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Mitw77001.Pdf C. 3 The Seas and the Waterways The New Frontier Proceedings 6th Annual Sea Grant Massachusetts Institute Lecture of Technology and Symposium 19 September 1977 3 pm Kresge Little Theatre Report No. MITSG 78-1 Index No. 78-601-Wep Yvonne Brathwaite Burke Lecturer: Paneli sts: Yvonne Brathwaite Burke the Watts R iots investigatory lation which provided funds was elected to the House of body. for the initial planning of a Yvonne B ra thwaite B urk e Paul E Atkinson Representatives from the From 1966 until her elec- comprehensive West Coast Co ngr esswoma n President Twenty-eighth then Thirty- tion to Congress, Mrs, Burke Mass Transit System, ex- 28th District, California Sun Shipbuilding and seventh! Congressional D is- representedthe Sixty-third tended federal aid to autis- Dry Dock Company trict in Los Angeles, Cali- District in the California tic children, and ensured Moderator: fornia, on November 7, State Assembly, During the equal employment oppor- A. Douglas Carmichael 1972, Mrs. Burke, current 1971 and 1972 sessions, she tunity in the construction Dean A, Horn Professor of Power Chair of the Congressional chaired the Assembly Com- of the Trans-Alaskan pipe- Director Engineering Black Caucus, was the first mittee on Urban Develop- line. Mrs. Burke also intro- MIT Sea Grant Program M IT Department of woman to be elected to ment and Housing and dijced the Equal Opportu- Ocean Engineer'ng 3 Congress from California in served on the Health, Fi- nity for the Displaced twenty years, and the first nance, and Insurance Com- Homemakers Act, This bill, Erling D. Naess black woman ever elected to mittees. As a member of the if passed,will provide fed- Chairman the House from her state, state legislature, her efforts erally subsidized training for International Association of She presently serves on the led to the enactment of laws all individuals who had pre- independent Tanker Owners House Appropriations Com- that greatly benefited Cali- viously worked within the INTERTANKO! mittee with assignments on fornia's indigent children, home without compensa- subcommittees handling hea! th insurance consumers, tion, but who have beenleft, John P, Sheffey HUD-Independent agencies, residents of homes for the through death of a spouse Colonel, Ret.! USA Department of State, Jus- elderly and orphaned, and or divorce, without adequate National Association for tice, Commerce, The Judi- victims of governmental ur- economic support, Uniformed Services ciary and Related Agencies, ban renewal and expansion Mrs. Burke has received nu- and the District of Colum- projects. merous awards for her varied bia, Mrs Burke also serves Prior to her election to the civic and governmental on the Select Committee on House of Representatives, works. She has been se- Assassinations. Mrs. Burke served as Vice- lected Woman of the Year A native of Los Angeles, Chairperson of the 1972 by the Los Angeles Times IVlrs.Burke graduated from Democratic National Con- and the National Associa- Manual Arts High School, vention in Miami Beach, tion of Black Manufacturers. received a bachelor of arts There, in the absence of Time Magazine selected her degree in political science Party Chair Lawrence as one of America's 200 from the University of Cali- O' Brien, she presided over future leaders. fornia at Los Angeles and a the longest, and perhaps, Mrs. Burke serves on the J uris Doctor's degree from most volatile session in con- Board of Directors of the the University of Southern vention history. I n the 1976 United Negro College Fund, California School of Law. Democratic National Con- the A mer i can C ivi I L ib crt ies She holds honorary Doctor ventionn, Representative Union, Americans for Dem- of Law degrees from Vir- Burke served on the Draft- ocratic Action, and the ginia State College and At- ing Subcommittee of the National Athletic Health lanta University. Democratic P latfo rm Com- Institute. She is also a rnern- Mrs, Burke was admitted mittee and was very active ber of the Board of Trustees to the California Bar in in drafting the Party's plat- serving the University of 1956, and for the next ten form. She also chaired the Southern California, a trus- years,was an active practic- Task Force on Foreign and tee of the University of ing attorney and involved Defense Policy which West Los Angeles, and a community leader. She drafted the foreign policy Member of the UCLA served as a deputy corpora- plank for the platform, Foundation. She is a Life tion cornrnissioner, a hear- Since assuming office, Mrs. Member of the National ing officer for the Police Burke has personally intro- Council of Negro Women Commission and as an at- duced more than twenty and a member of Alpha torney on the McCone Com- b ills and major arnendrnents, Kappa Alpha