Nomination of Herbert Rudolph Lippold, Jr., To Be Director of the National Ocean Survey

The President today announced his intention to nominate Herbert Rudolph Lippold, Jr., to be Director of the National Ocean Survey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce.

Rear Admiral Lippold joined the Coast and Geodetic Survey, now the National Ocean Survey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in 1950. During the last 29 years, he has conducted research and surveying on land and sea in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans, and in most of the conterminous United States, Alaska, and Hawaii. This was highlighted by 9 years of sea suety on eight vessels, three of which he commanded. He surveyed the north Arctic coast by eat train, spent 8 years in geodesy accomplishing basic surveys, established a satellite triangulation worldwide network, and served as liaison with the Air Force, bringing horizontal and vertical control to intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States. He conducted liaison with the Navy at Pearl Harbor on the Pacific tide and seismic sea wave warning system, supervised ship construction at Pt. Pleasant, W. Va., and served as Director of the NOS Pacific Marine Center, Seattle, Wash. As Associate Director, Office of Fleet Operations, in Rockville, Md., he directed the operations of NOAA's research and hydrographic survey fleet of 25 vessels. During 1965-66 he was a Department of Commerce Scientific and Technical Fellow, assigned to the National Bureau of Standards.

Admiral Lippold graduated from New England College, Henniker, N.H. (B.S., 1949) and the University of New Hampshire (B.C.E., 1950). He is married, has four children, and resides in New Hampshire. He was born April 9, 1926, in Methuen, Mass.