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THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
AUSTIN, TEXAS 78712

The Cell Research Institute

December 19, 1979

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Office of the President
The Rockefeller University
1230 York Avenue

New York, New York 10021

Dear Joshua:

In the current mode, first the bad news. I have given up, for the
moment, my attempts to raise you further funds in Texas. The reason
is not lack of progress up to the point of contributions, but too many
factors that are offshoots of the present international situation. I
will get active again when things calm down.

If you will give me some dates on the Jonsson lectures, I will try
to be there. We have made the second major step in the Golgi story,
that leaves one to go, but I would like to talk the whole story with
you. \

Your involvement in the Jonsson lectures suggests to me that you
ought to be informed about some history. The University of Texas at
Dallas started out as the graduate research center of the southwest.
It was Lloyd Berkner's brain child, fostered by Mr. Jonsson. It
succeeded only in a measure in its early days, partly because Berkner
was enthusiastic a long way beyond his knowledge of what he was trying
to do. At that point, after there had been a very misleading article
in the Saturday Review of Literature, Detlev Bronk and I put our heads
together for most of one night in my apartment in Sophie Fricke Hall
and dreamed up a scheme that we thought might straighten things out.
The present context of the effort in Dallas was largely a result of
parameters brought forth in your own university, through a three day
symposium in which Mr. Jonsson was one of the hosts and I was another.
I am enclosing, herewith, a copy of that symposium which was summed
up with a set of specific recommendations by Det Bronk and which was
inaugurated, by the way, with a message from President Kennedy to
Mr. Marcus. I found a lot of the things in it to use in my own
institution. Unfortunately, my most vivid memory is being presented
at the end of it with a hotel bill for $7,900, which Mr. Stanley Marcus
agreed to pay. I didn't object because I thought he might be in a
better position than I was.
Dr. Joshua Lederberg
December 19, 1979 .
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Last point, wishes for a very happy holiday season, and the
enclosure of my usual check.

Cordially yours,
ordon Whaley

P.S. Thanks for your report and your letter. Incidentially, I like
the new style of your report, which makes you think about
operating costs and achievement pretty much at the same time.

Enclosures