Representative John Fogarty also spoke, concluding “I am confident that this new building and its modern facilities – coupled with the most important resource of the Division of Biologics Standards, its highly trained and competent staff – will help enable the Public Health Service to achieve even greater heights in its goal to improve the health of the people.”

The Surgeon General, Dr. Leroy E. Burney, and the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Arthur Flemming, were also in attendance.

The ceremony was held in the afternoon on lawn on the north side of Building 29, after a luncheon held at the Stone House.

The new building would bring together more than 190 staff who were previously working in at least 5 different buildings on the NIH campus.

Dr. Ed Tabor, who worked in Biologics with the FDA from 1995 to 2005 also grew up on the NIH campus, the son of two illustrious scientist parents who served in the Public Health Service and lived on the NIH campus. Tabor attended the dedication ceremony as a child in 1960 and reported on it in his neighborhood newsletter.