I appreciate very much your sending me a copy of your letter of November 20 which was addressed to Colonel Harrelson discussing the location of the Nuclear building on the campus at North Carolina State College.

In our work here at State College we need your advice, your viewpoint, and your effective suggestions. I know that you and I will never get down to a place where we have to have a vote to make decisions. I am sure that we can always consider all the factors and phases of problems and then reach a satisfactory solution.

The problem of locating the Nuclear Reactor building is one that has been kicked around a great deal on our campus. There are many phases in the develop- ment and certainly a suggestion or two that have been made were not brought to your attention. The College is faced with the erection in the next few months of the building and reactor which will call for the expenditure of approxi- mately $350,000. It is a relatively small building and therefore indicates an anticipation of a structure of substance and quality which will typify and bring to a focus on our campus the work in nuclear technology.

Science and engineering are moving rapidly ahead and all indications are that in a reasonable number of years, say ten, nuclear technology will be an important part of the backbone of our education in engineering and many phases of agri- culture. I place these two fields first because they are on our campus, but nuclear theory and technology are also making and will make greater strides in the field of medicine as well. I have a feeling, therefore, as we look ahead that it would be a mistake to try to erect a nuclear reactor and its associated laboratories in the back of the Zoology Building or any similar location.

The sketch that Mr. McRee Smith showed you locating the Nuclear Reactor building behind the Zoology Building is one that he proposed after consulting with certain of our men in landscape design. It is certainly not one that we in engineering or nuclear activity feel would do justice to our progressive accomplishment to date in the field of nuclear technology, both research and training. As a result of our joint effort with the Atomic Energy Commission, the Burlington Mills officials, scientists, and administrators at both Duke and Chapel Hill, we have made an advance which has brought national attention to the Engineering School at North Carolina State College. This attention has come from both scientific groups and the general public. I do hope as we go forward with our building plans we can give our nuclear technology program a place of importance on our