DR. WARREN turned the chair over to Dr. Dunham for presentation of the
Division program.
STAFF
DR. DUNHAM announced a number of staff changes.
Dr. C. D. Van Cleave has joined the staff to replace
Dr. Clifford Harding; Dr. Max Zelle has joined the staff
to replace Dr. Sterling Emerson. Mr. Allan Brodsky,
Health Physicist, Mr. Joshua Holland, Meteorologist,
Mrs. Virginia Bolton, Special Assistant for Education
and Training and Mr. Ed Lockyer, Management Assistant, have also been
added to the staff.
DR. DUNHAM announced the transfer of the New York Operations Office which
is now reporting to the Division of Reactor Development instead of the
Division of Biology and Medicine in accordance with his
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earlier request.
DR. DUNHAM described his trip to Rongelap and reported that the health
and morale of the natives appeared to be good after having been returned
to their homes two months previously.
He also described
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existing plans for future studies of this group.
In connection with the stratospheric monitoring program, DR. DUNHAM
announced the possibility of the use of another balloon in the southern
hemisphere.
He then introduced Mr. Kenneth Fields, General Manager.
MR. FIELDS said
that Commissioner Graham had recently been sworn in and that Mr. Floberg
was expected to be sworn in as a new Commissioner in early October.
spoke briefly of the importance of the ACBM services and discussed
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matters of a budgetary nature.
DR. WARREN spoke of the difficulty in defending the early Strontium-90
research in 1949 before the Bureau of the Budget and compared it to other
pioneering events now being proposed.
In response to a question by
DR. BURNETT about the present status of the NIH program, DR. DUNHAM
reported on Dr. Shannon's remarks at the Congressional Hearings during
which he outlined a program intended to result in an Institute of
Biophysical Medicine.
It appeared that in this program, radiobiology
was to make up a small part of it.