1932

Hon. James Wakelin, assistant secretary of the Navy (Research and Development), was recently made the subject of Pentagon Profile, a monthly feature of Armed Forces Management, published in Washington, D. C. The article gives a most impressive picture of the responsibilities involved in Jim's office and provides ample testimony as to his qualifications and ability to handle the job. The writer expresses mild surprise that Jim can maintain "his relatively youthful appearance" under the weight of all this responsibility.

. Jim is responsible for policy, management and control of Navy Department research, development, test and evaluation, including general management of the funds involved in this work, which in Navy's fiscal 1961 budget amounted to $1.2 billion. This means that he is in effect responsible for what the Navy's weapons and equipment will be like five or ten years from now and, as a result, what the Navy will be doing. This includes just about every area of Naval operations, from flights into space to sailing under the sea.

Summing up what his job must produce, Jim says, "In our rapidly changing scientific and technical environment, we must pattern our program to cope with widely divergent threats in the future. With the present rate of progress in science and technology, a vigorous and diversified research and development program is essential to insure that the required weapons will be available to the Navy in the future."

Representative Tom Curtis continues to be in the news as he spearheads a movement among a group of Congressmen to institute a procedural change for contempt actions. The move was inspired by the contempt of Congress citations voted in August against three top officers of the Port of New York Authority. Tom, who is ranking Republican on the Joint Economic Committee and a member of the Ways and Means Committee, voted against the contempt citations and later charged that they had been adopted after an unfair debate. They came to the floor of the House under what is called the Hour Rule and, according to Tom, although there was a determined opposition, it never had a chance to present its side of the case.

Tom says he will introduce two resolutions when Congress reconvenes which will pertain to future contempt citations. One will require that both sides of any question be allotted time for debate under the Hour Rule. The other will require that future motions for contempt citations be referred to an impartial committee before they are taken to the floor.

Gordon Mackenzie has dropped us a line from his new home at 233 North Road, Smoke Rise, Kennelon Boro, N. J., to say that he and Betty have moved back to the country from New York City and look forward to seeing any classmates who might be in that section.

Max Wolff writes from Harrison, N. Y., saying that Art Allen is now one of his neighbors, and that he sees Max and JuliaSaltzman now and then in New York. He spent his August vacation in New Hampshire and Vermont, and hopes to attend our fall reunion in Hanover.

Bo and Ginna Wentworth's daughter Linda was married to Mr. Delano Chaney Cannon Jr., on September 10, at the First Congregational Church in Old Greenwich, Conn.

George Hahn has been appointed chief of the Gynecology Section at the Philadelphia General Hospital. Other honors which have recently come his way are his appointment as vice president of the Pan American Medical Association 1960-61 (Obstetrics and Gynecology) and his election as president of the Wainwright Tumor Clinic Association, which is made up of representatives from the 53 tumor clinics in Pennsylvania.

We hear that last May George Hill, trust officer of California Bank, was placed in charge of a new trust department in the bank's Beverly Hills office, established in order to make available complete trust services for individuals and corporations in Beverly Hills and the surrounding area.

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