRCSW by four legislators on September 7, and this was pictured in CLIPBOARD. The delegation was headed by then House Speaker Ben Barnes, and included Reps. Maurice Pipkin of Brownsville, Ben Atwell of Dallas and Bill Heatly of Pad~u.

Udipi Ramachandra Rao had returned ~ to .... Ahmedabad, India and a leading assignment in that country's space program; Kenneth G. and ~illian McCracken had returned to Australia; the SCAS cosmic radiation program, following launch of Pioneer 7 on August 15, was left with Research ) Associate Robert P. Bukata and Research Scientist William C. Bartley. REF: CLIPBOARD, Vol. V, No.1, 9·15·66 Joseph T. Orchard's association with the Develop. ment Office was published. ·197· MONDAY, September 26, 1966

) AI Mitchell was an invited participant in a national science writer seminar brought to­ gether by Clarence Andrews of the University of Iowa and held in Iowa City. With more than 30 leading science editors and reporters attend- __ ~,- ,':J;ls:"U1!. .6t/,/'e. ing, a release was preparedJOll the 'texas Symposium 5 on Relativistic Astrophysics, scheduled in New 5/ York City the following January (1967). REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.00S6667

TUESDAY, September 27,1966

MayorlFounder Erik Jonsson, President Gifford K. Johnson and Stanley Marcus, trustee, joined in carrying the GRCSW story to Amarillo at a luncheon program arranged by J. --.Harold Dunn and S. B. Whittenberg. REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0066667

THURSDAY, September 29, 1966

A Lloyd V. Berkner letter to Lynn Sagan of Educational Service Incorpor'ted is noted because it reviews much of the Berkner-Marshall study on origin of oxygen in the Earth's atmos­ phere, and lists essentially all publications on the subject, 1963 through September 16, 1966. REF: LTR, LVB File, 9·29·66 ) CLIPBOARD stories included the death of McGruder Ellis Sadler, Trustee Emeritus; a photograph from a group sent to "Southern Living" magazine, which carried a four-page article on GRCSW in its October, 1966 issue; the photo including Yuval Ne'eman, who had takan a permanent SCAS faculty appointment, although he continued as head of the Depart­ ment of Physics, University of Tel Aviv.

Walter J. Heikkila's appointment as a taiIn { professor in Space Sciences was announced; also, the appointment of Herman W. Lay of Pepsico, Inc., (Frito-Lay) as vice chairman of the GRCSW National" Corporations Committee.

Pictured was a wall section of the Western Company building, under construction on the ISO-acre Technology Park area. REF: CLIPBOARD, Vol. V, No.2, 9·29·66

..END OF CHRONOLOGY, JULY.SEPTEMBER, 1966­

I ·198­ TUESDAY, October 4, 1966 ) Herman W. Lay's acceptance of the vice chair­ manship of the National Corporations Committee was publicly announced. President W. Dawson Sterling of Southwestern Life Insurance Company also was announced as a vice chairman. REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0076667

FRIDAY, October 7,1966

Lloyd V. Berkner received the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, and spoke on "Space Progress" at the afternoon award ceremonies in Washington. The medal and citation recognized his four-year''';'; chairmanship of the Space Science Board, Natio'~1 Academy of Sciences, and other achievements.

Associated Press Wirephoto coverage of the award by Administrator James E. Webb was ordered through the Dallas Associated PresslWide World Photos bureau, located in the Dallas Morning News building. Because the program opened at 2:30 p.m., the photo would be available first to morning newspapers, and was so offered to the News' then city editor, John King. King accepted, and told a desk man to go to the AP offices down the hall and order an extra _ print; but he didn't seem to be overly-impressed. His comment to the leg man was "Berkner's won ) another damn medal ... " REFS: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0086667 ORAL HISTORY No.1, Ross C. Peavey, 5-9-78 re Space Science Board CLIPBOARD, Vol. 5, No.3, 9-13-66 ADVANCE, Vol. 3, No.3, Fall, 1966 SPE~CH FILE, XE129 ,"Space Progress," 10-7-66 MONDAY, October 10, 1966

Berkner accepted an invitation to speak at the dedication of New Ulm, Minnesota's new senior , high school on October 26, in a letter to Supt. , Luther Fjelstad; this visit was canceled by later circumstances. REF: ~e, 10-10-66

He also wrote to President Robert Goheen of /J ~ ,)If~RINCETON University, asking that he leave f t" t'lie membership of the Rockefeller Public Service ~ Awards Committee, after 12 years, "as wisdom indicates... " REFS: LTRS, LVB File, 10·10·66

WEDNESDAY, October 12, 1966 MINUTES OF MEETING OF BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Financial reports were in their "usual" state, with month-end obligations of $1,668,275 and bank balance of $264,700; assets re-estimated at $19.3 million and liabilities of $7.7 million; operating costs for the first two months of the fiacal year at $578,128, or $28,012 less than -199· WEDNESDAY, October 12, 1966 (CONT) ) forecast; sponsored research payments were $778,670, or $67,430 below forecast.

Arthur Young & Company had prepared an audit report for fiscal 1966, showing operat. ing losses of $1,803,615; costs had risen at a faster rate than sponsored research revenue.

