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Past Meeting & Seminar Information
(1999-2008)

Day Date Time Location Topics Speakers
Tuesday 07/08/08 2:00 pm Lister Hill Auditorium, Bldg. 38A  Medicine by the Numbers: Revisiting James H. Cassedy’s America (The First Annual James H. Cassedy Memorial Lecture)   Robert L. Martensen, M.D., Ph.D. 
Friday 05/16/08 3:00 pm Lipsett Ampitheater, Building 10  The Forgotten Revolution: The Story of Early Biomedical Computing at the NIH   Joseph November, Ph.D. 
Wednesday 05/07/08 2:00 pm Lister Hill Visitor Center, Bldg. 38A  Finding Humanity in Rat City: John B. Calhoun’s Experiments in Crowding at the NIMH   Edmund Ramsden, Ph.D. 
Friday 05/02/08 8:30 am Lister Hill Visitor's Center, Bldg. 38A, NIH Campus  Graduate Student Symposium   TBA 
Wednesday 04/16/08 4:00 pm Lister Hill Visitor Center, Bldg. 38A  Bridging The East-West Divide: The Genesis of a Chinese Hospital in San Francisco   Guenter Risse, M.D., Ph.D. 
Wednesday 03/11/08 10:30 am Reading Room, 1L-25, of the NIH Library in the Warren Magnuson Clinical Center, Building 10  Presentation to Dr. Victoria A. Harden of book, Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics (ed. Dr. Caroline Hannaway)   Dr. Michael Gottesman 
Thursday 02/21/08 3:00 pm Lister Hill Auditorium (Bldg 38)  A Lifetime of Biomedical Computing: A Conversation with Robert Ledley   Robert Ledley and Joseph November 
Thursday 11/15/07 2:00 pm Clinical Center (Bldg 10), Hatfield 4-3330  Transnational Flows and National Histories: MRI Research in the US, India, and the UK   Dr. Amit Prasad, Ph.D. 
Friday 09/28/07 2:00 PM Building 31/6C, Room 7  "History-Telling and Innovation in Medicine, a discussion of False Hope: Bone Marrow Transplantation for Breast Cancer"   Dr. Richard A. Rettig, Ph.D., RAND Corporation 
Friday 09/14/07 11:00 am Building 1, Wilson Hall  "Changing Models of Biomedical Medical Research or Interregnums are Tough for Young Investigators"   William F. Crowley, Jr. M.D., Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Chief, Reproductive Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital 
Tuesday 06/12/07 3:30 pm Building 10, Room 2C116 (Old Medical Board Room)  TBA (on networking historical collections for biomedical sciences around the world)   Paul Theerman, Ph.D. Head of Non-Book Collections, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine 
Tuesday 05/15/07 3:30 pm Building 10, Lipsett Amphitheater  “The ‘Dark Ages’ of Medical Genetics: A Prehistory of the Human Genome Project”   Nathaniel Comfort, Ph.D. Associate Professor of the Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University 
Tuesday 04/24/07 3:30 pm Building 10, Room 2C116 (Old Medical Board Room)  "German Emigrés-Neuroscientists in North-America after 1933"   Frank W. Stahnish, Ph.D., Visiting Professor, McGill University, Canada 
Monday 03/12/07 3:30 pm Building 10, Room 2C116 (Old Medical Board Room)  “How Do You Do “Medical Science”: NIH and the Development of Clinical Research in the Mid-Twentieth Century”   Dale C. Smith, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medical History, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences 
Tuesday 02/13/07 3:30 pm Medical Board Room, 2C116, Clinical Center  "International Harmonization of Clinical Trials: Historical Lessons and Prospects for the Regulatory Future"   Arthur Daemmrich, Ph.D. Director, Center for Contemporary History and Policy at the Chemical Heritage Foundation 
Tuesday 12/05/06 1:00 pm NIH Building 31, Room 6C8  "The Right Job for the Tools: Axelrod and the Search for Mechanisms"   Prof. Carl Craver, Washington University, St. Louis 
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11/14/06 1:00 pm NIH Building 45, Rm H  "Hailing a Miracle Drug: The Interferon"   Dr. Toine Pieters, Department of Metamedica (Medical Humanities), Vrije Universiteit Medisch Centrum (Amsterdam, NL) 
Thursday 10/05/06 11:00 am Lipsett Auditorium, Clinical Center  “The History of Aldrich & Sigma-Aldrich, with Advice to Young Scientists”   Dr. Alfred Bader 
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09/26/06 1:00 pm NIH Building 31, RM 6C9  "'Psychopathy, Delinquency and Antisocial Personality Disorder: Changing Accounts of Bad Behaviour in The American Journal of Psychiatry, 1950-2005"   Martyn Pickersgill (Ph.D. candidate, University of Nottingham, UK) 
