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In trying to as amble an informal but somewhat factual histow of :he Division, Jim Staarns and 1 cornered Dr. Shipman for th 88 rather candid reminiscences. The dates have not been E. reforzing beck to Louis Hsnplmann'a file I find that he A: XOQ 4/17/43, a d signed ti let tat of eppointmcant t o the f i r s t paid by "the contractor" on 3/13/43, arrived LOB The Health Group (A-10) becatno Health military trainees assigned toth ~Divtaion. E' 3 i n 1955 Group H-7 wade i t 6 tranafer from AEC. Group H - 8 P 2 fomolly mde a group in 1961 even though it had existed F. ior to that tinvs ina working statuir. The in fox m tion to h 51- will refar to H-1 a s the Health Physics Group, H-2 a s 1952 the H-6 Group emrga carry out fallout studies,
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Hr. Bradbury and Jette t o agree t o name Herry S chul tens Acting Group Leader of CMR-12, as well am his existing title of Section Loader i n X-2 for Industrial Hygiene studies. (Harriet Hardy brought Harry Schulte into the Laboratory i n May of 19481. wao oat abl i ~ h e dt b visit and mako I raport of vhat they found at Lao 13lnrGtt.. Thfr committee, consisting of Maddy, Xngram, Wallman, mnd othetB, and haaded by DrhkQr, compared (t d r a f t driltsd during 1946 which var rcathing! Tho f i n a l lottar was dated i n 1947. Thi8 =port left averyone in Loa Alamoe ina great fury but the more they thought about it the mote they cam t o tho con.clurion they had better do 8omething about it. Prior t o that time all that Hemplamann had done vas t o pas6 along the Waahington edict8 and t o do the hematology StUdi eB w n tio lud pre vhsl y. Nov, hovever, it was realized that the polia4ng duLie8 which each Group and Division had earlier been required to d o for khenmelvea ahould be assembled into a more workable group. I n soma groups it vas complete chaos, but i n others it vas working quite Well, and QI1 Division under Jette vas a prime exangle of vhere it vas wall i n hand.
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I personally am firmly convinced that the hlrjli ticdjrc'c> o f conf j den ce vhich we get from ali parts of the Laboratory arise from the fact that in the early days of the Il cal th Division we never thrust ourselves upon people. Wc vai tcd until they asked for us and after that they found they couldn ' tTc tal n ng without UB. The fact that the Health Division was originally oetatliahcd a5a Technical Division rcther thana Servico Group has knot be cn uni.m port ant. has given our people a s,pecie!s of soci3l standing, but more important i t has kept our people wit11the fe o ling th Jt they are really n cocnpetent part of the Laboratcry, not pur c ly a Service org s niz at isn Our mission in life is to help pcoplo get thc air job dmc rather than to make it harder. The difference in phf:ossI.n'{ i s very small but terribly import,int. It is sorn?v% likea bedside manner in actual pr act z ce.