Before General and Administrative expense allocations, the Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Sciences had returned $131,452 to GRCSW over four and one-half years; the Division of Biology had cost $1,448,628 in planning and two years of operations, and the Pion Dosimetry project (Chaim Richman) had cost $59,456 in four years.

President Gifford K. Johnson presented plans for a five-year program M ,. ,directed toward putting GRCSWISCAS in sound financial shape as of June 30, 1969. Assumptions of the plan were that all of the Texas Instruments stock (82,700 shares) might have to be sold at $100 a share, for loan payments, interest and opera· ting costs; and, that a $2 million grant would be received from the State of Texas. ) Additional authorization was given, on Eugene McDermott's motion to sell a total of 4,700 d shares of stock and meet bank loan needs; Founders Erik Jonsson, Cecil H. Green and McDermott also agreed to decide how much add' lonal additional stock they could transfer to GRCSW to meet the defaulted $550,000 payment to banks (which had come due September. 30), as well as the December 31 payment of a like , amount. , The Annual Report for the year ended June 30, 1966, was distributed to.. the Governors; this was a general report, done as a public relations document, with stress on educational programs and development; scientific research was highlighted in Parts IV and V, with the ...promise that research divisions would each published detailed documents by Jam' e. about January, 1967. The color cover illustration was the NASA infrared photograph given to Lloyd V. Berkner earlier by Robert Gilruth, Director of NASA·Manned Spacecraft Center. REF: ANNUAL REPORT, 1965.66, GRCSW

·200­ WEDNESDAY, October 12, 1966 (CONT)

) Part VI, the Financial Report, was supplied by Ralph N. Stohl rather than by the auditors, and did not reflect the questions about funds that had been discussed in Governors' meetings. It indicated a constant growth since 1962 in sup­ port of research, to the $3.5 million level, and in faculty and staff, to 342.

Operating expenditures and income use were balanced at $5,539,286; one line of income was "sale of securities and other gifts in kind," at $959,848, with a footnote that said additional securities had been sold to make payments of $2,585,200 on loan principals.

_. Additional investment of $433,000 in plant and equipment was noted, and the total facilities investment value placed at $8,492,748; land value was carried at $3,856,298 in this tabulation. REF: ANNUAL REPORT, 1965-66, GRCSW

Only the "west one-half" of Waterview Parkway had been completed, within the 12 acres engineered for roads, easements and drainage; the "east one-half" was ~ completed, into /U?t ) mid.1980, although extension had been made to Campus Drive A northeastward from the dedicated portion after UT·Dallas occupied the Western Company building.

Governors resolved to dedicate eight acres of the 35.074 included in Technology Park plans to the City of Richardson for streets and roads.

Governors also resolved to try again to get the City of Richardson to accept dedication of 6 acres, the site of Armstrong Parkway; this pro- { posal had failed to carry when taken to the city council in 1963 (this dedication was finally accepted).

The Governors finally resolved to change the name of the parent organization, viz: "Be it resolved that the name Graduate Research Center of the South· west be forever discontinued as of January 1, 1967, and that the name Southwest Center for Advanced Studies become the official, 1 and corporate name of that corporation chartered un er t e laws of the State of Texas on February 14, 1961."

Resolutions for election of Governors, Trustees and Advisory Council members were approved for vote at the Annual Meeting. Among changes were the designation of President Oliver S. Willham to Trustee Emeritus, and election of Robert B. Kamm (pronounced

-201· WEDNESDAY, October 12, 1966 (CONT) ') "calm," the then President-Elect of Oklahoma State Univeriity, to complete the WillhamJerm through November, 1968. REF: Minutes of Meeting of Board of Governors, 10·12·66

THURSDAY, October 13, 1966

Pictured and reported in CLIPBOARD", was the award of the NASA Distinguished Public Serv· ice Medal, presented by Administrator James E. Webb in ceremonies at Washington, D. C.

The CLIPBOARD issue carried a single:.sheet insert of "local news" from the campus, used only in copies distributed there; the regular four· page format was mailed to various outside, public areas. Total circulation was 809 copies. REF: CLIPBOARD, Vol. V, No.3, 10-13-66

TUESDAY, October 18,1966

Writing to H. E. Is. Ilk ssg Landsberg of the ESSA Environmental Data Service, Lloyd V. Berkner nominated Francis S. Johnson to the American Academy ofjrts and Sciences.' REF: LTR, LVB File, 10·18.66

THURSDAY, October 20, 1966

Berkner wrote to James E. Webb with thanks for Ilil 113 _II his award, and said that the New York Times had asked him to do a Sunday magazine piece on ,.--_____ space, which Berkner hoped could be used to further space objectives.

