SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT DIVISION· 1956 January 1956 SOD Ground Breaking The ground-breaking ceremonies were opened by Frank Collbohm, who recalled briefly how Ground-breaking ceremonies on January 18 SDD grew out of the original System Research marked the beginning of construction for the new Laboratory experiments of John Kennedy some System Development Division Building at 2500 2 years ago. Collbohm then introduced Gen. James Colorado Blvd., Santa Monica, California. The Andrews of the 27th Air Division, the first Divi­ building, a model of which was pictured in the Jan­ sion of the Air Defense Command to use the RAND uary 15 Los Angeles Times, is being built by John System Training Program. After a brief talk by Stahl for long-term lease to RAND. It will have General Andrews, CoUbohm handed a mysterious more than 100,000 sq ft of floor area, four en­ package containing a double-headed shovel. to closed patios similar to those in RAND'S Main SOD Co-chiefs Bil~ Biel and M. O. Kappler, Build4tg, and parking space for more than and suggested that they start digging. But first, of 500 cars. course, General Andrews had to step in and saw The building will be devoted entirely to the the shovel in two. System Development Division, now comprising * * * about 400 technical people· and expected to more than double in size during the next year. SOD, Credit Union under separate contract with the Air Defense RAND'S new Credit Union is growing steadily. It Command, will carry out three types of activities: now has 450 members andn~arly $40,000 worth (1) preparing programs for the electronic com­ of shares outstanding. Loan applications are re­ puters, which are the heart of the new SAGE air viewed twice a week ~y the Credit Committee and, defense system; (2) developing methods for train­ to date, .about 100 loans have been made. ing crews of the SAGE system; and (3) assisting We expected the Credit Union to begin making in training the crews for SAGE, as well as continu­ auto loans at about this time, but the demand for ing the.current training program for the manually small signature loans has remained so strong that operated control and warning system that makes the Board of Directors has decided to postpone up our present air defense system. making· such loans for another month or two.

CIRCULATION: RAND PERSONNEL ONLY March 1956 Perspective on the STP Program . .. in group prOblem-solving skills. 4. Critical aspects of the field operational situation are simulated The Air Defense Command insti­ tions and to stress the operational during training. tuted the System Tr~ining Program functions necessary to deal with these To ol?tain maximum transfer from on the basis of the increased-perform­ situations adequately. These training the tra~ing situa~ion to the opera­ ance effectiveness demonstrated by problems enable ACW crews to in­ ~ional sit~ation, it is necessary to sim­ the crews in the SRL experimental crease their operational effectiveness ulate to a high degree the critical runs. Training methods and tech­ by providing them with opportuni­ aspects of the operational situation. niques currently used by STP are ties to practice defensive tactics in This means that training problems based primarily on principles derived situations closely approximating real must be similar to aCtual operational from these experiments. emergency conditions. The STP situations so that crews may use the These training principles have method of training does not teach a system skills they have learned. particular method of solving air de­ .their origin in basic psychological 5. The system goal must be main­ fense problems. It provides the op­ theory. It has been the task of STP tained as the primary motive, and portunity for the system being trained to develop training procedures, based all behavior must be re-enforced in to learn how to cope with its prob­ on these pripciples, that are applica­ terms of this goal. ble to a field system training program lems by actually dealing with them. Adequate motivation is a prerequi­ and to fit these methods to the' kind 2. An appropriate-sized problem­ site to.1earning. To achieve maximum of system being trained. solvingg,roup is trained as a team. improvement in performance, all The system being trained by the The unit system that is trained in members of a system must work to­ System Training Program is an Air the System Training Program is the ward the same goal-defense of sys­ Defense Division. It is a man-ma­ Air Defense Division-,-a team small tems area 'of responsibility. Individ­ chine system having as its mission, enough to be manageable from a uals or subgroups within the system . or task, the defense of its assigned training point of view but large may develop subgoals of their o~n. area of responsibility. Its primary enough to have a reasonable degree Some of these may be inconsistent function is to proc~ss information of independence in decision-making. with the system goal. To obtain a about an air situation quickly and Thus, the team members can lea,rn maximally effective system perform­ accurately so that appropriate tacti­ together increasingly effective ways ance, these subgoals must be adjusted cal action may be taken. of dealing with their task. so that they contribute to the main- 'The training principles that guide 3. System flexibility must be . system goal. the System Training Pr~gram provide developed .. 6. Knowledge of resu~ts is a nec-:­ a framework for understanding the An essential characteristic of the essary condition to the improvemen~ operatiqn of the program and the ACW mission is that the system must of performance. training techniques tpat it employs. be capable ot handling emergency Immediately . after each training A brief statemeht of these principles situations that cannot be precisely exercise, the system being trained re­ will aid this understanding. specified in advance. The System ceives a factual, objective, and mean­ 1. Controlled training exercises Training Program trains the system ingful report concerning the air situ­ are designed to fit the current to evaluate a novel situation quickly ation with' which it was faced and requirements of the system being and accurately, to' choose the most the succesS' with which it de~lt with trained. efficient procedure for deali~g with this situation.. This information is The System Training Program pro­ it, and to carry out this procedure provided to all members of the sys­ vides complet~ly controlled training quickly and with least cost. Flexibil­ tem and is used as a basis for discus­ exercises designed to give a wide ity can be developed by' providing sion and for suggestions by which range of experience with air situa- practice in operational skills and also performance may be improved. March 1956 Progress of STP ter at the Armacost building has The New Building been running full time since Mon­ day, March 12, acquainting 32nd (For a pictorial charting of prog­ Installation of the Manual System Division personnel with the inner ress, see the bulletin board in the Training Program has been com­ workings of STP. Approximately Sixth Street building.) pleted In all Air D~fense Divisions three Air Force personnel from the of the Joint Western Air Defense Some vital statistics are 32nd AD Headqu,arters and from Force. The 27th, 28th, 25th, and 9th 1. The building will cover a each site in the 32nd AD make up are all running STP exercises success­ ground area of 58,300 square feet. the Air Force team. A similar team fully, the difficulties arising at home 2. There will be two floors and from the 26th Air Division was STP­ and in the field being only slightly a basement area having a total floor indoctrinated a few weeks ago. Per­ more than the ·number expected. As space of 110,000 square feet. manent SDD representatives to these of the 29th. of February, each of the divisions are as follows: 3. There will be 427 rooms. JWADF Air Defense Divisions had 26th AD: D. S. Werner and 4. Construction above ground will participated in a minimum of thirty­ be set-up, prestressed concrete. five STP exercises, and one of these M. E. Eckstein divisions, running both standard and 32nd AD: J. L. Maatsch 5. Employee facilities in and around the building will include: a experimental exercises, completed al­ The next scheduled IDC activity snack bar, commons room, four pa­ most two hundred STP exercises. will take place late this summer for tios, dispensary; ample parking space, The work of installing the pro­ the indoctrination of AF personnel and spacious working areas. gram in the 29th Air Division (first from the 30th Air Division. division to be installed in JWADF) Additional installations are not 6. The interior color scheme has is nearly complete-sleet and snow scheduled until next fall, but a tre­ not yet been decided; suggestions have not stayed our couriers from mendous amount of SDD work has (short of polka ~ots and stripes) are swift completion of their appointed to precede each installation. All four being accepted. STP rounds. Work on the east coast SDD Departments are contributing Present status: A large hole has is presently underway, with some of heavily, the major effort now being been dug. Rumor has it that this is our people already in the New York devoted to having complete flight li­ for the foundation and basement, but area for the 26th Air Division. braries ready for the nine remaining people in the know say that it will The Indoctrination Direction Cen- divisions. be used to burn classified waste. March 1956 Profiles . .. -a program th~t will support the military could be brought together in Corporation's aims and that will also support of national security. When Frank Collbohm has been with provide the most effective use of our this concept became the reality of Air RAND since it was an idea; Richard work by' the Air Force and other Force Project RAND in 1946, he was Goldstein joined a few months later agencies. This means direct contact assigned the jo~' of running it. When to help form the organization. (Larry with government people at both tech­ The RAND Corporation was formed Henderson, Associate Director in our nical and policy levels. RAND Recom­ i~ 1948, he became Director. Washington office, who was also in mendations to the Air Staff-policy­ Away from work Frank is kept on the organization, will be featured level "action" letters that suggest busy helping his wife Kitty raise two next month in RN.) They work that the Air Force take certain spe­ sons. Whatever time is left over goes closely together in the administration cific steps shown to be advisable on to "Vamonos," the family motor of RAND: both are members of the the basis of RAND study-go out over yacht. In fact it's the boat that's re­ Board of Trustees, and the Executive his signature. sponsible for his appearance - not Committee of that Board. They have Goldy concentrates on administra­ only the ruddy complexion but the their offices at 1700 Main Street and tion problems, which involve techni­ crew cut, a barber's mistake during. a bo~h participate in the weekly meet­ cal fields indirectly and of which yachting trip to Catalina. ings of the Management Committee there is no shortage. Just so he won't Goldy came from the University of (includes Chiefs of RAND Divisions) , run out of worries, he presides over Rochester and Caltech ( aeronauti­ and in the semi-annual meetings of a committee of Division Administra­ cal engineering) before he went to the RAND Board of Trustees and tive Assistants, and also over the Cor­ Douglas, where he became chief of Military Advisory Group. porate Management Committee. The the Research Laboratori~s, and then Frank's attention focuses on the latter includes Glad Putt (Assistant joined RAND. over-all technical program, with com­ for Management), Scott King (Cor­ Outside RAND it's the camera for panion interest in broad administra­ poration Treasurer), Steve Jeffries Goldy, and his favorite subjects are tive activities. He spends part of his (Corporation Secretary), Jim De­ portraits of men and children (in­ time reading RAND'S paper output Haven (Assistant for Research), with cluding his own four). According to (he reads all of it), and in helping Will Eisner as secretary~ Arranging lore, women refuse to come under to keep a balanced research program programs for the'Trustees and Mili­ the sharp focus of his merciless lens. tary Advisory Group meetings is one

~~~~;~:~,7:~~'~~:;r:~p~:)~~'~~'~~-r,,~,w~~~'~.~~~·'~ of many jobs on Goldy's desk. ! Frank has been associated with Air Force activities' for more than twenty­ five years. After attending the Uni­ versity of Wisconsin, he went to Douglas Aircraft and became Assist­ ant to the Vice President for Engi­ neering. During his association with Douglas he wa.s also Consultant fo Secretary of War ( for Air) Patter­ son. It was during this work in the closing days of World War II, with General Arnold and others, that he began to promote the concept of an independent organ~zation where the Frank Collbohm talents of science, industry, and the 1. R. Goldstein March 1956 April 1956 Jobs Unlimited The learning process. The industrial psy­ chologist comes with a valuable back­ The sudden growth and expansion ctT raining Specialist" ground of know-how achieved of the System Development Division [During the past several months the through repeated experiences in deal­ has created openings for many varied words "Training Specialist" have be­ ing with problems in industry. and interesting positions. In addition come an integral part at the RAND/ Each Training Specialist must be­ to its system training program for SDD vocabulary. But what do they come familiar with the five crucial the Manual Air Defense Network mean?] aspects ·of system training as we system, SDD will take over two new know it today: the defining of the The title "Training Specialist" is activities that will require an organi­ system to be trained, the positive given to those social scientists of zation of more than 1200 people. control over the stimulus input to SDD who in one way or another de­ These activities are (1) system train­ the system, the observation and re­ vote their energies to the conduct ing of crews for SAGE, the next gen­ cording of critical system behaviors, and continued development of the eration Air Defense Network; (2) the objective presentation of the re­ ADC System Training Program for programming for SAGE, which in­ corded behaviors to the crew (with­ the manual and SAGE systems. volves writing machine instructions out moralization or didactics), and Training Specialists come from a for the computers. We have open­ the postexercise discussion activity. number of different areas of expe­ ings for: The Training Specialist who is sta­ rience. There are the experimental tioned in the field is in constant Psychologists-35 or more psychologists whose training has em­ interaction with the military and the Qualifications: Ph.D., with a back­ phasized the control of experimental ground in the experimental, so­ Santa Monica group. conditions in the study. of behavior. cial, educational, and measure­ In brief the Training Specialist is There are clinical psychologists who ment fields. a man who brings his own special~ bring an aw:areness of the need for Technical Assistants-25 or more ized background to the complicated Qualifications: B.A. or M.A. in system "diagnosis," i.e., the need to system training program and makes geography, psychology, sociology, distinguish between symptomatic be­ his contributions accordingly. With engineering, or physics. Courses havior and causal factors in the few exceptions, Training Specialists and applied experience in mathe­ slowly evolving group learning. matics, statistics, and aviation are have Ph.D.'s and several years of Social psychologists bring the skills desirable. professional experience. Programmers-70 they have achieved in the study of Qualifications: B.A. in mathematics, small groups and apply these skills in March 1956 statistics, or engineering. Train­ the development of more effective SDn Move ing in mathematics, logic, meth­ leadership for group problem-solving ods analysis, or any combination by the ADC crews. Sociologists, with In the latest shift of the System thereof. Mathematicians-3 their abilities to assess the norms or Development Division, Administra­ Qualifications: Ph.D., or M.A. in standards by which a group operates, tion and the Air Information and applied mathematics. help to develop a clearer picture of Training Departments moved to 1333 Clerical how crews are changing in response Sixth Street, Santa Monica. The Prob­ Stenographers to training. The metrically oriented lem Production and Programming Tabulating Operators-l4-Jr. "B" psychologists contribute their skills Departments and Engineering remain operators Key Punch Operators-3 in the use of numbers to achieve at the Armacost Building. Orienta­ Typists-Technical typing experi­ training goals as, for example, in tion and Indoctrination continues to ence if possible the design of air.. situation problems. be at 1515 Fourth Street, site of the Clerks-Some college; map or cod­ Educational psychologists make their original experiments that led to SOD. ing background helpful. contribution through their skill in Certain elements, including uncleared Do you know someone? organizing materials to hasten the people, remain at 1505 Fourth Street. April 1956 STP for SDD sional people with pedagogical experience. A Staff Training Council made up of departmental Can experience gained in applying the system train­ representatives from Training, Air Information, Prob­ ing program to Air Defense Training problems be lem Production, Programming, and SOD Administra­ used in connection with training our own System Devel­ tion meets regularly to advise and provide guides for the opment Division? Hmmm--? September 1956 There is a new hum of activity down at 1515 West Partridge Sees SDD 4th Street these days. Bob Boguslaw-an old SDD stalwart-and Jess Tarwater-recently arrived from the The Commander of the U.S. Continental Air Defense faculty of UCLA-have established a Staff Training Command, accompanied by some of his staff, visited Program for SDD in a feverish attempt to meet the SOD on August 7. Briefings and discussions during his urgent, complex training needs of the rapidly expand­ visit were centered mainly on the System Training Pro­ ing System Development Division. This team finds out gram for manual air defense, the System Training what kind of training is needed by members of the Program for SAGE air defense, and SDD's part in the Division, makes arrangements to provide this training, SAGE computer programming effort. Discussions in and then checks to see how effective the training has each area covered: what it is, what has been done to been in meeting the Division's needs. date, and what future plans are. During the last six months, six specific courses have The visit came just one day after Santa Monica's been planned and put into operation. These are Basic Evening Outlook carried an article about the new Administrative Policies and Procedures-the original $1?,191,987 contract supporting SOD activities for training course for indoctrinating new SDD personnel; FY '57. The article mentioned the areas in which SDD Basic Air Defense-an introduction to the operations is working, the size of the present and projected staff, and organization of USAF and the Air Defense Com­ and ,the new building that is gomg up on Colorado mand, and the role of RAND-STP in Air Defense; Life Avenue. Cycle of an STP Problem-examining the process by SDD Reorganization which an STP Problem is created and put into use at The System Development Division has been growmg AC&W. sites; STP Operations-Basic Programming­ rapidly to meet its commitments. In order to stream­ covering operations of the Programming Department, line certain of the Division's data-gathering and plan­ the formulation of programs, logic of the computer, ning functions, the activities previously carried on by and how these activities contribute to the System Train­ the Air Information Department have been assigned to ing Program; STP Problem Design-a course designed other appropdate departments. Personnel who have for cleared staff members, such as Training Specialists been carrying· out these activities are being assigned to and Problem Designers" to clarify the relationship be­ the other departments and in general will carry out the tween the design of STP Problems, field training, and same functions. Reassignment of personnel will be com­ field feedback; ADC Radar and Simulated Radar pleted within the next several weeks. Equipment-an introduction to radar principles, equip­ ment, maintenance, and STP-related information. October 1956 Since January 1, 1956, as many as 187 SOD personnel RAND Contract have completed classes at the Staff Training Center on 4th Street. General E. W. Rawlings, Commander of the Air Several other courses are planned for the next few Materiel Command, lias announced that a contract has months. The course titles: STP Operations-Air Infor­ been given to Project RAND for $10,460,000 for the mation; SAGE; Training Policy and Tfaining Tech­ continuation of the program during the coming fiscal niques; Conference Leadership; Supervisory Training; year. The RAND Corporation now has more than 1500 Technical Report Writing and Oral Presentation; Role people, nearly 650 of whom are working under the of the Training Specialist; Correspondence and Office PrQject RAND contract. For the System Development Procedure. A considerable amount of work remains to Division, which has some 550 people in Santa Monica, be done on this new series of courses. and more than 300 in other parts of the country, the Instructors for the Staff Training Program courses Corporation recently received a contract for $13,191,- are drawn from the SDD Staff, which includes mathe­ 987. This sum is for work on projects for the Air De­ maticians, psychologists, sociologists, and other profes- fense Command of the Air Force. July 1956 Profile . .. Musical Chairs' Dr. Launor F. Carter joined RAND in July, 1955, and is head of the Several changes are being made in RAND'S administrative setup to Training Department adjust to our increasingly complex and dispersed operations. The of the System Devel­ changes will make our Personnel Office less of a catch-all by redistri­ opment Division. He buting some of its present functions. ha~ been planning Ken Wells, Plant Engineer, will move to the System Development for, installing, and ,Division to take charge of all of its facilities and purchasing, and to' maintaining .the Sys­ oversee the building of new SDD facilities here and in Lexington, terns Training Pro­ Massachusetts. gram in Manual Air Cecil Weihe, Personnel Manager since the start of RAND, will take Carter Defense Direction over Ken Wells' work and continue many of his present duties. Cecil Centers and in SAGE Subsectors. His will handle construction of the new wing (page 1), building mainte­ educational background includes: a nance, shipping and receiving, telephone, janitor service, purchasing, B.S. and an M.S. from the Univer­ dispensary, and stockroom operations. Bob Yoder will continue as sity of 'Washington in 1936 and assistant plant engineer. 1939, respectively, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1941. Dave Lederer, Administrative Aide in the Engineering Division, will From July, 1941, to June, 1942, he become Personnel Manager, taking over Cecil's personnel responsibili­ was employed at The Adjutant Gen~ ties, including te~hnical manpower recruiti~g, timekeeping, and the eral's Office, in Washington, D.C., recordkeeping on insurance schemes, payroll, etc. Lois Wilen will con­ working on the development of test­ tinue as Assistant Personnel Manager. ing and classifi~ation systems. In 'Under' the new setup, Chief Gary Leon's guard force will be under June, 1942, he was commissioned in Dick Best, RAND'S Security Officer. the U.S. Air Force and became Di­

rector of the Psychological ,Research ,_,' ''I.' Project (Navigator) to. do research on the selection 'and training of navi­ ~'::."""':'.:"'~.'.:"."'~~"'.'.• ""," ..." .. '.': ...... •....• gators. Early in 1946 he left the Air Force to become a research psycholo­ gist at the Aeromedical Laboratory, Wright Field, Dayton. Later he was IB an Associate Professor of Psychology Wells Weihe Lederer at the University of Rochester. In February, 1952, he was ap­ pointed Director of Research, ican Association for the Advance­ Psychological Association and on its Human Research Unit No.2, Conti­ ment of Science, Membet of Ameri­ Policy and Planning Board, and Con­ nental Army Command, Fort Ord, can Sociological Society, Psychomet­ sulting Editor to the Psychological Calif. (The research was oriented ric Sociology, Western Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Abnormal and around Army problems in leadership Association, Society for. the Psycho­ Social Psychoiogy, and Sociometry. and group effectiveness.) logical Study of Sociology Issue, and Last February, General Twining Dr. Carter's professional affilia­ the Federation of American Scien­ invited Dr. Carter to become a mem­ tions include: Fellow of American tists. He'is currently (1955-1958) ber of the Social Sciences Panel of Psychological Association and Amer- Recording Secretary of the American the $cientific Advisory Board. August 1956 Credit Union near future. A schedule for the sale of coffee and tea is given below . We ask that all of you read Since he will be away from RAND for the rest of the it carefully, abide by its prices, and make the year (see page 9), Joe Kershaw (Economics Division) coffee-collection chore easier for those who are has resigned as President of the RAND Credit Union. assigned this necessary and thankless task. The Credit Union Board of Directors elected former Vice President Pete Kinnell (Engineering Division) to succeed Kershaw. After Pete consented to fill the va­ cancy on the Board caused by Kershaw's resignation, Joe Loftus (Economics Division) was immediately drafted as Vice President. The remaining officers and Board CoNSUMER PAYS members are as before: Dick Lintner (SDD)-Treas­ PER MONTH urer; Audrey Ladd (Personnel)-Secretary; and Board (to Division Members Bob Boguslaw (SDD), Jim DeHaven (Ad­ Secretary) SUBSCRIPTION· ministration), and Pat Keith (Engineering). 1. Coffee, 1 cup, A.M., P.M.. . • • • • • • • • •• $1.75 During Kershaw's presidency, the Credit Union has 2. Coffee, 1 cup, A.M. only...... 1.00 grown into a business with over $160,000 in assets and 3. Coffee, 1 cup, P.M. only ...... ", 1.00 4. Tea, 1 bag, A.M., P.M. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1.00 a membership of more than 700. Over half the people 5. Tea, 1 bag, A.M. only...... 50 in the Main Building are now members, and member­ 6. Tea, 1 bag, P.M. only...... 50 7. Coffee, 1 cup A.M.; tea, 1 bag, P.M.. • . 1.50 ship in Boston is nearing the 100 mark. In order to 8. Coffee, 1 cup, P.M.; tea, 1 bag, A.M.. • • 1.50 keep up with the SDD business, Manager Jean Wells 9. Cream, 1 (waxed) cup,t A.M., P.M.... 3.50 (or her assistant Sharon Newstrom) makes the rounds 10. Cream, 1 (waxed) cup,t A.M. or P.M. only ...... 1.75 of the SDD Santa Monica complex twice a week.

