Brief letter from Bloom describing his work on ion lasers at Spectra Physics with Earl Bell, curriculum vitae, and copies of a preliminary transcript concerning maser and laser research. Recipients were asked to discuss their education, their activities preceding their involvment with lasers, their work during the Second World War, their entry into the field of lasers, their scientific achievements, their work as laboratory administrators, their work in the laser industry, and their work as journal editors or society officers.