Writing to Frank D. Stanton of the Alumni Associ· ation, University ..of Minnesota, Berkner { anceled a planned symposium talk in St. Paul on October 27, saying "Now I have learned that I must undergo surgery right away ... "

To Frederick Seitz, President of the National Academy of Sciences, Berkner __ wrote that the International Council of Scientific Unions was the only non·political organization in the world where problems of over·population could be discussed; he said further that he felt .•,"certain that with forthcoming widespread starvation inevitable, anarch~most areas is certain." /11 ·202· THURSDAY, October 20, 1966 (CONT)

Berkner also promised a 1,200·word summary of ) his four major research areas, at about Christmaz:; • for the McGraw·HilI Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. REFS: LTRS, LVB File,. 10-20·66

In connection with the Neiman.Marcus Fortnight, GRCSW held its "Salute to Science," with special recognition of Rene Descartes. The opening pro· gram was held Friday evening, October 21. REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0106667IPA

MONDAY, October 24,1966

Dee Bartley wrote to Vice President J. C. Morris of Tulane University, reporting that Lloyd V. Berkner had hacI(Qsurgery on Saturday, October 22, to remove a blood clot from the right side of his ne~ and was recuperating at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. REF: LTR, LVB File, 10·24-66

WEDNESDAY, October 26, 1966

Francis S. Johnson made a portion of a film report to congress, at the request of NASA's Office of Space Sciences, reporting on SIIace experiments. REFS: 16 mm film, HQ.161, NASA, "Highlights II 1966, Copy 55 . ) NEWS RELEASE XE128.0116667, 10-26-66 CLIPBOARD, Vol. 5, No.5, 11.10·66 ADVANCE, Vol. 3, No.3, Fall, 1966 THURSDAY, October 27, 1966

Twenty Goals for Dallas meetings were listed for November 1·22, plus eight suburban area meetings; discussions were to center on the paperback book "Proposed Goals for Dallas." ..GRCSW and the American Assembly were , announced as co-sponsors, in CLIPBOARD I coverage that also mapped the locations.

C. Girvin Harkins was announced as a new Assistant Professor on the faculty of the Materials Research Division. REF: CLIPBOARD, Vol. 5, No.4, 10·27·66

TUESDAY, November 8, 1966

The Richardson.-9Iic Art Society held a juried show in Foundlefs Building, with accepted entries hanging through Januiary 7. REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0156667IPA, 11-8·66 .1 'I WEDNESDAY, November 9, 1966

Walter J. Heikkila's promotion to Professor of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, to be effectiue as of October 1, was announced. REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0166667IP A, 11·9·66 .203­ WEDNESDAY, November 9, 1966 (CONT) ') -PAi1it&I18 OF 86IIilIJili:/SPECIAL MEETING OF BOARD OF GOVERNORS General note: Lloyd V. Berkner, recovering from his surgery in Fort Lauderdale, missed these meetings; many letters of appreciation for contacts during his hospital stay are in the correspondence file of early November. REF: LVB File, early November, 1966

The day's events were a strange public relations mixture. During the lBte morning, the Board of Governors met in special session. The theme was that a letter had been sent to The University of Texas offering land owned btlGRCSW and a building to be built by the D~llas community; that if initiative were not taken, UT System might be forced to use Arlington State College (UT·Arlington) as a grad.ate program base; or, that North Texas State University might take the initiative to obtain gradutate programs at its Denton campus. ~

Further, the Board was advised by President-- ~" Gifford K. Johnson, John (Jack)tWilliams was both new in his job as head of the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System, t/;r.d,;/c?1i/ ..t>7iX4S;: .Ie .-I would not take Dallas-area action until he ) had roles and missions of state universities more firmly in mind; the next meeting of the Board was scheduled for December 10.

And, legislative aides to Gov. John Connally advised that any legislative approach would require a bill not later than February, 1967.

The basic question was: With community press­ ure essential to bringing graduate education , to Dallas, on a state-supported basis, how much , pressure could be applied without starting a political battle with Fort Worth and Denton backers of NTSU and UT.Arlington?

Governor Connally's advice, said Mr. Johnson: The political clima12.would not be any better in the future than it was now; the Dallas comm· unity SHOULD GO AHEAD AND FIGHT OUT THE PROBLEM. REF: Minutes of Special Meeting of Board of Governors, 11·9·66 MEETING OF TRUSTEESIANNUAL MEETING

Ten Trustees attended this meeting in the early afternoon. Minutes do not reveal any communication of the political trend discussed in the morning session; a five·year plan was outlined by President Johnson, and negotiations were authorized with .204­ WEDNESDAY, November 9, 1966 (CONT)

not only the UT System, but with Southern ) Methodist University and Texas Christian Uni· REF: Five Year Plan, Gifford K. Johnson, versity to expediteAPrograms of high quality graduate Sub-File, News Releases XE128.0126667 thru 0146667. "adjacent to the Center, with appropriate ~ assistance from the Coordinating Board, Federal and Stater governments, and the Dallas comm­ unity." Approval of street dedication to the City of Richardson in Technology Park (on completion) and dedication of the completed Armstrong Parkway was given.

The Board of Trustees approved changing the name of the charter corportation from Graduate Research Center of the Sout~to Southwest Center uJ,;{ for Advanced Studies "as soon as it was practical." REF: Minutes of Meeting of Board of Trustees, 11-9·66 ~ The establishment of the Materials Research Division, with Lauriston C. Marshall as head, was approved.

