Bantz, Fred A., Under Secretary of the Navy. Wakelin, James Henry, Jr., nominated to be Assistant Secretary of Ballance, Col. Robert G., Assistant Director, U.S. Marine Corps Jackson, Stephen S., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Man- power, Personnel, and Reserves.. 9 16 III NOMINATION OF J. H. WAKELIN, JR., TO BE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, AND EXTENSION OF 6-MONTH TRAINING PROGRAM THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1959 COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, U.S. SENATE, Washington, D.C. The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10:30 a.m., in room 212, Senate Office Building. Present: Senators Russell (presiding), Stennis, Symington, Jackson, Ervin, Thurmond, Engle, Cannon, Saltonstall, Smith, and Bush. Also present: Harry L. Wingate, Jr., chief clerk; William A. Darden; T. Edward Braswell, Gordon Nease, and Herbert S. Atkinson, of the committee staff. NOMINATION OF JAMES HENRY WAKELIN, JR., TO BE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY Chairman RUSSELL. The first item on the committee's agenda is the nomination of Mr. James Henry Wakelin, Jr., of New Jersey, to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy to succeed Fred A. Bantz who has been elevated to the position of Under Secretary. Mr. Wakelin, we are pleased to have you before the committee. Will you have a seat at the end of the table? STATEMENT OF FRED A. BANTZ, UNDER SECRETARY, NAVY DEPARTMENT Mr. BANTZ. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, Mr. Frank had planned to be over here this morning, but unfortunately they called a national security meeting this morning and that is the reason he is not here. It is my pleasure to introduce Mr. Wakelin this morning. Mr. Wakelin, if he is approved by the Senate, will be appointed by the Secretary of the Navy as Assistant Secretary for Research and Development. He comes to us with a very good background in this field which Mr. Wakelin is prepared to explain and answer any questions. I introduce to you Mr. Wakelin. Chairman RUSSELL. Dr. Wakelin, we will be glad to have you give us a brief statement of your background and experience, and some of the members of the committee may then have questions. 1 STATEMENT OF JAMES HENRY WAKELIN, JR., NOMINEE TO BE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY (The qualifications referred to follow:) NOMINATION REFERENCE AND REPORT IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, June 5, 1959. Ordered, That the following nomination be referred to the Committee on Armed Services: James Henry Wakelin, Junior, of New Jersey, to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy vice Fred A. Bantz, elevated. JAMES H. WAKELIN James H. Wakelin was born in Holyoke, Mass., on May 6, 1911. He attended public schools in Holyoke, graduating from high school in 1928. He received an A.B. degree in physics from Dartmouth College in 1932. During 1932-34 he attended Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, where he was granted a B.A. degree in the natural sciences in 1934 and an M.A. degree in 1939. Dr Wakelin received his Ph. D. degree in physics from Yale University in 1940, where he specialized in the field of ferro-magnetism. During 1939-43 Dr. Wakelin was a senior physicist in the Physical Research Department of the B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio. His work there was concerned with the structure and physical properties of natural and synthetic rubber, and with X-ray diffraction and electron microscope studies of high polymers. From 1943 to 1945 he was ordnance staff officer to the Coordinator of Research and Development, Navy Department, Washington, D.C. During 1945-46, as a Lieutenant Commander, USNR, he was head of the Chemistry, Mathematics, and Mechanics and Materials Sections of the Planning Division, Office of Research and Inventions, and was active in the planning and organization of the Navy's program to sponsor basic scientific research, now under the direction of the Office of Naval Research. Following World War II, Dr. Wakelin joined a group of former Navy research scientists in the establishment of Engineering Research Associates, Inc., of Washington, D.C., and St. Paul, Minn., and held the position of director of research. While with this company he was also director of the field survey group of ONR project SQUID under contract to Princeton University. In 1948 he became associate director of research of the Textile Research Institute in Princeton, and in June 1951 was appointed director of research of the institute, serving in this capacity for 3 years. In 1954 Dr. Wakelin established his own consulting business in Princeton and has been a consultant on research planning and organization to the Lamp Division, General Electric