Vol. II
SET 1'HE WATCH,
.Impressive, althoa£:n~ even solemn at c~tion ceremony of t~ry Building on Ttlesday, Octo'ber A round of acti 'wlth a meeting of .,al).d Directors and Advl,?~;L~v "~S'J.t..l.ta Fa'lls 1 C~ty lowed by, ,a lunchp.(,}z'i'l:: ~~~L;'tlill be "cJ.:'lairman of ing. He w111 intro gx-oup by bus to ...... "'l!"~V.l memorative plaque ,W~5,p of the GRCSW Board or )Obby of the Crow""H'tIDt AdvisoryCpuncil. The day was c act -- carried 0 Erik Jonsson and' placing a lead mlcrofilm of the 1.02 microcuries ing reference, Ce us JaS~a1rrmah ot cess in the corneJ:j on';~~~l.1l?{:,es,~. Will research building the G~aidu'ate of the Southwest Means { Dedicatory rema were prefaced 'by and to last May ,tql' the Flittulre • II will grl:mnd-breaking. O.t::Pr. ljl~yd\Berkner' s pnomised ceremony be forthcoming at this building next Q:e'thefti*eting will ,Mr ." ,rane" .• who will Entitled "Set t sof·th~ Gellter Truth," Mr. Jonss Te:x:asOittt• . tone for the momel pointed'some 100 at the SCAS Cent scien'tist unseals ) (Cont - 2
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"We are here on dry ground -- after instruct you to conduct basic research the experience of last May, I did thin and very advanced education -- in the we might break the Texas drought by public interest. scheduling this dedication! -- But, even with this land-locked situation, (DR. BERKNER SEALED THE MICROFILM I am going to use some nautical terms IN THE OPEN END OF THE CAPSULE). -- knowing that these will be familiar to Lloyd Berkner. "You will notice that one section of this capsule is already sealed. "Today's dedication is something like I know that the command given, upon the commissioning of a vessel for ex the commissioning of a ship -- is ploration -- here, in this first labor "Set the Watch." atory building of the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, there will be IIWith only a small play on words many explorations. These will be scien this has been done. The sealed portion tific in nature -- beyond the present of this capsule contains a very small boundaries of human knowledge. The radioactive reference. In effect, a courses will -- many times -- be un tiny atomic clock, which has begun to charted. tick away here in October, 1963. "What will be sought? The treasure IlPerhaps a century from now -- or ) truth -- the richness of ideas - several centuries -- a scientist may Lrle innovation upon which our futures, wish to test us -- and re-determine as a region -- and a nation -- can be today's date of dedication. It will built to the heights. be a very simple exercise-- indeed, I find that the principle has been "A fine structure will rise from this explained very satisfactorily only foundation in this next few months. last Sunday -- in what I used to hear This is good. But building stone and called "the funny papers." mortar are not an expression of purpose , The shape and form of this building !lSo, now -- let me saft "Set the I must be enlivened by the presence of Watch -- For the Truth.' These are the scholars and their associates. The your sailing orders. May you have lasting importance of this place will b fair skies, fair winds, and a following the effects of its ideas on how we live sea in your explorations of science!" and what we do. (DR. BERKNER THEN PLACED THE CAPSULE "So it is to those who seek the truth IN THE RECESS: MR. JONSSON SPREAD THE that we make the dedication of this MORTAR, AND THE TWO MEN PUT THE SEAL moment. IN PLACE).
'~Now, Lloyd -- in behalf of the Board The cornerstone seal read: "The of Directors -- I am going to ask you to First Laboratory on the Campus of the join me in some symbolic actions. Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, Dedicated October 29, 1963." lIHere is your charter -- these are your sailing orders. You will see that -000 i )y are on the modern parchment of OPERA: Coronation of Poppea - by microfilm. Please seal them in this Claudio Monteverde opens the season capsule. Without the length and fine Friday, November 8. phrases of legal language, these pages -000 - 3 ) MEETING DR. BERKNER TO PRESIDE AT LUNCHEON Dr. William B. Hanson, DASS phy Dr. Lloyd Berkner, GRCSW preSident, sicist, will attend the Founders' will preside at a luncheon honoring Meeting of the Society of Engineering Mr. Holgar J. Johnson, president of Science to be held at Purdue Univer the Council for Financial Aid to Edu site, Lafayette, Indiana, November 4 cation, Inc., at the Sheraton-Dallas through 6, 1963. Hotel's North Ballroom, Thursday, November 7, 1963. -000 Mr. Dan C. Williams, president, NEW STAFF Southland Life Insurance Company of Dallas, and a GRCSW Board Member, will Dr. Frian A. and Mrs. (Beatrice) introduce Mr. Johnson, who wil address Tinsley arrived in Dallas Monday the group of Dallas business leaders night to take up duties with SCAS. and representatives of 35 Texas col Dr. Tinsley will be working with the leges and universities. division of Atmospheric and Space Sciences; Mrs: Tinsley will con Incorporated in 1953, the CFAE is tinue her studies with the Mathe the non-profit organization that re matics and Mathematical PhYSics sulted when a group of national busi division. ness leaders realized that the demand for higher education in the U.S. was Biographical sketches of Dr. and increasing far more rapidly than its ) Mrs. Tinsley will be carried in financial support. Its primary ob the CLIPBOARD at a later date. jective is to foster corporate support of higher education. -000 During the first ten years of its A COMPARISON life, the CFAE was supported by grants from four foundations. Its program Phe Philanthropic Digest for is now being underwritten by business Wednesday, October 16, 1963 reports corporations. Its board of directors National Aeronautics and Space Ad includes 20 business leaders and 10 ministration Administrator James college or university preSidents. E. Webb's list of the top 20 uni versities receiving Federal research Among the members of the CFAE Board funds. Fourteen of these appear in are: Mr. Neil McElroy, board chairman Dr. Lloyd Berkner's IIBig 20" grad of the Procter & Gamble Company; Mr. uate school listing. The 14 are: Erik Jonsson, board chairman, Texas MIT, California, Michigan, Columbia, Instrumentsj Courtney C. Brown, Dean, Stanford, Chicago, NYU, Wisconsin, Graduate School of Business, Columbia Illinois, Harvard, Minnesota, Yale, UniverSity; Mr. Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., Pennsylvania, and Ohio State. honorary chairman, General Motors Corporation, and De Witt Wallace, -000 editor and publisher of The Reader's NATIONAL NOTICE FOR SCAS Digest. -000 in the rather unlikely source )palled Glamour, November, 1963 issue.
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