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07/17/06 11:00 am NIH Building 31, Rm 6C8  "Science As an Input to Invention: Lessons From the Biotechnology Industry"   Dr. Michelle Gittelman (Assistant Professor of Management and Organizational Behavior, NYU Stern School of Business) 
Thursday 06/01/06 2:00 pm NIH Building 10, Lipsett Amphitheater  "From Discovery to Control: A History of Live Virus Vaccines at NIAID's Laboratory of Infectious Diseases"   Lisa K. Walker, Ph.D. (Stetten Memorial Fellow in the History of Biomedical Sciences and Technology, Office of NIH History) 
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05/11/06 1:00 pm NIH Building 1, Wilson Hall  "NIH in the 1980s: Some Personal Perspectives"   Philip S. Chen, Jr., Ph.D. (former NIH Associate Director for Intramural Affairs) 
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04/24/06 1:00 pm NIH Building 31, Rm 6C8  "Reducing with Dynamite: Dinitrophenol in the Clinic and Marketplace in 1930s America"   John Swann, Ph.D. (Food and Drug Administration History Office) 
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03/14/06 1:00 pm NIH Bldg. 10, Conf. rm. 2-C116
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"Charitable Innovations: The Political Economy of Thalassemia Research and Drug Development in the United States, 1960-2000"   Dominique Tobbell (Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania) 
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02/07/06 1:00 pm NIH Building 31, 6C Room 8  "70 Acres of Science: The NIH Moves to Bethesda"   Michele Lyons (Curator, Stetten Museum) 
Tuesday 01/24/06 2:00 pm Lipsett Auditorium, Bulding 10  "Imaging the Brain – Finding Emotion. A History of Brain Imaging and Research in Emotion at the NIH."   Claudia Wassmann, MD, Ph.D., Dewitt Stetten, Jr., Memorial Fellow in the History of Biomedical Sciences and Technology 
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12/06/05 8:30 am Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A  Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, Politics, a two-day conference   Various speakers: see conference program on website (click on the included link) 
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12/05/05 8:30 am Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A  Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, Politics, a two-day conference   Various speakers: see conference program on website (click on the included link) 
Tuesday 11/08/05 2:00 pm Lipsett Amphitheater, Building 10  "A History of Malaria Research at NIAID"   Leo B. Slater, Ph.D., DeWitt Stetten, Jr., Memorial Fellow in the History of Biomedical Sciences and Technology 
Tuesday 10/11/05 1:00 pm Building 31 6C Room 7  "The Bjork Shiley Mechanical Heart Valve: An Engineering Educator's Perspective"   George Bibel Ph.D. P. E., Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of North Dakota 
Tuesday 09/22/05 11:00 am Lipsett Amphitheater, NIH Clinical Center, Building 10  "'An Indescribable Experience': NIH Researchers and the AIDS Epidemic, 1981-1990."   Victoria A. Harden, Ph.D., Office of NIH History & Stetten Museum, National Institutes of Health 
Monday 07/11/05 1:00 pm Lipsett Amphitheater, Building 10  Surprising Prions: New Twists in the Tale of a Novel Infectious Agent   Maya L. Ponte 
Tuesday 06/28/05 1:00 pm Building 50, First Floor conference room 1227/1233  The Electron Microscope as an Epidemiological Tool   Albert Z. Kapikian, M.D. 
Thursday 06/01/05 2:00 pm Lipsett Amphitheater, Bldg 10  A History of Virus Research and Vaccine Development at NIAID's Laboratory of Infectious Diseases   Lisa K. Walker, Ph.D. (Stetten Memorial Fellow in the History of Biomedical Sciences and Technology, Office of NIH History) 
Thursday 06/01/05 2:00 pm Lipsett Amphitheater, Bldg 10  A History of Virus Research and Vaccine Development at NIAID's Laboratory of Infectious Diseases   Lisa K. Walker, Ph.D. (Stetten Memorial Fellow in the History of Biomedical Sciences and Technology, Office of NIH History) 
Tuesday 05/24/05 1:00 pm Building 45 Natcher, Balcony A  Spins, Magnets and Chemicals: The Evolution of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and MRI   Edwin Becker, Ph.D. 
Tuesday 04/12/05 1:00 pm Building 31, 6C9  The Winter of FDA's Discontent: The Woes of a 21st Century Regulatory Agency   Suzanne Junod, Ph.D. 
