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STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305 © (415) 497-5247

Lawrence G. Crow.ey, M.D.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Acting Vice-President for Medical Affairs

and Dean of the School of Medicine

April 7, 1980

Joshua Lederberg, Ph.D.,
President

Rockefeller University
New York, New York

Dear Josh:

Sorry I didn't get a chance to see you at the end of the meeting. I
enjoyed our brief chat when you first arrived. I thought your summing-up
on Friday afternoon was superb. You hit all the right notes with the
right volume, touch and nuance. It was particularly appropriate and for-
tunate for us that you were able to come back and preside over the final
session. Your influence over the development of the School and Center
during the two decades was an extremely important and constructive one and
the result was well demonstrated at the Symposium.

I am writing to you seeking your advice on another matter as well.
The Grant Chair was vacated when you left, as you know. I appointed a small
committee of three senior endowed chair holders to advise me on a potential
new holder. It so happened that we had another chair to fill with a basic
science orientation. Investigation indicated that the Grant Chair was not
restricted to Genetics, but was basically available School-wide. The com-
mittee has recommended Hugh McDevitt and Bob Lehman as their first choices
for the two available chairs. Additional people that were high on their -
list included Avram Goldstein and Stanley Cohen. Stan actually nominated
himself and made a strong personal pitch in his own behalf. I would appre-
ciate your candid and, obviously, confidential views on the aforementioned
faculty members as well as any other individuals you think we should serious-
ly consider.

I also want to thank you for your comments about the Lane Library. We
are going to put some money into new shelving and gain considerably more
functional space. However, this will only put off the day when we will have
to make a more important and obviously more expensive decision regarding the
future of the Library.

Sincerely,

Lawrence G. owley, M.D.

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