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Five of the world's foremost specialists on high-speed photography discuss program for largest international symposium on the subject at the 72d Semiannual Convention. Left to right: Dr. Hubert Schardin of Weil Am Rhein, Baden, Germany, Director of the French Ordnance Laboratory at St. Louis, France, and world authority on ballistics photography; Dr. Carl Jennergren, of the research staff of the Swedish Ordnance Laboratory at Stockholm; W. D. Chesterman, of the Royal Naval Scientific Service in London, author of the first English text on high-speed photography; Gilbert Ruellan, Managing Director of the Andre Debrie Establishment, French manufacturers of motion picture equipment; and Major P. Naslin, of the research staff of the French Ordnance Laboratory of Vincennes, co-author of the world's first text on high-speed photography, published in 1950.
days of high-speed, attendance held to an average of 150. By Friday apparently even the high-speed photographers' fibers and capacities were taxed, for then attendance averaged 80.
The Monday evening television session and the Thursday evening 16mm maintenance sessions held the rapt attention of about 80 throughout. Other sessions not previously mentioned ranged from 125 to 175.
There were fourteen committee meetings held during the Convention, many of them lasting for several hours. Reports of these appear in the Engineering Activities column in this Journal.
The Luncheon and Banquet were organized by Nate Golden who put them on with a strict schedule. The awards
presented at the Banquet will be described in the December Journal. Nate Golden arranged for speakers from the three service branches. Their remarks before the Get-Together Luncheon were impressive and warmly received. The speeches are abstracted below. One of Joe Aiken's special plans for this Convention was to feature the Signal Corps Mobile Television Unit. This and other television plans were under Ralph N. Harmon and Col. C. S. Stodter. W. P. Dutton was most helpful in the planning but unfortunately was ill at Convention time. The Get-Together Luncheon program was picked up by the Signal Corps Mobile Unit and sent to the Pentagon. The program included speeches abstracted as follows :
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