Tuesday 03/08/05 1:00 pm Building 50, First floor conference room  Albert Sabin and the role of the Public Health Service in the development and testing of the oral polio vaccine, 1954-1962   Angela Matysiak 
Tuesday 02/08/05 1:00 pm Building 1, Wilson Hall  Objectivity and the Neutral Expert   Mark Parascandola, Ph.D. 
Tuesday 01/18/05 1:00 pm Building 50, First floor conference room  "Hush, the Yale bulldog will hear thee" Or, Assembling the Carnegie Human Embryology Collection   Adrianne Noe, Ph.D. 
Tuesday 12/14/04 1:00 pm NIH Building 31, Room 6C7  Full-time Research, Part-time Teaching: Debates on Formalizing Science Education Programs for Medical Researchers at the NIH, 1950-1980   Buhm Soon Park, Ph.D. 
Wednesday 11/17/04 1:00 pm NIH Building 31, Room 6C7  Prisoners, Patients, and Subjects: The National Institutes of Health and the use of Inmate Subjects in Medical Testing   John Roberts, Ph.D. 
Tuesday 10/19/04 1:00 pm NIH Building 31, Room 6C7  The Framingham Heart Study: A contribution to the history of the "risk factor" concept and some philosophical issues on health and disease   Elodie Giroux, Pisano awardee from Sorbonne University 
Tuesday 09/21/04 3:00 pm Clinical Center (Building 10), Lipsett Auditorium  The Seven Virtues of Biography, or: What's the Use of Biographies of Life Scientists?   Thomas Soderqvist, Ph.D. 
Thursday 07/08/04 1:00 pm Lipsett Auditorium, Building 10  Pathways to Public Health: Research with Genetically Modified Mouse Models at the NIEHS   Sara Shostak, Ph.D., M.P.H. and Raymond W. Tennant, Ph.D. 
Tuesday 06/15/04 1:00 pm Building 31, Conference Room 7, 6th Floor  Screening Cancer: Health Education Movies and Cancer Control in Mid-Twentieth Century America   David Cantor, Ph.D. 
Tuesday 05/04/04 1:00 pm Building 31, Conference Room 6, 6th Floor, C Wing  The Chief Constable of Clitheroe v. M. Pasteur: Rabies and Hydrophobia in Lancashire in 1890   Michael Worboys, Ph.D. 
Tuesday 04/20/04 1:00 pm Natcher Building, Room C1/C2  The 'Invisible Industrialist' and Public Health : The Rise and Fall of 'Safer Smoking' in the UK in the 1970s.   Virginia Berridge, Ph.D. 
Tuesday 04/13/04 1:00 pm Building 31, Conference Room 10, 6th Floor C Wing  Putting the Puzzle Together: Roger I. Lee and the Origins of Modern Blood Banking   Lynn G. Stansbury, M.D., M.P.H. 
Tuesday 03/16/04 1:00 pm Natcher Building (45), Conference Room F1-F2  "An Abbreviated History of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Research: Pitfalls, Challenges, and Innovation"   Maya Ponte 
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02/17/04 2:00 pm Lipsett Auditorium, NIH Clinical Center (Bldg. 10)  George Beadle and the Emergence of Genetics as a Molecular Science   Maxine Singer, Ph.D 
Thursday 01/29/04 1:00 pm Natcher Building (45), Conference Room C1-C2  Dangerous Waters? Washington DC, the US Public Health Service and the Typhoid Epidemic of 1906   Alexandra M. Lord, Ph.D. 
Tuesday 11/04/03 1:00 pm Natcher Building (45), Balcony A  From Bedside to Bench and Back: A History of the First Effective Treatment for Sickle Cell Disease   Valerie L. Williams, Ph.D.; Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D. 
Tuesday 10/14/03 1:00 pm Bldg. 31 C-wing conference room 7  How to Make the Most of Historical Resources at NLM   Stephen Greenberg, Ph.D. 
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09/22/03 3:00 pm Lipsett Auditorium, Bldg. 10  Goldberger’s War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader   Alan M. Kraut, Ph.D. 
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08/12/03 3:30 pm Building 31C, Conf. Rm. 6  "Infectious Disease and Drug Injection in Historical Perspective"   Caroline Acker, Ph.D. 
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08/07/03 3:30 pm Bldg. 31 C-wing Conference Room 8  Digitizing the historic cineradiographic films made by James Bosma, M.D.   W. Tecumseh Fitch, Ph.D. 