Security PIQI••,d. sales were approved, to make REF: Financial Statement, Arthur Young and long-term loan payments to banks and to fund Company, appended to Minutes of Meeting the operating deficit for the fiscal year'" ended of Board of Trustees 11·9·66 (dated June 30, ) June 30, 1966. 1966), Promotions to Associate Professor were approved for John H. Hoffman, Harold Werbin, Hans Bremer, Rudolf Hausmann and Dimitrji Lang, as was the promotion of Walter J. Heikkila to Professor.

Election of Lloyd V. Berkner as Chairman of the Board of Trustees, plus 12 members of the Board, were completed. REF: Minutes of Meeting of Board of Trustees, I 11-9·66 i JOINT MEETING OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND ADVISORY COUNCIL

Thirteen Trustees and 18 members of the Advisory liD Council convened in the second afternoon meeting, opening with a long series of research reports by faculty members.

President Gifford K. Johnson went over the five-year plan in detail. The basic questions left with those at the meeting were whether to put emphasis on faculty quality, new graduate pro· grams, or development of graduate student sources; whether to concentrate efforts in Dallas ) and North Texas and not attempt to spread over the Southwest; and how much effort should be -205­ WEDNESDAY, November 9, 1966 (CONT)

directed to assisting private institutions and/or ) state institutions; hE , , should there be new laboratories added, such as Electronics or Com· puter Sciences?

PATRONS OF SCIENCE

The long day's events continued in the evening, as the founding list of "Patrons of Science" was announced, and its members honored at dinner (held at the Dallas Petroleum Club.)

Governor Connally was the speaker. With praise for private institutions, he also noted that the private·public partnership contributes to strength of the total educational system; that the "magic formula for a strong national system" was for public and private institutions to exist side by ride, and that the -.Southwest Center for Advanced Studies' development of TAGER, together with other private institutions, had left the door open to public colleges and universities.

The" over·all picture generated by the day's meetings was, in an historian's opinion, that 1 while continuing to work .... and seek major support in the private sector, the now Southwest Center for Advanced Studies' J ' Board of Governors had fully cast the die of political action, and was ready to turn toward seeking state support in stronger fashion; cards wereaa being kept close to the vest, as Vice President Ralph N. Stohl often put it. REFS: Minutes of Meetings, Board of Governors, Board of Trustees and Advisory Council, 11·9·66 ~L IIlLltJiIIO:019S88'Mwouwla fI 1886'1 , Sub.Fule, NEWS RELEASES XE128.0126667 through , 0146667 'II Speech File XE129. Duplicates of "Five Year Plan" Text, Gifford K. Johnson, and Remarks of Gov. John Connally at "Patrons of Science" dinner, 11·9·66 CLIPBOARD, Vol. V, No.5, 11·10·66 ADVANCE, Vol. 3, No.3, FALL, 1966; "Patrons of Science" issue. CLIPBOARD, Vol. V, No.6, 11·24-66 (follow-up coverage) TUESDAY, November 15, 1966 ANNUAL REPORT, 1965·66 (distributed at Trustee/Advisory Council meeting), dated 9·15·66 Lloyd V. Berkner sent out several copies of the 1965·66 Annual Report with person;J Jetters, referring to the Graduate Research Center of the ) Southwest (as the issue was entitled), The cover of the report, dated in September, _ also referred to "Education and Research Activities of the ·206­ TUESDAY, November 15, 1966 (CONT)

Southwest Center for Advanced Studies," in ) anticipation of the action taken to make the over-all name change as soon as possible. The cover'" centered on the infraj;red photo­ graph of the Cascade Range, given to Berkner z; ~ earlier by Director Robert ~, NASA ($,,..,,,,,, Manned Spacecraft. ' , Center, Houston. Text arrangement of the report put stress on the educational capabilities of the SCAS, with research covered in the fourth and fifth . circa sections of the book. REFS: LTRS, LVB FIle, 11.15-66 ~ WEDNESDAY, November 16, 1966

By copy of a letter directed to J. A. Hennessey of London, Lloyd V. Berkner Edward Condon said to of the University of Colorado'" that he was pleased If about Condon's undertaking a thorough exam· ination of UFO reports, and looked forward to receiving the results of his investigations. To the English correspondent, Berkner said he would have no further comment on UFO's until the Condon study was published. ~::t.V1J.l.i!ife.7H·l$i66

Additional letters went out to those who hado:,~ elected to new three-year terms on the Board ) of Trustees. REFS: LTRS, LVB File, 11-16-66 MINUTES OF MEETING OF BOARD OF GOVERNORS,

The Board of Governors convened for the second time within a week, at the Marketing Conference Room, Texas Instruments Incorporated.

Gifford K. Johnson again stressed the need for early action if anything was to be accomplished in the 1967 session of the Legislature. ( Negotiations with the Coordinating Board and establishment of a community position on the creation of a technological institution, in Dallas, associated with The University of Texas,. were the prime needs. e~tI,;r~/d'1 Because C. A. Tatum, Jr., who was also a ••~r of the Board of rp lsps of Southern Methodist ;;tnN/'/J~FT University, was not able to attend this meeting, t7 A President Johnson had talked with him about adding a state instutition to the area.

