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INDIVIDUALS NOTEWORTHY

CORPORATION MEMBERS
THE ELECTION of two life members, four Alumni to serve five-year terms, and one ex-officio member of the M.I.T. Corporation was announced in July by Chairman James R. Killian, Jr., '26.
The new life members are Edward J. Hanley, '24, President and Director of the Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, and Robert A. Lovett, former Secretary of Defense and a bank executive in New York City. Mr. Hanley was president of the Alumni Association in 1959-1960. Mr. Lovett, a Yale graduate, served as a special term member of the Corporation from 1955 to 1960. 
The Alumni elected to serve five-year terms are U.A. Whitaker, '23, President, Treasurer, and Director of the Aircraft-Marine Products in Harrisburg, Pa; John R. Kimberly, '26, Chairman of the Board of the Kimberly-Clark Corporation in Neenah, Wis.; Robert B. Semple, '32, President of the Wyandotte Chemicals Corporation of Wyandotte, Mich,; and William B. Bergen, '37, President of the Martin Company in Baltimore.
D. Reid Weedon, Jr., '41, who is now President of the Alumni Association, will serve for one year as ex-officio member. Mr. Weedon is vice-president of Arthur D. Little, Inc., of Cambridge.

CERN's Director General
ON AUGUST 1, Professor Victor F. Weisskopf, on leave of absence from M.I.T., took office as the Director General of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Myrin, near Geneva, Switzerland. CERN has an annual budget of nearly $16,000,000 and operates as part of its research program a 28 billion-electron-volt proton accelerator. (Work being done with it is described on page 26.)
Professor Weisskopf succeeds John B. Adams of England in this post which he will hold for two years. His appointment was considered extraordinary because he is an American citizen and the United States is not a member of CERN. 
Before coming to this country, Professor Weisskopf worked with
Warner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger, Wolfgang Pauli, and other noted physicists in Europe. He received the Max Planck medal of the German Physical Society in 1956, and was president last year of the American Physical Society.

Planners for Venezuela
The Joint Center for Urban Studies of M.I.T. and Harvard has appointed Norman Williams, Jr., as over-all director, and Wilhelm V. von Moltke to be in charge of urban design, on the $900,000 project it has undertaken for the Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana.
The Center's staff will prepare an economic development program for Venezuela's entire Orinoco valley and a general plan for a new industrial city to be called Santo Tomas de Guayana.
Mr. Williams was formerly chief of the office of master planning of New York City, and was visiting professor of city planning at M.I.T. last year. Mr. von Moltke was formerly on the staff of the Philadelphia Planning Commission and recently completed a year as visiting critic on urban design at Harvard.
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ROBERT C. MEISSNER, '43, pictured (at left) with President Joaquin Balaguer of the Dominican Republic, heads the firm retained to develop a Dominican Republic deposit of high-grade iron ore which is believed to be the largest in the Western Hemisphere. Mr. Meissner's home office is in Chicago.

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FRANK G. DENISON, '40, a naval architect, is Lunar Systems Manager of Ford's Aeronutronic Division, responsible for designing and building the first instrumented package which the U.S. plans to land on the moon sometime next year.

Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger, Wolfgang Pauli, and other noted physicists in Europe. He received the Max Planck medal of the German Physical Society in 1956, and was president last year of the American Physical Society.

Planner for Venezuela
THE Join Center for Urban Studies of M.I.T and Harvard has appointed Norman Williams, Jr., as over-all director, and Wilhelm V. von Moltke to be in charge of the urban design, on the $900,000 project it has undertaken for the Corporation Venezolana de Guayana.
  The Center's staff will prepare an economic development program for Venezuela's entire Orinoco valley and a general plan for a new industrial city to be called Santo Tomas de Guayana.
  Mr. Williams was formerly chief of the office of master planning of New York City, and was visiting professor of city planning at M.I.T last year. Mr. von Moltke was formerly on the staff of the Philadelphia Planning Commission and recently completed a year as visiting critic on urban design at Harvard.
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