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06/17/03 2:30 pm Building 10, Lipsett Auditorium  Blood Safety at NIH: The history of blood safety practices, policies, and property at NIH, 1945-2003.   Jessie Saul 
Tuesday 06/10/03 3:30 pm NOTE CHANGE: Natcher, Conf. room G1/G2  Outpost of a Scientific Empire: Recollections of NIH's European Office, 1966-1968   Dr. James Cassedy 
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05/13/03 3:30 pm Bldg. 31, Conf. Rm. 6, Wing C  Imperfect Eradication: The campaigns against malaria in Latin America, 1950-1970s   Dr. Marcos Cueto 
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04/11/03 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Stokes Laboratories (Building 50)  "NIMH and NINDB Intramural Research in the 1950s"   panels 
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03/13/03 3:30 pm Natcher (45) Conf. Rm. G1&G2  Chicago Murder: Leopold-Loeb, Clarence Darrow and the Killing of Bobby Franks   Dr. Simon Baatz 
Tuesday 02/11/03 3:30 pm Natcher (Bldg. 54) Conf. Rm. C1 & C2  Animal Models of Infectious Disease: Avian Malaria, Parasite Biology, and Drug Discovery   Dr. Leo Slater 
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01/14/03 3:30 pm Bldg. 31, 6C, room 7  Cancer, 'Quackery', and Vernacular Meanings of Hope in 1950s America   Dr. David Cantor 
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10/29/02 3:30 pm Bldg. 31, 6C, room 6  "On Display: Government Health Exhibits at International Expositions, 1876-1904"   Dr. Julie K. Brown 
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09/30/02 3:30 pm Natcher Building (45), Conference Room E1  "'The Elements of a Cure': the Role of the National Cancer Institute in the Treatment of Childhood Leukemia, 1953-1980."   Dr. Robin Rohrer 
Tuesday 07/09/02 2:30 pm Building 10 (Clinical Center); Lipsett Auditorium  Psyche in the Kingdom of the Brain: A History of the Laboratory of Psychology of the National Institute of Mental Health   Ingrid Farreras 
Friday 06/07/02 12:30pm Building 10 (Clinical Center); Lipsett Auditorium  Evidence in Science and in Law: The Case of Cerebral Palsy   J. Rosser Matthews 
Wednesday 05/01/02 2:30 pm NIH Building 50, 1st Fl. Conference Rm.  Building 3 in Historical Perspective: A Documentary of Scientists and Their Laboratories   Buhm Soon Park 
Tuesday 04/16/02 3:30 pm Building 45 (Natcher), Balcony C  An Oral History Odyssey: Interviewing Notable NIH Scientists. (work on oral history interview projects with scientists from the OD, NCI, NIAID, and NINDS)   Peggy Dillon 
Tuesday 02/12/02 3:30 pm Building 31, C Wing, 6th Floor, Room 6  Federal Government Responses to Biomedical Safety Matters in the Late Twentieth Century: Three Cases   Dr. Ruth Harris 
Tuesday 01/29/02 3:30 pm Natcher (Building 45), Room E  Dilemmas of Recombinant DNA Regulation, 1975-1982: Some Observations from the Working Level   Dr. Richard Mandel 
Tuesday 12/11/01 3 pm Lipsett Auditorium, NIH Clinical Center (Building 10)  Recombinant DNA: Science, Politics, and the Public Interest, 1974-1981. (will be videocast)   Donald S. Fredrickson, M.D., former director of NIH (sponsored by NHGRI, NIH History Office, and BRHIG) 
Thursday 11/29/01 3:30 pm NIH Building 31, Rm. 6C6 (C Wing)  Medical Research in Wartime: The NIH During World War II.   Victoria Harden, Ph.D., NIH Historian (sponsored by BRHIG) 
Tuesday 10/30/01 3:30pm NIH Building 31, C Wing, Conference Room 7  From Model Kits to Virtual Structures: The Origins of Interactive Molecular Graphics.   Eric Francoeur, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin, Germany) 
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09/25/01 3:30 pm Natcher (Bldg. 45) Conf. Rm B  Oral Histories, Human Sujects, and IRBs: A discussion of the issues   Panel & audience discussion 
Thursday 06/28/01 12:30 pm Lipsett Auditorium, NIH Clinical Center, Building 10  Radium and the Origins of the National Cancer Institute   David Cantor Ph.D (NIH History Office) 
