Mr. Tuerk joined the Federal service in 1951 as a budget analyst with the Bureau of State Services, U.S. Public Health Service, and later became executive assistant of the Bureau's tuberculosis program.

He was transferred to the PHS Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta in 1957, serving as program management officer for the venereal disease branch. In his present position, he is responsible for long-range planning, program analysis, and studies for the prediction of future trends.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH FOR EDWIN R. LANNON

Edwin R. Lannon has been Assistant Commissioner for Administration, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, since June 1966.

He was born December 7, 1922, in Somerville, Mass. Following Naval service in World War II, he entered Tufts University Graduate School in 1948, receiving his master's degree in 1950. His major fields of study were economics and political science.

Mr. Lannon entered Federal service in 1950 with the Social Security Administration. From 1953 to 1955, he was employed as an industrial engineer by Sylvania Electric Products, Salem, Mass.

He returned to the Social Security Administration as a management analysis officer in 1955. In 1958, he was assigned to the Office of the Secretary, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, where his major responsibilities were in the areas of systems analysis, electronic data processing, and printing management.

Mr. Lannon has been a pioneer in the field of integrating printing with electronic data processing. In recognition of his work in this field, he was awarded the Horace Hart Award of the Education Council of the Graphic Arts Industry in 1966.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH FOR BILL V. MOFARLAND

Bill V. McFarland was appointed in January as the Food and Drug Administration's first Regional Assistant Commissioner. He began the assignment January 9, 1967, in the Dallas Regional Office of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Mr. McFarland, who is 41, was born in Rolla, Mo. He received a bachelor's degree in biological science in 1950 from Southeast Missouri State College and received a master's degree in public health from the University of Michigan in 1955.

He joined the Bureau of Food and Drugs of the Missouri Division of Health in 1950 and served as assistant supervisor of the Bureau from 1953 to 1955. He was director of the Division of Food and Drug Control of the Arkansas Board of Health from December 1955, until June 1957, when he joined FDA's Office of Federal-State Relations as an administrative officer.

He was promoted to Assistant Director of the Office in 1959 and became deputy director in 1960. Mr. McFarland was serving as Acting Director of the Office at the time of his appointment as Regional Assistant Commissioner.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH FOR GEORGE W. SOOY

George W. Sooy was appointed Regional Assistant Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration in January 1967. He began the assignment February 26, 1967, in the Charlottesville (Va.) Regional Office of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Mr. Sooy, who is 66, has served the Food and Drug Administration for more than 44 years. He joined FDA soon after receiving his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Rutgers College in 1922.

He worked as an inspector in FDA's New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Minneapolis Districts during the following 19 years. He was appointed residentinspector in Detroit in July 1942, became chief inspector in Cincinnati in December 1944, and was reassigned as chief inspector in Baltimore in May 1952. Mr. Sooy was appointed District Director in Baltimore in July 1962, holding that post until his appointment as Regional Assistant Commissioner this year.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH FOR HERBERT L. LEY, JR., M.D.

Herbert L. Ley Jr., M.D., became director of the Bureau of Medicine, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, on September 19, 1966.

Doctor Ley, who is 43, was associate professor of epidemiology and microbiology at the Harvard School of Public Health for 3 years prior to joining FDA. Born in Columbus, Ohio, he was graduated cum laude from the Harvard Medical School in 1946.

Doctor Ley entered the Army Medical Corps the following year and served nearly 11 years, rising in rank from first lieutenant to lieutenant colonel. While in the Army, Dr. Ley earned his master's degree at the Harvard School of Public Health, graduating magna cum laude in 1951.

He was professor of bacteriology and microbiology at George Washington University from 1958 to 1961, and also served as executive officer (chairman) of the university's department of microbiology and community health.

From 1961 to 1963, Doctor Ley was Chief, Biological and Medical Science Branch, and Acting Chief, Scientific Analysis Branch, Life Sciences Division, U.S. Army Research Office.

Throughout his career, Doctor Ley has been active in medical research. He is the author or coauthor of more than 30 articles published in scientific journals and medical textbooks.

He has served as a member of the Army Scientific Advisory Panel and several commissions of the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, and has been a consultant to the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council and the National Institutes of Health.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH FOR ALFRED BARNARD

Alfred Barnard became Acting Director, Bureau of Regulatory Compliance, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, in September, 1966.