CoNSUMER PAYS January 1956 PER ITEM (to kitty in each • Coffee. The coffee situation has been the IRREGULAR coffee room) biggest problem facing the Co-op Committee for 11. Coffee, per cup ...... $ .05. 12. Tea, per bag ...... 05 some time. However, we do not feel that the cof­ 13. Cream, pet (waxed) cup ...... •.. .10 fee program should constitute any more of a problem than the vending machines. At one time .Persons cannot subscribe for half.cups twice a day. Subscriptions are expected to be paid before the tenth the coffee not only paid for itself-it made a of each month. tSuppJied with the coffee.

The Co-op Committee is now in the process of revising the Charta. This is necessitated by the large personnel increase within RAND. A copy of this planned revision will appear in a future issue of the RANDom News so that everyone may have a better understanding of the functions of slight profit. Today, however, this is not true. 1£ the Co-op. each and every coffee or tea drinker paid accu­ The following Statement of Profit and Loss rately for what he actually drank, this phase of and Balance Sheet are for the period ending the Co-op program would at least break even. We June 30, 1955. The next Statement and Balance hope that this aim will he realized in the very Sheet will appear in a future issue of the News. September 1956 Profile ... sonnel Research Branch, Adjutant General's Office, Department of the Harry Harman is the Head of the Army (1948-1950). Concurrently, Problem Production Department in he taught at George Washington RAND'S System Development Divi­ University (1949-1950) and at sion. This Department prepares train­ American University (1951-1953). ing materials ("problems") for the In the fall of 1953, Harry came to System Training Program at the Air work for RAND, in the Systems Re­ Defense Command's AC&W sites. search Laboratory. His primary mis­ Harry was born in Vilna, Poland, sion was to help work out prob­ in 1913. At the age of nine he trav­ lems - and make operational - the eled with his family to the United System Training Program. In Au­ States via Berlin, Liverpool, and gust, 1954, with the help of John Quebec. Settling· in Chicago, the en- . Matousek, he was responsible for tire family became naturalized citi­ the first package of STP training zens. Entering the first grade un­ materials: About 1600 such problem able to speak English, he skipped H. H. Harman packages have since been produced. through eight years of elementary Harry's family consists of his wife, school in four years. At Chicago's Methods, jointly authored with Pro­ Rose, whom he married during his Crane Technical High School he fessor Holzinger. hectic graduate years at the Univer­ maintained an "A" average (primary From 1941 to 1945 Harry was sity of Chicago. Her hobby is the emphasis in Math and Science), in­ Supervisor of the Division of Re­ culinary arts (wherein she excells). dulged in many extracurricular ac­ search and 'Statistics, Department of The Harmans have two sons, Larry, tivities (slide-rule club, soccer) and Public Welfare, State of Illinois. 15%, and Alvin, 13Y2. was elected "Mayor of Crane Tech." (During his last year as Supervisor, While Harry is an ardent tennis In 1931, Harry won a two-year he was given an Honorary Appoint­ player, a holder of college trophies Honor Scholarship to the University ment, by the Governor of Illinois, as for horseshoe pitching, and likes to of Chicago. In 1934 he received his Statistical Advisor to the State Direc­ take long automobile trips with his Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, tor of Selective Service.) Most of his family, there is no doubt that his and two years later he received his work during this period was in con­ best-known hobby is bridge. His Master's degree. Meanwhile, in 1935 nection with the Mental Hygiene noon-hour bridge-playing cronies ac­ he was appointed a Research Assist­ program in Illinois. cuse him of having his own system­ ant in the Department of Education In 1945-1946 he went to work and, in fact, lie plans to write a book at the University of Chicago. In 1939 for the U.S. Employment Service and on bridge sometime. Last May he he joined the faculty as a Research wound up in Washington, D.C., with entered a number' of Sections in the Associate; he also began teaching, as the Federal Bureau of Employment National Contract Bridge League's an Instructor in Mathematics and Sta­ Security, as Verification Statistician. duplicate bridge tournament at the tistics, at Austin Junior College. In 1947, as a Research Associate Ambassador Hotel in L.A. and won During the period 1934-1936, his with the National Research Council, or placed in several Sections. Last work in the Department of Educa­ Harry began a two-year survey of the March, Harry and Bill Biel, having a tion with ProfessorK. J. Holzinger supply and demand of high-level free evening in New Orleans, entered stimulated Harry's interest in sta­ scientific manpower in the United and won first place in the "Magnolia tistics (measurement, methodology, States (a Rockefeller Foundation Pairs" Section of a regional Tourna­ and comparative studies). This fi­ supported study). While with the ment. Harry plans to train his sons nally led, in 1941, to a book, .Factor NRC, Harry became Chief of Sta­ to play, so that more of his evenings Analysis-A Synthesis of Factorial tistical Research and Analysis, Per- may be dedicated to the game. September 1956

in Santa Monica, 230 in .the Boston SDD Build-up ... area, and 15 in the field-a total of 789. For July 1, 1957, the projected The present schedule calls for when a crane attempted to lift a pre­ figures are 750 in Santa Monica, completion of the SDD building at fabricated concrete beam over the 490 in Boston, and 160 in the field­ 2500 Colorado Street by November strong objections of gravity, result­ a total 1400. By July 1, 1958, it is 1, 1956. The building, being built by ing in vice versa. "Never seen it hap­ expected that the total will grow John Stahl for lease to RAND, is be­ pen in 16 years of work," puzzled to 1870. lieved to be one of the largest pre­ the construction foreman. The present Santa Monica staff is str.essed concrete structures to be The number of people needed to widely distributed over no less than erected (we hope) to date. As the carry out the three-pronged SDD six locations. The situation should pictures below show, progress is program - manual system training, ease somewhat with the completion being made-but not without prob­ SAGE programming, SAGE train­ of the new building at 2500 Colo­ lems, as illustrated by the center ing--continues to grow. The SDD radio; and long-range plans for a sec­ photo, which shows what happened figures for July 31, 1956, were 544 ond building are being considered.

April 1956 SAGE Comment plan are being passed from the brary staff is working full time to SAGE STP Planning Committee to get the SAGE Operations Specifica­ the SDD Departments. The Commit­ tions arranged in sets for easier The basic plan for installing STP tee will then disappear, with sighs of reference and for more adequate in SAGE Direction Centers has been relief, and with thanks for its able distribution. completed and ADC has given the work. The Departments are proceed­ So far, the program is fairly close go-ahead sign. ing with further development and to schedule, although fortuitous Requirements for detailing the implementation, and the SDD Li- breathing spells will be well received. ArtiJt's drawing showing the location of the new RAND butler-type prefab bui/dings being erected on Hanscom Air Force Baie next to Lincoln Laboratory. Buildings 1 and 2 are nearing completion, and the foundations for the others have been laid.

RAND Lexington Site. Some of the eight bui/dings being constructed for the System Development Division at Hanscom Air Force Base, Lexington, MaJ·s. The buildings, having a total floor area of about 87,000 square feet, will provide space for some 500 RAND people and about' 400 people from Western Electric, Bell Labs, IBM, and the Air Force also working on SAGE. The first building has been completed, and the first contingent of RAND moved in on November 10. September 1956 Profile ... worked with the electron microscope at the University and, finally, in Sid Bertram heads the Engineer- I the high-frequency-tube laboratory. ing Department of the System Devel­ He received his Ph.D. in 1951 from opment Division. This department Ohio State. is responsible for determining the Coming to work for RAND in 1951, requirements for new equipment Sid first worked with the counter­ needed to implement the SDn pro­ measures group of the Electronics grams and for providing liaison with Division. This was followed by a manufacturers during the develop­ period of active involvement. with ment and production of the equip­ the development of the RADATA' ment. It also serves as a consulting system (radar data from gap-filler group to provide engineering infor­ radars arranged to augment the sig­ mation and guidance to the other nals at a central long-range radar). departments of SDD.· In addition, In 1953 Sid began work on the in­ the department maintains the special S. Bertram strumentation required for the man­ electronic equipment used in the "In­ ual System Training Program. This doctrination Direction Center." physics Company designing, con­ included the Problem Reproducer Sid was born July 7, 1913, in Win­ structing, and field-testing electrical equipment, which was finally pro­ ~ipeg, Canada. His family moved to equipment for geophysical explora­ duced by RCA, as the GPS-T2. He Los Angeles in 1923. By 1936 Sid tion. He then returned to school, this has made a number of original con­ had decided that he really wanted to time as a graduate student at Ohio tributions and, as a result, has several stay in the U.S. and became a nat­ State, where he received his M~S. de- patent disclosures pending. These uralized citizen. He married Esther gree in Communication Engineering. will add to three patents now held by Varon in Seattle, Washington, in During this period, he shared resport- '. Sid as a result of his Sonar work dur­ 1945. They have three sons: Irving, sibility for the Ohio State Antenna ing the war. 10; Henry, 8; and Robert, 6. Laboratory, which was set up in 1940 After his graduation in 1930 from to investigate, with models, the radia­ Manual Arts High in Los Angeles, tion patterns of aircraft antennas. Sid worked for some months on a From 1942 to 1945 Sid worked radio assembly line. This was enough at 'the Underwater Sound Labora- * * * to convince him that more education tory of the University of California" would be useful, so he entered L.A. where he helped to develop special Sonar equipment which ultimately City College, where he got an A.A. October 1956 degree in semiprofessional Electrical perm~tted underwater navigation: of Engineering in 1932. submarines through mine fields and After an abortive start at Cal other hazards. Leaving the laboratory SAGE-Rage Dance Tech, from which he withdrew to after the war, he went to Boeing make some money, Sid entered the Aircraft Company in 1946 to work , The Social Committee (Lexing­ Radio Institute of California, first as on the guidance and control equip­ ton, Massachusetts)· announces the a student and then as an instructor. ment of the missile they were devel­ RAND "SAGE-Rage" dance which will be held October 20, 1956, at In 1936 Sid returned to Cal Tech oping. In 1947 Sid returned to Ohio the 'Hotel Statler in Boston,' Mas­ and received his B.S. (with honors) State University as an Assistant Pro­ sachusetts. ' in 1938. fessor in ch'arge of the electrical engi­ Baron Hugo and his orchestra. Following graduation,Sid worked neering courses given at the Wright All RANDites invited to attend. for a year at the International Geo- Field Graduate Center. Later he July 1956 Profile . ... where, in preparation for the final windup of Laboratory activities, he In an area where one year's resi­ served, first, as Head of the Depart­ dence qualifies one as a "native," ment of Co~tracts and Services and Steve Jeffries is something of a rari­ later as' Head of the Personnel De­ ty-a second-generation Californian. partment. In addition to operating Not only was he born in Los Ange­ the Personnel Department, he had les (10th and Hoover Streets), but the responsibility of setting up a so was his mother. Placement Office to 'help in the Youngest of five children, Steve's placement of some 900 employees. grammar school years were spent In June, 1946, Steve, Margaret, close to home (Hoover St. Grammar and their baby boy, Michael (who School and John Burroughs Junior was born in Boston), returned to the High School). He attended a private Los Angeles area and settled in Ar­ boarding school in. Claremont, the cadia. There Steve again went to Webb School of California. Steve's S. P. Jeffries work with Safeway Stores. From July major interest at this time was sports. to November of that year he served Between football (3 years), baseball Lockheed Overseas Corporation and, on the staff of the Labor Relations (4 years), and track, he piled up an following a three-months' training Division, transferring in November impressive 9 letters. Between times period in this country, was sent to to his first love, merchandising and he managed to wedge in time to Northern Ireland. There he served retailing, with the Safeway Com­ serve as "President of the Student first as Assistant Head and then pany. After some eight months as Body." He describes his academic in­ Head of the Engineering Planning manager of Safeway's training store, terest at that time as "passing!" Department, with the responsibility he became store manager of the larg­ Entering Pomona in 1936, Steve for planning. and scheduling all work est co'mpany store in the Pasadena enrolled in a premedical course. His in the Experimental Engineering De­ and Pomona district. interest in sports continued and he partment. Lockheed Overseas was In the spring C?f 1949, Steve re­ engaged in freshman and varsity engaged in the design and produc­ ceived a telephone call from a Mr. football, and served as co-captain of tion of modification kits for aircraft. Goldstein who offered him a spot in the freshman track team. In his jun: While stationed in Northern Ire­ something called "The RAND Cor­ ior year, he transferred to USC, land, Steve looked up an Irish girl poration." This meant nothing to where, in his senior year, he studied whose address was given him by a Steve, but" he did know. two names law. After graduation in 1938, he college roommate ("a sort of interna­ Mr. Goldstein mentioned - Rowan took graduate work at the Harvard tional blind date"). Steve and Marga­ Gaither (who had been his 'boss at Graduate Scho<;>l of Business, where ret were married in Ireland in 1943. Radiation Lab) and Lee DuB ridge he received his M.B.A. in 1940. Completing a two-year stint in (Director of Radiation Lab). Steve Armed with his degree, Steve be­ Northern Ireland in July, 1944, Steve came into RAND as Goldy'S assistant came Office Manager of the General moved to Malvern, England,' to be­ in March, 1949. In October, 1950, he Tire Co. in "entura. At the end of a come Business Manager of the Radi­ was made Secretary of the Corpora­ year, he returned to L.A. to work ation Lab's Overseas Branch. The tion. His duties run the gamut of with the Safeway Stores, Inc. (as a Rad Lab had offices in both Malvern Corporation operations (including trainee) near 6th and Western. (His and Paris, ·and. during this period SDD) - buildings, security, person­ major interest at Harvard was in Steve shuttled between the two cities. nel, maintenance, etc. merchandising and retailing.) In 1945, Steve returned to the Steve is also an interpreter of RAND In April, 1942, Steve joined the Radiation Lab in the States (M.I.T.), to the community; his civic activities (Continued) (Continued) range from occasional deliberations October 1956 with the City Council to selling pea­ nuts for the greater glory of Kiwanis! A partial list of his activities, past Profiles . .. and present, include the following: • Wes Melahn: Born in Rush Hill, Missouri, Wes now calls NQrthridge, Chamber of Commerce (Board of Di­ California, his home town. A Harvard graduate, he received an M.A. in rectors, Executive Committee, Chair­ Applied Mathematics in 1948, after majoring in Engineering Science and man, Budget Committee; now First Applied Physics as an undergraduate. Between degrees, Wes served with Vice President); Advisory Commit­ the Army in Panama. As Assistant Head of the SOD Programming Depart­ tee, Salvation Army, co-Chairman for ment, Wes led the first contingent of Santa Monicans to the Boston area in 1955. Having been with RAND since 1948, Wes has written various papers 1955 Fund Drive; Board of Direc­ dealing with computers arid the computing field. He lives with his wife, tors, Red Cross; co-Chairman for Betty, and his three children i~ Concord. 