Said made N57560 apr 28 on a dog for decide Ramsey, professor of physics at Harvard University and president of Universities Research Association, Inc., which operates NAL for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Members of the Board of Trustees of the Universities Research Association, Inc., who are also members of the National Academy of Sciences include Bacher, California Institute of Technology; McMillan, University of California, Berkeley; Leon M. Lederman, Columbia University; E. Marshak, University of Rochester. Source: The Village Crier Vol. 2 No. 19, 14 The responsibility of the Radiation Physics Section that concerns the largest number of people is that of protecting people and the environment from nuclear radiation. If one says protecting... from nuclear radiations, one implies that nuclear radiations be hazardous. Indeed, nuclear radiations be just as hazardous as cooking gas, automobile fuel, electricity, smoking cigarettes, or the cleaning fluid one uses to remove grease spots from clothing. our modern society, one learns about the advantages of electricity and learns to avoid electrocution; one learns the convenience of driving cars and how to cross streets carefully as well as not inhaling too the fumes from the exhaust. other words, one learns to trade some convenience for some risk. fact, people enjoy smoking much that they are willing to pay for the pleasure with five to ten years of their life! Nuclear radiations like almost all products of modern technology help make life better and more enjoyable. It is common practice to use nuclear radiations finding bad teeth, helping set broken bones, search for malignancies the bodies of the sick, cure or arrest cancer, correct overactive thyroid glands without surgery, etc. However, nuclear radiations like a medicine, do good small amounts and harm large amounts. Hence, a very important function of the Radiation Physics Section is to teach and help NAL personnel to live with radiation, making sure that neither exposures to personnel or visitors nor radioactivity released into the environment cause any detectable change the health of NAL personnel, visitors, or neighbors living just outside NAL's boundaries. Recently a milestone was reached the Radiation Physics Section when the first of a family of semi-portable, special nuclear radiation detectors was designed and built. This type of detector permit anybody at NAL to detect nuclear radiations and know what to do to protect himself from it. Essentially, this detector provide radiation eyes to personnel for seeing and avoiding radiation without the need for a big brother to be watching all the time. Source: The Village Crier Vol. 2 No. 35, 3 When one is building anything as complex and costly as a massive accelerator system such as that at NAL, it is only logical that conceptual models be developed first to provide opportunities for improvement before the final design is settled upon. One of the earlier staff appointments at NAL was that of Jose Poces, industrial designer who came to the Laboratory from the staff of O. Urbahn, the prominent New architect who is a member of the DUSAF joint venture. Poces, now 32, has been with the NAL staff for more than two years. He is alumnus of Pratt Institute New and resides Wheaton. Initially, Poces and his helpers produced models of the Main Accelerator Magnets and the Main Accelerator Tunnel a small workshop the basement of office building at Oakbrook. That was when NAL's first operational office was located on the 10th floor of the Executive Plaza Building near the East-West Tollway Oakbrook. After the move to the NAL Village, the model shop, under Poces, was set up three buildings on Shabbona Street not far from the office of Dr. R. NAL Director. There, models of the entire site were developed as were prototypes of the footprint area including the Linac, the Booster and part of the Main Ring. At present, the model shop staff numbers seven, including Poces. It is under the supervision of Henry Hinterberger, Director of Technical Services. Today, the staff is, among other things, concerned with building models for the proposed 15-foot Bubble Chamber It also is working on a model for the central laboratory building. Poces helped to develop the NAL Exhibit Hall with the assistance of Mrs. Gonzales, NAL Designer, and Geno Loro, of the DUSAF staff. We are a hard-working group, versatile our craft, concerned with being a very competent prototype shop for the Laboratory, says Poces. We are already beginning to switch our energies to work on prototypes of the experimental facilities' needs. A Laboratory such as this is constant evolution and the continuing need for models and prototypes be found to be economically efficient. One member of Poces' staff is Velvie Smith, who has invested much of his time developing the topographic model of the NAL site which is located the lobby-entrance of the Curia. Smith is a sensitive, creative with patience and skill that he devotes to making certain that the precise details of every model represent actuality. a speech titled, Youth and Democracy which Smith gave