Tatum had said he thought such an addition would be important, but "before taking precipi. tous action with the state" a complete program should be~rked out concerning the roles of ) such an institution and the private universities in graduate education. ·207· WEDNESDAY, Nov. 16, 1966 (CONT) ') As Chairman of the Southern Methodist University Board of Governors, Tatum told President Johnson, he was committed to Fred Terman and. recently. 1)tJ1: arrive~Tom Martin to make a success of SMU's new I !. I Ii Institute of Science and Engineering, III and thu( he had to be assured that plans for a state insti· tution would not hurt that program.

President Johnson pointed out that SCAS had a A I trJnendous teaching capacity that was n9. being used by private universities; that"H .. TAGER would not help sufficiently, and therefore it would seem that a state graduate school would~ the area without hurting private institutions. q/'d [,5 a ::5cdS ~t!;'tJ/') Tatum at this point agreed that action was needed on a state school, tfu.t lIt/stilI thought the program _ 5hPfie of relationship between Private and public institutions had to be better spelled out before going to the community for state school support.

Governor Connally, President Johnson told the Board, had indicated support, but said that much work should be done in preparation of a proposal because of the very natural political opposition that would ) T i come from people interested in North Texas / State and Southern Methodist Universities, and others. The suggestion for a state institution would result in a political fight, and the Dallas community shou~ be prepared to face this problem and win its cause, Connally had said.

Needs of the Dallas community were too important to delay efforts for a state graduate instutition just because of fear of a political fuss, saiiQ Erik Jonsson. Lloyd V. Berkner, as Chairman of TrUStees, echoed this view. (

President Johnson outlined three ways in which a state graduate institution could be established: (1) The University of Texas System could establish a graduate school adjacent to the SCAS, and receive help from the faculty; (2) through the Coordinating Board, the SCAS could request a contract to operate the graduate program in Dallas, for UT System, and (3) an institution could be~ablished in association with not only UT System, but with North Texas State, Texas Woman's University and others, having a separate board dominated by area residents.

·208. WEDNESDAY, November 16, 1966 (CONT)

') A. Earl Cullum, Jr., said he agreed with the entire general idea, but suggested that Fred Terman or someone like him (Terman being the former provost of Stanford University, who had come to Dallas to help in SMU's science and engineering expansion) should develop a long-range program covering 10 years or more for graduate education in North Texas, covering the roles of public and private institutions.

Eugene McDermott said he was convinced that private money alone could not produce excellent graduate education results, and that federal and state money must be obtained.

President Johnson said that TAGER had been a disappointment in many ways. Hairing been estab­ lished and planned to use the abundant SCAS teaching talent for the private universities' support, ~ there were only _ two programs under consideration, and neither called for anything but minimum assistance.

Cullum said that he was concerned about whether he should go ahead with plans for the TAGER television system; the engineering had been done ) I A­ (by his f-'rm), but he thought the Founders might 1\ see their money wasted on building the system unless TAGER became effective as a joint education effort. He raised the question of whether TAGER or the SCAS should own the television facility.

The financial situation had not changed greatly, Ralph N. Stohl reported. Obligations at the end of November were $780,000. I ' I (estimated), with a bank balance of $594,000. Cost of opera­ , tions through the first third Df the fiscal year had , been held $17,115 under estimate. Sponsored research income had been $550,243, or $54,317 under the estimate. Another TI stock sale was needed to make the bank loan payment of $550,000 in default as of September 30, and a like amount would come due at the end of the calendar year. General plans were made for a 51/2 per cent salary increase to be effective in 1967. REF: Minutes of Meeting of Board of Governors, 11·16-66 In an historian's opinion, it seemed clear at this 1966 date that the Governors had essentially decided to cast the die toward establishment of IiDme kind of state graduate institution, with C. A. Tatum, Jr., in the position of having dual interests. Over-all, the Governors were willing to get into the political battle that they saw ahead.

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.~ J tI "....• '" ~ ..~ MONDAY, November 21,1966 ') The "Patrons of Science" issue 01ADV ANCB, centered on that program and the events of the annual meeting, was the last to be publidled in its original small magazine format. The final contributed scientific article was "The Promise of Paleomagnetism" by John W. Graham.~ REF: ADVANCE, Vol. 3, No.3, Fall, 1966

Vol. 3, No.4, was delayed until April, 1967, and the format was altered to a four· page self.mailer, with occasional insert of a loose inside sheet. The smaller, newsletter format was retained until the June, 1974 issue (Vol. 10, No.5), at various frequencies o~ publication. The second class mailing permit continued.

To Ed Haislett, University of Minnesota Alumni Association, Lloyd V. Berlmer wrote that he was "now back at the office and feeling fine." REF: LTR, LVB File, 11·21·66

THURSDAY, November 24, 1966

CLIPBOARD covered the Patrons of Science and the Five· Year Plan, plus other aspects of the November 9 meetings, Me names of memo av,L/r~ bers of 11 new committees-01 the Advisory .... Council. ) The Center Wives' Club planned a Christmas Party for December 3, at the Richardson Recreation Center, with children to bring gifts for others less fortunate. Mrs. Glenn (Wendy) Riley was President and Mrs. William B. (Wenonah) Hanson was Vice President of the club. REF: CLIPBOARD, Vol. 5, No.6, 11·24-66

GOALS FOR DALLAS Neighborhood Meet· ings had been completed, and preparation of ,I the revised Goals for Dallas paperback book was underway, for future consideration by a 1967 panel.