1954, 1955, and 1956 drives, Red Cross; Board of Directors, Kiwanis * * * .. Tom O'Donnell: Bostonian Tom graduated from Suffolk University in Club; Board of Trustees, United 1936 with a degree in law. Since that time, he has amassed a vast b~ckground Fund; etc. of experience in administration, management, and the practice of law. Pre­ The only hobby Steve'll confess to viously he served as Director of Business Administration at the Radiation is gardening. Tennis, once a favorite Lab, M.I.T., and at the Supersonic Lab, M.I.T., and as General Manager of pastime, he now considers too strenu­ the Electronics Division of the Gabriel Company. Tom, who joined RAND last fall as head of the Administration Group, lives with his wife and daugh­ ous. Margaret is kept busy by their ter in Wellesley. three children-Michael (10+), Ste­ hanie (6%), and Lorinda ( 5¥.i)­ and a Westhighland terrier named Laird and two large desert tortoises. October 1956 Profile · · . J. D. ("Don") Madden is Head of B-26 Bombing Group, as-amazingly was then in its infancy, and became the Programming Department at SOD. enough - a Radar Officer. Shortly interested in, and finally assigned to, The Department has ~he responsibili­ thereafter Don became an administra­ Project RAND. ties of computer programming for the tive officer, and remained such until Upon joining RAND at Douglas 700-series computers (here in Santa his separation as Captain in 1946. He (Don was the. second man to join RAND'S Monka) and for the continued pro~ immediately went to work fo~ Doug­ computing effort), he was as­ gramming eff~)ft required to support las, in the Factory Tabulation Depart­ signed to the ·Mathematics. Division. the SAGE system. ment. In 1947, he began working in He remained with the Mathematics Division, Numerical Analysis Depart­ Don was born in Teton, Idaho, Sep­ the machine computing field, which ment, from late 1947 until July, 1955. tember 14, 1921, 'left at an early age, At that point he was asked to "help and' hasn't had time to get back since. SOD get its Programming Department. In 1940 he entered UCLA, graduating rolling." Having come. to SOD to in 1943 with a B.A.. in Mathematics "help," he remained to head-up the (Physical Sciences minor). While at Programming Department.. :UCLA he played intramural football Since joining SOD, Don has spent and took active part in a co-educa­ almost half-time back at Lexington tional, interracial, international co­ with Wes Melahn (who is the .Assist­ operative. ant Head of SOD Programming pe­ FoUowin'g his graduation from partment) organizing and developing UCLA Don was asked, by Uncle Sam, the AN/FSQ-7 programming effort. to investigate the experiences of mili­ Don and his wife, Dorothy, were tary life. married in 1946 and have two chil­ So--in 1943 he signesl up as a dren: Michael, 8, and Anne, 4. Don's Cadet in the Meteorology Branch, U.S. major hobby, when he has time to pur­ Army. True to Army tradition, he was sue it, is woodworking in his home immediately reassigned to Communica­ l shop. Unlike most "do-it-yourself" tions, and wound up going to Radar J woodworkers, he has yet to build a school. After completing Radar school bookcase; he has, however, completed he was sent to England to join a ,. D. Madden a number of lamps, tables, and chairs. October 1956 has recently been organized. Wes SDD East ... Melahn and/or Don Madden, Head of the Programming Department, Stu Tower, of the SDD Programming Department at Lexington, has been holding periodic meetings Mass., and Editor of RANDom News, East Coast Edition, answers with the committee, discussing future the question: What's going on back there? plans, administrative policies, and varied problems presented by com­ Hello, Santa Monica! Greetings Due to the rapid growth of the mittee members or personnel in their from SOD's Lexington Office! companies involved, staff-training, t:harge. The results of these meetings "What is SOD doing in the Boston which deals with the over-all system are recorded and disseminated Area ?" Well, it goes like this. operations, has since been delegated throughout the Department. So far, SOD entered the SAGE story in to the various Lincoln groups. Neces­ this method has shown a definite po­ July, 1955, by sending an advance sary documents pertaining to every tential in alleviating the communica­ group of veteran RANDites to phase and function of the system are tion problem in the Lexington area. M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory in Lex­ available to all "cleared" personnel QUARTBRS ington, Massachusetts. Under the for study. Many SOD people have leadership of Wesley S. Melahn, As­ taken an active part in producing Another situation having merited sistant Head of the Programming such material. much thought is the lack of ad­ Dept., this group was to aid in the ditional space for the increasing num­ WORK ASSIGNMBNT formation of a joint RAND-Lincoln bers. Temporary relief was found in effort concerning the master program Upon completion of the program­ offices provided at nearby Murphy preparation for SAGE computer pro­ ming course, trainees are assigned to Army Hospital and the Lexington grams. In order to do this success­ duty in one of the groups uncler the Field Station (M.I.T.), but a more fully, a sustained recruiting drive to Lincoln organizational setup. Group permanent solution has been effect- hire the necessary personnel was be­ 67, currently containing the largest .ed, with a group of eight units under gun by all the subcontractors in this number of SOD personnel, is construction adjacent to the Lincoln activity. A great number of people charged with the preparation of the Laboratory. It is expected that they had to be trained in both program­ master program. Group 61 is inter­ will be ready for occupancy before ming and SAGE information. ested in the fields of research and the end of this year.

development for system improve­ FUTURB PLANS PROGRAMMER TRAINING ments; Group 64 is responsible for 'X'hat of the future plans for the The XD-1 (AN/FSQ-7, SAGE the testing and' planning involved in SOD's SAGE-Programming activi­ computer) Programming School was the Experimental Sub-Sector opera­ ties? With a force of nearly 300 al­ then in its infant, experimental tions to be held at the laboratory. ready on the rolls, current recruiting stages, with a small staff of IBM in­ Group 66, currently undergoing a plans call for a gradual tapering-off structors and a curriculum to meet rapid buildup of RAND people, is do­ and a goal of 850 total. Plans are the immediate needs of the program­ ing the necessary preliminary work being made concerning the role of mer trainees. Since its inception, over for the combat-center program and ·SDD in checking-out the master pro­ a year ago, the school has trained 171 personnel training for direction­ . gram for each site. Expected revisions RAND employees. At this writing, center check-out teams. Because of must be made, and the programs there are 66 RANDites attending the increased Group 67 requirements for adapted for the various direction and school, now staffed by 10 instructors, XD-1 time, advanced computer train­ combat centers. Within a short time, with improved visual aids and an ing for Group 66 personnel is being increased amount of computer time. a large number of SOD program­ conducted at IBM's Kings~on, N.Y., ,mers .will be serving on check-out The training of a RAND program­ plant, where computer time has been . teams in the northeast sector to work mer, however, does not end at gradu­ made available. ation. An extend~d period of on-the­ on these all-important aspects of the job training follows the 7-week COORDINATION operation. Looking even farther ahead, a permanent on-site staff of course, with more concrete, applica­ With its employees' spread programmers will be stationed at ble experience in a specific phase of throughout the Lincoln organization, each installation throughout' the na­ programming for the SAGE System SOD's Lexington headquarters has tion, for continuous maintenance of of Air Defense. In addition to this been faced with a problem of inter­ the master program, while Program­ extensive program-training, an or­ communication. A Coordinating ming Department Headquarters and ganized SAGE Familiarization Committee, composed of RAND rep­ its Central Staff will eventually be Course was held for the benefit of resentatives from all sections and in SOD's Santa Monica buildings. new personnel connected with SAGE. groups within the Lincoln structure, November 1956 Welcome to RAND . .. Douglas Aircraft Co.; Kathryn M. mer W. Stevenson, Dept. of the Rheinschild, Douglas Aircraft Co. Air Force. Individuals who joined us during Security-Carson M. Cook from 122 Facilities & Service: Floyd October, with apologies to those Breakfast Club Coffee; Wilbur M. Cowing, U.S.C. Janitor; Pratt Wet­ who escaped mention through join­ McKee, Nesbitt Bottling Company; zel, Children's Baptist Home. ing earlier. Madeleine St. Pierre, Hughes Air­ 123 Library: Glenyce 1. Adsit, Sears Roebuck; Wanda Dove, Uni­ MAIN STREET BUILDING craft Company. versity of California-Teacher. SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT DIVISION S. lH. Administration-Louise S. 121 Personnel: Janet Comlossy, Allen from Markel Co.; Monica D. 116 Boston Administration: De­ Hughes Airc~aft; Norma 1. Hines, Liddal, Farnan & Seemann Co.; Col- loris E. Smith, F. E. Compton & Co., John Hamericks Theatre, Seattle, leen P. Moore, Household Finance; Colorado. Wash. Dolores F. Pirone, Longrock Stores; 116· Boston Production: Hal E. 112 Problem Production: Nancy Patricia E.' Randall, Miami Springs Lemmon, Student; David Moses, G. Abbey, San Diego Naval Supply Country Club. Student. Depot; Suzanne Bertone, Bullock's Cost Analysis - John A. Davis 116 Boston Programming: Alfred Westwood; Lola D. Brayboy, May­ from U.S. Air Force. W. Baker,' Student; Joseph H. Bass; wood Air Force Depot; Rober~ E. Economics-Marjorie W. McClure Robert L. Bichel, Stuart Publishing ~urgitt, Student; Elizabeth A. Cru­ from Labor Economics Institute, Uni- School, Nebraska; Alfio F. Bongar­ san, R. H. Wright & Son, Florida; versity of Washington; Kathryn .M. zone, Metropolitan Life Insurance Allen G. Dale, National Linen Serv­ Norstrom, London School of Eco- Company, Mass.; Leona Bradshaw; ice Corp.; John E. LaPoint, Pathe nomics. Lon C. Clewis, P. F. Colliers Corp., Lab., Los Angeles; Patricia J. Long, Engineering-Barton G. Beckley Ohio; Gerald Cohen, Student; A.· S. Security First National Bank, Los from U.S. Navy; William H. Krase, Copperband, Student; James B. Angeles; Jack C. McDougall, Edge­ General Electric; Dolores Kobza, Dempsey, Erie Ordnance Depot, mar Farms; Ronald Myers, USAF; Summers Gyroscope; William 1. Penn.; 1. Dobon, General Electric; Babette Nielsen, Housewife; Veva Rumer, Hughes Aircraft Company; John D. Dodson, Jr., International M. Southerland, Housewife; Wini­ Robert M. Smith, U:S. Air Force. Life Insurance, Texas; Henry P. fred Vanderwalker, Student. Facilities and Services-Van E. Dowst, Army; Robert W. Duncan, 116 Programming: Mabel Mac­ Sibley from Lockheed Aircraft Corp.; Liberty Mutual Insu~ance, Wiscon­ Patrick J. Stynes, The May Company. sin; Frank K. Eggleston, Student; coby, Lakewood City Government. Logistics - Patricia Careterette, Elizabeth O. Everetts, Ramo-Wool­ 113 Programming, S.M.: Robert Thailand Public Administration, In- dridge; Renna F. Gist, Wesco Mate­ P. Bancroft, Farmers Insurance, Los diana University; Paula. E. Deere, rials Corp.~ Texas; Doris A. Hanlon, Angeles; Norma Drake, Student. Paper-Mate Pen Company; Elaine E. Roddis' Plywood, Mass.; Douglas 118 Publications: Maryann Knight, DeVos, Title Guaranty Co.; Lor-' Hammison; .Samuel Hockeiser, U.S. Student. raine F. Driggs, Campbell's Clothing Treasury; Jesse P. Hofman, Board of 120 Security: Sharron Olson, Louis Store; Marie E. Grindall, Van De Education, Wichita; Edwin C. Hurd, Milani. Kamp Bakeries; Carole J. Grobon, Nationwide Life Insurance, Ohio; 120 Security and Police: Norman UCLA; Diane C. Milby, W.A.F.S.; Hollis A. Kinslow, International P. Klowgard, Sears Roebuck. George C. Noonan, Jr., Douglas Air- Business Machines; Thomas J. craft Company, Inc.; Barbara Wag- Koeske, Chain & Belt Co., Wiscon­ 111 Training: Harold 1. Best, Stu­ ner, Wesleyan University, Illinois. sin; Walter J. Pavlic, Student; Eliza- dent-The George Washington Uni­ Numerical Analysis - Charles 1. beth A. Powell, Student; Chrystel 1. versity; Rachel Bickner, Bureau of Baker from Douglas Aircraft Com- Pugh, Freelance; Don D. Stewart, Airo Rep., Do.uglas El Segundo; Jack pany, Inc.; Donald C. Brown, Park Toledo Edison Co., Ohio; David P. E. Bratten, University of Colorado­ Davis & Co.; Samuel Fins, Workman Stirling, Student; Edward C. Wenzel, Teacher; Carlos A Cuadra, Veterans Service; Lyle E. Sisco, L. A. Times; Soo Line Railroad, Wisconsin; Carle Admin., Illinois; John W. Cullen, Edmund J. Talbott, International M. Williams, Security Mutual Life~ American Institute for Research, Business Machines Corporation; N.Y.; Jacquelene Williams, Beatty Penn.; Darlene Guyot, Henshey's De­ Louise C. Weihe, North American Memorial Hosp., Ind.; Earl W. partment Store; Marion C. Parrish, Aviation Corp. Williams. Student; Lorenz P. Schrenk, U.S. Physics-Harvey P. Lynn, Jr., from 115 Engineering: Meredith Coon, Navy; Melvin Wallace, Veterans U.S. Air Force. Self-employed; Lawrence Michels, Admin.; Joanne Witt, Franklin Life Publications - Dorothy L. Link, Gilfillan Brothers Incorporated; Pal- Insurance, Illinois. November 1956 August 1956 Credit Union Housing Service SDD Housing Larry Johnson and Irvin Sterman The RAND Housing Service, started SDD has now established a hous­ have recently been appointed to the principally to aid newcomers to the ing service for its perso.nnel. Head­ Credit Union Supervisory Committee Los Angeles area, is proving its value quarters at 1505 Fourth Street. List­ to fill vacancies left by the resigna­ to established RANDites. ings are most urgently needed, an.d tions of Crawford Thompson (ex­ Listings of available apartments a phone call to Kay Howland with Chairman) and John Herzog. The and houses are published each Thurs­ . information on houses or apartments new chairman of the Supervisory day in the Housing Bulletin, which is for rent will be a real help. Let us know your own housing Committee is A. J. Smith. posted on bulletin boards throughout needs and we will do what we can to Following Lou Turner's resigna­ RAND. To acquire these listings the assist you jn every way. We welcome tion as a member of the Credit Com­ Housing Service maintains contact mitte~ Mark Gilman has been ap­ with real estate agents and landlords, your suggestions and help in making this service of real benefit to all. pointed as a replacement. The other . and also seeks the assistance of all two regular members of the commit­ RAND employees in establishing a .. * * tee are Cecil Weihe (Chairman) and "pool" of housing resources. RAND Bob Montavon. Joe Loftus, who is people being transferred to other lo­ Vice President of the Credit Union, cations are urged to list their houses is also serving as an alternate mem­ and apartments with the Service to ber of the Credit Committee. help obtain RAND tenants for such March 1956 The Credit Union expects to make properties. In the c~se of RAND peo­ loans on new appliances in the very ple temporarily stationed in Santa near future. A mem9 will be dis­ Monica, their need for short-term RAND IN tributed giving full details. rentals ties in well with the needs of "BUSINESS WEEK" those who wish to sublet for the duration of existing leases. The March 3 issue of Busi­ So far the Housing Service has ness Week magazine featured been concerned mainly with rentals, a six-page story on RAND--the but people with houses for sale are longest and broadest account of our organization to appear i~ * * * also urged to list them with the Serv­ ice. The wide variety of needs within the public press since the F or~ RAND will best be served if the widest tune article of March, 1951. possible ra~ge of listings is made FocUsing on the System De­ available, arid we hope everyone will velopment Division as a news Who's News . .. join in making this service a real lead, the BW article sketches success. in a background of RAND his­ Kay Howland, who is located at tory, aims, general program­ SDD has recently appointed DR. the Lynch Building, 1452 Fourth ming characteristics, and man­ NORTON F. KRISTY as its permanent Street, will welcome your calls. agement. The article was writ­ representative at Air Defense Com­ ten by a member of the Business mand Headquarters. BASSOONISTS, el celera Week staff, Tom Self, after, Although his primary concern is talking with several RAND peo­ Bassoonists and others inter­ liaison between ADC and SDD, Kris ple on an unclassified basis. ested in playing chamber music is in a unique position to be of assist­ A limited number of reprints should contact Horst Menders­ ance to RAND people who plan visits has been ordered. hausen (Logistics) on Ext. 675. to the Springs. ,19ft,

'10/.1 /yg. S (o. 000 0 co aoo 000 I 0 I) 14tt Co('oSt Ee/,r'DI\.. Greetings to all! The news is still pay-checks every 5th and 20th ••... she leaves alive, for issue #5, from the cobwebbed for Florida, on vacation, in April. files of your nosy news-hounds, to all The recruiting drive has begun! The kick­ RANDites - at the lab, hilltop-house, and off, taking place last weekend, under the the hospital. A note of interest - when watchful, hopeful eyes of our three-man the first edition of East Coast RANDom recruiting team, Harold Willson, Frank -News arrived on the scene, 52 copies were Balanis and John Creighton, will scour the distributed. Tbday, the fifth issue finds nation on this pass. Fran Chapin will serve 117 RANDites on the roster •.... proof as secretary for the team. Esprit de corps, -positive that RAND has more than doubled in the form of recommending friends and its size in the Boston area, in three ac~uaintances who can possibly ~ualify, will months time. Onward and upward! be most helpful in this all-out effort.

