National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Mississippi River Commission Nomination of Herbert R. Lippold Jr., To Be Director of the National Ocean Survey and a Member of the Commission.

The President today announced that he will nominate Rear Adm. Herbert R. Lippold, Jr., of Atkinson, N.H., to be Director of the National Ocean Survey of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and to be a member of the Mississippi River Commission. In both positions he would replace Rear Adm. Allan Powell, who has retired. Lippold is currently Acting Director of the National Ocean Survey.

He was born April 9, 1926, in Methuen, Mass. He received a B.S. from New England College in 1949 and a bachelor of civil engineering from the University of New Hampshire in 1950. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1944 to 1946.

Lippold has been with the National Ocean Survey and its predecessor agency, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, since 1950. He has done research and surveying on land and sea and spent 9 years of sea duty on eight vessels, three of which he commanded. He established a satellite triangulation worldwide network. He has served as Director of the National Ocean Survey Pacific Marine Center and as associate director of the Office of Fleet Operations.