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Dartmouth College    Hanover, New Hampshire  03755
  Department of Chemistry    Telephone: (603)646-2501

                                       9 July, 1987

Dear Joshua,

     What a magnificent fellow you are to take time to write me a 
message about the science medal, which you know well to be a sort
of gerontological lottery!  Many thanks for your kind words, also
for the copies of the Commentary pieces from Nature, which I will
treasure -- and study!  [P-266, P-267]

     The contemporary (1945) picture immediately brings to mind the
18 year old kid in the white sailor suit who was in that summer
P-Chem class at Columbia.  I have often bragged of that.  It was a
good class; another member was Milton S. Green, who died of cancer
in his late fifties after a series of first rate accomplishments 
in the statistical mechanics of fluids.

     Rockefeller brings back memories of 1942 also.  At that time I
was doing some theory to explain some electrophoretic experiments
of Lewis Longsworth.  I guess my closest friend there was Teddy
Shedlovsky, through whom I met legendary figures like Landsteiner
and Michaelis and promising young guys like Bernie Davis and Vincent
Dole.  What a marvelous web it all makes!

     Please be assured again of my gratitude and pleasure at hearing
from you.

                                         Sincerely,


                                         Walter (Stockmayer)

P.S.  Washington incident: the computer had somehow left Khorana's
name off the security check list at the White House gate, and he had
eventually to be hustled in through the White House kitchens!

[re his National Medal of Science; my P-Chem or Quant Analysis
teacher at Columbia]