WHAT'S NEW AT GHQ? BUMPS ON THE LINCOLN LOG

By this time, memos concerning the Group 67 continues along at an in­ forthcoming RAND rrmeet-all rr have circu­ creasingly rapid pace, facing deadlines to lated throughout the area. This should meet deadlines, to meet the next deadline, be a great one, by all indications. which really came before the last deadline! Those of you who have been to the rrMeadows rr , Old-hand Bat Haverty has recently been would bear witness to the fact that it has named leader of the operational tracking always been one of the finer dine-dance section. Fine choice, we all agree! spots in New England. Your Socia-Cultural Chuck Massmann, graduate of the last IBM Committee is hoping for a 100% response for class, has been assigned to Switches, this long-awaited one-night RAND-stand. If with Al Marshall moving up to assistant ~y'"ou can't make it, you'll be disappointing section leader. Bill Hoppe is working in someone - so plan ahead on grazing at the Track Correlation, Jack Myers in Digital "Meadows rr Thursday, April 5th (loot-day .... Displays, Bob Gardner in Simulation, Ardeth excuses will be weak!) A sincere vote of Miller in Smooth and Predict, and Charlie thanks to Don Madden, who went to bat, and Meadows has been at work on Displays. Make came through in the clutch! way for the next group from IBM schoolrooms •..••. March 24th! From the busy desk of Tom O'Donnell:Mass. Dot Goodwin, newly hired clerical, has reCiprocates with other states in matters of joined Nick Demas and his documentation registration of cars and licensing of drivers crew. Dot is a Californian .. imagine ~hat! and extends out-of-staters who are gainfully employed here the same length of time to reg­ SICK CALL ister and get licenses as they allow us. In (News from Murphy Army Hospital) any event such reciprocity is predicated on any out-of-state car using Mass. highways George Cos, Jimmy Wong and Fran Sweeney, having the minimum statutory insurance COy­ are the latest RAND transfers' to fair MUrphy. erage ($5,000/10,000) during the waiting per­ As big cogs in the EPSCOM operation, they'll iod. If you have any ~uestions concerning be located in the Bell Labs wing of the these matters, contact John Pfeil. hospital. The IBM school gets tougher all the time. After weeks of tedious work, our GHQ Samples of the tests tossed at our future office crew finally presents us with a com- programmers in the home-stretch, are enough ... plete "wheel of fortune rr , and there before to make a wizard scratch his haid. This your eyes flickers all sides of life - the may be the reason for holding classes in glamour gals, the laughing-boys, t he oglers, what used to be the psycho-ward! the stare, the startle, the sport, the sneer John Pfeil is busily training to be a draft­ •.... each with name and number •..•. this, law expert. Congenial John has delved readers, is the "RAND Reel rr •..... into all draft laws, loop-holes, deferment Dr. Tbby Oxtoby was a recent visitor at the situations, etc., and premises to look into lab and at Murphy •••.• also Bob Callan, and each case ful~y, in trying to help any L. Sepmeyer, from Santa Monica. Lois Soengen RANDite in transactions with the draft board. must find it ~uite profitable delivering the -2- Myron Robinson, visiting psychologist from ball champ of MUrphy during the recent Santa Monica, is attending the IBM school Olympic tryouts, "Tilt" Persell, spent at Murphy, as part of his three-month stay the whole of last week-end at the hospital in the east. Ro Raffa, among other impor­ playing out the forty-three free games tant projects is at work compiling a com­ he had won .•.•.. ~Iwha t a way to relax!" says plete orientation notebook for use in the Bert ----- meanWhile, the torrid Kriegspiel indoctrination of future RAND personnel. Association of Murphy Army Hospital has This notebook, including some excellent welcomes to its roster, old-time "spieler", ·photos of Cape Cod radar installations, Jim Wong ----- Comeback of. the week! ..•.. will prove interesting and-informative Documentation's Joe Berman, upon arriving reading for all people connected with the before 8:00 a.m. one day last week, placed ·effort, regardless of previous training. his head on his desk to grab those extra forty Winks, after spreading out his days NEW FACES OF '56 work. His Lincoln section-leader popped-in a few minutes later and sarcastically stated Here comes the parade •..•. break out his surprise in seeing ambitious Joe at his the welcome carpet •.•.. sound the trumpets! desk so early. Seeing his opportunity, the Last minute entries to the IBM class begun sage of SAGE jerked his head up, rubbed his two weeks ago, were Dick Mackler, an M.I.T. eyes, looked at his watch and seriously grad, Massachusetts native, and Armando grumbled, "What? Is it morning already?" Petrino, a real estate salesman, U. of Mass. ------Our geographical distribution list alumnus from Weymouth, Massachusetts. Also has grown to include 24 states, with the enrolled in this class, ~x Schleppenbach, addition of Michigan, Missouri and Florida a furniture salesman from western Nebraska, while our college and university represen~ Lyle Haas, tabulation sup~rvisor from st. tation has been expanded to 56, adding Baul, becoming our fourth Minnesotan, Bob Nebraska State Teachers (at Chadron), Hamline, Sobecki from Michigan, and Jack Keene, Wayne, Michigan State, University of Florida, Missouri, two former secondary-school Scranton, and Central of Missouri ----- teachers ..... awaiting the start of the Gala congratulations to George Sioras •.... next session are, Lou Dooley, insurance engaged to Miss Mitzi Young of Brookline planner from Atlanta, lived and attended (the result of association with the likes collegein Florida, Marv Kurtti, from of Art Morse!) ....• another one bites the Michigan's Upper Beninsula, a State UniverSity dust ------Don't say that Margaret Clark December grad, Ed Bobcheck, experienced-in isn't taking her anticipated voyage seriously various types of IBM equipment, a Pennsyl­ •.... studying European road maps, travel vanian, Al Zahner, from st. Louis, with a' guides, languages, customs, etc., she'll know chemical industry background, and Don Crowson, more about the continent than Bonaparte an Educational-Psychology major from Portland, ever did! •.••. Speaking of Europe, Margot Oregon~ In addition to the three-man re­ Long and her future partner, plan on a cruiting team mentioned previously, Phyl honeymoon to SWitzerland, in June --- No O'Neill, our faithful girl greeter, informs the wonder Baul Revere didn't stop in Lexington RANDom News of the arrival of Muriel Perkins, •..•. it's dry!------Phyl O'Neill Joanne Prochaska and Dot Goodwin, added to the brightened up the dark hall-ways of MUrphy ever-growing clerical staff. Your closest by making an appearance late last week.---­ chance to meet all these new faces, and others those recruiters are abundantly rabid in •.... again we mention, April 5th, at the their assignment •••.. comered Roger Schoch .. "Meadows" •.•. ! in their Murphy office one day, talked on the job they offered, went on to sing the ROUND AND ABOUT RANDOM many praises of RAND, etc., :•.... faces turned an attractive shade of pink as Rog meekly Spring is just around the corner ••..• flashed his i.d. card at them!----- (of Hollywood and Vine!) --- At this writing, Hoping for a maximum turnout at the RAND many RANDites are clarmoring for a meeting •••• "meet-all", RANDom News offers a handy- seems like we never do get together as we used dandy map featuring the whereabouts for to----- The town of Lexington was very quiet this affair •... see end of issue ----- Hang on April 19th-20th, 1775, compared to the "5th onto your seats •.••• Nash is in town! ----- and 20th" check-cashing caravans, as they con­ At least one fella reads this sheet closely verge on the little old bank overlooking the historic village green ----- undisputed pin- -3- •••.. What-Ad for a programmer tr~inee •.•• land of the bean, the cod, the Cabots, .•.• "mental midget to fidget with digits" the Lowells, and Fenway Bark! ----- the -----Bill Frymire was quick to point out thirty-one visitors from Santa Monica, a spelling mistake to yours truly, when recently attending the SAGE Familiarization his name appeared with an "e" between Course, seemed to enjoy their stay at the "y" and th~ "m" •••.•• excuse, please! Murphy and Lincoln ------It I S been a: .long ------Tip to otit-of-staters, •.•.•• learn time since we-ve heard from Al Millbert, to be Red Sox fans quickly, if you expect Don Kiley, Roy Schaub, Jerry Schissell, ~o enjoy your summers in Massachusetts ••. Rick and others of the Lincoln contingent • ..••. give with the news, gents •..• as you know, if it fits, we print it ••.•• until then, have faith •.•• keep smiling! 31 days till.tax time!

1"0 So"l'~ ",o~e.) (A LL ! JAe RANDoT/7 News VOL.! - Nf}.- 7 (0,000 000 000 000 / /1) MAY 10, IQ56

Here comes Number Seven! RANDom News, East The latest communique from the SCC (Socio~ Coast Edition, enters its sixth month - a half Cultural Committee) has informed all RAND- year of news and views, watching RAND progress ites of the future plans of the entertain- Sage-wise and otherwise. With the continuing ment crew. Morrie Mineart has entered a increase in the RAND-roster (125 at latest RAND team in the Lab softball league - c~unt), added cooperation in the form of news­ first game v.s. IBM, Thursday, May 10th. worthy contributions, becomes an evident For RAND diamond enthusiasts at Murphy, stu necessity. A phone-call - a note - a whisper Tower has formed a combined RAND-Lincoln Group •..... remember our oft-tested slogan -- "All 61 Team, with Lincoln's Haig Hedison arranging the news that ifts, we print!" Dial 56 - 226, a league with the air force and army groups. and tell your story to stu. Help to keep the Tom Kurth, golf "pro" announces that interest presses rolling! is beginning to show up. Duffers, fairway­ hackers, and tee-splitters are urged to contact WHAT'S NEW AT GHQ? Tom if interested in playing. So much for active summer sports! The Sage-Rage, a pro­ Headquarters, busier by the week, has had an posed Group 67 - 61 - RAND affair is also in office full of visiting fireman. A~ press­ planning stage. Nick Demas, co-chairman, has time, Don Madden and Kap Kappler are in town. been scouting the area for a suitable hall. When this team enters the scene, watch for Suggestions along this avenue would be greatly something to happen,!' Needless to say, we all appreciated as soon as possible. Nick is also enjoyed their last visit. in charge of ticket sales for the Red Sox night game. Mssrs. Cronin and Yawkey of the Changes in office and administrative duties Boston American League Baseball Club, are have recently been announced by Tom O'Donnell. pUlling for success in this venture! As mentioned repeatedly, time and temper can be saved by going through these prescribed BUMPS ON THE LINCOLN LOG channels. Must be true! Group 67 Plans for the new buildings are going along as scheduled and actual construction is ex­ Rick Onanian has been transferred from the pected to gegin in the near future, according group, to work with the Duplex and Stnadby to word from Tom. Operations section at Murphy. Cheer up, A new hand has been added to the administrative fellas! None other than C.R.Shoch, Jolly staff at GHQ. Sheldon Briggs joins RAND, and Roger, will be heading for the lab next week, will be working with security problems. departing from the Data Simulation section at Ed Cohen, SDD Training Group, and Steve Button Murphy. of Air Information have arrived from Santa Recent IBM class graduates, Lyle Haas and Bob Monica. They will be in the Lab-Murphy Sobecki have joined the Tracking and Display vicinity for several months, as part of sections of Group 67, respectively. Max Operation "Brain-pick" (a Raffa - ism!), Schleppenbach and Pete Petrino have been hoping to absorb heaps of Sage info, for the assigned to Charlie Grandy's ESS crew,Group 67. benefit of their respective groups at home The Program Design Section, featuring Hank base. Howell, Morrie Mineart, Arnie Erickson, Bob Bob Boguslaw, head of SDD Internal Training, Steinert, Lyle Haas and Jerry Schissell, has was also here for a short visit, excorted by moved from the lab to the house on the hill - colleague MYron Robinson who leaves for S.M. Lexington Field Station. This could mean a at the end of May after an eventful three­ revival of the "Commentary from Soli tary II month tour of duty. column. To Morrie, Hank and Jerry, this is a Bob Callan of the SDD Engineering Department, return engagement, having previously attended has been East, conferring with Walt Attridge classes up yonder. and Charlie Zracket of Lincoln. -2-

After spending a good part of last year's tor­ Paul Hildebrandt is now an Assistant Section rid summer in the windowless swelling, Jerry and Leader of the Adaptation Section. Morrie can refer to the place as their, summer Graduates of IBM classes assigned to Group 61 cottage in the mountains (takes imagination, have been attending a series of Sage indoctri­ thought! ). nation lectures given by Steve Hauser of Balke Ireland and Dick Richmond have been Lincoln. s'lifi tched to assembly checkout. Nick Demas reports that Joanne Prochaska and Dot Goodwin NEW FACES OF 1956 are now responsible for the distribution of all dQcuments to RAND people. Carole Romano has Now in school at MUrphy: been handling this task at Murphy. Alex Bumsted, formerly associated with the U.S. So much for the trails and extrapolations of Department of Fisheries and Wild Life, as a Group 67. Still awaiting the word from Schaub, water fowl study leader, graduate of the Krouss, Elias and Company! University of Virginia, stationed in Mississippi Delaware and Kentucky with the department ..•.• SICK CALL Jim Flaherty, from Quincy, as industrial (News from Murphy) engineer with Boeing at Seattle, before coming to RAND. Graduate of Boston University ••..•.• All of Group 61 has been working a 48-hour week. Russ White, a Brown University literature As is the case with Group 67, this policy will major, surveyor with a local engineering firm continue for an undecided period of time. resident of Natick, Massachusetts ...... • Tom Hibbard, transferred from Duplex and Vic LaBolle, originally from Michigan, Wayne Standby section to Data Generation, has taken University, recently employed by the govern­ over the work left by Bert Bersell. Rick ment as a mathematician at the Diamond Ordnan Onanian, as mentioned previously, has taken Fuse Labs in Maryland ...... Walter Thorpe, over the vacancy in Duplex and Standby. Dick Roxbury, Massachusetts, attended Northeastern' Mackler and Jack Keene, having recently com­ University and previously worked for the pleted IBM class, have been assigned to Data Commonwealth ...... Baul Hicks, another Brow Simulation and Reduction. Caroli''''~ Lumbard, grad, resident of Providence, formerly a life Ed Bobchek, Bob Mosier and Dick Beeler have insurance salesman ..•.•. varied backgrounds, also joined Group 61 from the class which ended to say the least! May 4th. Wit~ the addition of the aforemen­ Currently awaiting the start of the next tioned, RAND has nearly equalled the total class is Larry Brown, Cleveland, Ohio, manpower of Lincoln, IBM and Boeing in the accountant, graduate of Dartmouth College. group. Rolling on! Ronnie Ketchell, for many months the lonesome RAND gal in Group 38,' 'is as happy as can be THIS IS YOUR LIFE with her new assignment'at Murphy. Ronnie will b~ working with Vic LaBolle in an analysis While introduction RANDites to the newcomers, project while making her office in 138-B. it was felt that a column presenting some of Ro Raffa offers two interesting books pertinent the old-timers to the more recent members of to the computer field. They are,"Giant Brain"" RAND, would be well-received. As a result, by Berekely, and "Arithmetic Operations in we have been sending biographical sketch Digi tal Computing", by C.K.Richards. Also on sheets (fancy name for nosy questionnaire) to hand in 138-B for the use of any RANDite, is the Victims, in the hopes of getting enough an up-to-date reference book on calculus and dope to adequately print a brief paragraph on analytical geometry, by Thomas, Ro has other each. Alphabetically, RANDom News presents books on order, and would appreciate any This is your life! requests or suggestions in this library­ building effQrt. John Patrick "Bat" Haverty --- Bat, a Group 61 Ray Olsen, although still attached to the Data section leader, was born in Chicago, and refers Reduction effort in Group 61, has moved his to L.A.'as his hometown. After graduating headquarters to the lab in order to be closer from Los Angeles State College in 1949 (also to the M.T.C. and IBM card-room. attended University of Colorado) with a -3- bachelor's degree in mathematics. Bat went Business Administration at the Radiation Lab, into the navy for a two-year stay, being M.I.T. and the Supersonic Lab, M.I.T., and stationed in Washington D.C., with an opportu­ General Manager of the Electronics Division of nity to do computing work. In 1954, Bat joined the Gabriel Company, Tom joined RAND last RAND in Santa Monica, and with spouse Nancy, fall, as head of the administration group. came to Boston with the first group of RANDites. Tom, wife vesta and young daughter Cecelia, The Haverty's currently make their home at live in Wellesley. Bedford. ROUND AND ABOUT RANDom Gus S. Hempstead --- A member of the Group 61 Adaptation staff, Gus is a native of Spokane, Take if from here, Alfonse! ----- Leading off Washington. After graduation from high school, we can give you patient perusers the one and he served with the air force, 1943 -45. In only correct answer to Jim Wong's brain-teaser 1949, Gus received a B.A. in mathematics from on the apple-machine problem •...