The title is possibly misleading, inasmuch this report was released by JVM, Engineering Manager, on JULY 22, 1969. Thus, this 24-page report is yet another example of WLC corporate management's requirement that MRC department managers annually release 'fall' or mid-year reports to cover not only a status of activity and progress to date, but to submit projections of anticipated progress and accomplishments to yearend. This report also includes an 11-page summary of my resume and my ten MRC Engineering & Supervisory staff members - an average age of 33.6 years, and I was 34 at the time. Seasoned, and yet young enough to be creative and energetic in getting tasks and goals fulfilled. Now, nearly four decades later as I write this, at least two of my team members are deceased, and I am an old man. Our key priorities during 1969 were the development of a high-speed student test-booklet slitter (to remove the spines, so that each sheet of the booklet could be scanned separately), ongoing DICAD research (refer to Item No. 52 above), progress on a new scoring machine, MOD-12, design and business plan activity for the newly developed RASCOL scanner (Item No. 34 above), investigation of a new magnetic-tape storage system, plans for designing and building the M650-E sheet scanner for a customer in England, and finally, our activity on the WLC-PLAN project (refer to Item No. 45 above)