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Date: December 14, 1976

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Joshua Lederberg

Telephone interview with E.B. Fred on December 14th.

Fred was not too different from when I knew him over 25 years ago:
just as hard to talk to, keep to the point or get a word in edge-wise.

He was not sure really what I had to ask of him but he was very
enthusiastic that I should be writing this memoir. I tried to get to
the point of actual records and in the end all he said was that it
would not be possible to get any academic records connected with his
name. It seemed hardly worthwhile to press the point. That may mean
that even his own correspondence was kept in student-oriented files.

He reiterated that he had made some study of the best predictors of later
outcome and felt that the grade point average at the baccalaureate level
was about as good as anything that could be said. He recalled that Ed was
among the 100 outstanding students that he had used in his sample to
measure indications for promise. Ed was not a perfect student but a very
good one indeed and had been regarded as highly promising from the time
he got his bachelor's degree.

That was about all.

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