DUSAF Celebrates 6th Anniversary
E. Parke Rohrer (standing) displays farewell gift at DUSAF
luncheon. Norman Ramsey, URA President, and
W. Alexander, DUSAF Project Director, also attended
Photo by Tony Frelo, NAL
NAL and DUSAF recently celebrated the sixth year of their contract for design and completion of conventional facilities for the National Accelerator Laboratory. It was an occasion for DUSAF to recognize the completion of many of its major projects. At the same time, DUSAF re-grouped its forces for one-year extension of portions of the contract, to July of 1974.
It was on January 1, 1968 that the joint venture I received authority to proceed with design of these I facilities for the National Accelerator Laboratory. Four firms have participated in the joint venture: Daniel, Mann, Johnson, and Mendenhall of Los Angeles; the office of Max 0. Urbahn of New York City; Seelye, Stevenson, Value and Knecht, Inc., of New York City; and George A. Fuller Company, a Maryland Corporation, (hence, the acronym DUSAF). William D. Alexander of DMJM has served as Project Director. And DMJM's E. Parke Rohrer, Project Manager. DUSAF operated under a consulting contract with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission from 1965 on during the most preliminary planning for NAL, including the work done at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California. Offices of the firm are located in the former Phillips Farm on the NAL site on former Batavia Road. DUSAF presently employs about 35 people on its staff.
DUSAF's administrative structure for the next year will be as follows: Project Manager, Richard Payzant; John Trommerhauser remains as Assistant Project Manager. George Poddy will be in charge of Architecture and will serve as Coordinator for Engineering and Architectural Design. Norman Christensen remains as Manager of Construction. Other DUSAF administrators will include: Tom Pawlak, Project Engineer; Fran Johnson, Coordinator of Construction; Rex Reiser, in charge of Contracts; and Fred Nelson, head of Purchasing.
Dick Pages, holds the position of Chief Structural Engineer; William Power. Chief Electrical Engineer; Warren Lahners, Chief Mechanical Engineer; and Homer Branch, Chief Civil Engineer.
E. Parke Rohrer moves to the post of DUSAF Project Director, but returns to the home offices of DMJM in Los Angeles as Deputy Director of regional groups. He will return to NAL each few months in his new supervisory capacity. Known to his associates at NAL as a man of deep integrity and personal commitment, he has been a calm. Steady, and dedicated captain of the DUSAF ship since January of 1968.
As he left the NAL area last week, he said, "I'll always remember Dr. Wilson's demos to DUSAF - 'save the trees and get rid of the port-a-camps.'"
"But,"-he went on, "this has been the most challenging and rewarding project I have ever worked on - challenging because there has never been anything like it, and rewarding because we were able to stay long enough to see the accelerator reach 400 BeV. I want to thank all of the contractors, the NAL personnel, and the DUSAF employees who have helped us."