Monday 05/21/01 2:00 pm Lipsett Auditorium, NIH Clinical Center, Building 10  The Recombinant DNA Controversy   Dr. Donald Fredrickson 
Tuesday 04/17/01 3:00 pm Masur Auditorium, NIH Clinical Center, Building 10  Patenting Life: Politics, Ethics, and the Law   Professor Daniel J. Kevles (California Institute of Technology) 
Thursday 03/01/01 3:30-5.00 pm Building. 31, Conference Room 7 (Sixth Floor)  Ethics From Within: The ELSI Program at NIH as a Case Study in the Institutionalization of Bioethics.   Dr. Nikola Biller-Andorno (Department of Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Göttingen) 
Tuesday 02/13/01 3:30-5:00 pm Balcony C, Building 45 (Natcher Building)  Provisional Title: The Twentieth Century Dental Amalgam Scare   Ruth Harris (NIDCR) 
Tuesday 01/09/01 3:30-5.00 pm Building 31, C. Wing, Conference Room 6 (6th Floor)  The Institutionalization of Scientific Research in the FDA   John P. Swann 
Tuesday 12/12/00 3:30-5.00 pm Building 31, C. Wing, Conference Room 7 (6th Floor)  Dr. Robert J. Huebner, The Coxsackie Viruses, Serendipity, in Research   Dr. Edward Beeman (NIAID) 
Tuesday 10/10/00 3:30-5:00pm Building 31, C Wing, Conference Room 6 (6th Floor)  Stress and Peptic Ulcer in the Mid-Twentieth Century: Impact of Physiology on Medicine?   Dale C. Smith, Ph.D. (Chair, Department of Medical History, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences) 
Tuesday 09/12/00 3:30-5.00pm Natcher Building 45, Conference Room A  Archival, Manuscript, Print, and Film Resources of the National Library of Medicine.   Paul Theerman (Head, Non-Book Collections, National Library of Medicine) 
Thursday 08/24/00 3:30 pm Building 31, C Wing, Conference Room 7 (6th floor)  NIMH and the Scientist-Practitioner Model of Clinical Psychology: Preliminary Report on Research Results   Ingrid Farreras 
Tuesday 06/20/00 3:oo pm Lipsett Hall, Building 10  "More Academic Than a University: Three Freedoms and the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at NIDDK, 1961-1981"   Dr. Buhm Soon Park, NIH Historical Office 
Tuesday 03/14/00 3:30 pm 6C7, Building 31  "Screening Out the Interloper: The NIH radioepidemiologic tables and compensation for atomic veterans"   Dr. Mark Parascandola, Department of Clinical Bioethics, NIH 
Tuesday 02/08/00 3:30 pm Building 31, 6C7 (Conference Room 7 on the 6th floor of the C-wing)  Diethylene Glycol Poisoning in HAITI, Summer 1996   Dr. Suzanne White Junod 
Monday 01/31/00 2:00 pm Building 10, Lipsett Auditorium  Researching Neurometabolic Diseases: The Work of Dr. Roscoe O. Brady   Drs. Lewis P. Rowland (Coumbia Univ.) and Edwin Kolodny (NYU) 
Tuesday 12/14/99 3:30 pm Building 31, 6C10 (Conference Room 10 on the 6th floor of the C-wing)  Maurice Smith, NIH Scientist, and the Mystery of Jamica Ginger   Dr. John Parascandola 
Tuesday 11/09/99 3:30 pm Building 45, Room D  An Informal Review of the Early Days of the Laboratory for the Chemistry of Natural Products   Dr. Henry Fales 
Tuesday 10/12/99 3:30 pm Building 31, Room 6C6  The Museum's Mission: The Curator Speaks Out   Michele Lyons, NIH History Office 
Tuesday 09/28/99 3:30 pm Lister Hill Auditorium  How to Make the Most of Historical Resources at NLM   Stephen Greenberg, NLM 
Tuesday 09/14/99 3:30 pm Building 31, Room 6C10  Dr. Edward Beeman will present a paper on "Robert J. Huebner: The Early Years", with particular emphasis on Huebner's epidemiological work on rickettsial pox and Q fever.   Dr. Edward Beeman 
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06/08/99 3:30 pm C1-C2, Building 45 (Natcher), NIH  "THE MAKING OF A BIOGRAPHICAL ARTICLE"   William H. Sansalone, Ph.D. 
Thursday 05/27/99 12 noon Lipsett Auditorium, Building 10, NIH  "Converging Pathways: Pain Research at NIDCR"   Marcia Meldrum/Richard Gracely 
Thursday 04/15/99 3:30 pm Building 31, Conference Room 8  Organizational Meeting   Marcia Meldrum 

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