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In August 1969, Vice-Chancellor Crawford asked me to chair a committee to prepare a submission to the Australian Universities Commission (AUC) for the 1973–75 triennium, advocating the establishment in the ANU of a Centre for Natural Resources (later and henceforth called the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies (CRES)). The AUC approved the proposal, envisaging that the Centre would grow from 2 senior academic staff at the end of 1973, to 5 senior, 7 short term and 13 support staff by 1975, and when fully developed in 1977, a core of 8 senior academic staff with tenure appointments, 15 non-tenure appointments at levels from post-doctoral fellow to senior research fellow, and several short-term senior visiting fellowships, supported by a non-academic staff of 19 (Fenner, 1979a). As well as PhD students, there was to be an MSc program by course-work.