Sorority, mission staff, which acted as Enacted into law was legis- Paul E. Atkinson A. Douglas Carmichael Paul E. Atkinson has been environmentally sound fash- A Doug las Carmi chael is Department of Ocean President of Sun Shipbuild- ion in the U.S. trade. Professor of Power Engineer- E ngineering. ing and Dry Dock Company Mr. A tk inso n has contrib- ing in MIT's Department of Me has been instrumental since July 1961. Sun Ship is uted his views on the U.S. Ocean Engineering a posi in developing MIT's Ocean located in Chester, Pennsyl- shi pbuilding industry's re- tion he has enjoyed since E ngineering S ummer Labo- vania and is one of the na- sponse to the Navy's ship- his appointment in 1970. ratory, in cooperation with tion's I arger commercial building programs in two Dr. Carmichael's recent re- the IVlaine Maritime Aca- shipyards. appearances before the Sea- search concerns advanced demy. Some of the projects Mr, Atkinson received his power Subcommittee of the power plants, propulsion, developed in the Summer bachelor of science in naval kouse Armed Services Com- and wave energy conversion. Laboratory include a con- architecture and marine en- mitteeee. He has also conducted ex- stant depth buoy, a com- gineeringg from the Webb I n- Mr. Atkinson is the recip- perimental, design and sys- puter-controlled robot stitute of Naval Architec- ient of the 1976 Sea Grant tem studies of a novel submarine, a pedal vehicle ture in 1942. Following Award, is an active member method of reducing tanker for scuba divers a windmiil graduation, he joined Sun of the Marine Studies Ad- pollution during ballasting powered generator attached Shipbuilding where he be- visory Board of the Llniver- procedures. to a buoy, and a test for gan work in the shipyard's sity of Delaware, a Sea ln 1949 Dr. Carmichael cable strumming by ocean production depart ment. He Grant College, and is a trus- received his bachelor's de- currents. progressedthrough a variety tee of the Webb Institute of gree in engineering from Dr. Carmichael is assoc- of assignments in the yard Naval Architecture. ke is a London University, and iated with the MIT Innova- and in 1956 he was ap- member of the American subsequently was awarded tion Center and is interested pointed Vice President and Bureau of Shipping and the his Ph.D. from Cambridge in innovation and the pro- Director of Operations. American Committee of University. From 1949 to cess of invention. His d'rect'on of Sun Ship' s Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1955 and again from 1958 efforts in ship construction is a vice president of the to 1960, Dr. Carmichael was has led to the shipyard's Society of Naval Architects involved in design and re- participation in severalsig- and Marine Engineers,and is search for aircraft gas tur- nificant building programs: a Director of the Ship- bines. In 1960 and 196'l, he ... Construction of the roll- builders Council of America. worked for Dracone Devel- onlroll-off military trans- opmentss in E ngland, as chi ef port the Admiral W il liam engineer working on flexible M, Callaghan for use by the oi! barges,He then worked lyViiitary,'~eaift Command. at Northern Research Cor- ... Conversion of the S.S. porationnin Cambridge, Manhattan into an icebreak- IVlassabhusetts, from 'I961 inigienier in only nine to 1964, doing energy- months for that vessel's his- related research. toric assault in the North- Dr. Carmichael has exten- west Passage. sive teaching experience, be- ... Construction of the spe- ginning at Imperial Co!Iege in London, where he taught e~xl o rer. Energy and Power, and re- ... Development of the roll- lated subjects. He also on/roll-off trailership to worked as an advisor in the meet the growing worldwide Steam Turbine Division of need for truly intermodal English Electric Company sea transport. from 1968 to 1970. ... Design and construction One of Dr. Carmichael's of an "ecology" class key activities at MIT has tanker a double hull vessel been the development of developed to operate in an education programs in the Erling D. Naess John P. Sheffey Erling D. Naesshas been John P, Sheftey is Executive 1965 to become chief exec- Chairman of INTERTANKO Vice President of the Na- utive of the Commission in International Association of tional Association for Uni- a civilian status, ! ndependentTanker Owners! formed Services, From 1971 Col. Sheffey was born in since > 976. I NT E RTA N KO to 1974 he served as a spe- Marion, Virginia, in 1919 members control about 80 cial advisor in the Office of and received a master's de- million dwt of tankers, the U.S. Special Represen- gree in International Affairs about 80 percent of the tative for Canal Negotia- from George Washington world's privately owned tions, in the Department of University in 1962.
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