URA Board Meets Here
URA Trustees and Administrators: (L-R) Front row, G. Snow, G. Goldhaber, B. Bennett, N. Ramsey, M. White, J. Colvin. Back row, J. Matheson, D. Miller, R. Carlson, N. Mayall, A. Weaver, A. Clark, M. Davis, O. Schuette, G. Webb, R. Buchanan, R. Williams
The Board of Trustees of Universities Research Association, Inc., held its first meeting of 1977 at Fermilab on February 24 and 25 as the corporation enters its thirteenth year of operation, eleven of which have been as a contractor with the federal government for the construction and management of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
URA membership increased in recent months to 53 institutions as the University of Hawaii was accepted for membership. Now fifty-two universities and colleges in the United States plus the University of Toronto make up the corporate roster.
Elected to the Board of Trustees at the recent Council of Presidents' meeting were: Allen H. Clark, Dean of the School of Science of Purdue University; W. Dale Compton, Director, Chemical and Physical Sciences, Ford Motor Company; Rodney L. Cool, Department of Physics, Rockefeller University; Morris Davis, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina; Jerome I. Friedman, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Robert L. Ketter, State University of New York at Buffalo; Oswald F. Schuette, Jr., Department of Physics, University of South Carolina.
The URA Board also elected officers for the coming year. They are: Chairman, Milton White, Princeton (re-elected); Vice-chairman, Harold Ticho, University of California, L.A.; Chairman of the Administrative Committee, G. Arthur Webb, Carnegie-Mellon; Chairman of the Scientific Committee, George A. Snow, University of Maryland.
At the end of their business meeting, URA officials joined Fermilab people in honoring Bradley F. Bennett who has served as URA Vice President for Administration since 1967. Bennett retired on February 28. He has been a familiar figure at Fermilab for the past ten years in his regular commuting between Illinois and the corporation's offices in Washington, D.C., conducting Laboratory business.
"Captain" Bennett (a retired Naval officer) will be succeeded by James C. Matheson in the VP post. Matheson joined the URA staff a few months ago, coming from a position with the State Department. Other URA corporate officers are Norman F. Ramsey, President; Robert K. Buchanan, Secretary; Robert A. Williams, Treasurer/controller.