Dear Electort

The enclosed statesent in sup ort of Dr. Weleh has been endorsed
by the Nobel Laurestes in Medicine and related flelds as indicated.
They represent a wide distribution of scientific fields and
institutions scrose the country.

It should be pointed out that no serious effort hes been made to
make thie cenvas compreheneive, and that many of the Leurestes in
the East have already gone om record in Br. Welch's behalf,

Copies of this letter signed by the various individuals listed are
on file with Dr. Ralph W. Sookman, Director, The Hali of Fame.

It ia our understanding that as many a8 seven persons Bay be elected
at one tine, and that even if you have already retumed your official
ballot, there is still time to write to the Director of the Hall of
Fane asking him te include your vote for Dr. ¥eloh,

Bineerely, ‘

E, L, Tatu

ELT: CD¥
Statement

We join in strongly recommending Dr. William Henry Welch
(1850-1934) for election tothe Hall of Fame for Great Americans, as
he was the central figure in the development of medical education and
research in America during his active lifetime, Like many great men
who have not won a Nobel,Prise, his work had marked influence in a
wider area than the usual specialised contribution for which a Nobel
averd is given, Indeed, he crested the milieu in medicine that made
possible the execution of research of the highest order, The first
three Robel Prizes in Physiology and Medicine on this side of the
Atlantic were to men who worked at one of the institutions he had
launched (Johns Hopkins and Rockefeller Institute) .

At the international celebration of Welch's 80th birthday,
President Herbert Hoover (honorary head of the oelebration) referred
to him as "our greatest stategman in the field of public health." On
that occasion, Abrahem Fleaner, author of the famous Camegie Report.
of 1910 on Medical Education in the U.S, (wherein Welch is the first
person to whom acknowledgment ia made), wrote to Welch: ‘*It is not
teo much to say thet you have been the cornerstone of the entire
development in modern medicine and public health in this countzy:
without you, no Johns Hopkins Medical School, as we know its; mo...
Roekefeller Institute . . . and all the other great things which are
cutgrowthe of the work you have done . . . I should myself heve done
nothing without you... and so to you is to be traced, without the
Slightest doubt, whatever good has been secomplished in that field
by the General Education Board and the Rockefeller Foundation, I am
grateful to you. . . beyond power of expression,*

Dr. Welch reavonded to these warm tributes with the acdest
statements ©... I stand here to represent an army of ... colleagues,
whose work and contributions . . . have adwanced the science and art of
medicine and public health to the eminent position which they now hold
in thia country.?®

In strongly supporting the election of Dr. Welch to the Hall of
Fame, we speak not only as Nobel Laureates, but aleo as spokesmen for
this great army of devoted xen and wmen to whom Dr, Welch referred,
and for the American people who owe so much to hie inspired leadership
in Medicine and Public Heelth,

Signature