JUNE 6, 1970 DEDICATION OF THE MELVILLE

Oh what a lovely day! A great new research ship for Scripps, moored at the Point Loma dock. A dock thronged with Scripps scientists, young and old, graduate students and professors emeritus, almost all of them our friends.

And Marston is a guest of honor and author of the remarks which follow. And Dr. Nierenberg, Director of Scripps since 1965, presents Marston with a spectacular gift for his retirement as Oceanographer, Office of Naval Research, at Scripps.

Along with the ceremonies, the fun of going aboard the Melville and being ushered all over her. And a scrumptious feast on the dock, prepared for all by the ships' cooks.

Warm greetings from old pals: Associate Director Fred Speiss and wife Sally—how many civic projects Sally and I have worked on together; Assistant Director Jeff Frautschy, who arranged this shindig, and lovely wife Fran; George and Betty Shor; Russ and Helen Raitt; Doug and Ruth Inman; Carl and Laura Hubbs; Warren and Polly Wooster; John and Mary Carol Isaacs—to name only a few—what fun!

The gift—a framed world map, with routes of Scripps research trips etched in gold and the words: