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Maritime Transportation Research Board members discuss maritime problems during coffee break at the meeting at the University of Michigan. Left to right: John B.

Oren, Edgar F. Luckenbach Jr., Rear Adm. Edward J.

O'Donnell, USN (ret.) and James J. Henry.

The Maritime Transportation Research

Board, under the chairmanship of Edgar F.

Luckenbach Jr., met September 15-17 at the

University olf Michigan, Ann Arbor, to review national maritime research goals. The Board, which is a unit of the National Research Coun- cil-National Academy of Sciences-National

Academy of Engineering, meets twice a year to recommend long-range plans for maritime transportation research and to review the pro- gress of its committees and panels. The mem- bers of the Board and its panels and commit- tees contribute their time and effort to the work of the National Academy, which is a pri- vate, nonprofit organization chartered by Con- gress to provide advice to the Government.

The meeting was highlighted by a presenta- tion by Rear Adm. George Miller, USN, of the

Maritime Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, who explained the Administration's new effort to coordinate Department of Com- merce and Department of Defense planning concerning the role of the U.S. Merchant Ma- rine in national defense.

During its deliberations, the Board took time off to visit the naval architecture facilities of the University of Michigan. Prof. Harry Ben- ford and Board member Prof. Raymond Yagle, explained the University's naval architecture program and arranged for the members of the

Board to discuss design projects with several of the school's students.

Before adjourning September 17, the Board reviewed the progress of three ongoing re- search projects. The first of these projects is being conducted by the Shipbuilding R&D

Panel under the chairmanship of Dr. John C.

Warner, president emeritus of the Carnegie

Institute of Technology. This panel is ana- lyzing the shipbuilding industry in the United

States to determine what private and Govern- ment research and development should be un- dertaken to revitalize the U.S. shipbuilding in- dustry. The second project reviewed is one to determine what the U.S. strategy should be with respect to nuclear merchant ship develop- ment. This panel is being chaired by Edwin

Haefele of Resources for the Future. The third study, which is being conducted under the chairmanship of Dr. Carl C. Chambers, vice president for engineering affairs of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, is dealing with the ques- tion of what support, if any, universities and institutional research organizations should re- ceive from the United States Government and industry for maritime research.

The Board tentatively approved three addi- tional research projects to be initiated in the forthcoming fiscal year. The first is a study of the organization of human resources in the maritime industry. This effort will analyze, among other things, the changing relationship of man to his work aiboard ship with an eye toward changing the traditional organization and relationships of men aboard ships at sea.

The second study will be a continuation of the

Board's previous efforts in merchant marine safety. This project will be directed toward improving the procedures for the collection of merchant marine casualty and loss statistics.

It will also analyze and make recommenda- tions in the area of human failure as a cause of ship losses and casualties. The third pro- ject will assist the maritime industry in plan- ning for conversion to metric standards and units of measurement when the Department of Commerce recommendations for a national metric program are enacted.

For long-range planning, the Board directed that study definition panels be set up to recom- mend R&D action on the following subjects: (1) the present and projected relationship of the U.S. merchant marine to bulk cargo im- ports ; (2) the future role Of coastal and inland waterway routes as a transportation alterna- tive to new highway construction; (3) the criteria for a competitive U.'S. merchant ma- rine, and (4) the future national requirements for ports.

The members of the Maritime Transporta- tion Research Board are: MTRB chairman

Edgar F. Luckenbach Jr., president and chair- man of the board, Luckenbach Steamship Com- pany, Inc.; MTRB vice chairman Richard M.

Michaels, director of research, The Transpor- tation Center, Northwestern University; John

Storm Bull, president, Moran Towing and

Transportation Company, Inc.; Robert A. Carl,

Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of the

Navy; Prof. Louis E. Davis, professor of or- ganizational sciences, director of the center for organization studies, Graduate School of Man- agement, University of California at Los An- geles ; John T. Gilbride, president, Todd Ship- yards Corporation; Paul Hall, president, Sea- farers International Union; James J. Henry, president, J.J. Henry Co., Inc.; Ran Hettena, vice president of operations, Maritime Over- seas Corporation; David C.G. Kerr, partner,

Macfarlane, Ferguson, Allison & Kelly; Dr.

Samuel A. Lawrence, vice president for ad- ministration, Cornell University; Albert E.

May, vice president, American Institute of

Merchant Shipping; Prof. Harold M. Mayer, department of geography, Kent State Univer- sity ; Kenneth A. Meyers, general manager-

Northeastern region, Corrugated Container Di- vision, Continental Can Company; Rear Adm.

Edward J. O'Donnell, USN (ret.), superinten- dent, State of New York Maritime College;

Robert J. Pfeiffer, executive vice president,

Matson Navigation Company; Richard F. Pol- lard, vice president, The Chase Manhattan

Bank; Maurice L. Sellers, naval architect,

Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock

Company; Nathan S. Simat, president, Simat,

Helliesen & Eichner, Inc.; Walter Wells, vice president and manager, marine office, Appel- ton & Cox; Prof. Raymond A. Yagle, depart- ment of naval architecture and marine engi- neering, University of Michigan; Robert T.

Young, president, American Bureau of Ship- ping, and Charles Zeien, vice president, Sun

Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company.

The executive director is Rear Adm. John

B. Oren, USCG (ret.), and Harvey C. Paige is the executive secretary. The project man- agers are: Leonard E. Bassil, John H. Leeper,

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