A native of New York City, Mr. Barnard was educated at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of North Carolina. He received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Georiga Tech in 1938.

Mr. Barnard began his FDA career in 1941 as an inspector in the Atlanta district. He subsequently held increasingly responsible assignments as an inspector at Baltimore, resident inspector for the District of Columbia, food and drug officer in the Bureau of Field Administration, Washington, D.C., and chief inspector of the San Francisco district.

He was named Director of the Kansas City District on December 31, 1960, remaining in that post until his reassignment to FDA's Washington headquarters in 1966.

Mr. Barnard served as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Drug Abuse Control during the organization of that new unit last year.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH FOR JOHN H. FINLATOR

John H. Finlator became the first director of the Food and Drug Administration's Bureau of Drug Abuse Control on March 7, 1966. He had served as Director of the Office of Manpower Administration, General Services Administration, for 4 years prior to joining FDA.

A native of Louisburg, N.C., Mr. Finlator received his bachelor's degree from North Carolina State College in 1934. He did graduate study in administration from 1943 to 1945 at American University, Washington, D.C.

A veteran of more than 21 years of Federal service, Mr. Finlator has worked as an investigator for the Civil Service Commission, as a special agent with the Department of State, and as assistant executive officer in the State Department's Personnel Office.

He became Acting Director of the Public Administration Division, Institute of Inter-American Affairs, in 1950, and was named executive officer of the Department of State's Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs in 1952.

Two years later, Mr. Finlator accepted appointment as a regional management officer with the Post Office Department. He was in that post for 3 years, then served for 5 years as Director of the GSA's Systems and Procedures Division.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH FOR CORNELIUS D. VAN HOUWELING, D.V.M.

C. Donald Van Houweling, D.V.M., has been director of the Bureau of Veterinary Medicine, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, since January, 1967. He became acting director of the Bureau on December 1, 1966.

Born July 19, 1918, in Mahaska County, Iowa, Dr. Van Houweling received his D.V.M. degree in 1942 from Iowa State College at Ames, Iowa. He later studied at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine and at Iowa State University, receiving a master's degree in microbiology from the latter institution in 1966.

Doctor Van Houweling served in the Army Veterinary Corps during World War II. Discharged from the Army in 1946, he joined the staff of the Illinois Agricultural Association and later served on the staff of the American Veterinary Medical Association.

He began his Federal service in 1954 as director of livestock regulatory programs in the Department of Agriculture. He became assistant administrator in the Department's Agricultural Research Service in 1956, then was assigned as assistant director of the Department's National Animal Disease Laboratory at Ames, Iowa, in 1961. In that post, Doctor Van Houweling was responsible for the laboratory activities of the Animal Health and Veterinary Biologics Divisions of the Agricultural Research Service.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH FOR WILLIAM H. SUMMERSON

William H. Summerson has been Director of the Bureau of Science, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare since July 17, 1966.

Born April 12, 1906 at Decatur, Alabama, Doctor Summerson attended elementary and high school in New York City. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., receiving a bachelor's in chemistry in 1927, a master's in 1928, and a doctorate degree in 1937.

He taught biochemistry at Cornell University Medical College in New York City from 1929 to 1947. He was an Associate Professor when he left Cornell to become Chief of the Biochemistry Section, Medical Division, Army Chemical Center.

Doctor Summerson was Chief, Biochemistry Division, Chemical Corps Medical Laboratories, Army Chemical Center, from 1953 to 1956; Director of Research, Chemical Warfare Laboratories, 1956 to 1959; Deputy Commander for Scientific Activities, U.S. Army Chemical Corps Research and Development Command, 1959 to 1962, and Chief Scientist of the U.S. Army Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland from 1962 to 1964.

Doctor Summerson became Director of FDA's Bureau of Scientific Research in 1964, and assumed his present position when that Bureau was consolidated with the Bureau of Scientific Standards and Evaluation last July.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH FOR FRED J. DELMORE

Fred J. Delmore became director of the Bureau of Education and Voluntary Compliance, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health, Education. and Welfare, in May, 1965. He had served 23 years in the Army Chemical Corps, retiring as a brigadier general in April 1965.