•. 693! Reed College, POrtland, Oregon, and went on The first person to figure this correctly was to earn a master's degree at the University of none other than, Bert Persell, who has since Iowa. While living in L.A., Gus worked for the departed from our ranks! To prove that the Occidental Life Insurance Company before probelm was on the up-and-up, Jim came up with coming to RAND. Recently married, Gus, a whiz another ..... proceed to end of column for at double-crostics, and wife Suzanne are living brain exercise #2 ----- RAND-night at Fenway in Bedford. Bark should prove interesting ..... conces­ sionaires could conceivably break all "suds- M.O. "Kap" Kappler --- As Co-chief of SDD, Kap .selling II records ----- Exc i tement at the army spends most of his time on the west coast. hospital! The steeple-chase duo of Hibbard However, he has earned the title of "coast to and Hildebrandt have found it quite stimulating coast commuter" due to his frequent jaunts to to climb the l40-foot smoke-stack at MUrphy. our outpost. Kap, a native Californian, is Baul has already reached the 50-foot mark, and an alumnus of UCLA, class of 1930. During together with Tom, plans are being made to World War II, he served with the navy at San ascend the brick tower, lunch-time, Saturday, Diego and Bearl Harbor. May 12th, and engage in a chess game in the clouds~ This is on the level! ----- Who's Wesley S. "Wes II Malahn --- Born in Rush Hill, to know department ...•. Yes, among the many Audrain County, Missouri, Wes now calls interesting "pasts" found in inner RANDom, Northridge, California his hometown. A we have an honest-to-goodness post-debutante! Harvard graduate, he received a M.A. in Miss Margot Long, soon to be married, was Applied Mathematics in 1948, after majoring officially presented to Huntington, West in Engineering Science and Applied Physics as Virginia society, four years ago, according to an undergraduate .. Between degrees, Wes served an engagement article in the New York Times wi th the army in Panama. As Assistant Head (RANDom News gets around .•.. our news-clip- of the SDD Programming Department, Wes led the ping service leaves nothing to be desired!) first contingent of Santa Monicans to this ----- A large group of RAND music-lovers had area in 1955. Having been with RAND since 1948, a very entertaining evening at the POps Concert Wes has written various papers dealing with on Sunday, May 6th, at Symphony Hall. ----­ computers and the computing field. Wes and Latest word from our European tourist, Margaret wife betty have three children, ages one, three Clark, informs us that she did not get to the and five, and are living in Concord during Monaco marriage ceremonies •.... however, their stay in Massachusetts. Margaret writes that she is seeing a good part of western Europe, having rented a French Thomas F. "Tom" O'Donnell --- Bostonian Tom Renault for her sight-seeing jaunts------­ graduated Suffolk University in 1936 with a Sporting Florida tans, Lois Soengen and Eleanor degree in law. Since that time, he has Lyon returned from a two-week vacation in the amassed a vast background of experience in southland •... says Californian Lois, "I hope administration, management and paracticing this isn't treason! II ----- A flawless four­ of law. Previously serving as Director of some on local golf courses - Stan Benson, Jack Plante, Walt Duffy and Baul Menard------4-

Do RANDites ever stay put? Carole Romano and Ready? Here comes a Wong-O-Gram! The diagram Marcia Forsythe also had the travelling bug, below shows 9 dots in the form of a square. and visited Washington, D.C. over the Batrictrs Draw 4 straight lines, so as to cross out every Day weekend ----- A quote from our star dot. You must not cross any dot more than contributor, Jim Wong ••.•. "Who are the fisher­ once, nor retrace any line, nor lift the pencil men in the crowd? Open season for fishing is from the paper until all 9 dots have been h~re. Anyone interested in discussing the crossed. virtues of a fish over a stream some weekend? Letrs get together." Congratulations to new · " . papa, Dave Langfield! .....• a baby boy ------• •• • ••

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Eaft Coast Editnon VOLUME I AUGUST 1956 NUMBER 9 (0. 000000000001001)

For your reading pleasure, WHATls NEW AT GHQ the "all new" RANDom News, East Coast Edition. can now be At dis;tribution time, the nerve­ found on des~-topsJ wherever center of East-Coast SDD has particular people congregate. been trotting at full throttle. Bob However, the "glamorization" Nash and Lou Turner arrived in process, which will include Boston from Santa Monica, this photo IS, a new masthead, etc. past week. The first visit in in future issues, does not mean quite a long while for both. Bill that the RANDom News has Biel, "Kapil Kappler, J. Goldstein removed itself from the inter­ and Don Madden were also in the ests and wishes of East Coast vicinity during the month of July, RANDites. Itls still your with Don slated to return shortly~ newspaper - your cooperation With the new buildings finally on will always be neces sary for the way, group shake-ups, check­ its continuation as an inner­ out team planning, and the never­ RAND information service. ending processing of new employees Suggestions, constructive cri­ -- "relaxation" is a forgotten word tic ism, contributions of all at GHQ. types, will be most welcolne, as they have been in the past. Dave Langfield, formerly Page 2 assistant to Wes Melahn, has A reminder from Wes I secre­ been named Ass ociate Group tary, Phyl OINeil -- progress Leader with Ben Morris I Group reports are still expected on the 66. 5th and 20th (solvency days) of each month. Florence and her periodical RAND telephone lists~ are having Physical evidence of the build­ a difficult time of it, keeping up ing activities adjacent to the lab, with the ever-increasing changes bears probl that the much awaited in offices, phone extensions, new RAND structures are on their way hires, etc. to reCi.lization. Tom OIDonnell expects the first two units to be Ina Olofson, girl house­ ready for occupancy before the hunter, is on the look-out for third week of August. any and all housing leads for the benefit of new arrivals at RAND­ BUMPS ON THE LINCOLN LOG om. Also, welre indeed happy (Groups 67 and 64) to announce the recent addition of Ina to the RANDom News Recently joining Group 67, "staffll (makes two of us, now!) victims of the latest Group 61 For housing infO:-Or RANDom shuffle, Alex Bumsted, Ed Boo­ News scoops, Miss O. can be chek, Ken Curewitz and Dick reached at Ext. 7220, C -170, Beeler. Al and Ed are connected Lincoln Lab. with the Documentation section at the Field Station, and Ken is Smoke has begun to rise with the Adaptation crew on the from the S. A. C. Committee hill. Chimneys -- this must indicate something in the social oven! Hank Howell was recently Could it be succulent steamed shifted to the Assembly Test clams? Since the proposed section at the lab, after a brief Division 6 outing to Round Hill tour up yonder. has officially fizzled, your Social and Cultural Committee Nick Demas and Joe Berman, has picked up the ball, and plans are the only members of Docu­ are being laid for a real old New mentation Section remaining in England bake -out (everything IICII Building. from clams to seaweed!) -- ex­ pect a bulletin pres ently. -2nd Lt. Larry Brown, RAND's gift to the U. S. Air Force, has With mid-summer here, it been assigned to Group 67, shiny may be well to note that Joan gold bars and all -- 'tenshut'! Erikson is the young lady to see (C-170) in regard to vacation Chuck Mosmann and Charlie time-slips. Meadow are now Asst. Section Page 3

. Leaders under Pat Haverty. for about 30 days. Alex Seidler and Bob Bleier, recent IBM­ Back at the lab, after an Clas s grads, are also in Group absence of 7 months, the Data 66 at Murphy. Simulation and Reduction Section (soon to be part of Group 64) Dan MacNamara, a former has completed the cycle -- lab G. E. Programmer at the A. E. C.

again -- next stop, RAND build­ plant in Richland i Washington, is ing? D. S. and R, including now working with Jimmy Wong. RANDites Olsen, Bockhorst, Mackler, Keene, Hibbard, Jack Plante, Joan Christie Lumbard, Brauchli nee Long, and Jim Flaherty, all working Clark and your RANDom News on CC planning, have transferred office, is now located in B-llS- from Group 61 to 66, along with 122, conveniently close to the Paul Hildebrandt, Dick Thatcher, Memory Test Computer. Gus Hempstead, Bob Mosier and Carole Romano. This could mean Also transferred from a rapid RAND build-up of this Group 61 to Group 64, Rick group. Onanian, the IISage of Murphy. II At the RAND-Murphy office, Gerry Schissell left on July Paul Cook has joined forces with 2Sth to join Convair in San John Pfeil, Marvin Jones, and Diego, wife Phyl' s home -town. Shel Briggs in an administrative

Best wishes to the Schiss ell I s capacity. Gail Fitzpatrick has in their new venture! been recently added to the office staff. SICK CALL (News from Murphy) NEW FACES OF 156

Group 66 is now located at The March of Progress con­ Murphy, occupying offices pre­ tinues down the streets of RAND­ viously held by ex-61' ers. At om ... here they are, from all a "break-up" wiener -roast on sections of the nation ... 31 states the hospital grounds, Group 61 and 64 Colleges and Universities served as hosts to 66. Master are - at latest count - repres ented chefs Onanian and Tower man­ by East Coast RAND ... truly a aged to keep all the guests well­ cosmopolitan outfit ... ! fed. In classes at Murphy: Mar­ RANDites Paul Hicks and garet Burke, Bostonian, B. C. , Walter Thorpe are presently . 1956 - Bob Ramey, Parkersburg, in Kingston, N. Y., where they West Virginia, Purdue, 156 - will be taking an active part in Joe Selinka, Shenandoah, Penn., checking -out the utility system Penn. State, recent Navy man - Page 4

Lauren Doyle, Sacramento, UCLA grad, back from army California, former chemist - duty in France - Frank Flaherty, John Smiley, a wheat rancher Chicago, Univ. of Wisconsin, from Bozeman, Montana, and 1956 - Dick Johnson, Albert Lea, Montana State University - Minnesota, St. Olaf's College, Allen Black, Springfield, Ill., a quality control technician be­ 1956 Illinois Univ. grad - Andy fore coming with RAND - Walter Benvenuto, Hartford, Conn., Lang, Everett, Mas s., another Syracuse University, summer B. S. graduate, recently employed work at Aberdeen Proving by New England Mutual Life Ground - George Pizzoni, Insu!ance Company - Barney Watertown, Mass., B. C., for­ Fraser, Battle Creek, Michigan, merly in Industrial Management 1956 Harvard Alumnus - Dick with Hood Rubber - Tom Howell, Cronan, Belmont, Mass., St. Providence, Rhode Island, Anselm's College, a bank employe degrees from Kenyon College - Murray Glass, Syracuse, N. Y., (Ohio) and Brown University - Syracuse, 1956 grad - Charles John Archibald, New York City, Durieux, auditing the class, for­ St. Johns University, former merly at Diamond Ordnance Fuse teacher - Nora Mullane, Bir­ Labs with Art Talkington and Vic mingham, Alabama, Alabama LaBolle - Alvin Haynes, Chicago, Polytech. and Birmingham Ill. - Frank O'Connor, Chicago, Southern College - John Cadman, Ill., attended U. of Wisconsin, Pittsburgh, Penn., Univ. of DePaul Univ., and Georgetown Pittsburgh - Al Bartlett, San U. - Diane Reynolds, North Antonio, Texas, Trinity Univ. Easton, Mass., Colby College - (San Antonio) - George Neil, Louis Rosenberg, Forest Hills, Attleboro, Mass., attended N. Yo - Neal Rubinstein, Har­ Skerry's College in Glasgow, wich, Mass., - Laverne Ruby, Scotland, recently completed a Yonke"rs, N. Y. - David Skilling, tour with U. S. Air Force - another Chicago:-ite - Agatha Jerry Sullivan, Cambridge, B. C. , Sicari, Arlington, Mass., Em­ 1956- - Norm Cannon, Butte, manuel College - Milton Winsor, Montana, attended Harvard - Collinsville, Conn., Worcester Everett Morrow, Melrose, Mass., Polytech. and U. Conn. - Mary dental technician, attending Ruth Wood, Chicago Ill., North­ Lowell Institute at M. I. T. - western grad - Helen Male, John Sullivan, Lowell, Mass., Washington, D. C. - Fred DeCain, St. Anselm's College, former Chelsea, Mass., attended Harvard teacher and programmer in the and M. I. T. - Russ Fry, Norris­ aircraft industry - Bob Shapiro, town, Penn. - John Bauerlein, attended Springfield College Englewood, Colo. and Tufts College, just out of the army, from New Bedford - Don't try to remember these Harold Isbitz, Los Angeles, names . .. there'll be a page- Page 5 full of new ones next issue! and his" Ticket Scalpers, " tell Good luck to all RANDites in the us of the availability of 60 -odd, new group! 1st base area ducats for the Aug. 21st night game, Bosox vs Chisox THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Stan Benson, remaining in Group 61, father of a baby girl The biographical sketches in June - Nick Demas and Pete must still wait, due to the Petrino, "roughing it" on a two­ space consuming aspect of the week reserve stint with the Marine above column. This doesn't Reserve - Mrs. Margot Long mean that activity on this idea Brauchli has returned from has ceased. Apologies to Mssrs. honeymoon in Europe - Says Ray Krouss, Marshall, Hildebrandt, Olsen to a perplexed programmer .. Wong and Ogg - we hope to in­ .. "Good thing M.T. C. power is clude you soon! shut off Saturday nights, Ace - or you'd still be in a loop!" - For 'ROUND and about RANDom the problem.-lovers, another Wong-o-gram appears at issue's Don't leave now! Stay with end ... also the solution to Ed us, Ace, whilst we tour the Gross' brain-teaser is included - inner-sanctum of RANDom as Roy Schaub joins the "proud ones, II it appears to our concealed Bermuda shorts and all! - Was cameras - Fir st on the docket - Lois' face reddish! To quote Miss sincerest thanks to RANDites, S. during a recent phone conversa­ Carole Romano and Helen Hughes, tion, "Yes, John Phone is on the who have done so much in helping Pfeil. II - Fred Parker has reach­ to keep the RANDom News in ed a new level of extreme popu­ print ... for their untiring ef­ larity in his role as Chancellor forts in typing, re-typing, multi­ of the Exchequer, keeper of the lith, "ditto", etc. during these purse-strings! - D. S. and R. many months ... without this section now referred to as the loyal help, it lust couldn't have "nebulous Nomads" - In sporting been done! - The July 27th circles, the RAND team in the graduation dinner for the IBM Lab League has lifted its percen­ Programming Clas s was held tage due to favorable forfeitures at the Sherry Biltmore Hotel, and a win sandwiched in between. one of Boston's leading banquet . . .. - The RAND -Lincoln Grp. spots. Wes Melahn represented 61 club inthe Murphy League, re­ RAND, and had an opportunity cently riddled by vacations, put to meet the sizeable group of in an emergency call to other RANDites present. . .. Hal RAND ball-hawks, and Don Kiley, Wallace, School Director, an­ Lou Elias and Tom Kurth quickly nounce s that all future gradua­ responded ... (P. S. we were tion affairs will be held at the massacred!) - The RANDom Biltmore -- C. Roger Shoch News Travel Bureau has given Page 6

routing assistance to many of From the brain-cells of James the vacation-bound .... the most P. Wong, Jr. - IIIf you have ever popular trip seems to be the ordered poached eggs on toast "1, 2, 3 Circle" .... Route U. S. in a hash-house, you will have 1 to Bar Harbor (Acadia National heard the counterman shout to Park - only one in the Northeast), the cook: Route U. S. 2 out of Bangor, Maine, a scenic drive along the 'ADAM Pine Tree Trail, from Maine I s AND lake country to New Hampshire's EVE White Mountains, and Route U. S. ON 3 through the heast of the Pres­ A idential Range, along the shores RAFT' of Lake Winnipesaukee (New England's largest inland body of This is really an ancient cabala. water), and back to the Boston By replacing the letters with area .... approximately 700 miles integers, including zero, you can of fine beaches, excellent fish­ find several solutions of addition ing, beautiful scenery, camping that will give the same result. areas and motels galore! - Ed Find the solution that will give Gross' problem in the July is sue the largest pos sible total." (Ans­ .... "A farmer wishes to plant wer in next issue - however, by 10 trees in 5 rows of 4 trees each calling the News, you can check - how, pray tell, can he do this? II your results with Wong's answer.) - Here's how: That about does it for August. A reminder - The RANDom News office (America's greatest float­ ing newspaper!) has moved again­ now located at the lab, B -118, Extension 5535 - Stu Tower - Also associate editor, Ina Olofson, can be contacted at C -170, Extension 7220, Will we hear from you be­ fore the next deadline, August 28th?

