Nomination of Rear Adm. Herbert R. Lippold, Jr., To Be a Member of the Mississippi River Commission

The President today announced his intention to nominate Rear Adm. Herbert R. Lippold, Jr., National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to be a member of the Mississippi River Commission. He would succeed Allen L. Powell.

Rear Adm. Herbert R. Lippold, Jr., is Director of the National Ocean Survey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He joined the Coast and Geodetic Survey 30 years ago and has done 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. His service was highlighted by 9 years of sea duty on eight vessels, three of which he commanded. He surveyed the north Arctic coast by cat 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., served as Director, Office of Fleet Operations in Rockville, Md., and directed the operations of NOAA's research and hydrographic survey fleet of 25 vessels. In 1965-66 he was a Department of Commerce Scientific and Technical Fellow, assigned to the National Bureau of Standards.

He graduated from New England College, Henniker, N.H. (B.S., 1949) and the University of New Hampshire (B.E., 1950). He was born April 9, 1926.