Born June 12, 1905, General Delmore received a bachelor's degree from Scranton University, Scranton, Pa., in 1928. He received a bachelor of science degree in chemistry in 1931 and a master's degree in organic chemistry in 1932 from Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass. He did further graduate work in organic chemistry at Fordham University, New York, N.Y., from 1933 to 1935.

General Delmore was a food and drug inspector with the Food and Drug Administration from 1935 until he entered the service in 1942.

His military assignments included more than a year as commanding general of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps Research and Development Command and three years as commanding general of the Edgewood Arsenal.

He holds the Army Commendation Ribbon with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Legion of Merit from the Secretary of the Army, and the Army's Distinguished Service Medal.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH FOR WILLIAM E. BRENNAN

William E. Brennan was appointed in January 1963, to the position of hearing examiner, Food and Drug Division, Office of General Counsel, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Born in Providence, R.I., in 1925, Mr. Brennan received a bachelor of science degree from Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass., in 1950. He studied law at Georgetown University School of Law, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1955 and a master's 2 years later.

Mr. Brennan was a special agent with the FBI in 1951 and 1952, later joining the law firm of Adair, Ulmer, Murchison, Kent & Ashby.

He joined the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1956 and served as a trial attorney in the Office of General Counsel until his appointment as hearing examiner in 1963.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH FOR PAUL A. PUMPIAN

Paul A. Pumpian was named February 20, 1967, as Acting Director of the new Office of Legislative and Governmental Services, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

A graduate of the University of Maryland Schools of Pharmacy (1950) and Law (1953), Mr. Pumpian joined FDA in February, 1966, as Deputy Director of the Division of Case Assistance, Bureau of Drug Abuse Control. He was named assistant to the Director of the Bureau on September 25, 1966.

After receiving his law degree, Mr. Pumpian served as assistant professor and chairman of the department of pharmacy administration at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in Baltimore until 1956. He worked as a patent attorney for E. R. Squibb and Sons, New Brunswick, N.J., from July 1956, until October 1958.

Mr. Pumpian became Secretary of the Wisconsin Board of Pharmacy in January 1959, remaining in that position until joining FDA in 1966.

Active in a number of law enforcement, legal and pharmacy associations, Mr. Pumpian has served as president of the Milwaukee chapter of the Federal Bar Association; chairman, Section on Education and Legislation, American Pharmaceutical Association; chairman, Committee on Legislation, National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, and chairman, Committee on Legislation, and member of the board of directors, International Narcotic Enforcement Officers Association.

A delegate to the White House Conference on Narcotic and Drug Abuse, he was later named a consultant to the President's Advisory Commission on Narcotic and Drug Abuse.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH FOR ARTHUR D. DAVIS

Arthur D. Davis was appointed July 3, 1966, as Director of the Office of Policy Management, Office of the Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Born May 8, 1920, Mr. Davis studied industrial management at the University of Maryland from 1955 to 1958. He also attended the Army Ordnance Management Engineering Training School, Rock Island, Ill., in 1955.

He was head of production for the National Carbon Co., division of Union Carbide Corp., before joining FDA in 1960 as supervisory management analyst in the Division of Administrative Management.

Mr. Davis became Chief of the Management Surveys Branch, Division of Management Systems, in April 1963, and was assigned to the Office of the Assistant Commissioner for Planning as a planning officer in March 1964.

He was named Denuty Assistant Commissioner for Planning in September 1965, remaining in that post until he assumed his present position last year. Mr. Davis received the FDA Award of Merit in 1964.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH FOR A. HARRIS KENYON

A. Harris Kenyon was appointed in July 1966, as field liaison officer, Office of the Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Born June 30, 1917, Mr. Kenyon received a bachelor of science degree in animal husbandry at the University of Rhode Island in 1939. He began his FDA career the same year.

His first assignment was inspector in the Boston district. He became acting chief inspector in 1949, and chief inspector in Boston in 1950.

Mr. Kenyon was appointed chief of the Minneapolis district on October 18, 1959, and came to FDA headquarters in Washington, D.C., in August, 1965, as Director of the Division of Field Operations, Bureau of Regulatory Compliance. He assumed the field liaison post last July when district directors were made directly responsible to the Commissioner of Food and Drugs.

Mr. Kenyon received the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Superior Service Award in 1955.