FRIDAY ¥ SJ Ny te oO \ MORNING SESSION ASAT. Octover 6, 1967 = - BRUES: Dr. Donaldson, you have us at your mercy! w This morning we should be able to have free rum of our aonrn Mr, Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: scientific acumen plus the widest breadth of our imagination, for if we are to talk about the environment and man's rela. wow DONALDSON: we all have very specific comments and very specific opinions 10 about how man relates to his environment, tionship to his environment in the field of ecology, I'm sure i1 In the area of weapons testing, I'm sure we have 12 an equal number of opinions of the effect of the weapons 13 testing upon man and his environment. 14 at his word specifically that we were not to write speeches; 15 we weren't to deliver orations, but after 41 years as a school- 16 teacher I'm specifically tempted by almost heritage, for my 17 mother and my grandfather were also schoolteachers, to deliver 13 that morning lecture that should come 22 minutes from now 19 on normal schedule, 20 21 22 FREMONT-SMITH: practice! [Laughter] DONALDSON: I toook our convener We have 30 years of interrupting We expect to challenge your 47 years. Looking around, there are many school- 23 teachers I notice in this gathering, 24 use the professor's prerogative to interrupt at any occasion, 25 So I'm sure they will Well, to more or less set the scene, I should like 26 to, with your permission, somewhat limit the parts of the 27 world we are going to talk about, 28 If you will just turn on the first slide, please, 29 [Slides] Well, each of us again have our own 30 immediate interpretation of what we think of as environzental | 31 contamination, 32 many of our problers we would 33 the Oak Ridge establishment and eventually to the Savannah Stafford Warran I think if we go back to the source area for go to the Hanford work or to DOE/JUCLA | .-