In Dallas Morning News comment of April 8, 1980, staff writer Doug Domeier, who had covered much of the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies research progress in 1966, said that the "box score" on goals (171, total) was four achieved, substantial progress on 90, fair progress on 43, little or none on 20 and no evaluation on 14.

Listed as achieved were D·FW Airport and ) a foreign trade zone there; a single tax assess­ ment agency for property (although there were major assessment complaints in Dallas in the summer of 1980, as well as budget delays); ·210­ THURSDAY, November 24,1966 (CONT) ') satellite cultural centers and multi-cultural education in public schools.

Reunion Arena, finished in the summer of 1980, was added to the accomplishments; but establishment of a Lone Star Transporta­ tion Agency, involving a one-cent increase in local sales tax, was soundly defeated in /AS' • an August, 1980 election, county-wide. REF: Dallas Morning News, "DalIA Gets Down to Nitty-Gritty in Checking on Goals," by Doug Domeier, page 42A, Sunday, April 6, 1980

MONDAY, November 28, 1966

U. S. Steel Foundation, Inc., made a $5,000 gift to" SCAS, for general program uses, through its local Oilwell Division. REFS: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0176667!PA CLIPBOARD, with photo, V~, No.7, 12·8-66

MONDAY, December 5, 1966

Lloyd V. Berkner wrote to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to seek a Fellowship for Lauriston C. Marshall,jo that he could continue his broad-gauge work in history of atmospheres; Marshall was discussing ) retirement or other means of relieving the SCAS of his salary, at this time. REFS: LTR, LVB File, 12·5·66 ORAL HISTORY No.2, Lauriston C. Marshall, 6-4-78 The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation made a $5,000 general gift "for increasing l?t?F: technological capabilities in Texas." " NEWS RELEASE XE128.0196667 !PA THURSDAY, December 8, 1966 , Berkner predi~ possibility, and even proba­ bility of world starvation in this century in an ~ article published in "Population Bulletin." The late 1970's were indicated as the earliest, and year 2000 as the latest dates. With 7.4 billion population, he said, world food production would average only the .... starvation level REF: J of 1,340 calories per day. CLIPBOARD, Vo",. V, No.7, 12-8·66

December 10 was forecast as moving da¥ into the North Office Building; Development and Informatiol'iTWere to move from the Crow-Hunt Building in Plano (with Chaim Richman coming into Founders Building for his Pion Dosimetry experiments from 6i III Crow-Hunt); Account­ ) ing was also to come from the Plano site, which had been in use since late 1964 for these functions (earlier, for Geosciences). The Mathematic"'s and Mathenffttical Physics Division was to move from Founders Building. ·211· THURSDAY, December 8, 1966 (CONT) ) Lloyd V. Berlmer sent signed copies of a contract for Lot 3, Block 5, Bekkedahl Sub· division, Summit County, Colorado, to Thomas E. Creighton of Denver, with a first payment of $600. REF: LTR. LVB File, 12·8·66

TUESDAY, December 13, 1966

Berlmer wrote to Gifford K. Johnson about Lauriston C. Marshall's retirement, saying he preferred to see Larry retained by SCAS on a year·ta-year basis, rather than go elsewhere; his present salary level should be maintained, Berlmer recommended, through combination of retirement income, allocations from present research projects, the possible Guggenheim Fellowship, and some possible small augmentation from SCAS funds. REF: LTR, LVB File, 12·13·66 Marshall eventually left SCAS and became an "across the board" professor in physics at Southern Illinois University, later retirJing to the California coast, north of Gualala, where he dieliNovember 9,1979. REF: ORAL mSTORY 2, Lauriston C. Marshall, 6·4-78

) Berlmer wrote to William Vogt of the Conserva. tion Foundatioll responding to Bome criticisms of his world starvation forecast published in the PopUlation Reference Bulletin, saying that the publication had stirred up widespread comment, pro and con, but that he had been prepared for such repercussions. "I am sorry 1 was so pessimistic, but it really reflects my thinking," his letter .....said. To Brian B. Reynolds of the American Academy I of Achievement, now located in Dallas, Berlmer ~ accepted an invitation to be a Golden Plate recip. ient at the annual awards dinner (previously, on approaches by Hy Peskin, Berlmer had "fought shy" of this award and his participation). REF: LTRS, LVB File, 12·13·66 FRIDAY, Decembe115., ~ 1966 .. . Among letters to SCIentIsts, seeltmg partiCIpatIon in the May, 1967 meeting of the American Astro· nautical Society on commercial uses of space, Berkner replied to a "turn down" by Wait Disney, saying that he still hoped that one of Disney's close associates might attend and give a paper in his own behalf, or one in which Disney would express his views. Tourism, entertainment, and hotels in space were sUb~ areas, Berlmer said. REF: LTR, LVB File, 12·15·66

·212­ MONDAY, December 19, 1966

) MINUTES OF MEETING OF BOARD OF GOVERNORS

This meeting was held in the evening, in the Dallas Petroleum Club. All Governors, including C. A. Tatum, Jr., attended.

