HOLES, F,

 
    

Rocke Alen, THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY

University K 1230 YORK AVENUE - NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10021
IQOI <y

BEL

CT SSSe ~ THE PRESIDENT

24 August 1978

Dr. Frank Rhodes
President

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

Dear Frank:

I am just on the point of leaving Stanford; but my secretary
in New York gave me a precis of your letter by telephone. This
concerned your proposed application to the Commonwealth Fund for
Cornell University Medical College.

Certainly I would wish to lend every possible support to means
for strengthening and sustaining the Medical College. All three of
the facets of the application are of deep interest to us here; and I
would be happy to work with Ted Cooper in any way and to whatever
degree you wished, both in vetting the application and in providing
testimony of the depth and essentiality of The Rockefeller University's
interest in its success.

There will be reasons to look into avenues of explicit cooperation
between the institutions in many areas. Operationally, the library
problem manifestly should be approached as a regional challenge, and I
would hope this is one element that we might start to plan as an explicit
joint venture, before other commitments are made on a narrower intramural
frame.

I did not learn what your timetable was, but I will be available
promptly after Labor Day for further discussions. As I understand you will
be at the Medical College for the orientation sessions on September 6,
perhaps that might give us some occasion for some further conversation,
however brief; and if so I hope that Dr. Cooper and Mr. Nichols here might
also join us.

Y, neerely, |
ORIGINAL SIGNED By
ua Lederberg JOSHUA LEDERBERG
CC: Rod Nichols

T. Cooper

A. Kappas

L  Phedav] 80-6