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Speaking will be: Gerard Piel '37, publisher of Scientific American and this year's Phi Beta Kappa orator; Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry; and Harvey Brooks, dean of the Engineering and Applied Physics faculty...
...today, Gerard Piel '37, publisher of Scientific American, will deliver the Phi Beta Kappa oration in Sanders Theater. The annual literary exercises, open to the public, will follow the election of new members and the march to the theatre, led by the traditional fife and drum. Playwright Lyon Phelps will give the Phi Beta Kappa poem...
Their class, at least as it appeared then, was not an unusual one, though it contained many men who over the succeeding decades would do unusual things. Among that fall's freshmen, to name just a few, were Gerard Piel '37, destined years later to become publisher of Scientific American, John O'Keefe '37, who ended up working with Project Mercury and the Glenn Flight, and Edward Ahrens, Jr. '37, whose subsequent achievements in the field of medicine include the invention of Metrecal...
Save Beadle himself, of all contenders for honors in the sciences Gerard Piel '37, publisher of Scientific American (and a member of the 25th Reunion Class) appears the strongest...
...inherent in the nature of a book like this that it poses more problems than it answers. For most of the questions Mr. Piel raises, there are no easy solutions, only imperfect compromises. But he is right to argue that unless we find better solutions for the problems of communication in the sciences as they affect citizens, scientists, and the government, then the democratic assumptions of an informed citizenry may soon be in grave danger...