It was a special meeting, and Chairman Erik Jonsson advised at the opening that (except for two special items) the agenda would belsyrrent • ..., negotiations with the State of Texas and The University of Texas System officials on the

establishment of a state-supported graduate . 2 i'; i' institution in Dallas.

President Gifford K, Johnson said there were three or possibly four varieties of organiza­ tional relationships: GRCSWISCAS might be simply an assisting agency, retaining the original objective of "enchantment" (sic., presumably meaning "enhancement") of graduate education in the Southwest; actually, however, a framework was already being set for ultimate phasing into The University of Texas System, in which SCAS would retain identity only as a foundation to provide financial support and some local control.

The third alternate would not involve a final commitment, but might be worked out on a biennium basis, to provide assistance to The University of Texas; this would require that UT System receive a formal charge (from the state) to activate ..doctoral programs in Dallas. A contract with the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System, via UT System, or some such arrangement, would be required, for graduate programs to launch the project. ,f The first and third basic plans would have no effect on the original objectives of GRCSWISAAS, involving regional activity in advancement of graduate education, Mr. Johnson said. But, if l1]ISystem would only accept the second idea ,-;r­ (complete absorption) , four out of five of the co.operative objectives would vanish. The only one remaining viable would be establishment of a related, applied research activity on the campus to serve industry, government and other organizations. ·213­ MONDAY, December 19, 1966 (CONT) ) Community, Founders and Governors would have to weigh whether The University of Texas gradu­ ate school would offset loss of the GRCSWISCAS "with its original and current, admirable aims for regional co-operation... and a regional scientific institution. "

Recitation of the objectives leads to conclusion, President Johnson said, that "we must preserve the independence and integrity of the Center." But financial evaluation of the vS'tious plans "would only drive one to the conclusion that an acquisition by the state should be expedited."

The best solution, Mr. Johnson said, was to obtain legislation for an initial program (prefer­ • ably on a contract basis) which could be expanded without further action by the legis­ lature into a full-fledged graduate effort. The basic idea would be to have two years in which to determine whether full acquisition by the UT System was desitable; if it did not seem so, then GRCSWISCAS could continue on the present organizational basis.

) President Johnson said he faJized that the two-year ..... program (with acquisition to come then) would use up more money resources than an immediate take-over by the UT System. But there were three reasons to support his recommendations: It seemed unlikely that the CoordinatillJf Board and other political. factions "1 would move to appro~riate $4 million or more in (1tttIt the next bienniu~for the full-fledged • ~ke-over; two years would provide a disengaging period, in which form and relationship of , GRCSW (as a foundation) to the state and other institutions could be given wise considera­ t tion, and impact on faculty and personnel would be minimized. _ 3'

The two-year program also left the"loophole" of an alternative other than flat acquisition, if acquisition did not appear desirable.

Founder Eugene McDermott said, at this point, that he was in accord with the original plans and ~ objectives when they were made, but that private support was not coming in to carry out the objectives. Turn to the state mr money to support a graduite school in Dallas, was his conclusion, without regard to what ... might happen to the original objectives.

=214­ MONDAY, December 19, 1966 (CONT) ) President Gifford K. Johnson said that many institutions and individua1s, as well as friends in the federal government, would feel that the Founders had let down the area if the concept of a regional educational influence was aban­ doned in....favor of builiiing a graduate program in Dallas alone.

Lloyd V. Berkner suggested pushing. for a solution in which a University of Texas graduate institution would be situated on the campus, with GRCSW ISCAS continuing, and with state assistance to Southern Methodist and Texas Christian Universities through GRCSWISCAS; first objective of GRCSWISCAS would remain the enhancement of graduate education in the region.

President Johnson.-a presented five financial alternatives; first, if GRCSW ISCAS continued under the latest five-year plan (approved by Trustees in the November meeting), without a UT System graduate school, all ....Texas Instruments stock would have to be sold, and the deficit would still be $2.2 million on July 1, 1971. There would be a net asset valu4J in 1,050 acres of land plus ) building~of $9.5 million.

If GRCSWISCAS were acquired by UT System, a $4 million appropriation would be needed in the next biennium, with continuing support of $2 million a year, assuming no growth in GRCSWI SCAS. If all faculty, research contracts and facilities , went to the state, there would remain (outside of state control) a foundation to assist graduate t education at "The University of Texas of Dallas" and elsewhere in the region. Assuming state funds were available as in the second plan, foundation resources would. remain constant at about $5.6 million ($2.2 million in land and $3.4 million in stock and cash).

Under a possible contract with UT System, in which GRCSW ISCAS would retain m . In maximum autonomy, but agree to provide one­ half its teaching capacity to the University of Texas, it could be assumed the state would provide $1 million in the next biennium and about $650,000 a year thereafter. Assuming

) -215­ MONDAY, December 19,1966 (CONT)

) ~ $3 million building would be donated by the community, assets would be $12.8 million, $3.2 million in land; $350,000 in stock and cash, and $9.25 million in buildings and equipment.