Co., Cleveland Ohio; Stanford Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif.; American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp., New York City; J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc., New York City; Frenchtown Porcelain Co. and Star Porcelain Co. of Trenton, N.J. He was one of the founders in 1954 of Chesapeake Instrument Corp., Shadyside, Md., established to conduct research and development for the Navy in the fields of underwater sound and acoustic devices. He has been a vice president and consultant of that company. During this period he was also a research associate on the staff of Textile Research Institute working on the structure and physical properties of high polymers under a program sponsored by the Office of Naval Research. Dr. and Mrs. Wakelin, the former Margaret Cushing Smith, of Concord, Mass., have lived in Lawrenceville, N.J., for the past 10 years. They have three James H. III and Alan B., who attend the Lawrenceville School, and David a student at the Princeton Country Day School. The Wakelins have been active with the Cub Scouts and the parent-teachers, association in Lawrenceville and with the American Red Cross in Princeton. Dr Wakelin served as president of the Nassau Club of Princeton in 1955 and as a member of the board of trustees, 1956-59; he is also vice president of the Fathers' Association of the Lawrenceville School. Mrs. Wakelin is active as a volunteer with the Princeton Hospital where she is now chairman of the hospital aid committee. The family's recreational hobbies include golf and sailing and they spend their summer vacations on Pickering Island in Penobscot Bay, Maine. Dr. Wakelin is a member of Sigma XI, the American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Crystallographic Society, Textile Research Institute, the Textile Institute of Great Britain, and is a contributor of scientific papers to the Journal of Applied Physics, the Industrial and Engineering Chemistry and Textile Research Journal in the field of high polymer physics. He is a coauthor, with C. B. Tompkins and W. W. Stifler, Jr., of "High-Speed Computing Devices" published by McGraw-Hill Book Co. in 1950. Mr. WAKELIN. Yes, sir. Perhaps it might be well for me to begin with my education. I was educated at Dartmouth College and graduated in 1932 and majored in physics. Then I went to Cambridge University for 2 years and concentrated again in physics there and received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree, and from then on I was at Yale as a graduate student and as an instructor and received a Ph. D. degree in physics in 1945. During the last 19 years I have been in research and development as director of research and as a member of research teams, first the B. F. Goodrich Co. in Akron, Ohio, later in the Executive Office of the Secretary of the Navy Department in Washington, D.C., during the war. In 1946 I joined the firm of Engineering Research Associates of which I was one of the founders, became director of research of that company. In 1948 we moved to Princeton, N.J., where I accepted a position as associate director of research of the Textile Research Institute. I was director of research there from 1952 to 1954. In 1954 I resigned my position to do part time consulting and work also for the Textile Research Institute. My consulting work has been mostly in the field of physics and partly in the field of physical chemistry. During that period I was also a founder after 1954, a founder of Chesapeake Instrument Corp. which has a plant near Annapolis whose prime interest is in underwater sound and antisubmarine problems. I have been a consultant to the General Electric Co., the J. P. Stevens Co., the American Radiator & Sanitary Corp., Stanford Research Institute, Textile Research Institute, Frenchtown Porcelain Co. and Star Porcelain Co. in Trenton of which I am director. I have been associated almost entirely during this period with work for the Navy Department, principally for the Office of Naval Research. The first connection that I have had with them started in 1946 with a research project at Princeton of which I was a director of the field survey group. Chairman RUSSELL. Dr. Wakelin, it is customary to file with the committee a list of any securities that nominees might hold. Mr. WAKELIN. Yes, sir. Chairman RUSSELL. Are you prepared to file that with the committee? Mr. WAKELIN. I am indeed, sir, and I have it here. Chairman RUSSELL. Very well, we would like to see a copy of it, please. Have you had anyone check to see whether any of these companies do extensive business with the Department of the Navy or the Department of Defense? Mr. WAKELIN. Yes, sir. Chesapeake Instrument Corp. does, I would estimate, a major fraction of its work for the Navy Department in the field of underwater sound. |