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COMMISSION OPERATIONS AND METHODOLOGY

Response, headed by Charles A. Harvey, Jr.; and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, headed by Kevin P. Kane (who also served as Deputy Chief Counsel) and Stan M. Helfman. Messrs. Kane, Rockwell, and Harvey had been in private practice before coming to the Commission; Mr. Helfman was on leave from the California Department of Justice.

The Director of the Technical Staff was Vincent L. Johnson, formerly of NASA./ Mr. Johnson directed task forces in the following areas: Technical Assessment of Events, headed by Leonard Jaffe of NASA; Public Health, headed by Jacob I. Fabrikant of the University of California Medical School at Berkeley; Emergency Preparedness, headed by Russell R. Dynes of the American Sociological Association; and the Public's Right to Information, headed by David M. Rubin of New York University.

Barbara Jorgenson served as the Commission's Public Information Director and in addition was Executive Editor of the Commission's report and had responsibility for congressional affairs. Ms. Jorgenson was on leave from the National Academy of Sciences.

Messrs. Gorinson and Johnson and Ms. Jorgenson all reported directly to the Chairman of the Commission.

During the course of its investigation, the Commission held 12 days of public hearings; the staff conducted more than 150 depositions and numerous interviews and reviewed hundreds of thousands of document pages.

Among other things, the Commission staff requested and reviewed the results of computer analyses from several national laboratories and performed its own technical analyses, conducted a content analysis of 43 newspapers, conducted a study into the behavioral effects of the accident, and analyzed the emergency plans in effect at the time of the accident.

The Commission's final product consists of its report, and more than 30 staff reports, many of which have been published.

*/ Mr. Johnson succeeded Bruce T. Lundin as Director of the Technical Staff in July 1979, when Mr. Lundin became a Special Consultant to the Chairman.

COMMISSIONERS' BIOGRAPHIES

Babbitt, Bruce.

Governor of Arizona, 1978

Born:

June 27,

1938, Los Angeles, Calif. Education: Notre Dame University (BA, 1960); University of Newcastle, England (MS, 1963); Harvard Law School (LLB, 1965). Experience: Experience: special assistant to director, VISTA, 1966-67; attorney, Brown & Bain, Phoenix, Ariz., 1967-74; attorney general of Arizona, 1974-78. Honors & Awards: Marshall Scholar, 1960-62; Thomas Jefferson Award, 1979, Society of Professional Journalists-Sigma Delta Chi. Publications: Grand Canyon: An Anthology (1978); Color and Light: The Southwest Canvases of Louis Akin (1974). Memberships: National Governors' Association (chairman, Subcommittee on Public Protection); Four Corners Regional Commission; former member, National Association of Attorneys General. Activities: Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations; chairman, Southwest Border Regional Commission; Advisory Committee, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Haggerty, Patrick Eugene. General Director and Honorary Chairman, Texas Instruments, Inc., Dallas, Tex., 1976- . Born: March 17, 1914, Harvey, N.D. Education: Marquette University (BS, 1936). Experience: Badger Carton Co., Milwaukee, Wis., 1935-42: production manager, 1935-39, assistant general manager, 1939-42; lieutenant, U.S. Naval Reserve at Bureau of Aeronautics, U.S. Dept. of the Navy, 1942-45; Texas Instruments, Inc., 1945-76: general manager, Laboratory and Manufacturing Division, 1945-51, executive vice president and director, 1951-58, president, 1958-66, chairman, 1966-76, retired, 1976. Honors & Awards: Medal of Honor, 1967, Electronic Industries Association; Founders Award, 1968, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Industrial Research Institute Medalist, 1969; John Fritz Medalist, 1971; Alumnus of the Year, 1972, Marquette University; Wema Medal of Achievement, 1972; Henry Laurence Gantt Medal, 1975; honorary doctorates from: St. Mary's University, 1959, Marquette University, 1960, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, 1962, University of Dallas, 1964, North Dakota State University, 1967, Catholic University, 1971, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1972, University of Notre Dame, 1974. Publications: Management Philosophies and Practices of Texas Instruments (1965), The Productive Society (1973). Memberships: Rockefeller University (chairman, Board of Trustees); University of Dallas (Board of Trustees and Executive

Committee); Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Fellow);
National Academy of Engineering (elected, 1965); American Association
for the Advancement of Science (Fellow); National Security Industrial
Association (life member and former vice chairman, Board of Trustees);
Texas Academy of Science (life member); The Business Council.
Activities: vice chairman, Defense Science Board, 1965-67; National
Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic Progress, 1968;
Presidential Science Advisory Committee, 1970-71; chairman, National
Council on Educational Research, 1973-74; Executive Committee,
Tri-Lateral Commission, 1973-76; Board of Governors, U.S. Postal
Service, 1972-73.

Kemeny, John G. President, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1970Born: May 31, 1926, Budapest, Hungary; came to U.S. 1940; naturalized U.S. citizen, 1945. Education: Princeton University (BA, 1947; PhD, 1949). Experience: assistant, Theoretical Division, Manhattan Project, U.S. Dept. of the Army, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, N. Mex., 1945-46; research assistant to Albert Einstein, Institute for Advanced Study, 1948-49; Princeton University, 1949-53: Fine Instructor in Mathematics, 1949-51, assistant professor of philosophy, 1951-53; Dartmouth College, 1953-70: professor of mathematics, 1953-70, chairman of Mathematics Department, 1955-67, Albert Bradley Third Century Professor, 1969-70. Honors & Awards: Priestley Award, 1976; honorary doctorates from: Middlebury College, 1965, Columbia University, 1971, Princeton University, 1971, University of New Hampshire, 1972, Boston College, 1973, University of Pennsylvania, 1975, Colby College, 1976, Bard College, 1978, Lafayette College, 1978. Publications: A Philosopher Looks at Science (1959), Man and the Computer (1972), Random Essays, numerous articles; co-author: Basic Programming (1968), Denumerable Markov Chains (1966), Finite Mathematics with Business Applications (1962), Finite Markov Chains (1960), Mathematical Models in the Social Sciences (1962), Finite Mathematical Structures (1958), Introduction to Finite Mathematics (1957); contributor, Encyclopaedia Britannica; associate editor, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 1959-70. Memberships: Phi Beta Kappa; Association for Symbolic Logic (consulting editor, 1950-59); Mathematical Association of America (chairman, New England Section, 1959-60; Board of Governors, 1960-63; chairman, Panel on Teacher Training, 1961-63; chairman, Panel on Biological and Social Sciences, 1963-64); American Mathematical Society; American Philosophical Association; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Sigma Xi (national lecturer, 1967); National Council of Teachers of Mathematics; American Association for the Advancement of Science. Activities: consultant, Rand Corp., 1953-70; consultant, Educational Research Council of Greater Cleveland, 1959-70; chairman, U.S. Commission on Mathematics Instruction, 1958-60; National Research Council, 1963-66; vice chairman, Advisory Committee on Computing, National Science Foundation, 1968-69; delivered Vanuxem Lectures, Princeton University, 1974; National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, 1971-73; Advisory Committee to Regional Director, U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1971-73; trustee, Foundation Center, 1970-76; trustee, Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching, 1972-78; director, Council for Financial Aid to Education, 1976-79; director, Honeywell, Inc., 1978-79.

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