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vice. During the past 15 years Mr. Bradshaw has built for himself a solid repu- 
tation in that phase of photo interpretation which we are considering today. 
Both in civil life as an employee of the Forest Service and of the Soil Conser- 
vation Service, and in military life as a photo intelligence officer his interest 
and effort have been largely devoted to the use of aerial photographs in natural 
resource inventories. 
Although I have known Mr. Bradshaw quite well for a number of years, I 
asked him prior to the start of today’s meeting to jot down for me a few of the 
salient features in his distinguished career which should not be overlooked when 
introducing him to this audience. With characteristic modesty he wrote only a 
brief note on his professional accomplishments and concluded with the follow- 
ing statement: “My main claim to fame is in my own home, where I am the 
father of 4 children. I also have, at the moment 1 dog, 2 cats, 2 goldfish, and 5 
bearing fruit trees.” 
Even these somewhat facetious remarks should serve to indicate that 
Mr. Bradshaw is truly proficient in the field of natural resource inventory. 
It is with genuine pleasure that I present your chairman for today’s 
meeting, Mr. Kenneth E. Bradshaw. 
Response by Mr. Bradshaw: 
At a stockholder's meeting of a large steel corporation, the chairman was 
about to proceed with the business of the day, when a lady arose from her seat 
and demanded: *Exactly who are you, and what do you do?" 
Without losing a bit of his poise, he replied: *I am your chairman. Of 
course you know the duties of a chairman. I'd say he was roughly the equivalent 
of the parsley on a platter of fish." 
I believe that that chairman proposed a very appropriate simile. It is 
indeed an honor to have been selected to serve you as chairman, but I make 
no pretense of personally providing for you the meat of this program. I shall 
merely present to you this panel of photo interpretation experts, who are so 
much more capable than I in their own specialized fields. 
It seems to me highly appropriate that we consider at this meeting the 
matter of inventorying our natural resources. Those of you who represent the 
older nations of the world may recognize the fact that your resources have 
suffered as a result of past abusive mismanagement. Hope for the conservation 
and betterment of those resources which remain may lie in the improved in- 
ventories and management practices which can be gotten from adequate 
coverage and analysis of aerial photography. Here in America we are blessed 
with a relatively rich supply of natural resources. Yet we are shocked by the 
past and current exploitation of our soils and forests, our ranges and minerals 
and wildlife. We too need the quick, inexpensive surveys which only photo- 
graphs can provide. 
I am sure that all in this audience are familiar in some degree with aerial 
photograph interpretation. I attach great significance to the fact that here, for 
the first time, the subject is granted the status of a separate Commission at this 
international meeting. We no longer live as individual, isolated nations. We are 
a world of nations, and as such must learn to live and work together. By 
interchanges of commerce, of education, and of ideas, we can grow together 
  
  
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