Abstract
Eight years ago when she took over the job of executive director of the Scientific Manpower Commission (SMC), Betty Vetter was told, The job is anything you want to make it. That instruction turned out to be the first and last one she received. With limited financial resources and limitless imagination and energy, the one-time chemist has transformed SMC into a major focal point to which industry, professional societies, educational institutions, and the Government turn to get data on a variety of scientific manpower problems. Among its many activities, SMC concerns itself with draft counseling and occupational deferments—an area in which the commission has been interested since it was formed in 1953 during the Korean conflict. A nonprofit corporation comprised of 11 scientific societies, SMC has also been instrumental in encouraging organizations to undertake manpower surveys and to aid in formulating a national scientific manpower policy. In coordinating the wide-range efforts of SMC, Mrs. Vetter, ...
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