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VOLUME SEPTEMBER 1956 NUMBER 10 (0.000000000001010)

The culmination of our summer-long plans to recent arrival from Santa Monica, serves as adminis­ improve the appearance of your RANDom News! trative assistant to Wes. Bob, a one-time RANDite, Our sincere thanks to those who have helped formerly with the Computer Group at Lockheed, enters make this a realization - to Bob DiPasquali, a local the SDD scene as a Technical Assistant. art student, for his work on this original mast-head. Attending the ACM Conference in Los Angeles, and to our printer for his fine service. August 27-29th, were Wes Melahn, Erwin Book, Blake Ireland, Paul Hildebrandt. Chuck Mosmann, Jimmy WHAT's NEW AT GHQ Wong, Alan Marshall and Jules Schwartz. A newly-organized department, Informat ...on Ser­ Onward and upward! GHQ has been signing-in vices. will be headed by Nick Demas. This depart­ new hires at a rapid rate during the summer months. ment, under the Administrative office, will be directly We are nearing the 300-mark! I concerned with mail-room affairs, publications, library, Harold Willson. recruiting chief has been given duplicating and allied activities. the responsibility to head up the RAND-Lexington per­ A construction bulletin! - Our new buildings, at sonnel activities. Hal will also continue his recruiting least their shells, should be a fact by the 15th of work. dividing his time between the Park Square office. September. However, it is deemed more adviseable quick recruiting trips to the hinterlands, and p~rsonnel to hold-off on moving until about 15th of October when affairs at Lexington. Good luck, Hal -- and added en­ they should be completed. The balance of the units are ergy! expected to be available for occupancy on or about 15th Lois Soengen and Helen Hetherington have been of November. At the same time, SDD buildings in joined by Josephine Catalano to aid in the mass Person­ Santa Monica are nearing completion. nel processing procedure. Anita Ward. formerly with Harry Harman. head of SDD's Problem Produc­ Personnel. has left RAND to return to teaching in Quincy, tion Department, was a recent busy visitor to this area. Mas sachusetts. Bill Parks, from SDD's Information Services, also Lois reports that automobile loans have been spent some time here, showing an interest in a more temporarily discontinued by the Credit Union in the constant exchange of news items between East and Lexington area in order for a complete study on the West SOD. subject to be made. For all classified documents, Dot Goodwin, C-150, Norma Effinger, our pleasant Travel- gal, is in charge of document control, is the person to see. leaving for the west-coast -- object: Marriage! Joan Newly assigned personnel should be informed of this Erikson, formerly in Timekeeping, has taken over the by their supervisors. varied duties of the Travel office. Laura Brewer, Ex­ Your Social Committee is notrestingfor a moment tension 389, will be the gal to contact in reference to -- by now, a bulletin heralding a proposal for a RAND sick-leave, vacation, etc. dance. has been distributed. The com.mittee hopes for Greetings to Don Henley and Bob Bosak! Don, a good response to this "feeler" so final plans can be -2- made. Stan Benson and Harry Gould, the last of An important reminder! All RAND men RAND's representatives with Group 61, have been who receive any communications from their bolstered by the assignment of Vic LaBolle (Eval­ draft boards, notify Paul Cook or John Pfeil at uation) to the group. Other members of the Murphy. Also, particularly those who are in Evaluation group who have been "farmed out," Class I, II or III, notify them of any changes are Ronnie Ketchel (66), Charles Durieux (67), which might affect such status. In any case, Art Talkington (61) and Bob Anderson (22). your local board mus t be told of a change in address within 10 days. NEW FACES OF '56 The Cook-Pfeil team also wishes to re­ mind all those from out of state that they should Presenting: be aware of any Massachusetts requirements that 10 new RANDites in the current program­ mustbe met, in regards to auto registration and/ ming class from the Empire State: 1. Marvin or operators'licenses. This state has reciprocal Beriss, Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, formerly agreements with other states as to registrations doing cancer research with the American Cancer and licenses. Any questions on these much-dis­ Society -- Carl Cagan, Brooklyn, NYU and Univ. cussed topics, can be taken to Paul or John, as of Paris (France) -- Albert S. Mincis, Brooklyn, they have reciprocal listings. NYU and Columbia University, was with the Bureau of the Census before joining us -- Morris GROUPS 67 & 64 1. Bolsky, Brooklyn -- Edward McKenna, Long Island City, CCNY, worked with the Federal Many recent class graduates have been Power Commission -- Arthur M. Rosenberg, assigned to Group 67 sections. It appears that Yonkers, -- Frederick W. Young, Far Rockaway, RAND outnumbers Lincoln in this activity now. Queens College -- Richard D. Clark, Depew, Joe Guerrera, with RAND since Septem­ Buffalo State Teachers College and Univ. of ber, has left to join Hamilton-Standard' s engineer­ Buffalo, an ex-teacher -- Philip Loiterstein, the ing course. Bronx. -- Eugene H. Sydow, Binghamton. -- 8 of Sid Shaw, having left a few weeks ago, our new programmers hail from Massachusetts; intends to return to Harvard to study City Plan­ Ruth E. Simitian, Cambridge, University of Colo­ ning. rado, formerly with Arthur D. Little, Inc. -­ Arnie Erickson is now with General Motors, Paul. T. Shortell, Sa.1em, Massachusetts Maritime attending a training school in Milwaukee. Academy, recently served with the Navy -- Joseph Fran Sweeney and George Cox are the J. Farinello, Medford, Northeastern University, only RANDites in Group 62, working on demon­ former engineering technician -- Lloyd J. Mac­ stration program problems, while Bob Anderson, Dougall, Stoneham, a B. C. man, just out of the Evaluation Group, has been assigned to a tour of army -- VincentC. Connors, Arlington, another duty with Group 22. B. C. man, recently with the Massachusetts In­ Hank Brodie and John Smiley, recent IBM surance Department -- Albin A. Gesek, Salem, clas s grads, are now in ESS Planning, Group 64. M. I. T., ran a sale s training or ganization -­ Ray Olsen, formerly ASL with Data Simulation George F. Putnam, Cambridge, attended Wes­ and Reduction has transferred back to Murphy leyan University and Harvard, was an engineer's and Group 66. aide with MacDonnell Aircraft -- Charles J. Sadlier, Lowell, graduate of Holy Cross, former SICK-CALL chemist. - And from. various other parts of the (Groups 66, 61 and IBM Clas s at country, we have; John O. Neilson, Chicago, Murphy Army Hospital) Ill., Joliet College, Augustana College, and Univ. of Chicago -- Joseph M. Sherman, Arlington, Va., Dave Langfield, Associate Group Leader former Government Economis t - - Raphael Miller, (66), has returned tc Numerical Analysis work Highland Park, N. J., Brooklyn College, -- William in Santa Monica, after a 7-months stay. O. Crossley, St. Louis, Mo., Washington Univ. , With Group 67 using the bulk of available ex-teacher -- John H. Schueltz, Warren, Penna., XD-l time, Group 66 has found it necessary to Thiel College, and Pennsylvania State University, set-up computer operations at IBM's Kingston former accounting clerk -- David C. Seim, Cin­ (N. Y. ) plant. RAND personnel already located cinnati, 0., Hanover College, another ex-teacher at this site, are Paul Hicks, Walter Thorpe, -- Carol J. Anderson, Minneapolis, Minn. Charlie Justice, Pat Stanton, Barry Bragen, Paul C. Hatton, Warren, Rhode Island -- Robert and Dick Galbo. More expect to follow. W. Kirk, Philadelphia, Penna. -- PaulC. Tiffany, Ro Raffa reports that members of 66 Barrington, Rhode Island, attended Harvard Univ. and other invited" guests were present at a -- Nicholas A. Vassalotti, Hatboro, Penna" Univ. showing of two interesting films - "Counter­ of Pennsylvania. GOOD LUCK, RANDites! t balance"and "The STP Story." Harry Harman, SDD...'3anta Monica, followed the latter film with 'ROUND AND ABOUT RANDom a most descriptive talk on the principles and practices of STP, followed by a question period. Hear ye t Hear ye! The RANDom News - 3- is politically neutral - and intends to remain so! knocking-off all Pine Meadows enthusias ts this In fact, we didn't send one reporter to either s umme r! - The RAND-Lincoln team in the Mur phy Chicago or 'Frisco! However, we urge all RAND­ Softball League, ended its season with a victory ites to exercise their franchise I If you're from and a 6-6 record. The RAND team in the Lincoln another state, and find that you are ineligible to Lab League has gone over the 500 mark, accord­ vote in Massachusetts, write to your former place ing to latest reports. - Ronnie Ketchel and Bob of residence (city or town hall) for information Anderson, Evaluation group members, are cur­ regarding absentee ballots! rently attending professional meetings ... Bob is Like other outstanding newspapers through­ at the American Statistical Association Conven­ out the nation, RANDom News will accept "Letters tion in Detroit ... Miss Ketchel is in Chicago with to the Editor" at any time .... suggestions per­ the American Psychological Association. - Here taining to this possibility, have been received are some definitions for your growing vocabulary: during the pas t month. Address your note (keep clarification -- "to fill the background with so many it short, and to the point, please) to Stu Tower, details, the foreground goes underground." - the Editor, B-1l8, at the Lab ... it will be published three major sources ofinformation hereabouts are in tact in the next issue. If you wish, your name as follows: reliable source (the guyyoujustmetl), can be withheld. - Genial Bob Krouss is vacation­ informed source (the guy who told the guy you just ing in Canada, while the Art Bancroft's are touring met!), and the unimpeachable source (the guy who swmy Florida - The News has recently received started the danged rumor originally I ) -- Answer a chatty letter from our old friend and colleague, to JirrunyWong's cabala, 987 1, contrary to those Jinny (Virginia) Fuller ... from Oakland, California who disagree with the letters being assigned these ... with regards to all of her RAND friends. numbers ... A (8), D (3), M (4), N (0), E (6), V "Ace" Ray Olsenhas decided to stay here, rather (2), 0 (5), R (9), F (7), and T (1) - The clambake than go back to Santa Monica ... he has recently held on August 18th, proved to be an enjoyable moved to Billerica Gardens -- Don Madden and afternoon at Stage Fort Park, Gloucester. More Ro Raffa represented RAND at the most recent than 150 RANDites and their families enjoyed the IBM clas s banquet ... Don addres sed the gathering sun, sand and swimming~ •• and not the least, the with appropriate remarks - Bob Gardner, with satisfying clam-lobster meal! - A hearty thank three sons, has finally become the father of a you to a hard working Social-Cultural Committee I baby girL .. Congratulations, Gardners! - The - - Here's a brain-masher by Dick Condon ... A Paul Hildebrandt notes on Coordinating Corrunit­ wealthy citizen has his chauffeur pick him up tee meetings, are certainly to the point! - Have promptly at 5: 00 P. M. at the train station. By you seen Roger Shoch's package-deal for Boston taking an earlier train, the gentleman comes in at Garden 1956-57 Sporting Events (including rodeo, 4:00 P. M. one day, starts walking home, meets ice-chips, hockey, circus, coll ege and pro-basket the chauffeur on the way, and arrives home 20 ball coubleheaders, etc.)? The old ticket-master minutes earlier than usual. At what time did he has really come up with the master-stroke this meet the chauffeur? Another, from the desk of time! - Speaking of strokes, the City of Arlington's Paul Guinee ... given a full coke bottle and a Gift Package to RAND (Walt Duffy, Jim Flaherty, marking device, a person must finish up with an Joe Keohane and Paul MacIsaac) leads the golf amount of liquid (in the bottle) equal to exactly 1/2 league in team play. The "Spy-Ponders" have been the total volume of the bottle. (No other ins trument or aid may be used. ) .....

INTO SEPTEMBER WE GO!

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VOLUME I OCTOBER 1956 NUMBER 11 (O.OOOOOOOOOOOlOlij

The voice of RANDom, nearing the end of in personnel. its first year in print, enters the autumn scene with Nick Demas, back from a business visit to a variety of stirring items - extended work week, SnD in Santa Monica, is setting up Info Services

field news, Sage-Rage dance I even newer new faces which will soon be located in new building #2. - news and views to be perused by the confused and The conclave on September 11th, filled the the amused! cafeteria more noticeably than the latest Sage Sym­ posium. Looking around, few RANDites could rec­ WHAT's NEW AT GHQ ogni:le more than a small percentage of the total number of attendees. Even \Ves, upon addressing October headliner - the group, thought it necessary to introduce himself the extended work ... preview of things to come ... wait'll next year! ! week (hereafter re­ Welcome to Paul McAdams who is working ferred to as EWW). with John Pfeil, coordinating the construction of The daily kick - off new buildings among other important jobs. Paul time will now be 7:30 joined RAND more than a month ago. a. m., with the final "Tenants" in our new buildings will include gun sCheduled to blast this group of allied ou tfits: IBM, Western Electric,

off at 5:15 p. m. These Bell Telephone I AC& W, and the 4620th Air Defense hours will continue for Wing. No problem meeting the mortgage here! all SDD personnel in the Lexington area until further notice.

Policies pertaining to the EWW effect on vacations I

sabbatic pay, sick leave, etc. I will be stated as soon as they are decided upon.