Assuming GRCSWISCAS would continue, but with an independent, adpnt University of Texas graduate school, the money result would be like the fourth plan, except that the state would probably give only 60 percent of the educational support to GRCSWISCAS, with the rest going to UT System administrative costs. Allowing a 250-acrell gift ..of land to the state, GRCSWISCAS assets on July 1, 1971, would down to $8 million net, with a cash It! deficitof $450,000 (again, assumption was made that the community would donate a $3 million building).

Founder Erik Jonsson said he was not concerned with how much money was left at the end of the five-year program, nor how" it might be divi­ ded between GRCSWISCAS and UT System. He wanted the best plan to provide optimum con­ tribution to regional graduate education; but he was not personally concerned with the size of the so-called "region."

President Gifford K. Johnson said that the~r· would be poflible opposition from Jack'tWilliams (then the Commissioner of the Coordinating Board), to action creating +tate-supported, Dallas­ based institution.

Founders McDermott and Cecil H. Green said that they ( , I I •• believed the University of I Texas would object to establishment of a UT graduate school on a contract basis. I

Both agreed that the. solution they saw was a take-over by UT System, complete except for foundation assets including land, stock and cash; these assets to serve the .... purpose of added financial support for the UT graduate .. schoo~ and to help other institutions, public and private, in regional ~ enhancement of graduate educa­ tion.

-216­ MONDAY, December 19, 1966 (CONT)

) Finally, the Governors reached a decision: To continue GRCSW/SCAS in its present objectives; and to propose that The University of Texas establish a graduate institution of technology adjacent to the Center, with an optimum utilization of the Center's faculty by The University of Texas, and with appro· priate compensation for such services (ie., with UT·System compensation to GRCSWI SCAS).

The over-all plan was to attempt submission of required legislation to the upcoming sessions of House and Senate by February, 1967. This imposed a rather fast time scale (with the holiday season at hand) for dJlscussions with many people, including heads of educational institutions in the area, Dallas legislators, the Coordinating Board and Jackl!!illiams, and The University of Texas System., -j:::', REF: Minutes of Meeting of Board of Governors, 12·19·66

NOTE: These are final references to hard· cover, looseleaf notebooks transcribed for Vice Presi. dent Ralph N. Stohl; further references to meetings ') come from Stohl's hand·written notes of early 1967 meetings, and from itemized reference folders of the Excellence in Education Founda· tion.

TUESDAY, December 20, 1966

Lloyd V. Berkner wrote to William C. Acker~an,/ President of the American Geophysical Unio~ in response to the "pleasant surprise" of beiung selected as winner of the 1967 William Bowie , Medal, the highest honor of the AGU. The award , date was April 19, 1967. REF: LTR, LVB File, 12·20·66

FRIDAY, December 23,1966

Dee Bartley resigned her position as Adminis· trative Assistant to Berkner and Gifford K. Johnson, effective December 31, 1966. REF: LTR, LVB File, 12·23-66

SUNDAY, December 25, 1966

A news release for year-end (prepared December 21) covered events of the year, stressing that objectives and emphasis of GRCSWISCAS would center on teaching. REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0206667 CLIPBOARD, Vol. 5, No.8, 12·22·66 The year was also reviewed at length, in copy and pictures, in the final 1966 issue ...... of CLIPBOARD.

·217· WEDNESDAY, December iN, 1966 ) Lloyd V. Berlmer wrote to President Gifford K. Johnson, suggesting that he (Berlmer) write to each Trustee as Chairman, outlining plans with respect to The University of Texas relationship and the consequent relations with other institutions. Berlmer. proposed to tielay ,. writing until"... our plans mature and clarify ... " saying "at the moment, the future is not clear enough."

He made reference to a Florida Institute of Technology document, leading to a post­ script comment that "if we bring in UT, the vast majority of funding for the new instruct­ ional building need not come from the com­ munity. At FIT they need only one-fifth community finance." REF: LTR, LVB File, 12-28-66

THURSDAY, December 29,1966

In a Texas Christian University release, Alex­ ander A. J. Hoffman was announced as prin­ cipal investigator for continued study of Earth magnetic waves. A $50,000 grant was made by National Science Foundation to ) extend the study for a third year. Hoffman was also director of the TCU computer center. The ... magnetic field studies were 4>ne at the Dallas Magnetic Observatory on the GRCSW m campus. REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0216667/John Ohendalski, TCU 234-12-29-66

SATURDAY, December 31, 1966

Executive Director Jesse Hobson released a f report of TAGER Objectives and Accomplish. , mentsin 1966, noting .... plans to install a pilot TAGER television network and have it in operation by September, 1967. Funds were chiefly to be sought from the Moody Foundation and the National Science Founda­ tion Departmental Science Development Grant fund. Ford Foundation had made an initial grant, but indicated that no more funding would be available at this time. REF: Report FA NEWS RELEASE XE128.0226667, 12-31·66

·END OF CHRONOLOGY FOR OCTOBER-DECEMBER, 1966­

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