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Originally Processed With FOIA(s): FOIA Number: 2005-0336-F 2005-0336-F FOIA MARKER This is not a textual record. This is used as an administrative marker by the George Bush Presidential Library Staff. Record Group/Collection: George H.W. Bush Presidential Records Collection/Office of Origin: Science and Technology Policy, Office of (OSTP) Series: Bromley, D. Allan, Files Subseries: International Files - Country Files OA/ID Number: 62069 Folder ID Number: 62069-007 Folder Title: International - South Africa [1990] Stack: Row: Section: Shelf: Position: 0 0 0 0 3/17 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON March 12, 1990 MEMORANDUM FOR PROFESSOR FRIEDEL SELLSCHOP FROM: D. ALLAN BROMLEY SUBJECT: YOUR VISIT TO WASHINGTON, D.C. I would be delighted to see while you are in Washington, and have made luncheon reservations for Monday, March 19. Please contact my office on Monday morning to confirm that you will be available at that time. I look forward to our visit. PROF. SELLSCHOP FAX 011-3397740 PAGE 01 Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG 1 Jan Smuts Avenue, Johannesburg PO WITS 2050, SOUTH AFRICA Uniwits' Teletex 4-50937 - VCWITS (011) 716-4186 DATE: 900204 FAI : 091-202-456-2461 TO: Professor D Allan Bromley Presidential Science Advisor The White House Washington DC. USA From: Fax # (South Africa)-(11)-339 7740 Friedel Sellschop . Pages: .1 Message: Dear Allan, I have accepted the offer of the American Physical Society to deliver an invited paper at their Spring Meeting at Anaheim, California during the week 12 to 16 March. I plan to return via Washington DC, inter alia to accept an invitation to visit the Naval Research Laboratory and to deliver a seminar there. I arrive in Washington DC on Saturday 17 March in late afternoon and leave on Tuesday 20 March in early evening. 1 shall be accomodated at the Holiday Inn, Metro Centre, Crown Plaza, 775 12th St NW. I would be delighted if we could meet during this short visit. Could you FAX me at the number above or telephone me in Washington ? With kind regards, and looking forward to seeing you, Frider Derange navy Junchat for monday and Army march19 please notify DAB RECEIVED 90 MAR 7 P5: 46 OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR your PROF. SELLSCHOP FAX 011-3397740 PAGE 01 Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG 1 Jan Smuts Avenue, Johannesburg 2001 WITS 2050 Telegrams 'Uniwits' Fax: (011) 339-7740 Telephone (011) 716-4186 7 June, 1990 THIS IS AN URGENT FAX FOR DR D ALLAN BROMLEY TO: Dr D Allan Bromley, Executive Office FAX NO: 091-202-395-3261 FROM; Mrs Helen Jooste, Secretary to Professor JP F Sellschop FAX NUMBER; 011-339-7740 URGENT Professor Dr Achim Richter of Darmstadt has been trying to get in touch with you in order to ask you whether you would like to send a message to Professor Sellschop for his 60th Birthday Festschrift which is to be held here at Wits University tomorrow, 8 June. However, very unfortunately I had inadvertently given Dr Richter your telephone number and not your fax number, thus he has been unable to reach you. If you would like to send a message to Professor Sellschop, I would be very grateful if you could fax it to me at 011-339-7740 (the fax machine is in my office) and I could then hand it to Dr Richter, who is in Johannesburg for the occasion. The Festschrift will be held at 16:00 South African time on 8 June. Thank you and I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON June 7, 1990 Dear Friedel: My apologies for not getting this letter to you in more timely fashion but unfortunately modern communication channels apparently failed us. That said, let me begin by telling you how delighted I am to have this opportunity to participate, even if at a distance, in the celebration of your 60th birthday and to join with your friends--and mine--at Wits in recognizing your truly unique contributions to South African science and most certainly to world science in an impressive array of fields. Your leadership has resulted in Wits having one of the truly outstanding, world class facilities for the study of ion-solid phenomena, nuclear physics in its broadest sense, and the application of both nuclear and condensed matter science to problems of major national and international consequence. And far beyond your research, you have trained an outstanding group of students in the finest traditions of both international science and of Wits. Your activities have stimulated major research throughout the world and through visits, both long and short, you have transferred the techniques that you have developed at Wits to institutions ranging from Bell Laboratories, the Oak Ridge National Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology in this country to GSI in West Germany, Aarhus in Denmark and Daresbury in the UK. Your missionary activities in these and other institutions have been extremely successful. In your work you have established what I have long considered the appropriate balance between fundamental research and the application of the results of that research to problems of very real societal and industrial importance. Your work with the diamond industry, for example, has resulted in important benefits both fundamental and applied, and your work on nuclear technology applied to large scale hydrology has opened up an entirely new field of study worldwide. On behalf of the American scientific community-and happily, now also as a loyal member of the Wits family-I should like to take this opportunity to congratulate and thank you for your many contributions to science, to its effective application and to our University. And as past-president of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, I well know the effective role that you have played in representing South African interests--and those of nuclear and ion-bean science--in that international forum. Finally, as an old friend and colleague let me wish you many exciting and productive years ahead in research and its administration and, even more-together with Pat-let us wish you and Sue a long, happy and rewarding life ahead. Speaking from experience, 60 marks only a beginning. With warmest best wishes, Sincerely yours, Allan D. Allan Bromley Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director Office of Science and Technology Policy Executive office of the President Professor Friedel Sellschop Deputy Vice Chancellor - Research University of the WItwatersrand, Johannesburg 1 Jan Smuts Avenue Johannesburg 2001