Trustees Quissett Campus Committee, William Rainnie – Secretary, 1972-1976

The Subject series reflects Fred Mangelsdorf’s administrative career at WHOI and contains correspondence, drawings, sketches, plans, and photographs. Subjects covered in the series include the planning, building, design, and development of WHOI’s Quissett campus during the early 1970’s, when Fred chaired the staff building committee; Development and Public Information files which contain correspondence with John Schilling, Bill Lambert, Mike Scofield, and Bill MacLeish; U.S.G.S. building files and plans and Otis Air Force Base groundwater files; aerial photographs, and files on the Massachusetts Association in the Marine Science, for which Mangelsdorf served as co-chairman in the late 1960’s. There are also numerous files about Mangelsdorf’s development program (box L-116).

The series also contains files on Falmouth’s sewage system plans during the early 1970’s, including correspondence and memoranda, many news clippings, magazine articles, and technical reviews. From 1974-1975 WHOI conducted a study of inland wastewater treatment systems at Otis Air Force Base. The study, funded by the US EPA and the Massachusetts Division of Water Pollution Control, tested various methods of returning potable water for the groundwater table.