M. 0 Kappler ,Division Co-Chief I Bob Nash and Don Madden have been in and out of the local scene during the past month. Bob has been hard at work. on problems concerning housing facilities for RANDites in the field, and other pressing field ad­ ministration tasks. Kap and Don have been in num­ erous huddles with Wes, and top level Lincolnians, John Matousek, head of the 704 Program Dev­ making GH Q an area of smoke -filled rooms and steady elopment Group back in Santa Monica SDD-was seen acti vity. in the role of visiting "fireman" when he sat in on a Paul Cook, formerly at Murphy, is now lo­ Coordinating Committee meeting, exchanging com­ cated in GHQ's C-151, as assistant to Hal Willson puter news with former Santa Monicans. John also -2- gave a brief report on the progress of building William G. Kellner, New York City, Columbia activity in regard to SDD expansion. University, a former buyer for a department store -- David S. Kligman, Bronx, New York, GROUPS 67.- 64 CCNY, ex-teacher -- Patricia A. LaFortune, Belmont, Massachusetts, Bates College, ex­ Paul Hildebrandt has recently transferred chemist -- Ross L. Mantione, Pittston, Pa., from Group 61 to 66 and finally to 67 at the lab. Wilkes College, former electronic technician -­ Paul is currently tussling with XD-l programming Gerald S. Nally, Watertown, Mass. , University literature while awaiting an assignment. of Massachusetts -- John R. Novicki, SouthBos­ Also back to the lab from the hous e on the ton, Mass. , Boston University--Martin F. Owens, hill, are Adaptation crew members Bill Eastman, New York City, Queens College and Western Gerry Tolpin, Art Bancroft, Don Crowson, Reserve University, recently serving with the Margaret Burke, Nora Mullane, and the happy Air Force -- Dolores J. Reguera, Cambridge, wanderer - Roger Shoch. Rog becomes the first Mass .• Simmons Colle ge, formerly doing bio­ RANDite in our weakening recollection to make logical research -- John Passanante, New Jersey, the complete cycle ... lab to field station to Murphy 'NYU, ex-chemical engineer -- David Sternlight, to field station and back to the lab ... do not pass Hartford, Connecticut, M. I. T ., working with "GO", do not collect $200 I computers since 1952 at M.1. T. and in Washing­ George Cox and Fran Sweeney are located ton -- Beverly J. Vanice, Kansas City, Mo" in D-232, as staff members of Group 62. Kansas City University, University of Missouri, Opex (operational expert) training classes and N. Y. U., formerly with a management con­ are continuing on a one night per week basis, sultant firm -- Edward C. Weber, Albany, N. Y. , with a new roster of selected personnel, includ- Syracuse University, ex- Insurance agent -­ ing many members of Adaptation. Margaret Irving Wescott, Omaha, Nebraska, Tufts Univ­ Clark has moved out of C-l45 to the Data Simula­ ersity. GOOD LUCK, RANDites! ! tion and Reduction area in B-118 (Group 64). Departures during September were Ed SICK-CALL Gross, Charlie Meadow and Ken Curewitz, all (News from Murphy) from Group 67. Ed is heading for Underwood's computer lab, Ken to Ramo-\Voolridge in Southern Ray Olsen, Group California, and Charlie to General Electric. 66, has been as­ Stan Benson and Vic LaBolle, now the lone signed to Kingston RANDites in Group 61 since Harry Gould left for to join the large Republic Aviation, are back in lab circles, with group of RANDites other Group 61 people. located at the IBM Alan Marshall is continuing his Monday plant. Other recent "after-hours" class on Advanced Coding Tech­ transfers to King­ niques. Approximately 20 people have been parti­ ston include Russ cipating in these discussions. Fry, Warren Mani­ son, Ronnie Gold­ NEW FACES OF '56 co~ man, Cliff McMil­ len, Bob Shapiro, Murray Glass, Dave Skilling, Presenting: and Al Bartlett. Paul Hicks, representing Group RANDites in the 66 RAND-at-Kingston, attended the September September 4th pro­ 27th Coordinating Committee meeting with regards gramming class. and comments pertaining to the activity there. Ronald R. Bender, Meanwhile, Group 66 continues to line Albuquerque, New its ranks with RAND personnel as they complete Mexico, University the IBM class. Old-timers Wong, Plante, Joan of New Mexico, for­ Christie and Jim Flaherty are getting mucho merly with the tel- company at Murphy. \.A~i:::::~~ephone company -- Gus Hempstead has resigned from the ____~ Sarah C. Bowman, organization, and will be leaving for the west Boston, Hollins Col­ coast shortly. lege (Virginia), an Bill Miller and John Crnkovich are the ex- Real Estate Broker -- Charles N. Carter, RAND stalwarts in the EPSCOM group at Murphy. Fort \~/orth, Texas, Texas College and Southern These gents are located in the Bell Labs wing, University --James L. Cogley, Grinnell, Iowa, 134-B. Iowa State College --Joan Ealey, Atlanta, Georgia, As for the IBM classes, there are currently Spelman College and University of Cincinnati, over 60 RANDites attending school at the hospital former teacher -- David R. Frost, Tempe, ArL:::­ ... with the recruiting drive still going strong! ona, Arhona State College, another ex-teacher -­ Clayton G. Henry, Kansas City, Kansas -- Sam­ uel Jennings, Boston, Northeastern University -- -3-

'ROUND AND ABOUT RANDom to Dick's chauffeur problem, 4 :50 .••• Paul Guinee still holds the answer to his coke bottle Drag up a chair and puzzler -- The RANDom News Research Staff is park your troubles! currently at work compiling an up-to-date geo­ First on the graphical distribution list which will appear in the monthly agenda ... November anniversary issue ... we have alre;:tdy thanks to ArtRosen­ found that 31 states are now represented by east berg for his fine work coast personnel. -- If you have any trouble open­ in producing the Golf ing your file combination locks in the morning, team pix, and to don't hesitate to call LA-3-5100 and ask for Mr. George Cox for his O'Keefe, or more intimately, "Specs" -- Look­ or i gin a 1 cartoon alikes ... Alan Marshall and Shakespearian enthu­ work covering this siast John Carradine ... Ares Bogosian and cine­ issue .... RANDom mactor Victor Jory. -- Have you recently noticed <.~ News would appre­ the For Sale ads announcing such hard-to-get items ciate any comments on future photo ideas -- As as pre-war Thormish converters and varnished for George's "egg-head" characters ... implica­ wheel-base gaskets? -- Tickets are now on hand tions, you say? Certainly not! -- Ina Olofs on has offi­ for the RANDSage-Rage dance ... be an early bird cially become Ina Bernard ... married this past and get one right away (make it two!) -- Sunday, month -- Also congrats to Lois Soengen who will September 30th ... lst Annual Woodchopping Con­ be changing her name come November 24th when test ... at "Manderlay" , overlooking Beaver Pond, she marries Paul Breck of Boston -- It's Fran South Lincoln, ... 20th Century Paul Bunyan, Les Sweeney, 2 to I, with a set of twin dolls, total Wilson of Lincoln Lab, handily defeated the RAND weight 12 lbs., 15 ozs., nosing out the Tower's stalwarts, "Moose" Mosier and W. M. Mineart, new addition, a gal, born on September 8th -­ in a blistering 2 hour axe-wielding match ... Methinks 'twould be simpler to bring a 75mm after winning the first event by completing his weapon through the lab gates, after going through task in 31 seconds (to the next man's 3 minutes), security channels to admit Art Rosenberg and the outcome was never in doubt. -- Yes, there his camera. -- Margot Long Brauchli is quick will be glass windows in the new buildings! -­ to volunteer for McGuire visits, with husband Lets hope for a mild winter, especially if you Chris stationed at nearby Fort Dix -- Walt Duffy must drive to the lab before the plOWS get out! -­ and his bride are honeymooning it in Florida, no World Series time is here again ... but as usual, less. -- The winning golf team in the RAND Golf the Red Sox season has ended. -- For sports League ... the Arlington Foursome of Duffy, Mac­ enthusiasts, New England offers a variety of fall Isaac, Keohane and Flaherty! (Erin, go bra ugh!) and winter activities ... excellent ski areas a few hours to the north, outdoor ice skating, pro­ basketball and hockey at the Boston Garden, and college football in Boston and Cambridge (Har­ vard. B.C. and B.U.), Worcester (Holy Cross), Providence (Brown) and at some of the smaller college campuses throughout the area. -- Harry Bridge. Lincoln's gigantic brain, offers a spank­ ingnew phonetic alphabet to RANDom News readers .... This work of art supersedes the antiquated . Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog code of WW II and the more recent Alpha, Bravo, etc .... with tonque in cheek, and hand in dictionary, here we go .... Winning Golf Team A as in Aesop, B as in bdellium, C- czar (see (1. to r .) Flaherty and Keo­ Sand T). D - djin(gin). E -eureka, F -folk hane, being congratulated by (see V), G - gnarl. H - hour. I - Igor fegor), Chairman, Tom Kurth. J - Jose' (hosa), K - knight (see N), L as in llamo (yamo - Span.). M - mnemonic, N - night Hail to the winner! Art Doll came out of the (see K), 0 - Oedipus, P - pneumonia, Q - quay September 29th RAND Golf Tourney, as the victor, (ke) or Quito (keto). R - ring (see W). S - Saar with a net score of 89.... The league, in its (see C and T), T - Tsar (see C and S), U - Uit­ first year of action proved to be a great success, lander (oit' lander - Dutch). V - volk (see F), thanks to the untiring efforts of Social Committee W - wring (see R), X - xylophone or Xerxes, representative Tom Kurth, Tournament Chairman Y - ytrium or Yma (as in Yma Sumac) or Ypres, Paul MacIsaac and the loyal turnouts on match Z - zwei (tsvi - German) .... Keep up the good days -- Dick Condon has come up with a "home work Harry .... next time the long distance oper­ brew" recipe to compare with Annheuser-Busch ator asks for phonetic spelling of the name you're ... a long list of ingredients and instructions go trying to reach, toss this at her! -- Hold tight to make up his Giant Imperial Quarts -- Answer for another Wong-o-gram! ... Strange Silhouettes- -4- circle - square - triangle - Mr. Wong has a square .... finally, holding the candle due east, familiar object in his hand. If he holds a candle the shadow cast on the west wall is triangular ... under it, the shadow it casts on the ceiling is What is the object Jimmy is holding? .... Watch circular ... holding the candle on the south side of for the answer in the next RANDom News (try to the object, the shadow on" the north wall is a get it before Jimmy's fingers are burned!)

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VOLUME I NOVEMBER 1956 NUMBER 12 (O.OOOOOOOOOOOllOO)

Anniversary time is here .•..••. November in town were Loie Gill of the Travel Office, Ken marks one year of East Coast RANDom News •... Wells, Fred Suffield, Will Schaefer, Ted Parkin, In November, 1955, the first so-called "test Edition" and Bob Dennis. Kap and Don Madden are in town made a surprised appearance to a group of less at this writing. (For a quess, weld say things are than 50 RANDites!!! Today, 12 issues later, our cooking on the warm side!) distribution list numbers close to 400, with copies Hal Willson and Don Henley recently re­ being sent to Kingston, New York, McGuire Air turned from their latest drive in the new recruit­ Force Base, New Jersey, and both SDD and Main ing effort, with the planned pincer movement reach­ RAND in Santa Monica. We have also negotiated ing as far south as the nation IS capital. Other trips with the Boston Post for control of its Sunday comic are scheduled in the near future, with ads appear­ section ..... outbid by the Herald, however ...•. but ing in many of the countryl s leading newspapers. watch for other changes as the months go by the New personnel in the GHQ area, include board. Our list of "thank youls" to all those who John Smiley, formerly in Group 64, and Helen have lent us a helping hand during the eventful year Hughes, stationed at Murphy since last winter. is large, indeed ••... to our administrative consul­ John has been assigned to aid Don Henley in his tants, Wes Melahn and Tom 0 1 Donnell , out typ­ multi-efforts, and Helen has come to "c" building ing corps, Phyl O'Neill. Carole Romano, and to work with Joan Erikson, girl Travel Agent, in Helen Hughes, Roger Duchesneau of the Reproduc­ that increasingly busy office. It is important to tion Room at Murphy, Ina Olofs on Bernard for her mention here, that due to the necessary amount of untiring work in setting up the "new" News, Roy paper work attached to travel requests, these girls Mitchell of the Lincoln Photo Lab, Al Marshall, must have adequate notice from the staff members Nick Demas, and Hog Shoch, and to Ro Raffa and in order for travel orders to be processed in time Gail Barlow for their recent help in supplying the to catch that plane. News with. info on "New Faces" •.. also to the many Tom O'Donnell is pleased to announce the contributors, headed by Jimmy Wong, our ace prob­ noticeable progress being made "next door" •.•••. lem provider ..•. thank you! ! The RAND Buildings are taking definite shape, and # 1 is nearing "occupancy" status. The completion of the remaining seven units should follow in short WHATls NEW AT GHQ intervals, and a large parking area will be ready also. For those in the lab, an exit at the far end The nerve - center of "c" building will make it convenient for inter­ throbs on! ! building travel, with a similar side entrance being The President and planned for Building #5 across the way (Who are Vice-President of the the volunteer snow removers, come the first storm?) RAND Corporation, A number to remember •••• Laura Brewer, Mssrs. Frank Coll­ timekeeper, is now on extension 162. A date to bohm and J. Goldstein, remember •••.. November 22, Thanksgiving Day, and Glad Putt, Re­ and the day following, Friday November 23, will search Administrator, not be worked by RAND personnel at the Lexington were in Lexington site. The previous Saturday, November 17, will last week, for a short be considered a regular work day, however. Also, business visit. Other Monday, November 12th will be a holiday as Veter­ West Coasters recently anls Day falls on the preceding Sunday (for Lexing- -2-

ton site only.) GROUPS 67 - 64 The month of October included Coordinating Committee meetings sprinkled with visitors. Lou Lincoln representatives Turner, Head of SDD Administration, and Steve from group 67, Herb Jeffries, Secretary of the RAND Corporation attend­ Bennington, Jack Arnow ed the October 11th meeting, offering interesting news and Charlie Zraket have concerning EWW vacation, and the proposed educa­ been'in attendance at the tional plan. The collective mug shots below are for Coordinating Committee your reference. Do you know your Coordinating Meetings during the past Committee Represent.~tive? Take a gander, find month. "0" Day, Decem­ him, and mark him well. ber 1st, is fast approach­ ing - ironically, it falls on aSaturday. A joint Group 67 Supervisory Staff Committee has been organized, meeting each Mond:t.y Afternoon. . A one-hour demonstration run, a milestone in assembly testing, took place on October 16th, in­ cluding among other phases, a display of track sym­ bology. The Operation sub-section has been working around the clock, in preparation for the deadline date, operating the DCA system for the assembly test areas. Marilyn Ilger, a member of this section, is leaving RAND .•••• object: marriage. Congratulations and good luck! Hank Dowst, Tom Koeske, and Al Bongarzone , a trio of newcomers awaiting IBM classes, spent two exciting weeks working hand calculations for the Data Simulation and Reduction section of Group 64. Coordinating Committee Steve Buchanan, Group 22, has joined Bob Front Row: Henley, Melahn, O'Donnell, Willson Anderson in that group, as a member of the Evalua­ 2nd Row Olsen, Raffa, Wagoner, Wong, Metcalfe, tion team. Bob, by the way, has been doing a fine Demas, Tower', LaBolle, Schwartz. Back Row: job of reporting news to your News editor. Thanks Smiley, Mossmann, Mineart, Hildebrandt, Haver­ again, Bob! ty, Davison, Ogg, Bosak, and Marshall. The group currently planning the Combat Center program, includes RANDites Joan Christie, The October 20th Sage-Rage dance turned Jim Flaherty, Jack Plante, John Bauerlein, Norm into a fine affair •.• over 250 people, RANDites and Cannon, and Dick Johnson. These folks are sta­ their guests, had a pleasant time of it, dancing, tioned at Hilltop House. mixing, and gabbing ••. (meek confession -- none of A unique Sage Indoctrination course for the photos came out well enough to be printed in secretarys and clerks, is currently underway through this issue. --- reason: weak flash bulbs, slow film, the efforts of John Carson's (Lincoln) DCA Op. Control grosslyam;:.teurish. photographer! ! ! ! !) .•.•. Many section of Group 67, reports lecturer C. Roger Shoch familiar faces were missing, but we look forward (it seems we've heard that name before 1). The pur­ to seeing them at the next Social Committee get­ pose of such a course is to acquaint these young ladies together. In trying to please "all of the people all with Sage terminology, and a general concept of the of the time", your hard-working, loyal committee system, in order to promote more interest and a members have given much of their time and effort. greater understanding for the girls who will be, and Even if this goal has been only half -realized during are, doing the important office work (typing, filing, this past year, the committee has felt nothing but etc.) involved. The dates for the proposed lectures, satisfaction in carrying out their all-important task. are November 13th, 20th. 27th, from 1 to 2 in the RANDom News, in a non-partisan vein, offers con­ afternoon, in B-135. gratulations to this group for a job well done! Even noVl they are at work planning a Christmas affair. SICK-CALL Any suggestions? ? ? ? (News from Murphy) Probably the last "sick call" column, after a run of nearly one year. With our immediate eva­ cuation, or shall we call it "discharge" from the old halls of Murphy, this column will soon be entirely devoted to Social Committee Group 66 and news from L to R: Mineart, Demas, 0' Neill, Tower, Kurth the field. The "Murphy Era" is coming to a -3- sudden close! ••.... Ro Raffa's "Breakfast Club", In your "'Round and Aboutll column this month, a 7:30 - 9:00 a.m. meetingwithanaudience made you can find some further information on Kingston up of the large group of programming students, and McGuire ••• hope to cover each site as it becomes has introduced many interesting guest speakers, unclassified, in an attempt to answer questions from including Don Henley, Hal Willson and Bert Wolin. pros pective residents, concerning the general locale , Rick Onanian, formerly of Group 64, has been sent geographical descriptions, transportational and edu­ to Murphy to aid Ro Raffa •••• a formidable team! ! cational facilities, etc .•••..•. call it propoganda if you wish, but the facts will be there. Attention Kingston crew! If you'ha ve any new s­ worthy items for the RANDom News, pass it on to Paul Hicks or Ray Olsen .••• they in turn can call it in on the tie line •••••• (Stu Tower, Ext. 5545 at the lab. )

NEW FACES OF '56

Presenting: Earle Williamson, South Weymouth, Mass. , Bos­ ton University, formerly wi th the Cancer Research Institute - Al Bongarzone, another South Weymouth man, Tufts, an ex-teacher --Delores (Dee) Smith, Class 1#16, October 19th Denver, Colorado, Color­ Front Row: Ealey, Bowman, Pulk (IBM), Hayes ado U. , former draftsman (IBM), Henley (RAND guest), Vanice, Wallace (IBM -- Chrystel (Chris) Pugh, School Manager) 2nd Row: Requera, Owens, Nally, Forest Hills, New York, Passanante, Bender, LaFortune, Wescott. Back Barnard College, -- Henry Dowst, Boston, Bowdoin Col­ Row: Weber, Frost, Cogley, Carter, Jennings, lege, recently discharged from the Army -- John Dodson, Mantione, Novicki, Kellner. Jr., Austin, Texas, U. of Texas, former Methods Ana­ lyst, -- Henry (Joe) Bass, Indiana, Purdue, -- Alvin Reed, Buffalo, New York, CCNY and NYU, former stat­ Steve Button, formerly with Air Information, istician, -- Alfred Baker, Ohio, Ohio State U., ex­ is now aiding Bob Nash in Field Administration prob­ teacher - Donald Johnson, Maine, Colby and Harvard, lems, and eventually will come home to roost as a ex-teacher -- Jacqueline (Jackie) Williams, Little Group 66 administrator. Rock, Ark., Hendrix College. -- Dick Buba, Provi­ Andy Sweetland has arrived from Santa MOnica, dence, R.I.,. U. of R.I., - Elizabeth (Betty) Everetts, joining 66's Training and Evaluation project. Also, N • Y., Albany State Teachers College, formerly with welcome to Andy Kinslow, who has joined the group, Rama-Wooldridge Corp. -- Elizabeth (Lisa) Powell, working on Group Analysis. Mountainside, N.J., Smith College, formerly with Pat Haverty, with the Master Program effort Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, & Beane. -- Frank from "Day one" , has taken over as Associate Group Schell, Bedford, Boston College, -- Carle Williams, Leader in Group 66. He is working with Lincoln's Binghamton, N. Y., Harpur College, -- Jose Lathrop, Ben Morris in directing the activities of this rapidly Denver, Colorado, Denver U., -- Al Cooperband, Quin­ growing group. Says Jimmy Wong, one of the able cy, Harvard, -- Sam Hockeiser, Belleville, N .J ., Co­ crew leaders, liThe prevailing question over here lumbia Univ. , formerly with the Internal Revenue Ser­ seems to be 'What's the latest concerning the King­ vice. -- James (Jim) Keena, Salina, Kansas, Kansas (ston) and I? ,II State -- Robert Bichel, Wakefield, Nebraska, Nebras- Hudson Valley Views .••.•.•••• what about ka State Teachers College, -- Douglas (Doug) Harrison, Kingston? Ray "Ace" Olsen attended a recent co­ Melrose, Mass., Tufts College, --. ordinating committee meeting and commented on the training and assembly checkout acti vities. RAND GOOD LUCK RANDites! ! ! ! folk in Kingston are undergoing utility training in preparation for checkout activities. Paul Hicks, I ROUND AND ABOUT RANDom supervising the training of these RAND people, gave out a list of the McGuire folks in an exclusive inter­ Down the stretch we go! •....••. Let's get this Bock­ view with the News during his latest visit to Lexing­ horst quip out of the way, first off •...•••• says John: ton. At work installing the utility system at the II Are you going to be a winner, or an also RAND!" Jerseybase are Walt Thorpe, Charlie Justice, Barry (Corn is in season!) ...... Morrie Mineart comes Bragen, JoeSelinka, Bud LaGrange, Ronnie Goldman, up with basketball news ••••.••. a gym, same as last Russ Frye, and Bob Shapiro •.. pioneers in the field. winter, has been signed up .•••.••. the Ditson School John Pfeil, on a recent visit to Kingston, did gym, Pinehurst, which is on Route 3A, south of some quick analysis on the crucial auto-registration Billerica ..•• the first get-together for would-be hoop- problem. -4-

stersis called for Nov­ Jersey, adjacent to Fort Dix. The distance from the ember 19th, a Monday Bordentown-Trenton toll gate on the New Jersey Turn­ evening •••••••• Eastern pike to the base is about ten miles. From this same Joint Computer Confer­ toll-gate, the trip to Philadelphia is merely 30 miles ence is to convene in (southwest), and New York City is approximately 60 New York City, on Dec­ miles to the northeast. The fine Jersey ocean beach ember 10-11-12 •.••••••• resorts, Atlantic City, Wildwood, Asbury Park, etc. , Socially conscious RAND­ are also within easy driving ti Ire over Jersey's mo~:tel ites are attending a local highways. The nearest good-sized town is Mount Holly dancing class ••••••• the (1950 pop. - 8,200), but many smaller towns surround Melahns, Marshalls, Oggs, the base, offering housing possibilities. Educational Haverty's, Wongs will soon facilities are numerous, with Princeton, Rutgers, and be challenging the Astaires Philly's many colleges and universities (some of which and Champions, it says here ••. mixed emotions were offer evening courses for degree credit) only an hour -or evident as Baron Hugo's band played "California Here -so away ••••• What more can we say? Watch future I Come" as a parting gesture for our recent dance at issue for similar nut-shell briefings on other sites •... the Statler •••••• who's the cagy character coming to Watch out below for more Wongo-grams, byJ. P. Wong work on standard time and going nome on daylight ••• Thoughts while shaving at 5:30 a. m .•.• Who'd like savingtime??? ••.•. Will strange coincidences ever to pay the monthly Lincoln phone bill? ...... Take a cease? ••••.. Milt Winsor, recently assigned to Group good guess as to coffee gallonage consumed each 67, recognized the name of Stu Spratt .•.• no wonder day at the lab ••••••• would a severe storm affect that he did ••• back about a half-dozen years or so, computer operation ••.•• could a man living in Lex­ Milt found a wallet at the Springfield (Mass.) State ington be buried west of the Mississippi? .•.•• How Exposition •..•• it belonged to a gent in Whitinsville can 3 men share 20 lumps of sugar during coffee .•••• turned out to be Stu Spratt •••• (by the way, we break, with each man using an odd number of lumps? still don't know whether Milt actually returned it (Answer: Man #1 & #2 each use! piece, and man #3 or not!) ••••••••• Congratulations to Paul and Bar­ uses the remaining 18 -- a heck of an odd number! !) bara!! At a Halloween party held at spooky "Man­ ....• For a stirring comm entary on checkout teams, derlay", Paul Hildebrandt and Barbara Ackley an­ site duty, etc., be sure to visit the B-1l8 art galleries nounced their engagement ••••• wedding date some- this week ••. good for a hearty lunch-time laugh? ..• time in December (quite the setting for the announce­ Wong dares the readers of RANDom News to try this ment!) •••.••••.•• Tom Hibbard was present at the letter-division problem: aforementioned party, dressed as Fearless Fosdick, FHG .22 pistol, blank cartridges and all!! ...•....•• So ABC/DCEFGA many of our country's newspapers went out on the DGHE limb in '48, we thought we should join the crowd A FJ G this year •.••.• hail to our new president, Adlai E. AECK Stevenson! RANDom News remains politically neu- DAHA tral as this hazardous gem was written on November DDHH 3rd! .••••.•• Again, What about Kingston? Located BG on the lofty banks of the Hudson River, Kingston is an old city (the site of a village founded by Hendrik Replace the letters by digits (including "zero") •... Hudson in 1609), with a 1950 population of nearly you also might try this one between sandwiches: 30,000. As county seat of Ulster County, Kingston Cryptic multifplication ••.• supply the missing digits also serves as "the gateway to the Catskills ", lower where asterisks are located .•••••••••.••. New York state famed vacation area, with countless facilities for both summer and winter sports. With * * 7 * the recent completion of the New York State Thru- * 7 * way, the city is only a two-hour drive from New * * * * * York City, 90 miles to the south, and slightly more * * * 2 * than an hour away from the state capital, Albany, 8 * 5 * approximately 60 miles north. The IBM plant is ****** located four miles from the center of town, placed in a sparsely populated area, much like the industrial Call the News to check your answers •••.•.• Happy zones along route 128. Kingston can be reached in Holidays to all •.• weill drop in again, come Decem­ approximately 5 1/2 - 6 hours by auto from Boston, ber ••••.••• New address and phone number for the over a route which will be appreciably shortened, time­ complaint department -RANDom News, Stu Tower, wise, when the East-West Massachusetts Toll Road Editor, B-122, Extension 5545. links with the New York Thru-way. For those with school age children, Kingston boasts a modern well­ staffed school system, typical of the high standards * * * set by the state. The city is also served by the New York Central Railroad, Greyhound and Trailways Bus Com­ panies and national airlines landing at Albany. How About McGuire, shouts a voice from the rear! !iT! McGuire Air Force Base is located in Central New coast edition

VOLUME II DECEMBER 1956 NUMBER 1 (O.OOOOOOOOOOOOOOU

Holiday season is here again! - Christmas, tne New Year - preceded by tne December issue of your H rtNDom News, with 30-days-worth of news, views and comments on the Lexington scene - and a field communique here and there!

