NE Eeee ET Te bin Ss DASA 2019-2 10 themselves unable to resist curling up with the little brochure that was sent out by Colonel Hemler's group. But [ will ran through it briefly. Among the largely irrelevant endeavors that have resulted in my being here, I was an English majar at Yale in 1932, a very poor year for English or any other majors; this was foliowed by two quiet years of sitting alone and reading on an old abandoned farm. Then I went to Syracuse where [ took my Master's degree in public administration. Then there were about nine years of working in the public welfare ©-'d, followed by a brief hitch in the land-locked Navy. Then [ went in improbable Veterans' A Dunham in I+ * Federal Government where first Iwas ina very office, the Foreign Relations Service of the ‘ation. I first ran into Staff Warren and Chuck wnen I went with the Federal Civil Defense Adminis- tration, . {beat my head against a stone wall in one way cr another until a few years apo when I moved out of government and went with Public Administration Service, which is a consulting service that works only for government, My involvements there have been largely irrelevant to our discussion here, I've been concerned with such things as local building codes, the education of the deaf, federal grants-in-aid to states, the use of data processing machinery in vocational educational schools and things of that sort. But at one time in government | was with the Planning Board of the National Security Council and engaged in an enterprise of which this conference reminds me very much: the human effects of nuclear weapons development. -In this, two of my colleagues were Frank Fremont-Smith and Staff Warren, and I'm sure thai my invulvement here is somehow or other an outgrowth of that, I would say that my pleasure at being here at the second conference is heightened by the realization that George Casarett will be editing this series! {iLaughter{ So, my responsibility ends with the discussion, WARREN: Well, [' try to make mine bricf. It's a little difficult . because [ am the oldest one here, of course, and I've been in the radiation biologyfield. .. FREMONT-SMITH: WARREN: You're not quite as old as lam, [ don't think. You're just a young squirt in my mind! is what you are, Frank! [Laughtcr] Indestructible