WHAT's NEW AT GHQ

For world - shaking. nolicy - making cony, its GHQ 4-l!! Lead­ ing headline goes to the nev' R AND build­ ings, adjacent to the lab. Personnel are now at home in Build­ ing #1. v"ith the IBM classes, RANn staff, Dr. Bill Biel, Co-Chief of SDD, visited the and parts of Group 66. Lexington area during the last week of November, already in tow, and bringing with him news of the future plans for the the remainder of 66 division. At the Coordinating Committee meeting about ready to follow from Murphy Army Hospital. on the 29th, he introduced the proposed plan, which Below are photo's showing work being done on the was later announced to all RAND personnel in the interior finishing, and a birds-eye view of the com­ division. pleted exterior. Florence Dewar, with GHQ since SDD ar­ rived at Lincoln Laboratory in July. 1955, and a ..., . ~!J.'\". RAND employee since 1951, has resigned. Florence 1"" .. t; expects to return to Southern California sometime after December 7th. Her m"any friends, acquaintances, RAND and Lincoln Co-workers join with the RANDom News in wishing her the best of luck for the future. Lincoln's Family Day, December 1st, pro­ vided an opportunity for many RANDites to show their families the complete lay-out -- the computers, ESS direction center, offices, etc. John Smiley reports that all No. Truro trips are cancelled until further notice. Meanwhile, field trips to McGuire are taking place frequently, afford­ ing nearly everyone a chance to visit Site #1. One travel gal follows another - Letty Dod­ dridge is spending a few weeks with the Travel Of­ fice. before returning to her post at the SDD Travel Office in Santa Monica later in the month. 2

Joanne Prochaska, formerly with Dot Good­ F. Harris Memorial Fund. Bill was killed while win in the Document section, was guest of honor at operating his automobile in Concord on the morning a Baby Shower held on November 29th. Good luck, of June 21, 1956. Many of his friends and associates Joanne! have desired to express their regard for Bill in some lasting way. Thus, a committee has been formed, GROUPS 67 - 64, etc. to build a fund in his name. This fund will be used for scholarship aid at Purdue University, where Bill Gerry Snodgress of was a scholarship student in the class of 1951. Ad­ SDD's Problem-Plan­ ministration of the fund and any further contributions ning Department, has will be handed over to Purdue on March I, 1957. To come east to join date, $676.00 has been collected, but $1000.00 is Group641s Test Plan­ necessary for a name fund at Purdue. Being so ning activity. He will close to the goal, the committee is making a gener­ also make frequent al appeal to go over the mark. The Fund Committee business trips out to consists of Larry Collins, chairman; Harry Keit, the coast as part of treasurer; Henry Frachtman, secretary; and Jack his assignment. Nolan, Eleanor McEvoy, Barbara Ackley (RAND), Howard Met­ Jack Cahill and Al Shoolman. It is requested that calfe, Lyle Haas and contributions delivered personally be directed to Joe Keohane have been Keit, Frachtman, Ackley, McEvoy or Cahill, and conducting seminars dealing with problems and tech­ contributions sent by mail, to Tilda Finocchio, Group niques unique to the Group 67 programming effort. 67, C-170, Ext. 166. A Group 64 staff-training program was held recently, including a visit to Truro, a tour of Bed­ GROUP 66 - and POINTS WEST ford Air Base (close-up views of the fabulous F-lOl, the massive AEW plane, data-link equipment, etc. ,), Rapidly filling up and a series of lectures concerning the activities of Buildings #1 and 2, the Test Planning, Test Analysis and Programming Group 66 continues sections, in relation to ESS Shakedown. to grow with each A recent lecture on the capabilities of the TX- IBM class graduation. 2 computer proved interesting and informative to At this point, they those attending. have completely Twenty RANDites from Groups 67-64-61 and moved out of Murphy. 66 are currently in New York attending the annual "Get your kicks - in Eastern Joint Computer Conference (Dec. 10-11-12). 66!" (R e m em b e r Bill Eastman, (Feb. 1956), has left for a that oldie - Route 66 ? ) position with DATAmatic. Paul Hicks, recently Presenting, Group 67 stalwarts: Bob Mc­ visiting the lab on a Gill, Howie Metcalfe and George Sioras -- in con- quick trip from Kingston, told of the progress being ference ••••••••••••••••• made in the field. At Kingston, where utility sys­ tem check-out crews are being trained, the RAND contingent numbers more than 50. John Crnkovich and Bill Miller have gone to McGuire, increasing the size of the pioneer RAND team thereabouts. Rick Onanian has joined the Kingston acitivty in an administrative capacity. Ro Raffa IS Breakfast Club has recently heard talks by Major Fred Parker and Colonel Urquhart. Gail Fitzpatrick has promised to keep us in touch with all local 66 news -- welre counting on you, Miss F. Marian Weiss has been assigned to the Marv Jones outfit, after a term with the Group 66 document section, as secretary. News from McGuire points out that the instal­ lation crew is going along smoothly at latest reports. Weill have to draft a steady reporter from the Jersey The Problem Production Department has site - soon! For more site info, read on the 'Round sent Betty Jane Corwin to work with Group 22. and About - featuring Stewart and Syracuse! Jack Plante is now representing the Field Station crew at Coordinating Committee meetings. NEW FACES OF 156

William F. Harris Memorial Fund Presenting: John W. Rafferty, Hartford, Conn., Teachers College of Connecticut, gained A fund has been established in memory of programming experience while working with Hamil­ Bill Harris, Lincoln(Group 67), known as the William ton Standard; -- John W. Votel, Springfield, Ohio, 3

University of Dayton; "Chairman of the -- Alon Miller, At­ Board" sign in his lanta, Ga •• Univer­ office, trying to im­ sity of Alabama and press wifey? -----­ Georgia Tech., pre­ Long list of congratu­ vious experience as lations •••••• first, Advertising Manager to Darlene Trebino andSales Represent­ on her recent mar­ ative -- Robert H. riage to Paul Maio of Stearns, Springville, Lexington, on Novem­ N. Y., Rensselaer; ber 24th •••••• to the -- Hyman M. Shum­ Milt Winsors and the rak, Boston, North­ Bob McGills, proudly eastern University; -- Ralph P. Hershberger, Jr. , announcing new additions ••••• and to Mr. and Mrs. Fort Wayne, Indiana, Purdue University and Inter­ Paul Breck (Lois Soengen), currently honeymooning national Business College, a former accountant; -­ in Bermuda after their marriage in November ••••• William Vernon Thomas, Jr.,. Denver Colorado, Is it true that ol1r own J. P. Haverty has received University of Denver, another x-accountant; -- Dick inter-departmental mail addressed to Miss Pat Hav­ Weis, Schenectady, N. Y ., University of Rochester, erty? ------Wong was wong, -er-wrong! A slight Wayne University, and Rochester Business Insti­ mistake in the NovemberWong-o-gram brought doz­ tute, Programming experience with General Elec­ ens of phone calls.... however, resourceful folks tric; -- Ralph Beals, Buffalo, N. Y., Alf'red Univ­ came up with the right answers anyway ••••• Gerry ersity, former teacher; -- Paul W .. McCree, Jr., Bobchek, Ed's Mrs., was solver III ••• look out be­ Massachusetts and Kentucky, Harvard; -- Roberta low for more of the same ------IBM field engineers Audette, Corpus Christi, Texas, M.I.T •• Pennsyl­ claim that the initials stand for "I've Been Moved!" vania College for Women, and University of Roches­ •••••••• Do not confuse Lou Elias, UCLA backfield ter; -- Max A. Hirschman, Dayton, Ohio, City Cbl­ ace, with our boy of the same name ----- "How do lege of New York, and George Washington Univer­ you get around these dad-burned highway rotaries," sity; --' Lionel Difford, Washington, D. C.; -- sputters the irate Californian ••••••• "All you need We'd also like to welcome the following cler­ are guts - and an old car, II replied the Proper Bos­ ical personnel: Lois O'Callaghan, Dracut, Mass., tonian! •••••••••••• Basketball sessions have been Winslow Secretarial School; -- Margaret Shea, Lin­ regularly held at the Pinehurst gym, reports Maury coln, Skidmore College; -- Jeanne M. Brenchick, Mineart. Teams are about to be chosen, so if its Lexington. formerly with First National Bank of action you want for the long winter months, join the Boston; -- Gertrude Carson, Watertown, Fisher gang on Monday nights. ------Tom Hibbard, the Business College; -- Evelyn Osterhaudt, Lexington, Bush-Faced Bicyclist, has been named official cus­ Burrough's Business School. todian of the B-1l8 "On Site" bulletin board ••••••••• Have you seen the latest additions? ----When you GOOD LUCK RANDites!!!! talk about ripping telephone books, see Joe Berman, World Champ------The Pinkerton organization, supplying security guards for our new buildings, has a long history of jobs well done, going back to the mid-19th century •••••• taking a prominent part in such famous cases as the apprehension of the Dalton and James gangs, undercover work in cap­ turing the Wild Bunch (a notorious gang of marauders, active in the latter 1800's throughout the west), and the investigation following the Lincoln assassination • ••••••••• • LaVerne Ruby, Idaho's gift to RANDom, entertains us with a bit of light poetry concerning a programmer's lament •••••••••••••• : I think that I shall riever see A program that is trouble-free. The ones we get are full of jest -- The tracks go east, the plots southwest. The program acts a little odd, And so we make another mod. CLASS 1#17 The mod makes things just that much worse, 'ROUND AND ABOUT RANDom And then we bow our heads and curse. The troubles still are with us now Down the field we go ••• goal in sight! ••••••• But we will get things done somehow. Two school-age tots attending Lincoln's Family Day, gaped in amazement at the over-sized medicine-ball Some day the system will work (amen) and unmistakeable ping-pong ball atop the lab roof - But only God can know just when. - Since we're started on the subject of Family Day, who was the enterprising RANDite who tacked up a L. E. Ruby (RAND - Gp. 67) 4

Here's a twist, by jingo~ Jim Morey, hired from land and points in lower New York State. The base his hometown, Lexington, Massachusetts, to join is located a few miles north of the city limits, and RAND in Santa Monica, has recently arrived back the housing situation in this large metropolitan area in Lexington to attend the IBM class ------Any should prove encouraging. Syracuse is 250 miles from volunteers for the DDEW (double distant early warn­ New York City by auto, and 330 miles from Boston. ing) site to be located three blocks from the Kremlin? The city is served by the New York Central railroad, ------Boner •••••• Duck-hunters Bockhorst, BUm­ and is a major stop on several of the leading airlines. sted and Schleppenbach, spotted an enormous goose Syracuse University, one of the nations lar ger schools, just thirty yards from their position, one cold Sat­ offers graduate courses in all major fields. The city urday morning •••••• the ever-ready crew, however, also boasts a major league (NBA) basketball quintet, had no shells in their shot-guns!! ------­ the East,ls leading college football team (playing in Continuing the RANDom News service begun last the Cotton Bowl, Jan. 1st), a Class A Eastern League month, we go on to Stewart Air Force Base, West Baseball club, and frequent major boxing bouts, for Point, New york ••••••• Located in the same general those interested in spectator sports •••••••• Further Hudson River area of lower New York State as King­ info on any of the sites thus far introduced will be ston (November issue), Stewart Air Force Base is provided by the RANDom News, if BO desired by any adjacent to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. RANDites ••••••• In the January issue, watch for re­ The base is about 55 miles north of the "big city, " ports on two more eastern sites ••••••••••••••••••• an hour's drive on excellent roads, connecting the Answers to November Wong-o-grams •••••• letter Palisades Parkway with the New York Thruway. division, F H G (5 8 4) and the cryptic multiplication, From Eastern Massachusetts, the base can be reach­ 998575 ------For a tease, Jim comes up with a ed in 5 1/2 to 6 hours by automobile, and is also Cryptic Square Root stickler: Every missing digit easily accessible by train (change at New York City), can be inferred - a refresher on finding the square or frequent bus service. The cities of Newburgh root •••••••••••••• (pop. 35,000), Beacon (pop. 18,000) and Peekskill (pop. 20,000), are all within short driving time from * * * * the base, and offer good housing possibilities. The 1* * ** ** ** closest colleges and universities are located in New * York City (Fordham, NYU, Columbia, CCNY, etc.), * * * but extension courses are offered throughout the state, * * particularly in large population areas, such as the * * * * one we are describing. HeadinJ northward into upper * * * * New York State, we present Syracuse •••••••••• a * * * * * large, popular city of nearly 300,000 population, in * * * 3 * the .heart of one of the east's best-known vacation areas {year round) •••• offering mountains (the Ad­ To RANDites everywhere -- here in Lexington irondacks), Lakes (the Finger lakes, Lake Oneida Kingston, McGuire, Dayton, Washington, Oklahoma and Ontario), and a tine highway system. The New City, Santa Monica - and Wiesbaden -- a very Merry York Thruway serves the city in a fine manner, con­ Christmas, and a Most Happy New Year, from the siderablycuttingdown driving time between New Eng- RANDom News ------SFT

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